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Ministerial compromise seeks efficiencies in buying $1.5b of medical devices

Analysis: It’s only taken 13 years! But this afternoon, health ministers are expected to announce a compromise that shares responsibility for procuring $1.5b of medical devices a year. Simeon Brown and his associate David Seymour are seeking to stamp their authority on Health NZ and Pharmac, after the agencies and their predecessors…

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A less-known way that keeping hold of the gentailers can bring down power prices

Analysis: Asset sales are going to be a key feature of the next election, and Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour has made no bones about offloading the last 49 percent of gentailers Genesis, Mercury and Meridian, writes Edward Miller.

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Why has a bill to relax foreign investment rules had so little scrutiny?

While public attention has been focused on the domestic fast-track consenting process for infrastructure and mining, Associate Minister of Finance David Seymour has been pushing through another fast-track process – this time for foreign investment in New Zealand. But it has had almost no public scrutiny.

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David Seymour’s toothless tiger

Analysis: If the Government decides to seize Methanex's gas or levy a tax on Google or retrospectively change rules on landlords' capital gains, the Regulatory Standards Bill won't stop it – and nor will it provide them any recourse to sue, writes Jonathan Milne.

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Playful or harmful? David Seymour’s posts raise questions about what’s OK to say online

Deputy Prime Minister and ACT Party leader David Seymour says he is being “playful” and having “fun” with his “Victim of the Day” social media posts, targeting opponents of his Regulatory Standards Bill.

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New Zealand approves use of ‘magic mushrooms’ to treat depression but only one psychiatrist is allowed to prescribe it

New Zealand approves restricted medicinal use of psilocybin, a hallucinogen found in ‘magic mushrooms’ for patients with treatment-resistant depression

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With so many parties ‘ruling out’ working with other parties, is MMP losing its way?

There has been a lot of “ruling out” going on in New Zealand politics lately. In the most recent outbreak, both the incoming and outgoing deputy prime ministers, ACT’s David Seymour and NZ First’s Winston Peters, ruled out ever working with the Labour Party.

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New Zealand's odd couple in deputy PM job share

Once bitter enemies, New Zealand political rivals Winston Peters and David Seymour will swap in the saddle of their job-sharing deputy PM post this weekend.

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10 reasons why banning social media for New Zealanders under 16 is a bad idea – and will affect adults too

Government coalition partners National and Act are at odds over proposed restrictions on social media use by New Zealanders aged 16 and under.

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New Zealand’s prime minister proposes social media ban for children under 16

New Zealand’s bill is modelled off Australia’s landmark law to ban social media that cause uproar among tech giants

The Independent UK

Controversial bill that sparked Maori rights protests heavily defeated in New Zealand parliament

Lawmakers break into Maori song after bill is ‘absolutely annihilated’

The Independent UK

New Zealand lawmakers reject proposed law to redefine the country's founding Treaty of Waitangi

New Zealand lawmakers have dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown

The Independent UK

New Zealand's divisive Treaty Principles Bill rejected

New Zealand's parliament has voted down the Treaty Principles Bill, ending one of the most divisive debates in recent Kiwi political history.

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‘Grubby’ treaty principles bill voted down in New Zealand parliament

Bill which sought to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown fails by 11 votes to 112

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Calculated risk: will the next Reserve Bank governor relax capital requirements for banks?

Adrian Orr has so far not spoken about the reasons for his recent and unexpected resignation as Reserve Bank governor, but the sudden departure caused understandable speculation.

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As new charter schools open, we still know too little about how they worked last time

Seven new charter schools are opening their gates, and ACT leader and Associate Education Minister David Seymour – the politician responsible for their existence – has been singing their praises.

The Independent UK

Protests and a New Zealand leader's absence overshadow a day marking the founding treaty with Māori

The anniversary of New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, has passed in a muted fashion

The Guardian - AU

Māori protesters turn their backs on government ministers at Waitangi Day event

Anger at policies that roll back Māori rights surface as rightwing Act party leader David Seymour has microphone removed twice and protesters stage walkout

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Seymour enrages Maori as NZ leaders descend on Waitangi

The row over the role of the Treaty of Waitangi in modern-day New Zealand shows no sign of abating, with protests on the eve of the country's national day.

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David Seymour says Kiwis are too squeamish about privatisation – history shows why they lost the appetite

State asset sales have been a political dividing line in New Zealand for decades now, and it seems voters are again being asked to decide which side they’re on.

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Experts, political figures consider Treaty principles debate beyond bill

The end of David Seymour's Treaty Principles Bill doesn't mean the end of a debate on constitutional reform and the country's founding document.

The Guardian - AU

Bill to reinterpret founding treaty with Māori would make New Zealand a ‘laughing stock’, MPs told

Introduced to parliament by a minor coalition party, the treaty principles bill seeks to abandon a set of principles that guide the relationship between Māori and ruling authorities

The Independent UK

The man whose job it is to make sure American’s can fly home for Christmas

Everything you wanted to ask American Airlines’ chief operating officer

The Conversation

Land of opportunity or bicultural nation? Twin visions of national identity face off over the Treaty principles

The controversial Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill is being presented by its architect, ACT Party leader David Seymour, primarily as a matter of lawmaking – a clarification through legislation.

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Is ‘judicial activism’ skewing Treaty law – or are court critics the real radicals?

Claims of “judicial activism” are nothing new. Ever since the term was coined by US historian Arthur Schlesinger in 1947, it has been regularly invoked in the United States to describe judges perceived to be going beyond their constitutional role.

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