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May 14, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Inequality and poverty Tess McClure (The Guardian): Ardern faces calls to boost child poverty spending in budget amid glacial progress ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 14 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-14-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 14 2021">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Parliamentary debates on race Jane Patterson (RNZ): Policies can be called racist but not MPs, Speaker rules Tess McClure (The Guardian): Māori ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 13 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-13-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 13 2021">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Last week, out of left field, the government placed a three-year embargo on normal public sector wage bargaining, essentially a salary freeze. While there has been a certain amount of backtracking since, it is clear that the government has been very committed to ‘fiscal consolidation’ (aka ‘austerity’). What were they thinking? ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – The New Zealand Government’s ‘Public Finance Rabbithole’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/keith-rankin-analysis-the-new-zealand-governments-public-finance-rabbithole/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – The New Zealand Government’s ‘Public Finance Rabbithole’">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. The Government’s wage subsidy scheme may have incorrectly paid out billions of dollars to ineligible businesses, and this is not being audited. That’s the conclusion to be taken from the Auditor General’s report, released yesterday. It is highly critical about the lack of checks and balances on a scheme that has ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Have billions been incorrectly paid out in the wage subsidy scheme?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-have-billions-been-incorrectly-paid-out-in-the-wage-subsidy-scheme/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Have billions been incorrectly paid out in the wage subsidy scheme?">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Public sector pay freeze Claire Trevett (Herald): PM steps in, the melting of the pay freeze begins (paywalled) Jordan Bond (RNZ): Public sector ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 12 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-12-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 12 2021">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Public sector pay freeze Justin Giovannetti (Spinoff): Ardern and Robertson say public sector wage freeze is ‘misreporting’. But is it? Jenna ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 11 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-11-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 11 2021">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Public sector pay freeze Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: The Public sector worker backlash against Labour Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 10 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-10-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 10 2021">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards Is Labour supposed to be the party of labour or of capital? It’s often hard to tell these days, and many in the labour movement and the political left are feeling betrayed this week by the Government’s announcement of a pay freeze for public sector workers. The Government has essentially directed ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Public sector worker backlash against Labour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/09/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-public-sector-worker-backlash-against-labour/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Public sector worker backlash against Labour">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Public sector pay freeze Stuff: Editorial – Pay freeze stretches public sector loyalty Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Pay freeze shows Government ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 7 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-7-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 7 2021">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Parliament’s Speaker Trevor Mallard Henry Cooke (Stuff): National v Mallard: That atrocious late-night debate is the reason people hate politicians Barry Soper ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 6 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-6-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 6 2021">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content He Puapua document and the National Party Henry Cooke (Stuff): Whose race card is this anyway? Judith Collins and David ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 5 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/05/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-5-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 5 2021">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content China and New Zealand Bryce Edwards (The Guardian): Ardern’s speech was not an attack on China, or even a shift away ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 4 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/04/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-4-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 4 2021">Read more</a>
