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Daily review 01/07/2026

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This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

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9 comments on “Daily review 01/07/2026 ”

  2. SPC 2
    1 July 2026 at 7:00 pm

    Much ado about something, but what, is not known.

    Further adding to the mystery, Stanford said she's not actually sure what Peters is talking about and has not clarified this with him.

    https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361034533/explained-secret-immigration-papers-ministers-will-and-wont-talk-about

    There are a lot of great quotes, but when taken together, do not provide any useful perspective.

    So situation normal for covering this coalition at work.

    It is all summed up with

    Dr Stephen Jacobi didn’t think the feud would have a material impact on New Zealand’s relations with India but described it as “highly unfortunate and embarrassing”.

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  3. SPC 3
    1 July 2026 at 7:11 pm

    IMF in town

    It noted raising revenue was important in reducing the fiscal deficit (the only OECD nation without any stamp duty, CGT, estate tax and gift duty)

    It joined the OECD in advocating for tax reform.

    Measures could include a comprehensive capital gains tax (CGT), which Carriere-Swallow noted the IMF had “discussed for many years” and reforms of land value taxation, its statement said.

    Carriere-Swallow said its estimates suggested a comprehensive CGT could raise the equivalent of 1% of GDP, roughly halving the country’s fiscal deficit.

    The IMF backed the Treasury’s current advice that New Zealand should keep net core Crown debt below 50% of GDP during normal times, he said.

    https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/361034760/imf-backs-superannuation-reform-and-public-service-cuts-during-visit-nz

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  4. SPC 4
    1 July 2026 at 7:20 pm

    RSA comes into force. Hipkins says it will not survive the election of a Labour government.

    Government ministers are preparing for a massive change to the official public servant advice they get from today which Labour says could blind them to how changes impact the poor.

    Ministers will go from getting a “Regulatory Impact Statement” (RIS) ahead of almost every law change, regulatory decision, or discussion document to a “Regulatory Analysis Summary” (RAS).

    Regulation Minister David Seymour said these documents will be shorter and rarer, with fewer needed if the change does not impact the exchange of private property, but would also be of a higher quality.

    Seymour told The Post in May the new system might exempt from analysis a change to benefit levels, as this did not clearly impact private property.

    So legislation, of and for an era, when only those with property mattered to government, as only they could vote. Luxon's rich and sorted.

    https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361034433/ministers-prepare-slimmed-down-official-advice-today-regulatory-standards-act-comes-force

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  5. SPC 5
    1 July 2026 at 7:21 pm

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    The Beehive Civilian can report that the government has agreed in principle to establish a new charity to provide the shoes of dead workers to the homeless, if they agree to move off the streets.

    https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/361035174/health-and-safety-bill-being-voted-through-parliament-after-implementation-delay-agreed

    Irrelevant details

    Seymour says the legislation would be unchanged and start 1 April 2027.

    Peters agrees with the ACC that the legislation would result in more dead workers, so says it will be changed.

    Whatever, more dead workers, more homeless if there are 3 more years.

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  6. greywarshark 6
    1 July 2026 at 10:46 pm

    https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=181331

    Amalgamation…in a rush – July 1 2026 by Ben McNulty

    The biggest change for Local Government in decades is happening. Will you have your say?Central Government (that’s National, ACT and NZ First) have decided to remove regional councils and are expecting other councils to amalgamate through one of two pathways:

    🏃‍♀️ Headstart

    Under this proposal, councils have until the 9th of August (yes as in six weeks away) to put forward proposals to then move into ‘detailed design’ with the expectation amalgamation will be done in time for the next Local Body elections in 2028…

    This is bad. Spreading the poison further round the body politic is not going to improve our noxious state. A David Low cartoon comes to mind, the one where Hitler is shouldering out all the other nations. The caption is :

    "Why should we take a stand about someone pushing someone else when it's so far away?": David Low WW2 cartoons: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=david+low+cartoon+501+x+343&iar=images&t=ffab&atb=v473-1 (Might need search, use 501)

    The uncontrolled behaviour in this political term with fast-track legislation and now the imperious reorganisation of local government is an attack on our body politic that verges on a fascist one. How would David Low view it?

    Spartacus Educational https://spartacus-educational.com › ExamHitler.htm Propaganda Campaign against Adolf Hitler(Classroom Activity): The main critic of Hitler in British newspapers was the cartoonist, David Low. An outspoken socialist, Low cartoons, were so popular with the general public, that Lord Beaverbrook, employed him to work at the Evening…

    An interesting point is that his first published work was when he was 11 and was about local government! 'David Low's first published cartoon was printed in a New Zealand paper in 1902, when he was eleven years old. "It represented the local authorities as lunatics because of their reluctance to remove certain trees that obstructed traffic."…https://spartacus-educational.com/Jlow.htm

    Further – https://www.historyhit.com/culture/anti-nazi-david-low-cartoons/ : More David Low making his strong points 'chronicling the rise of fascism' and its movement into WW2. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Low_(cartoonist)

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    • KJT 6.1
      2 July 2026 at 4:27 pm

      Who, actually wanted this expensive and undemocratic shakeup?

      Apart from farmers who find regional councils an inconvenience, when they want to carry on polluting waterways.

      Total hypocrisy from the Coalition of Cockups who campaigned saying that canning three waters would be a "victory for local Democracy and ownership".

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