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NZ Politics Daily: 8 March 2024

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Bryce Edwards
Mar 07, 2024
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RMA, CONSERVATION
Richard Harman (Politik): The big Beehive power grab (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Consents: Officials warned Government new fast-track bill will have huge environmental consequences
Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): Cabinet approves bill to fast-track consenting of projects of national significance
RNZ: Fast-track law will 'undermine environmental protections' - opposition
RNZ: Government 'looking at' mining on DOC lands - Chris Bishop
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Debate heats up over Government's fast-track consent scheme
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Navigating the new fast-track (paywalled)
Jemima Huston (RNZ): Trans Tasman Resources bids for fast tracking of Patea seabed mining
Tom Hunt (Post): 'Dictatorship' or overdue? Wellington responds to fast-tracking (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Christopher Luxon unveils fast track consents bill, Willie Jackson labels David Seymour’s TVNZ attack censorship and a ‘disgrace’
RNZ: Government unveils plan to fast-track infrastructure projects
Luke Malpass (Post): ‘One-stop-shop’ to cut through red tape to get major projects under way (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Greenpeace protesters deliver odious odour to Parliament (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Ministers to get power to fast track projects, slash red tape
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Ministers will be given resource consent powers with fast-track bill
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): RMA fast track legislation has no projects attached – yet (paywalled)
Kate Green (RNZ): Department of Conservation 'spread too thin', Penny Nelson tells select committee

MEDIA
1News: Media law expert on Seymour's TVNZ remarks
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Melissa Lee says she will talk to David Seymour over TVNZ reporter comments, ACT leader says it's 'not really her job'
William Hewett (Newshub): TVNZ hits back after David Seymour blasts 'grinning' reporter, accuses journalists of 'enormous self-pity' as dozens face redundancy
Jo Moir (RNZ): David Seymour denies overstepping with attack on TVNZ journalist
Jaime Lyth and Claire Trevett (Herald): David Seymour blasts TVNZ reporter, TVNZ hits back
Stuff: David Seymour: ‘There’s enormous self pity from journalists’
Felix Desmarais (1News): Luxon says TVNZ job cuts 'incredibly unsettling' for those affected
Peter Thompson (The Conversation): First Newshub, now TVNZ: the news funding model is broken – but this would fix it
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): ‘Fraught’ future for news media, commentator says
Daniel Dunkley (BusinessDesk): Is a levy on digital advertising the answer to the media's woes? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Could this be the answer to Newshub’s problems?
RNZ: TVNZ staff to learn which shows, teams face cuts
Amberleigh Jack (Stuff): Would cutting 6pm TV news to 30 minutes actually save money?
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Top cop on the axing of Police Ten 7; TVNZ layoffs - should the public still own a commercial broadcaster?
Edward Gay (Stuff): Some TVNZ staff learned of job cuts proposal from other news media
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): These TVNZ job losses won't be the last
Lillie Rohan (Herald): TVNZ presenters: Simon Dallow, Hilary Barry, Jenny-May Clarkson - where do broadcaster cuts leave high-profile journalists?
Ed Scragg (Stuff): TVNZ job cuts proposal ‘devastating’ for staff
RNZ: TVNZ to cut up to 68 jobs in restructure
Hayden Donnell and Colin Peacock (RNZ): TVNZ plans job cuts to keep company 'sustainable'
Dita De Boni (NBR): TV advertising: ‘The gig is up’ (paywalled)
David Farrar: NZ Media income over time

GOVERNMENT
Derek Cheng (Herald): The substantive, the easy, and the redundant: How the Government’s 100-day plan is going (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt sets record for laws passed under urgency in first 100 days
Russell Palmer (RNZ): 100-day plan report card: 15 items' completion up for debate
Richard Wagstaff (Post): CTU report card on the Government’s first 100 days (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): 100 days in: Christopher Luxon chunks it down (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): What’s left to do in the Government’s 100 day plan?
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Leaky Premier House and broken Air Force plane symbolise NZ’s decline (paywalled)
Bruce Cotterill (Newstalk ZB): Planes, Houses and Double Standards (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Rising toxicity in NZ politics
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Meet the other Nicola Willis, Minister for Social Investment (paywalled)
Andrew Gunn (Post): Getting back on track (paywalled)

Paid subscribers can access the full “NZ Politics Daily” from here. The following categories of news and analysis continue: Paid subscribers can access the full “NZ Politics Daily” from here. The following categories of news and analysis continue: CHRISTOPHER LUXON’S HOUSING ALLOWANCE, PREMIER HOUSE; TRANSPORT; GANG PATCH BAN, JUSTICE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; WATER; HURRICANES, CHIEFS HAKA, FUNDING WOMEN’S SPORT; HOUSING; HEALTH, DISABILITY; EDUCATION; INSURANCE; INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY; CARDINAL JOHN DEW CHILD ABUSE CLAIMS; INFRASTRUCTURE; PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES

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