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RNZ · Sat, 16 May

The House: The constitutional shift you may have missed this week

A seemingly dry procedural motion in Parliament this week quietly marked a significant constitutional shift: how Parliament is funded.

Parliament quietly rewired how it funds itself this week and barely anyone noticed — which is exactly how the constitutional furniture gets rearranged while you're watching the coalition soap opera. The boring stuff is always the dangerous stuff.

Newsroom · Sat, 16 May · Hanna McCallum

Waitangi Tribunal urges halt on Treaty clause changes

‘It is as bad as the Treaty Principles Bill in its attempt to erase the Crown’s duty to comply with the agreement made between Māori and the Crown in 1840,’ the Waitangi Tribunal says

The Waitangi Tribunal is saying this is as bad as the Treaty Principles Bill, and the government is presumably filing that opinion next to all the other inconvenient documents it receives from bodies it appointed. The Crown's duty to Māori is apparently the one contract this government treats as optional.

RNZ · Sat, 16 May

Government confirms NCEA replacement details

Education Minister Erica Stanford confirmed the NCEA replacement would bring a new grading scale, compulsory subjects, and assessment requirements.

Erica Stanford is ripping up NCEA with the confidence of someone who has never had to explain to a seventeen-year-old why their entire assessment framework changed mid-school career. Compulsory subjects and a new grading scale — what could possibly go wrong in the implementation.

RNZ · Sat, 16 May

Education Minister Erica Stanford promises update on social media ban in June

While she remains committed to introducing legislation this year, the Prime Minister wants it before the election.

Stanford says legislation this year, Luxon says before the election — which is either the same thing or a very public admission that the timeline is held together with wishful thinking and polling data. June update means July delay means 2027 maybe.

The Kākā · Fri, 15 May · Bernard Hickey

Total Mobility funding cuts being finalised

Bernard Hickey talks with disability advocates Nick Ruane & Blake Forbes about the Government finalising plans to cut as much as $265 million worth of subsidies for taxis for disabled people

$265 million yanked from disabled people's taxi subsidies, finalised quietly while everyone watches the coalition drama — this is the budget doing the cruelest work in the footnotes. If you can't get to your appointments, that's a health outcome, not a transport line item.

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@p-no-nwa.bsky.social

""MMP delivers disproportionate power to smaller parties!" Um. No, actually. It delivers proportionate power to smaller parties. It's kinda in the name. #nzpol"

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@virgcatt.bsky.social

"Simeon Brown's Facebook post about Labour and the Auckland lockdown enraged me... until I saw the comments and he's clearly a) not reading the room, nor b) being truthful about the Royal Commission findings with people calling him out on it. Quite heartening really. #nzpol"

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@nzkatya.bsky.social

""The Minister is spinning this as “strengthening” Total Mobility, when what they are doing is implementing austerity measures and making it harder to access - and making it so that disabled people get out less" #nzpol"

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