CORRUPTION AND INTEGRITY
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Why NZ’s integrity slide can no longer be ignored
Matt Nippert (Herald): Corruption klaxon blaring, but at least we can now hear it (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): NZ’s transparency and integrity slowly being chipped away (paywalled)
RNZ: Internal fraud and corruption under-reported, new report shows
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Under-reported public sector fraud risks could imply losses of up to $10.2b, taskforce says (paywalled)
NBR: SFO says public service is under-reporting fraud and corruption (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Electricity Authority staff breached guidelines accepting dinners from Meridian Energy (paywalled)
1News: Officials mobilised to get Peters ringside at Parker’s Saudi fight
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Revolving doors, vacancies and more (paywalled)
INDIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Peters and Luxon both say the other is wrong on the India deal. Who is right?
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): India Free Trade Agreement text revealed: What the Government says about the deal v what the secret text says (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Fact or fiction: Who’s telling the truth on the India Free Trade Agreement? (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): India trade deal opening up a Pandora’s Box of prejudice - will our leaders close it? (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Government needs to ‘sit down and have a conversation with us’ on India trade deal - Hipkins
Henry Cooke (Post): India FTA: Hipkins says National came to Labour far too late as visa questions mount (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Does Winston Peters have a point about the India FTA?
John Braddock (World Socialist Website): Divisions within NZ coalition government over India Free Trade Agreement
ENERGY
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Shane Jones says NZ First will campaign on breaking up big power firms (paywalled)
Kate Newton (RNZ): Better to burn Huntly’s ‘giant mountain of coal’ than import, renewable energy advocate says
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Consumer issues power price warning
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Government’s LNG terminal plan dubbed both a worthy insurance policy and costly last resort (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): National’s LNG blunders are a warning ahead of election campaign
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Tax, levy, fee or charge? Parties in war of words over Govt’s gas policy
Henry Cooke (Post): It’s not a tax, it’s a levy! National and Labour swap lines on LNG terminal spat (paywalled)
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Until we have sustainable, reliable alternatives, we need to stock up on fuel
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Who builds NZ’s LNG terminal? The two names being floated (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Solar’s share of power generation increases (paywalled)
WELLINGTON SEWAGE FAILURES
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington sewage spill: Shortfall in pipe funding identified in 2020 (paywalled)
Eugene Doyle (Post): Wellington sewage spill: Why a closed-door inquiry won’t fix Moa Point (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Wellington’s failed wastewater plant is due to change ownership - so who pays to fix it?
RNZ: Questions over who will pay for Wellington’s sewage plant failure
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Is Moa Point a warning for other wastewater plants?
RNZ: Wellington sewage outflow could kill marine reserve’s kelp forest ecosystem
ELECTION AND PARLIAMENT
Herald: Editorial – Labour faces winning back middle New Zealand and walking Te Pāti Māori tightrope (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Another Labour MP suggests party will work with Te Pāti Māori once issues resolved
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Willie Jackson says Labour can work with Māori Party to change government
Harriet Laughton (Post): Labour MP suggests party can work with Te Pāti Māori when they ‘sort their issues out’ (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (RNZ): NZ First to campaign on ministers getting final say in fast track projects
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Shane Jones says he will campaign on giving ministers say over fast-track decisions (paywalled)
Richard Harman: Committee calls in Upton to challenge Bishop (paywalled)
Louis Collins (RNZ): Parliament back to government business
MINING AND EXTRACTION
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Ministers set to accept the inevitable after Trans Tasman Resources seabed mine rejected (paywalled)
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): US-NZ deal on critical minerals limited by fast-track denial
Ian Taylor (Stuff): Prime Minister, when science says no, will your Government listen?
MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Tim Watkin (ODT): Openness can save media from distrust
Nick Agar (Post): Why New Zealand shouldn’t blink on a social media ban for under-16s (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – News you can trust (paywalled)
Gavin Ellis: Another threat to our news industry: AI slop
Steven Price: Talley’s source of contention
GOVT RETAIL CRIME ADVISORY GROUP
1News: Govt retail crime advisory group winds up early after resignations
Adam Pearse (Herald): Retail crime advisory group scrapped after several resignations
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): The unshakeable Sunny Kaushal
FAMILY VIOLENCE
RNZ: Family violence reaches highest levels since 2018 - Salvation Army report
Luisa Girão (Stuff): Violence against children surges as families buckle under pressure, Salvation Army warns
Amy Williams (RNZ): ‘Victim of unspeakable cruelty and deliberate evil’: Coroner’s findings on Malachi Subecz death
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