MANAGE MY HEALTH SCANDAL
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Monopoly behind MisManageMyHealth
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Watchdog that didn’t bark in the MisManageMyHealth scandal
Anna Whyte and Harriet Laughton (Post): Manage My Health under pressure as minister, Privacy Commissioner circle (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (The Post): Manage My Health adviser appointed after hack is a former company director (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Getting real on privacy (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: We must acknowledge the risk of having all our personal data online (paywalled)
Peter Griffin (Listener): The risky business of private health data online (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Under-protecting privacy
Nikki Macdonald (Post): Inside the rise of Manage My Health (paywalled)
Kelly Dennett (Sunday Star Times): Is it time for a new tech revolution? (paywalled)
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Manage My Health breach victims warned to beware bank account theft
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Manage My Health patients draw blanks in quest for information on cybersecurity breach
1News: Manage My Health admits to tech issues in wake of cyber breach
Anna Leask (Herald): ManageMyHealth cyber attack: Frustration grows as more patients report missing data
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): ManageMyHealth data breach victim’s health records vanish from portal, as she awaits brain scan results
RNZ: More than 80,000 impacted by Manage My Health breach in Northland
RNZ: Many Manage My Health security breach victims in Northland
Harriet Laughton (Post): Manage My Health breach: Northland patients impacted despite never signing up (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Sunday Star Times): Think your health data is boring? That’s exactly the problem (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Winston Peters’ appeal is he’s the last man standing
Ethan Manera (Herald): Best and worst Government departments to work for detailed in Public Service Census (paywalled)
Richard Johnstone (Global Government Forum): Public service commissioner sets out ‘significant risks’ to New Zealand government
Grant Duncan: The National Party fails to deliver. But can they get re-elected anyway?
Spinoff: NZ politics in 2026: The big issues on which the year will hinge
Melanie Nelson: Controversial Regulatory Standards Board vacancies closing soon
David Farrar: Freshwater favourability
Imogene Bedford (Herald): Christopher Luxon releases summer playlist mixing Kiwi classics and Gen Z hits
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): Former PM Helen Clark criticises Trump for pulling US out of international organisations
Josie Pagani (Post): When leadership gives way to imperialistic gangsterism (paywalled)
Ian Powell: Nicolás Maduro Kidnapping, US Imperialist Expansion And Implications For New Zealand
Kirsty Needham (Reuters): Pacific Islands environment programme says US must follow formal exit process
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Why bipartisanship political support for trade deals is crucial for NZ (paywalled)
Neil Reid (Herald): ‘Stay below the radar’: Why Kiwis fighting in Ukraine and their loved ones have been urged to avoid social media
ECONOMY
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Some greenshoots tempered with global unease: The economic outlook for 2026 (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit):It Aint Easy Being Small
Kate Green (RNZ): Pinch Point: Tough economic times aren’t new
Toss Grumley (Post): The cold hard truth about New Zealand’s productivity problem (paywalled)
Mark Lister (Herald): 2026 investing outlook: Six big predictions for shares, housing, OCR (paywalled)
Michael Sherlock (Post): What 2025 taught us — and six forces set to shape markets in 2026 (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Peter Newport (Crux): Evidence mounts of 4-year sewage cover up to protect Queenstown property development
Sam Smith (Stuff): Family left frustrated after beachgoers not warned about ‘pretty gross’ sewage spill
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Failed drug test among vehicle policy breaches as Rotorua Council pushes for greener fleet
Tom Hunt (Post): Century-old Wellington retaining wall to undego long-delayed rebuild (paywalled)
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua Lakes Council moves to court over Owhata parolee facility
TIM SHADBOLT
RNZ: Sir Tim Shadbolt turned around Invercargill’s slide - former council CEO
ODT Editorial: Ensuring Invercargill was on the map (paywalled)
1News: Sir Tim Shadbolt remembered as Invercargill mourns long‑serving mayor
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): We are poorer for the loss of Sir Tim Shadbolt
HEALTH
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Government u-turns on prescription co-payment fees
Carly Gooch (Press): NZ’s largest vape retailer found using hidden text to advertise products (paywalled)
Hikitia Ropata (Post): Vaping is growing a new generation of addicts (paywalled)
Sarah Kapeli (Newsroom): Mental healthcare for Pasifika has to be more than words on paper (paywalled)
Sam Stubbs (Post): The four organisations we take for granted, but make our life better (paywalled)
Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): ‘Increased interest’ from overseas physician associates due to pending NZ regulation (paywalled)
Nic Duff (ODT): Wait time for paediatrician of concern (paywalled)
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Chris Knox (Herald): See all of Ikea’s New Zealand forestry land - 42,000ha and counting (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Sunday Star Times): ‘Better a dead marlin than a dead campaign’: Shane Jones’ fisheries pivot (paywalled)
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
Cameron Smith (Herald): Is it time for Kiwi businesses to seriously consider shorter work weeks? (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Abuse and assaults on workers unacceptable (paywalled)
Victoria Young (BusinessDesk): Looking back to go forward (paywalled)
Anne Gibson (Herald): Foodstuffs North Island CEO Chris Quin on growth, the economy, election and Waiheke holiday (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): Vaccine mandates continue to ripple through employment courts (paywalled)
Michael Turner (Post): Why the AI age could supercharge New Zealand’s leisure economy (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Cate Macintosh (Press/Post): New principals’ federation president wants to reset frosty relationship with education minister (paywalled)
Hanna McCallum (Post): Introducing the three charter schools set to open in the capital in 2026 (paywalled)
Cate Macintosh (Press/Post): Charter school approvals board apologises after complaint alleged ‘discriminatory comments’ (paywalled)
TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Tolls for existing roads an unfair ‘double-dipping’ for motorists, Transporting NZ warns
Thomas Nash (Sunday Star Times): Swapping ‘station wagons for train stations’: The Case for transit-oriented development (paywalled)
Justin Wong (Local Democracy Reporting): Train tracks and lines ripped up at a now-closed Melling station in capital
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Free week of bus travel, as Hawke’s Bay unveils major network shake-up
Caron Copek (Stuff): Bluebridge ferry overbooks, calls for volunteers to get off
RNZ: Bluebridge cancels all Connemara sailings through to Tuesday
OTHER
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Insurance giants grapple with the sun’s trillion-dollar threat
Cecilia Robinson (Herald): Five New Year’s resolutions we should make as a country (paywalled)
Amelia Linzey (Newsroom): Zipline ’em up: Four reasons we’re in for a thrilling ride
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret horoscopes
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Call for Te Papa to repatriate kauri bust of Ngati Porou chief who signed the Treaty
Ryan Boswell (1News): NZ still failing to protect people from high-control groups – cult survivor
Charlie Mitchell (Press/Post): The hidden and ‘unacceptable’ tsunami danger at Milford Sound (paywalled)
Melanie Earley (RNZ): Auckland’s stalled housing developments a year on: What’s changed
CARTOONS