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Author: Bryce Edwards
GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, RACE RELATIONS
Simon Wilson (Herald): National Party: Hugs and kisses, silly statements and the plan for better maths (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Housing and education: not your usual centre-right fare
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Luxon seeks the light as the heat fails at National jamboree
Dave Armstrong (Post): Sevens stars show what being in the same waka can do
Marama Royal (Herald): What Christopher Luxon didn’t want to hear from Māori at iwi leaders forum
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): ‘It feels like we are being attacked’: Iwi leaders send strong message to government
Post: ‘Watch it’: PM Christopher Luxon on escalating tensions between MPs (paywalled)
Don Brash: John Key's Call for "Caution" in Race Relations
Heather Roy (Post): What the ‘not Māori enough’ attacks say about political obsessions (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Identity Politics Gone Mad: Karen Chhour’s identity isn’t the issue – her deplorable policies are!
Jen Black (Stuff): ‘I wrote back to every child’: Sir John Key on his time as Prime Minister
HEALTH
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Postcode care killing rural New Zealanders, doctors say
Rachel Thomas (Post): Don’t just focus on the dollars, Sir Ashley Bloomfield tells health fixer (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Health NZ re-appoints former board member, crown observer as Deputy Commissioners
Mountain Tui: New Zealanders are now dying from an underfunded health system
Public Health Communication Centre: Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress
RNZ: Health NZ blocks free early access to cancer drug Keytruda
RNZ: Christchurch Emergency Department's Observation Unit opens four years after being built
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Concerns spur more oversight (paywalled)
RNZ: Thousands of ambulance officers to strike as sector in 'worst state' ever seen
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Midwives' legal action: Government must be held to account, lawyer says
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Midwives take govt to court after long fight for better support
1News: Midwives take on Health Ministry for failing to deliver settlement
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Health is adjusting back to being fair
David Farrar: Joyce on health reforms
1News: Decade to diagnosis: Endometriosis sufferers' agonising wait
Brittany Keogh (Post): Meningococcal immunisation for preschoolers rises, still ‘shit’ (paywalled)
RNZ: Covid-19 update: 2003 new cases, 15 further deaths
HOUSING
Louise Ternouth (RNZ): Crunching the Numbers: Kiwis spending half their household income on rent
RNZ: Private rental sector unlikely to keep up with pensioner demand - retirement commission
Angela Yeoman (Listener): Leaky logic: Will loosening building & lending rules lead to new wave of disasters? (paywalled)
Greg Ninness (Interest): Average national asking price on Realestate.co.nz down $110,515 since February, Auckland down by $143,000
Greg Ninness (Interest): Barfoot & Thompson's average selling price dropped $108,697 in July, median price down $50,000
Miriam Bell (Post): Auckland house sales defy slowdown, winter chill (paywalled)
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