TE PĀTI MĀORI
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Tākuta Ferris' doubling down on race rhetoric widely condemned
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Tākuta Ferris post: Te Pāti Māori not commenting publicly, condemnation across Parliament
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris doubles down on social media comments labelled ‘racist’
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): In bizarre midnight video, Tākuta Ferris doubles down on his criticism of non-Māori supporting Labour in by-election
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): 'Homogenising Māori as a minority' - Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris defends controversial social media post
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Were journalists really ‘pouncing out of bushes’, as Te Pāti Māori claims?
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The issue Hipkins has with the Māori Party
PARLIAMENT
Janet Wilson (Post): Major party leaders up against it as MMP milestone looms (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On The Decline Of Winston Peters, And The Attacks On Helen Clark
Azaria Howell (Newstalk ZB): Ex-MP Stuart Nash’s employer begins formal review into ‘deeply inappropriate’ remarks about women
Thomas Manch and Anna Whyte (Post): Stuart Nash’s employer launches ‘formal review’ after ‘deeply inappropriate’ remarks (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Echo Chamber: Gaza, blood quantum, and housing in Epsom
Phil Smith (RNZ): Parliament's workload squeezing out committees
Daniel Vernon: Labour's fear of bold ideas
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): The one Australian democratic innovation New Zealand should adopt
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): One MP, One Pint: Chlöe Swarbrick doesn’t want you to despair – just fight Winston Peters
RESERVE BANK
Anneke Smith and Russell Palmer (RNZ): Finance minister's 'heads up' that Adrian Orr was on his way out
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Texts reveal Nicola Willis was warned she might be asked to sack Adrian Orr as Reserve Bank Governor (paywalled)
Michael Reddell: Tangled webs
ENERGY
RNZ: Shane Jones calls for renationalising of power market
Henry Cooke and Thomas Manch (Post): David Seymour shoots down Shane Jones’ proposal to nationalise electricity market (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): What will ministers tell electricity bosses as energy reform decision looms? (paywalled)
RNZ: ‘Hour of free power' not a magic bullet , customers say
Jamie Gray (Herald): New Zealand wholesale power prices rise on low hydro, high gas prices (paywalled)
Blayne Slabbert (Press): South Island getting left behind in renewables boom (paywalled)
HEALTH
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Regulation Minister David Seymour won't rule out label changes for nicotine, tobacco, alcohol
Rob Stock (Post): ACT leader David Seymour calls for ‘health savings accounts’ for all (paywalled)
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Government health spending claims 'inflated' and 'misleading' - study
RNZ: Call for research on quality, suitability of telehealth service
Elsie Williams (Press): Another central city bottle store rejected after public outcry (paywalled)
Public Health Communication Centre: Invisible alcohol outlets: How data blind spots weaken harm reduction
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Do we need to adjust our alcohol policies?
ODT Editorial: Health data guessing
RNZ: Poor indoor air quality costing the country a billion dollars each year, researchers say
Cushla Norman (1News): 13,000 patients receive inaccurate diabetes lab results
RNZ: Former All Black's wife says NZ Rugby never acknowledged CTE caused by the game
Fiona Farrell (Newsroom): Wanted: a Covid memorial
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
RNZ: Hipkins slams Luxon over $44k bill for chopper trip with Albanese
Harriet Laughton (Post): The prime minister's $44k TikTok helicopter ride (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): British High Commissioner Iona Thomas welcomes higher defence spend as she warns of ‘radical instability’ (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon meets Pacific leaders in Solomon Islands
Giles Dexter (RNZ): NZ open to deploying police in Pacific to stop organised crime and drugs, Luxon says
Adam Pearse (Herald): New Zealand set to bolster police force in the Pacific, PM cites meth boom (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Christopher Luxon surrounded by Chinese influence at closed-door Pacific Islands Forum
RNZ: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks from the Solomon Islands
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Defence won't have to keep some war records under law change
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Emma Andrews (RNZ): Whanganui Māori ward candidate profiles excluded from voting booklet
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Election blunder: Māori ward candidate profiles left out of voting packs
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): South Wairarapa Māori ward error a ‘serious failure’
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Rates capping could hit council credit ratings, Treasury warns rates are 'significantly below' sustainable levels (paywalled)
Victor Billot (ODT): Keeping the politics out of politics not on
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Confidential document reveals mayor’s office drinks on night of Auckland floods
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Can anything hurt Wayne Brown’s reelection chances?
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington mayoral debate: Weary candidates and parroting party lines – but who’s ready to lead? pw
Harriet Laughton (Post): The Debate for Business: Wellington mayoral candidates face off (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Wellington’s ‘inflection point’ under the microscope
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): If a council water pipe bursts and triggers a landslide on your land, who is responsible?
Madeleine Powers (Waikato Times): Waitomo election fight spills on to Country Calendar (paywalled)
Diane McCarthy (Local Democracy Reporting): Bogus Whakatāne candidate event stumps voters
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Carterton candidates plan to keep budgets lean
Max Frethey (Local Democracy Reporting): Clark believes he could be mayor of Tasman and Invercargill
Alex Casey (Spinoff): ‘Vote Big Daddy’: The most memorable local body candidate nicknames in the country
KIWISAVER
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): KiwiSaver trick that providers say shortchanges members
Rob Stock (Post): KiwiSaver is failing 30% of working age people - here’s how to fix it (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): FMA boss concerned about ‘stark inequality’ as number of people contributing to KiwiSaver falls for the first time
David Hargreaves (Interest): Boomers not rushing to splash their KiwiSaver cash
Brent Melville (NBR): KiwiSaver funds hit $123b, schemes pocket $868.5m in fees (paywalled)
Alka Prasad (Post): KiwiSaver tops $120b but hardship withdrawals soar to record heights (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): More banks say economic dip was worse than they thought (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Three months, 10,000 jobs gone
Michael Daly (Stuff): Buying a house ‘a long way away’ for Gen Z under cost of living, property price strains
Herald: Gen Z confidence in financial decisions falls as cost of living bites
Emma Gleason (Spinoff): Vroom vroom: New Zealand’s two-speed economy explained
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): NZ economy likely loses mojo in June quarter (paywalled)
CLIMATE CHANGE
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Climate minister calls out dairy industry
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): Climate sabotage
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Carbon farming a poisoned chalice for some foresters (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): NZ should welcome Chinese cleantech expertise: Lord Turner (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT, FAST-TRACK, CONSERVATION
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): By the numbers: how environmental charities have faced the ‘war on nature’
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): ‘Frustrated’ ministers ready to accelerate fast-track
Maxine Jacobs (Press): Nearly half of Selwyn wells in pilot study fail nitrate safety test (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Fishers back emergency closure for hoiho, piling pressure on ministers (paywalled)
RNZ: Part of Miramar Peninsula gets reserve status 14 years after promise
Ethan Manera (Herald): Government confirms long‑promised Watts Peninsula reserve in Wellington
Nikki Macdonald (Post): Can New Zealand really go predator free? Wellington shows both the promise and the peril (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Plastic a ‘top concern’ for supermarket shoppers - are retailers doing enough about it? (paywalled)
Nic George (Post): Life’s a beach ‒ but not so for the wildlife (paywalled)
JUSTICE
Derek Cheng (Herald): Guilty ’til proven innocent? Govt’s new shoplifting offence weighs public safety versus individual rights (paywalled)
Richard Prebble (Herald): Prison as default housing and healthcare is justice denied (paywalled)
Paul Thistoll (Spinoff): The Law Commission just gave parliament a gift. Will it even be opened?
Hamish McNicol (NBR): ‘We can’t say we have a good, fast, commercial court system’ (paywalled)
HOUSING, BUILDING
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Remuera residents push back on Auckland intensification plan at public meeting
RNZ: Auckland, Wellington face housing surplus as building outstrips population growth
Deborah Morris (Post): NZ housing supply keeps up with demand — but not everywhere (paywalled)
TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Craig Renney: Pipeline to poverty
Nick James (RNZ): $1.4 billion nationwide public transport ticketing system delayed by a year
Justin Hu (1News): National transit ticketing system delayed again, finish date in 2027
Janine Rankin (Manawawtū Standard/Post): ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’: Regions celebrate new electric trains (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Jetstar tailwind blows for Government’s tourism drive (paywalled)
RNZ: Jetstar announces new domestic, trans-Tasman flights
1News: Jetstar adding two new routes, boosting capacity on others
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Jetstar and Qantas add 660,000 extra seats, two new routes (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Ben Leahy (Herald): NCEA reform and why principals are split on plans to scrap the national high schools qualification (paywalled)
RNZ: Charter schools 'gaining momentum' with interest from state school Northland College
Jaime Cunningham (Herald): More 15-year-olds leaving school early for further study options
Megan Wilson (Rotorua Daily Post): Toi Ohomai reverses proposal to close Taupō and Tokoroa campuses
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): TEC warns of further job loses (paywalled)
Gil Barbezat (ODT): Rough road ahead for Waikato Medical School
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Inland Revenue uses ‘advanced data mining’ to track student loan debtors
Cliff Abraham (Newsroom): Why is back to basics good in education but not science?
MIGRATION
Greg Ninness (Interest): Population gain from migration stabilising at around 1000 a month
Sam Smith (RNZ): Number of people leaving NZ on the increase, latest migration figures show