NZ Politics Daily: 22 May 2024
DAVID MACLEOD UNDECLARED DONATIONS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): How serious is an MP’s failure to declare $178k in donations?
Glenn McLean (Taranaki Daily News): Electorate support remains strong despite MP’s donation discrepancies
Kate Scotcher (RNZ): Fast track committee not undermined by MP's donation - National
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): National candidate tops parliament with undeclared donations
Claire Trevett (Herald): National MP David MacLeod’s donations paperwork stuff-up will hurt but not end his ministerial hopes
Jo Moir (RNZ): National MP David MacLeod may face police probe over undeclared donations - law professor
No Right Turn: Unacceptable
Greg Presland (The Standard): National MP *forgets* to declare $178,000 in donations
David Farrar: Very sloppy
Julia Gabel (Herald): National MP David MacLeod stood down after failing to declare 19 donations
1News: 'Stuffed up big time' - Luxon's frank words over MP's money mistake
1News: National MP 'mistakenly' failed to declare $178k in donations
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): National MP stood down from select committee roles after failing to declare donations
Dan Brunskill (Interest): National’s New Plymouth candidate David MacLeod failed to disclose $178,000 in donations, including $55,000 from Auckland-based property developers
Anna Whyte (Post): National MP stood down from select committee roles after failing to declare donations (paywalled)
HOUSING
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Newshub reveals Government set to scrap first-home grants
Molly Swift (Newshub): Housing Minister Chris Bishop won't give first-home buyers certainty Government grants will remain in six months
RNZ: Government expected to scrap first-home grants in favour of funding social housing
Post: First home buyers’ grant tipped to go (paywalled)
Alan Johnson (Spinoff): The Kāinga Ora review avoids the big and obvious questions
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): From housing boom to budget doom (paywalled)
David Farrar: Kainga Ora needs significant change
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Kāinga Ora needs to get its house in order
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): I'd love to be shocked by the Kainga Ora figures
Newstalk ZB: 'Financial literacy was poor': Where it all went so wrong for Kainga Ora (paywalled)
Kelly Makiha (Herald): What the Kāinga Ora report means for Rotorua and the hundreds of planned home builds (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Here’s what the Govt’s Kāinga Ora call means for builders
Nikitin Sallee (BusinessDesk): The profit-making social landlord: how it works (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Vendors selling before bank sells house from under them
RNZ: Bay of Plenty more expensive than Auckland for renters
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): Commission pushes on for taller buildings in Mt Maunganui
FAST-TRACK BILL
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Fast-Track Approval Bill: Why thousands are against the Government’s new plan to cut red tape
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Problems persist even in environment ministry’s alternative fast-track bill
Philip Chandler (ODT): Bid to fast-track Coronet Peak gondola (paywalled)
Richard Davison (ODT): No new hydro project plans despite Bill
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