ENERGY
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Damp squib energy reforms reject 8 of 10 review recommendations
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Government stops short of major energy shakeup, rejects asset sale
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Energy reforms: govt waves the chequebook (paywalled)
Herald: Power prices: Government reveals actions on energy sector after review of electricity market
Stuff: Government says it will invest in infrastructure to fight persistently high power prices
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Government sets out stall on energy reforms, rejects Frontier advice (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Govt could allow capital raises by gentailers to build new power plants
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Power prices: Government reveals actions on energy sector after review of electricity market
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Government poised to announce response to electricity market review
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Support for imported gas tipped to feature in energy reforms (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Unions call for return of electricity generators to public ownership
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Unions call for Government to buy back full ownership of power firms (paywalled)
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Craig Renney on a CTU proposal for Govt to buy back the privately-held shares in Meridian, Mercury & Genesis, & build more power
RNZ: Commerce Commission willing to approve power companies’ massive coal stockpile
Mandy Te (Interest): Commerce Commission gives provisional green light to plans from NZ’s largest electricity generator-retailers
Katy Jones (Nelson Mail/Press): Calls for regional energy strategy amid rising insecurity and factory closures (paywalled)
Monique Steele (RNZ): Bioenergy sector hopeful green energy demand will fire up wood-to-power supply chain
PARLIAMENT
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): How did a journalist obtain Luxon’s letter to Hipkins before Hipkins could even read it?
Poppy Clark (Stuff): Media received Luxon’s letter to Hipkins before Hipkins had even read it
Henry Cooke (Post): Should Labour promise a referendum on capital gains tax? (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Stuff): A stinging rebuke of the government from the deputy prime minister
Audrey Young (Herald): Christopher Luxon’s leadership: he’s running the Government like a sports team (paywalled)
Tim McCready (Herald): Business leaders back independent budget watchdog (paywalled)
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Inside the Beehive’s emergency command ‘bunker’
K Gurunathan (Post): What Tākuta Ferris has reminded us about multiculturalism (paywalled)
Russell Baillie (Listener): “How behind-the-scenes this gets is breathtaking”: Why Jacinda Ardern doco deserves five stars (paywalled)
Serena Solomon (RNZ): What do we get out of Jacinda Ardern’s children’s book?
Edward Gay (Stuff): ‘Serious and repeated sexual offending’: Court dismisses former political figure’s appeal
PUBLIC SERVICE
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Ministry of Education’s $20,000 inquiry fails to find Budget leak to RNZ
Anna Whyte (Post): Judith Collins on merging the public service (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Carolyn Tremain: Lessons from leading MBIE through Covid, disasters and reform (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Plain speaking, moral panic, policy not personality, and more (paywalled)
HEALTH, DISABILITY, FOOD SAFETY
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): Would New Zealanders want Serco running the public health system?
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Minister defends Cabinet for overruling his advice on formula (paywalled)
RNZ: Cancer Society pushes for faster treatment in South Island
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Postcode lottery in play across mental health and addiction system
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Better access to mental health services but Minister Matt Doocey acknowledges regional variance
Henry Cooke (Post): Postcode lottery in mental health keeps minister from boosting targets (paywalled)
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Government rolls out new home care model for older people
John Lewis (ODT): NZ-trained doctors flying coop ‘a myth’
RNZ: Goverment changes how New Zealand buys medical equipment
Felix Walton (RNZ): Health authorities ramp up response to measles in Northland and Queenstown
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Support those who support us or risk eroding trust
ENVIRONMENT, MINING
Stephanie Ockhuysen (RNZ): Country’s largest study into drinking water nitrates reveals rural freshwater at risk
Press: Nitrate study highlights South Island drinking water risks (paywalled)
Science Media Centre: High nitrate levels found in rural NZ drinking water – Expert Reaction
Maxine Jacobs (Press): Greenpeace scores ECan candidates on freshwater record, rankling incumbents (paywalled)
Elizabeth Macpherson, Conrad Pilditch, Karen Fisher, Simon Francis Thrush (The Conversation): 74 countries have now ratified a landmark treaty to protect the high seas. Why hasn’t NZ?
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Iwi-led conservation project Raukūmara Pae Maunga awarded $6m funding boost
Julie Asher (ODT): Artist joins fight against ‘desecration’ by gold mine (paywalled)
Katie Todd (RNZ): Santana Minerals close to lodging application for $4.4 billion Central Otago gold mine
Mike Thorpe (Herald): Santana Minerals’ $25m Ardgour Station, Central Otago ’relisted’ as OIO process plays out
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE, TARIFFS
Thomas Manch (Post): Foreign Minister Winston Peters backs Trump peace plan for Gaza (paywalled)
Chlöe Swarbrick (Herald): By not recognising Palestine statehood, Luxon’s Government revealed its outright cowardice (paywalled)
Ian Powell: A sinking heart over Palestine non-recognition decision
1News: FBI boss gave Kiwi officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess in NZ
Charlotte Graham-McClay and Jim Mustian (Associated Press): FBI boss Kash Patel gave NZ officials illegal 3D-printed guns
Russell Palmer (RNZ): ‘Uncertainty and changing nature’ of US tariffs making it hard for NZ exporters - trade minister
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): First films, then forests? Trump launches another tariff while NZ trade minister responds to film threat
Mary Argue and Russell Palmer (RNZ): Why Trump makes strong case for 100 percent tariff on foreign movies - and why he’ll struggle to do it
RNZ: Air Force fly over All Black test cost $20,000
Tim McCready (Herald): Executives divided on Defence spending plan (paywalled)
MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): ‘You know you have to tell the truth … don’t you?’
Matt Nippert (Herald): TVNZ reporter defends anonymous sources as Talley’s alleges defamation (paywalled)
1News: ‘Hit piece’: 1News reporter appears in Talley’s defamation case
Shayne Currie (Herald): Revealed - TVNZ’s new chairman is a no-nonsense corporate dealmaker (paywalled)
Emma Andrews (RNZ): NZME to keep running controversial anti-Māori wards ad that Stuff removed after complaints
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Minister Chris Penk steps in to help small businesses wrongfully suspended by Meta
Deborah Morris (Post): The longest war: A Kiwi journalist’s fight for recognition (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Stuff staff revolt at reduced pay offer following strike
EARTHQUAKE REFORMS
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): The big shake-up: Why earthquake reforms are critical for Wellington’s future
Grant Miller (ODT): ‘Nervous’ about new quake rules (paywalled)
RNZ: New earthquake building rules pose big challenge for Dunedin, developer says
Liz McDonald (Press): Most quake-prone buildings to remain on register (paywalled)
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Quake-prone building rule change could be big win for Chateau Tongariro, mayor says
Matthew Martin (Waikato Times):New earthquake rating rules could save iconic Chateau Tongariro (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Hawke’s Bay Regional Council faces class action legal challenge over flooding
David Long (Stuff): Wayne Brown not ruling out early handover of mayoralty if he wins second term
Simon Wilson (Herald): Queen St and the council election: Mike Lee, Genevieve Sage and Patrick Reynolds on what to do with the iconic city stretch (paywalled)
Blayne Slabbert (Press): Ports, profits and politics: Who really runs Christchurch’s assets? (paywalled)
Sinead Gill (Press): Female mayoral candidates install cameras amid allegations of shoving, stalking (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): ‘Fran and the Buzzkills’: mayoral rivals clash over cover band gig (paywalled)
EMPLOYMENT
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Massive strike could hit schools, hospitals, health services - all on the same day
Anna Whyte (Post): Nearly 100,000 workers could walk off the job in monster strike (paywalled)
David Burton (Post): The peril of politicising judicial appointments (paywalled)
SUPERANNUATION, KIWISAVER
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Treasury says pension age should rise to 72. Do any politicians dare to agree?
Oliver Hartwich (Newsroom): Treasury warning never grows old – unlike boomers
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): ‘Mixed’ response to KiwiSaver reforms as cabinet mulls decision (paywalled)
ECONOMY, INEQUALITY, BUSINESS
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): What you need to be among the New Zealand’s richest people
Dan Brunskill (Interest): The RBNZ could’ve better dampened inflation, by inducing a worse recession
Djavlonbek Kadirov (The Conversation): Price check: how a public grocery chain would disrupt NZ’s supermarket duopoly
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): More evidence of confidence knock from weak GDP figures (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Second-quarter GDP shocker dealt a blow to September business confidence - ANZ (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest) ANZ Business Outlook Survey: The Spring is sprung?...
RNZ: Business confidence unchanged as manufacturing sector showing signs of life
Rob Stock (Post): Loan arrears ease despite economic strain (paywalled)
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Company liquidations up 26% despite improving credit trends
RNZ: Carter Holt Harvey closes Tokoroa plywood plant, 119 jobs to go
Herald Editorial: Why NZ must back its fast-growing video game industry (paywalled)
BANKS, FINANCE, INSURANCE
Michael Neilson (BusinessDesk): The billion-dollar insurance companies operating in NZ (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): What’s in a name? Why ‘bank’ is a protected word in NZ - and why that might change (paywalled)
BusinessDesk: Reserve Bank of NZ looks to widen usage of word ‘bank’
Shane Currie (Herald): Selling the bank - Westpac chief marketing officer Sarah Williams (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Bali Haque (Aotearoa Educators Collective): An Open Letter to the Minister of Education
Amelia Wade (Post): Three sets of numbers, one scrapped subject: Hopes for a U-turn on art history (paywalled)
Herald: David Seymour hails Auckland University’s U-turn on compulsory te ao Māori course as ‘massive victory
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Universities give up using software to detect AI in students’ work
Andrea Fox (Herald): University leaders warn of funding gap as international enrolments surge