FUEL CRISIS
Henry Cooke (Post): Iran war: Who’s who in the NZ fuel crisis response (paywalled)
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Business leaders urge government to prioritise food supply in fuel plan
Joel Kulasingham (Herald): Why the fuel crisis is hitting New Zealand particularly hard
Anya Fielding (RNZ): Relief at the petrol pump on the way, fuel industry says
Connor Sharp (Greater Auckland): The government’s fossil fuel folly
Nick James (Post): Transport minister says some new motorway plans are being scaled back to pay for them (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Iran war: Trucking firms push for flexibility on contracts after diesel price surge (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Iran war: Wide gap opens up between cost and price of fuel in latest monitoring report (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): If only we didn’t need so much petrol...
RNZ: Hope for struggling regional airlines during fuel crisis - Associate Transport Minister James Meager
Harriet Laughton (Post): Pharmac plans for risk of medicine shortages amid Iran war (paywalled)
BusinessDesk: Fuel shock fallout: Why boards are slow to come clean on rising costs (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Iran ceasefire no cause for NZ ‘to relax’: Academic (paywalled)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEFENCE
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Time to break up with America
Don Brash: It’s no longer safe to be an American ally
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Donald Trump capitulates totally to Iran (paywalled)
Chris Trotter (ODT): Smiling like villains as foreign ministers meet in Washington (paywalled)
Tom Peters (World Socialist Website): New Zealand signs neo-colonial defence deal with Cook Islands
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Defence Force look to buy Antarctica equipped drones
RNZ: Audit of Defence Force’s attempts to reduce abusive behaviours delayed
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Natalia Albert: Luxon won’t make it to November
Isaac Davison (Stuff): NZ First wants to define a man and a woman. Government and experts say it will achieve almost nothing
Oliver Hartwich (Herald): Who runs the country? No board would tolerate this (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Move over, Winston: Shane Jones deserves credit for New Zealand First poll surge (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Crown solicitors deserve scrutiny
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): What did Jacinda’s latest testimony really tell us?
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Conservationists alarmed by new report into New Zealand’s freshwater
RNZ: ‘Sobering reading’: Waterways worsening around the country, report reveals
Science Media Centre: Worsening groundwater pollution shows our long-term water problems – Expert Reaction
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): DOC decides no action needed against McCallum Brothers sand mining in Pākiri
Brent Edwards (NBR): NZ urged to help poorer countries deal with climate change (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Why NZ could win from funding overseas climate projects (paywalled)
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