TE PĀTI MĀORI
Henry Cooke (Post): Te Pāti Māori co-leaders promise a reset, but end up just running away (paywalled)
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Te Pāti Māori reset rubs up against reality of ongoing ructions
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori ‘reset’ lasts 3 minutes and 43 seconds
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris ‘taking our people for fools’, Labour’s Peeni Henare says
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori reveals ‘reset’, saying it wants to govern
Adam Pearse (Herald): Te Pāti Māori refuses to address ‘dictatorship’ leadership claims as co-leaders reveal desire for coalition with Labour, Greens
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori to ‘steady the waka’ in discipline, policy focused reset, co-leaders say
Thomas Manch (Post): Te Pāti Māori ‘reset’ to focus on policy (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Te Pāti Māori’s Oriini Kaipara on her first speech as MP, party ‘dramas’
Māni Dunlop and Tumamao Harawira (Te Ao Māori News): Parliament suspended after haka tautoko for Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara
RNZ: Watch: Haka breaks out after Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara’s maiden speech, Parliament suspended
RNZ: Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara: ‘I covered stories and now I choose to change them’
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): New Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara delivers first speech as an MP
Harriet Laughton and Henry Cooke (Post): Speaker investigating TPM following Oriini Kaipara’s maiden speech (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Did someone try to stop the Māori Party from hijacking Parliament
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Public spend on consultants slashed – but not to those embedded deep in govt
RNZ: Public service spending on contractors, consultants falls more than a third since last year
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Deloitte Australia’s AI scandal and the ‘canary’ in the consulting coal mine (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): The Pork-barrelled problems in public procurement
1News: New Govt procurement rules aim to boost Kiwi businesses
Brent Edwards (NBR): New procurement rules aim to make it easier for NZ firms (paywalled)
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Police should have alerted government of press secretary allegations sooner, review finds
Paula Penfold (Stuff): DIA report: Police should have activated ‘no surprises’ policy over Michael Forbes allegations
Amelia Wade and Stewart Sowman-Lund (Herald): Michael Forbes ‘Deep Dive’: scandal exposes gaps in ministerial vetting (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): ‘Crowbar Chlöe’: Winston Peters goes nuclear over attack on home (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Luxon flubs his lines and Labour gets an economics lesson
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Good MPs make great quiz team members
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Police Minister Mark Mitchell hospitalised with chest infection
NBR: FMA hires chief economist, a year after first one left (paywalled)
ECONOMY
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Nation upset at the inevitable result of its own actions
Lloyd Burr, Emma Ricketts and Zane Small (Stuff): Government’s books show finance minister borrowing billions to keep the lights on
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Tax cuts keep Crown accounts treading water
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Government deficit of $9.3b shows ‘progress’, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Nicola Willis hails progress on fiscal discipline as key Government financial indicators better than forecast
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Five reasons to feel positive about the New Zealand economy
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Government’s annual accounts less bad than expected (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Government books showing signs of improvement (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Forget the single mandate, RBNZ will step in to save the economy
ODT Editorial: Yanking down hard on the lever (paywalled)
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): OCR cuts have not restored the most important thing - confidence
UNEMPLOYMENT
Evie Richardson (RNZ): Regional jobs no easy fix for Jobseeker benefit squeeze
Max Harris (Post): Welfare changes are trying to drag us back to a time most of us have left behind (paywalled)
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): We need clarity for disabled teenagers on the benefit
RNZ: What you need to know about the Jobseeker eligibility changes
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Number of job applicants ‘unheard of’ for small town, company says
Tom Peters (World Socialists): New Zealand government to push teenagers off welfare
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): ‘Some people don’t even know an election is on’
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Only one in five Aucklanders have voted in local elections
Grant Miler (ODT): City in danger of voter turnout below 30% (paywalled)
Justin Wong (Post): Slow start, late sprint? City voters lag as clock ticks down (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Councils turn to TikTok and memes to lift falling local election turnout (paywalled)
Nick James (RNZ): Error leads to $7000 painted mayoral portrait of Tory Whanau, rather than photo
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB: Tory Whanau is the poster child for ineptitude
Tom Hunt (Post): Keyboard warriors to real-world attackers: Fears grow for candidates’ safety (paywalled)
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Compliance issues at some Southland water plants
Susan Botting (Local Democracy Reporting): Democracy Northland defends Kaipara newsletter after smear claims
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): Tauranga council to restart Memorial Park pool plan after $4.7m spend
Max Frethey (Local Democracy Reporting): Election hoardings ranked: ‘Like a cheap ID card’
Joel MacManus (Stuff): Race briefing: Can anyone shake Nick Smith’s hold on Nelson?
Zita Campbell (Local Democracy Reporting): Gisborne iwi commits $5m from future Treaty settlement for kaitiakitanga
Doug Laing (Herald): Hawke’s Bay voting venues open to the last minute, ready for high noon on Saturday
Justin Wong (Herald): Upper Hutt council fails to locate mall deal leaker (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Post): Thorndon golden ‘mile’ upgrade turns area into ‘ghost town’ (paywalled)
Nick James (RNZ): Hataitai residents fume as beloved beach ‘basically lost’ after council works
POLICE
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Fears of ‘surveillance state’, as police regain right to photograph public, retain images
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Government moves to give police back more information-collecting powers
No Right Turn: Legalising lawlessness
GAZA, PROTESTS, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Gaza talks support Winston Peters’ stance on Palestine recognition (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal is ‘progress’ - Winston Peters (paywalled)
Chris Trotter (ODT): Opponents, not enemies, when home protests unthought of (paywalled)
Martin Van Beynen (Press/Post): The pain and the gain of protests (paywalled)
Rachel Moore (Stuff): Family of Kiwi taken ‘against his will’ by Israeli forces hope for quick release
Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai (RNZ): Samoa govt says Manawanui disaster compensation to be finalised after budget approval
Alka Prasad (Post): Māori kiwifruit growers test UAE-NZ trade deal’s indigenous chapter
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Why New Zealand’s United States tariff rates could rise on a whim (paywalled)
HOUSING
AJ Hendry: Homelessness is a political choice, our Government just made another one
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Youth homelessness crisis: Call for national strategy to close support gaps
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): How effective have the healthy homes standards really been?
1News: New rental listings continue to climb across the country
Stuff: Auckland’s average property price climbs back above $1m
RNZ: Regional housing markets bouncing back faster than some main centres
Avina Vidyadharan (Waikato Times/Press): Developers buoyed as latest OCR cut fuels growing optimism (paywalled)
ANIMAL WELFARE, ENVIRONMENT, PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Alex Casey (Spinoff): What’s happening with the changes to pig welfare laws?
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Food Safety swamped by thousands of objections, stalling glyphosate review
Mandy Te (Interest): After years of ‘raiding the environmental piggy bank’, the environment is sending New Zealand invoices - Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Wood industry unveils value-added plan to double exports (paywalled)
Ella Scott-Fleming (ODT): Backers, critics unhappy at Bill
EDUCATION
Jaime Cunningham (Newstalk ZB): Education Ministry says some children have returned to school after truancy prosecution threat
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Different educational regions could help attendance battle - Seymour
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Attitudes to truancy improve, parents still taking kids out of school for holidays - report
Hanna McCallum (Post): Parents less happy about a week off school - but a few days’ holiday OK (paywalled)
Serena Solomon (RNZ): Is it ever okay to miss days at school?
RNZ: NZ teachers report higher stress than OECD average, survey finds
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Med school push ‘erosion’ of govt decision-making (paywalled)
RNZ: Whanganui embraces chance to host Waikato medical school’s placements
Chris Trotter: Covens of Enforced Consensus (paywalled)
Jean Edwards (RNZ): Secretary for Education warns Gloriavale Christian School it may lose registration as private school
WAITANGI TRIBUNAL, CROWN-MĀORI RELATIONS, TINO RANGATIRATANGA
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): Government move to ‘clip Tribunal’s wings’ sparks judicial pushback
David Williams (Spinoff): The Waitangi Tribunal: 50 years of damning criticisms and ‘mild’ recommendations
Carwyn Jones (E-Tangata): Fifty years of the Waitangi Tribunal
RNZ: ‘How can you provide a place for both peoples?’: Waitangi Tribunal celebrates 50 years
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Members celebrate 50 years of the Waitangi Tribunal
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Man removed from Parliament’s gallery during foreshore and seabed debate
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): ‘Ko wai hoki rātou?’: Ngātiwai rangatira speaks out after ejection from foreshore and seabed debate
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Dixon St flats made iwi a $2m profit in two weeks: But what’s a right of first refusal?
Mengzhu Fu (E-Tangata): We all have a stake in the future of this place
DRUGS
Derek Cheng (Herald): Decriminalise, depoliticise, destigmatise: New report says drug laws are ‘colossal failure’ that exacerbate harm
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘Colossal failure’: Drug Foundation calls for law reform as three die each week
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Decriminalising drug use best way to combat rising addiction, report finds
Science Media Centre: New report says drug laws are a ‘failure’ – Expert Reaction
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Isn’t the Drug Foundation stating the obvious? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): New meth rules ‘turning a blind eye to casual drug use’
Miriam Bell (Post): Better late than never: New meth contamination rules for rental homes (paywalled)
Peter De Graaf (RNZ): Kaitāia residents use hīkoi to highlight opposition to meth crisis in Kaitāia
EMPLOYMENT LAW
Neil Sands (Law News): Regulating advocates ‘something for the next minister’, Brooke van Velden tells employment law conference
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Employment law is in crisis and needs to be improved: Chief Judge (paywalled)
ABUSE IN CARE
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Lake Alice survivor loses redress case against Govt
Felix Walton (RNZ): A year after abuse-in-care report, Presbyterian Church finally apologises
Jacinda Thompson (Spinoff): The good, the bad and the ugly from the Presbyterian church’s apology for abuse in care
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