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NZ Politics Daily - 8 November 2023

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Bryce Edwards
Nov 07, 2023
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LABOUR
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Hipkins’ leadership safe, tax question looms
Richard Harman (Politik): Why Labour lost (paywalled)
1News: Hipkins defends Labour's clean slate approach after election loss
Felix Desmarais (1News): Hipkins' weasel words on tax serve no one
Michael Neilson (Herald): Labour’s Chris Hipkins says wealth, capital gains tax back on table as party rethinks policy platform
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Labour leader: Chris Hipkins staves off political Hunger Games, but opens tax can of worms
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Congratulations Chris Hipkins! You’re the winning loser
RNZ: Capital gains tax conversation 'back on the table' for Labour - Chris Hipkins
Felix Desmarais (1News): Capital gains, wealth taxes back on the table - Hipkins
RNZ: Labour votes to keep Chris Hipkins as leader, Carmel Sepuloni takes over as deputy
Luke Malpass (Post): Hipkins readies to preside over Labour’s ‘blank page’ (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor, Amelia Wade and Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Chris Hipkins Labour leadership: Senior MP David Parker refuses to say if he will endorse
Felix Desmarais (1News): Labour caucus arrives to decide Hipkins' fate as leader
Nigel Haworth (The Standard): On Labour at the crossroads
Waatea News: Davis rejects recount as Opposition looms
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Labour's Helen White still 'proud' of result despite just 20-vote victory, recount signalled

COALITION NEGOTIATIONS, INCOMING GOVERNMENT
Brent Edwards (NBR): Exclusive Interview: Peters: NZ First may walk away if agreement can’t be reached (paywalled)
Waatea: NZ Firsters mount hobbyhorses for last rodeo
Adam Pearse (Herald): NZ First leader Winston Peters confident Govt can be formed in two weeks but reserves right to walk away - report
Newshub:New Zealand First leader Winston Peters expects coalition deal in 'less than two weeks', could walk away from talks
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Senior NZ First MP Shane Jones slams National’s foreign buyers’ tax
Luke Malpass (Post): NZ First takes aim at tax package, ‘ideology of colonial guilt’
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Coalition talks: the wins that make a three-way handshake
Claire Trevett (Herald): Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon’s choice of moving to Premier House or staying put and claiming $52,000 allowance (paywalled)
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Will National still deliver its tax cuts? Economist Cameron Bagrie says it depends
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Lobbying effort aims to prevent National’s proposed commercial and industrial building tax hike (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Nicola Willis feels like one of our own - business (paywalled)
Jamie Mackay (Newstalk ZB): A Fly on the Wall as Coalition Talks continue (paywalled)
Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): How the coalition will be negotiated, according to the Zodiac

The paywall for paid subscribers starts here. The following categories of news and analysis continue: TREATY REFERENDUM, CO-GOVERNANCE; ELECTION, PARLIAMENT; FOREIGN AFFAIRS; ISRAEL-GAZA CONFLICT; HEALTH; SUPERMARKETS; TRANSPORT; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION

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