NZ Politics Daily: 4 June 2024

CANCER DRUGS, HEALTH
Tracy Watkins (SST): A cruel lie: How else do we judge National’s broken promise on cancer drugs? (paywalled)
Newshub: Cancer charities eviscerate Government in open letter about broken drug funding promise
Melanie Earley (RNZ): Cancer groups in 'disbelief' over Budget bypass for drug and treatment funding
ODT Editorial: Cancer drug funding debacle (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Cancer patients promised access to medicines shouldn’t have to wait (paywalled)
Imogen Wells (Stuff): Newsable: The problem with National's cancer drug promise
Dianna Vezich (Newshub): Health Minister Shane Reti admits failure in communication on National's cancer drug pre-election promise
Piers Fuller (Post): Patients miss out on life-extending drugs in Budget
1News: 'Despicable': Government won't fund promised cancer treatments
Fiona Ellis (ODT): Drug funding U-turn ‘despicable’
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): The Bitterest Pill
Newshub: Labour's Barbara Edmonds tears up over Government's broken cancer drug promise
Rob Campbell (Herald): The ‘unhealthy’ Budget for sick New Zealanders
Chris Ford: Budget a 'mixed bag' for disabled people
RNZ: Disappointment over broken promise to fund more mental health specialists
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Charity close to ‘breaking point’ does not begrudge $24m boost for Mike King’s Gumboot Friday
Nicholas Jones (Herald): GP sounds alarm over months-long Auckland City Hospital delays: ‘We don’t know what the real wait time is’ (paywalled)
Rachel Thomas (Post): Casual doctors costing $5600 a day at Porirua hospital (paywalled)
Fiona Ellis (ODT): Almost 1/3 of knee ops outsourced in South (paywalled)
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Police Commissioner floats tighter alcohol regulation as 'trade off' to reduce estimated $7.8b harm from booze
Lachlan Akers and Julian Buchanan (Listener): We’ve seen enough: Why NZ experts are calling time on the “war on drugs” (paywalled)
RNZ: Lester Levy appointed new chairperson of Health NZ board
Ben Strang (RNZ): ACC levies may increase due to rise in serious injuries, rehabilitation costs

BUDGET
Gordon Campbell: On Nicola Willis and her surplus fetish
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Willis borrows an extra $12b to pay for $14.7b of tax cuts
Simon Wilson (Herald): The dilemma that’s destroying us (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Everything you need to know about the Budget, including why your tax cut might shrink next year (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Budget 2024 shows NZ has some tough choices to make: Scandinavia or Singapore
Susan St John (Daily Blog): The rich get richer while child poverty just increases
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): First the Budget, now the gamble (paywalled)
Janet Wilson (Post): Willis’ Budget has seized the financial agenda, but what’s the plan? (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Nicola Willis unveiled tax cut triumph but an overspending tragedy (paywalled)
Felix Desmarais (1News): The cookies and crumbs of Budget 2024
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. the Nicola Willis Budget Stagecoach
Willie Jackson (Herald): Budget 2024 will go down in history as the Mother of anti-Māori Budgets
Steven Joyce (Herald): Pharmac blunder, tax cuts and debt: the hits and misses of Budget 2024 (paywalled)
Celia Karl and Matt Roskruge (Te Ao Māori News): Budget analysis: ‘Instead of a bang we got a fizzle’
1News: Q+A: Nicola Willis: Govt 'committed' to funding promised cancer drugs and Tax cuts of $250 a week for fewer than 3000 families
Kirsty Wynn (Herald): Jack Tame and Finance Minister Nicola Willis in heated Q+A post-Budget debate on tax cuts
Newshub: Nicola Willis says National wasn't aware tax changes would result in 9000 earning less income
Amelia Wade (Newshub):Finance Minister Nicola Willis admits fewer families than expected likely to get full benefit of tax plan
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): PM unaware how many families will be worse off as a result of the government’s tax cuts
1News: Budget made like 'a diamond under pressure' — Luxon
Claire Trevett (Herald): Post-Budget snap poll gives Nicola Willis a lukewarm pass - but the cancer drug fail grates (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan and Adam Pearse (Herald): Snap poll reveals voters’ views on Budget as Parliament rushes through tax cuts bill
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Nicola Willis's vs. the Taxpayers Union
Damien Grant (Stuff): This Budget does not matter
Newsroom: Raw Politics podcast: Nicola prescribes a tummy tuck
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Labour asks supporters to hand over tax cuts to fund election bid
Molly Swift (Newshub): Labour asks Kiwis to donate tax cuts to them
Maiki Sherman (1News): Labour asks supporters to donate tax cuts
Julia Gabel (Herald): Chris Hipkins defends email asking supporters to donate tax cuts to Labour
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Line by line: The coalition's Budget cuts in one list
Anna Whyte (Post): The cuts, the cash, the tax splash: What’s feeding the Budget?
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): 5 cuts and 5 new costs you probably missed from Budget 2024
Robyn Walker (Herald): All you need to know about the tax changes (paywalled)
Duncan Garner (Listener): Will $14b tax cuts save us from the brink of collapse? (paywalled)
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): What’s funded and what’s cut for Māori in Budget 2024
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): 'Value for money': Pacific Peoples Minister Dr Shane Reti on the Budget
Caleb Fotheringham and Lydia Lewis (RNZ): NZ govt cuts Pacific funding by $26m in Budget
Peter Wilson (RNZ): Week in Politics: What will the government get out of Budget 2024?
RNZ: Government fails to pass everything it wanted under post-Budget urgency
Molly Swift (Newshub): New Zealand in for spending diet of 'epic proportions' to get Government books back in order, top economist says
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Budget funding will let Inland Revenue employ 200 extra staff to chase tax dodgers (paywalled)
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Public servants speak out about job cuts, stress and moving to Australia
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Budget Day: A Photo Essay

POLITICAL INTEGRITY, MĀORI PARLIAMENT, NATIONAL HUI, BUDGET DAY PROTESTS
Andrea Vance (Post): Stats NZ investigating potential misuse of Māori census data (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Te Pati Māori’s integrity under scrutiny
Haimona Gray: The Darkness Of The Tamihere Fiefdom
Paul Buchanan: Te Pati Loco?
Grant Duncan: The US is setting a bad example for the rest of the world. But NZ has its problems too
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): So what if TPM wants to organise a Māori Parliament?
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): The shape of a Māori Parliament
Mike McRoberts (Newshub): Plans for independent Māori Parliament could be over after Kiingi Tuheitia reveals the idea 'frightens' him
Te Karere (1News): Hui Taumata: Māori parliament opens doors to independence discussion
RNZ: Māori parliament workings discussed at Hui Ā Motu second phase
Te Ao Māori News: Kīngi Tūheitia encourages further kotahitanga kōrero
Chris Trotter (Interest): In search of unity
Chris Trotter (Newstalk ZB): Too Many To Die (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Disturbing undertones in Te Pāti Māori’s messaging as it declares ‘political independence’ (paywalled)
Chris Lynch: Rawiri Waititi’s wife under scrutiny for expletive-laden social media video

FAST-TRACK ENVIRONMENT
Tom Hunt (Post): Will fast-track bill imperil protected species? (paywalled)
Sefton Darby (Spinoff): Shane Jones’ pro-mining culture war risks destroying the industry he loves
Farah Hancock (RNZ): Quarry company J Swap's fast track plea after donations to Shane Jones and NZ First
Greg Presland (The Standard): The QE2 covenant, the Mining Company and the donation to NZ First
Teuila Fuatai (E-Tangata): Our case shows why the Fast-Track Bill must be stopped
Kate Green and Niva Chittock (RNZ): Government's freshwater bill will result in more polluted waterways, critics say
Teall Crossen (Post): Why the Climate Change Minister needs to step aside while his colleagues step up (paywalled)
David Williams (Newsroom): Praise for flood-fighting fund as Treasury raises climate risks
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Happy Christmas, war is over. But has another started? (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Carbon farming business fined $40k for ‘careless’ spraying (paywalled)
Max Salmon (Post): We need some easy wins - liberalising GMOs could be one (paywalled)
Debbie Jamieson (Stuff): Peter Thiel's Wānaka luxury lodge plan denied by Environment Court

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