17 Jul 2024

Morning Report Essentials for Wednesday 17 July

From Morning Report, 10:00 am on 17 July 2024

On today's episode, the Government's draft emissions reduction plan has been released this morning, laying out how it will meet greenhouse gas limits on the way to reaching net-zero carbon emisisons by 2050, Associate Health Minister David Seymour wants more investment in cancer drugs and immunisation, and a role for patients in decision-making and has told Pharmac to stop making Te Tiriti o Waitangi a focus, but that the agency still needs to apply a needs-based criteria, and the Treasury and the Ministry of Transport actively encouraged the incoming government to scrap the iReX ferry project,both having secretly mistrusted KiwiRail's data for years.