IRAN WAR; IMPACT ON NZ ECONOMY
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government open to scrapping 12 cent fuel tax hike next year if conditions worsen
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Advocacy group calls for National Fuel Security Plan to be activated in face of global shortages
Luke Malpass (Post): The oil shock that could upend the election year (paywalled)
RNZ: Government working ‘around the clock’ to help New Zealanders stranded in Middle East
Tom Raynel (Herald): Nicola Willis orders watchdog to monitor petrol prices after Iran conflict
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How much fuel does NZ have - and what happens if we run out?
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): NZ economy ‘on precipice’ as markets wobble, oil price rises
David Hargreaves (Interest): ‘The idea of rate hikes anytime soon looks more premature now than before the war’
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): ‘It’s easy to start a war; it’s pretty hard to finish one’
Jamie Gray (Herald): War-driven fertiliser shortage risks higher fresh food prices for shoppers (paywalled)
Jeffrey Halley (RNZ): Iran conflict sparks freight chaos: New Zealand faces soaring costs and months‑long delays
Henry Cooke and Anneke Smith (Post): Advice sought on legal powers if oil supplies dry up (paywalled)
Andrew Patterson (Newsroom): Global economy on the brink as oil surges around US$100 a barrel
Anneke Smith (Post): Iran war: Labour sees case for cutting fuel taxes, but ACT doesn’t (paywalled)
Anan Zaki (RNZ): Asian and New Zealand share markets tumble
Sanda Arambepola (Stuff): Petrol prices could near $4 as Iran conflict sends global oil soaring
John Weekes (Herald): Iran war: Airlines face jet fuel price crisis, Air NZ shares down almost 8%, demand for flights through North America surges (paywalled)
Rafaella Melo (Herald): Rocket Lab satellites draw questions amid US-Iran conflict
Simon O’Connor: The failing international rules based order
GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Farce of the KiwiRail crony appointment is finally over
Farah Hancock (RNZ): KiwiRail director Scott O’Donnell quits board two years early after only months in role
Rob Collins (Post): Corporate welfare alive and well while families struggle with rising food bills (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Labour promises to do infrastructure differently this election (paywalled)
Aaron Smale (Listener): It’s election year and Winston Peters is already playing the race card (paywalled)
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): In the age of outrage, Winston Peters is finally in his prime
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori News): Former Nelson deputy mayor Rohan O’Neill-Stevens to stand for Greens in general election
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Ministry of Social Development apologises for broken data system
Jamie Ensor (Herald): US President Donald Trump’s pick for New Zealand Ambassador reveals priorities, interested in expanding defence partnership
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): NZ cyber strategy criticised as least bold in Five Eyes and Kordia releases latest cyber report (paywalled)
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Law doesn’t save lives, people do: health and safety lawyer (paywalled)
NATIONAL PARTY AND LUXON
Jo Moir (RNZ): How strong is support for Christopher Luxon? We’re about to find out
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon, National MPs hold first caucus meeting since tough poll results
Grant Duncan: Luxon’s leadership: not over yet?
Anna Whyte (Interest): Luxon faces pivotal week following leadership rumours after National poll slump
Anna Whyte (Interest): Inside the poll that sparked leadership speculation about PM Luxon’s future
Dave Armstrong (Post): Reading the political tea leaves (and coffee grounds) (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Christopher Luxon’s big Monday media grillings – rated
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Has Luxon entered ‘dead man walking’ territory?
Mike’s Minute (Newstalk ZB): Luxon quitting would be an epic mistake
Nick Mills (Newstalk ZB): Christopher Luxon should not step down as Prime Minister
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): The main reason Luxon should stay
Poppy Clark (Stuff): Luxon says recent drop in poll numbers ‘won’t be happening on election day’
ODT: Editorial – A snowball’s chance (paywalled)
RNZ: Defiant Christopher Luxon says no discussions needed on his leadership
1News: Luxon shrugs off poor poll, insists he won’t quit
Henry Cooke (Post): ‘There’s one poll and it’s November 7’: Christopher Luxon says no poll could make him resign (paywalled)
Greg Presland (The Standard): What will Winston do if National sacks Luxon?
RNZ: Luxon: Bad poll result ‘not a major focus’ for National
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Local government minister Simon Watts can’t guarantee rates cap won’t increase social housing rents
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Government mulls taxpayer backstop for Ratepayers Assistance Scheme that would lend up to $5 billion (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Post): Mayor puts kibosh on $405,000 celebration of library opening (paywalled)
Redmer Yska (Post): Guardianship missing from Wellington library’s precious collection
Julie Jacobson (Post): Region’s leaders condemn move on orders in letter to PM (paywalled)
Duncan Connors (ODT): The regions can be trusted to rule (paywalled)
RNZ: Porirua’s old street naming guidelines binned
Tom Hunt (Post): From flush to clear water in 24 hours: Ngāti Toa trials new sewerage system (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Peter Bassett: the mystery man behind cycleway vs pipe blog is a ‘pseudonym’ (paywalled)
Charlie Mitchell (Press): ‘Sewage and shellfish don’t mix’, mussel farmer says of sewage discharge plan (paywalled)
Mike Yardley (Press): If this proposal stacks up, it shouldn’t be held up (paywalled)
MEDIA AND INTERNET
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): New Zealand is losing faith in the internet
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Fears of interference and influence in news
Gavin Ellis: A grunt is worth a thousand words
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): Where’s Tova? How restraint clauses are reshaping the media (paywalled)
David Farrar: How The Press leans
Joanna Wane (Herald): Be Brave: TVNZ’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver on a life under fire (paywalled)
HEALTH
RNZ: More scope for private sector to ease public healthcare woes, report says\
Amber Allott and Joanne Naish (Press): ‘Corridor crisis’: Christchurch Hospital starts the week at 108% capacity - amid packed ED concerns (paywalled)
Anthony O’Brien (Listener): Law changes fail to address one of our most glaring mental health inequities (paywalled)
Ian Powell: Child poverty, social determinants of health, and balance sheets
RNZ: Ninth wave of Covid-19 suggests wane in immunity, expert says everyone must ‘act to reduce impact’
Gary Hamilton-Irvine (Herald): Hawke’s Bay Hospital department wait lists drop by as much as 74%
HOUSING
Katie Todd (RNZ): Queenstown Lakes District facing double the housing insecurity over one year
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): The great property breakup
Deborah Morris (Post): The region where the views are expansive and the rents expensive (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): What’s going on with residential development? (paywalled)
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland intensification shift: Fringe suburbs face lower housing targets
ENVIRONMENT AND MINING
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Mazda accused of greenwashing with tree-planting promotion
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): A bit more than recycling, please
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Mining and the productivity conundrum (paywalled)
Mary Williams (ODT): Treaty concerns over mine plan (paywalled)
Mike Horder (ODT): Mine site ‘at the beating heart of our landscape’ (paywalled)
ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY
Ed Harvey (Herald): Middle East crisis shows why energy independence is a matter of national security (paywalled)
Alan Brent (The Conversation): New modelling shows renewable electricity can meet NZ’s future demand – without importing gas
Mike Houlahan (ODT): For Willis, the govt’s LNG terminal proposal is a gas, gas, gas (paywalled)
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): If only energy were good clean fun too
REGULATION OF BUSINESS
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Big banks welcome ComCom’s latest open banking timeframes (paywalled)
RNZ: Fine handed down after acquisition of wood shavings company lessened competition
RNZ: Anonymous survey for supermarket suppliers too scared to speak out
Herald: Alderson Logistics and Supa Shavings fined $420k over illegal acquisitions
Ben Leahy (Herald): Barfoot & Thompson facing $600k lawsuit after agent’s copy-paste signature ‘mistake’
CARTOONS