Collected stories - 1 September to 30 November 2022
Newshub
It's being described as "yet another insult to taxpayers" from Mallard.
NZ Herald
The Govt will not adopt the Waitangi Tribunal's suggestion of planning co-governance.
Newshub
It comes as Rotorua's emergency housing is under the spotlight once again.
NZ Herald
Woman and her family 'harassed and persecuted by authorities, public' after false claims.
RNZ
The government has announced $30 million for council-led projects that aim to make walking and cycling safer up and down the country.
RNZ
Expanded programmes for young people at risk of being caught in the cycle of crime is just window dressing from a soft-on-crime government, the opposition says.
Stuff
The situation is "an absolute train wreck", Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi says, and emergency referrals and funding should be stopped for an inquiry.
RNZ
The government has been accused of "pandering to the polls" after announcing new seizure powers for the police.
Newshub
"The idea that somehow we are the party of favour for gangs, I would just push back on that very hard."
The PM will be asked about Rotorua's emergency housing crisis.
RNZ
Watch - A series of law changes targeting gangs will give police broader criteria for seizing assets, and allow them to keep some seized assets for longer.
NZ Herald
The criticism comes after a broadcast on TVNZ's Sunday show.
RNZ
There are 1296 new community cases of Covid-19 and 257 people are in hospital today, the Ministry of Health says.
RNZ
Jacinda Ardern will travel to New York later this month to represent New Zealand at the United Nations General Assembly.
Stuff
OPINION: “While the Government was quick to kill a policy that was five years in the making, it was sorry-not-sorry in pulling it ...”
the Guardian
Gerry Brownlee says report on human rights violations in Xinjiang recognises China is ‘dealing with a terrorist problem’
Newshub
Brownlee says China is trying to fight terrorism, but a Uyghur Muslim in New Zealand labels that "naive".
Stuff
OPINION: Jacinda Ardern was decisive in ditching the "KiwiSaver tax". But the Labour of a year ago would not have made that mistake.
todayfm.co.nz
'I am of the view that no Housing Minister since 2017 has understood the size and scale of the problem.'
the Guardian
Freshly appointed envoy to Ireland Trevor Mallard did much good in his time in parliament, but never shied from controversy – sometimes to his cost
RNZ
Analysis - The government's KiwiSaver tax debacle is 'manna from heaven' for National, while extra checks are made to ensure the cost of living allowance goes to those living here, Peter Wilson writes.
Newsroom
Teams Red and Blue both showed it's not too late to do a U-turn on Ian Foster. A short history of the embarrassing manoeuvre from James Elliott.
The Standard
Yesterday National's PR machine also known as Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB sprang into action to get the message out that National will not negotiate with Destiny Church over support. Even though eight days previously Chris Luxon pointedly did not rule this out.
NZ Herald
Disability support providers are concerned about the impact of the proposed changes.
RNZ
A long-awaited UN report into allegations of human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang is "deeply concerning", Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta says.
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