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December 17, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. National Party policy documents Dominion Post Editorial: Fuel tax or road-user charges – either way, you still pay Liam Hehir (Pundit): Infrastructure Won’t Win It For National (But This Other Thing Might) David Farrar: Silly Andrew ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 17 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-17-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 17 2019">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Media Colin Peacock (RNZ): On the brink? The state of our media in 2019 Audrey Young (Herald): Winston Peters takes the driver’s seat on media proposal (paywalled) ODT Editorial: No future in monopolising news Colin Peacock (RNZ): Media ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 16 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-16-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 16 2019">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Justice Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Legalising weed, swapping prisons with rehab: The proposals to fix justice system Collette Devlin (Stuff): Government urged to increase alcohol laws and legalise cannabis Boris Jancic (Herald): Government makes drug court permanent ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 13 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-13-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 13 2019">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2019
In his big-spending infrastructure announcement yesterday, Grant Robertson reinforced what many political commentators say about him – he’s electorally smart, but way too conservative to be a genuine leftwing minister of finance. Robertson does what is right for winning votes, but not necessarily what is in the interests of the country or even Labour’s own ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Govt’s smart but conservative spending announcement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/12/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-govts-smart-but-conservative-spending-announcement/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Govt’s smart but conservative spending announcement">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Government infrastructure spending, fiscal policy Chris Trotter: Grant Robertson Spends Up Large – On The Establishment Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Politics and economics are strange bedfellows, but they’ve made $12b of magic Audrey Young (Herald): Robertson sets ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 12 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-12-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 12 2019">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Whakaari/White Island eruption Gordon Campbell: On the Whakaari/White Island eruption MIchael Lueck (Stuff): Should NZ look again at risky adventure tourism? Brook Sabin (Stuff): Why were tours still operating? Dominion Post Editorial: Whakaari/White Island deaths raise lessons ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 11 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-11-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 11 2019">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
I have written elsewhere (see reference list below) about the important principles that suggest all enfranchised residents should receive a share of public income, and how the realisation of this is essentially a matter of reformed public accounting. Here I just consider two typical New Zealanders of different generations, and two policy options. And no ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Universal Dividends and Universal Superannuation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-universal-dividends-and-universal-superannuation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Universal Dividends and Universal Superannuation">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Whakaari / White Island eruption RNZ: Jacinda Ardern speaks about deadly Whakaari / White Island eruption RNZ: Live: Whakaari / White Island eruption – day 2 Zane Small (Newshub): ‘A significant issue’: Jacinda Ardern fronts on ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 10 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-10-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 10 2019">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Government John Armstrong (1News): Despite lead in polls, National should be worried by Jacinda Ardern’s recent ‘double whammy’ 1News: What the country thinks of the Government’s performance so far Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour screws up a ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 09 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-09-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 09 2019">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2019
The latest allegations of a corruption scandal involving a Cabinet minister suggests this government is far too loose when it comes to providing access to power for friends and associates. Kris Faafoi is in trouble because of his alleged role in helping a mate with an immigration matter when he was the Associate Minister of ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should Kris Faafoi be sacked?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/06/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-should-kris-faafoi-be-sacked/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should Kris Faafoi be sacked?">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Kris Faafoi immigration case Fiona Connor and Tova O’Brien (Newshub): ‘I’m on it bro’: Messages show Kris Faafoi offering help to friend Jason Kerrison over immigration case Audrey Young (Herald): Kris Faafoi is in trouble ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 06 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-06-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 06 2019">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
What is it about reforming laws around money and politics that makes politicians so inclined to stuff it up and act undemocratically? From Helen Clark’s notorious Electoral Finance Act (2007) – which the party eventually voted to repeal, given it was so anti-democratic and unworkable – through to yesterday’s announcement of a so-called ban on ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: What’s driving the urgent clamp down on foreign donations?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-whats-driving-the-urgent-clamp-down-on-foreign-donations/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: What’s driving the urgent clamp down on foreign donations?">Read more</a>
