ACT PARTY
Grant Duncan: Seymour’s ACT: choking on his own ideas
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Act will campaign on cutting number of Government departments from 41 to no more than 30
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): ACT leader David Seymour delivers ‘State of the Nation’ speech
Henry Cooke (Post): State of Nation: ACT leader David Seymour pushes radical plan to slash ministers and merge departments (paywalled)
Stuff: David Seymour vows to keep Labour, Greens and Te Pāti Māori ‘out of power’ in State of the Nation speech
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Act to campaign on smaller government to lift productivity (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION, GOVERNMENT
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): New rules needed to curb political ‘AI arms race’, expert warns
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Relentless government mediocrity could lead to the unthinkable - PM Winston Peters (paywalled)
Veronica Schmidt (Spinoff): Opportunity Party to double candidates this election, Qiulae Wong to stand in Mt Albert
Henry Cooke (Post): Week ahead in politics: NZ’s first infrastructure plan, State of Origin, and an interest rate call (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Willis, Luxon and the perils of trying to be too clever (paywalled)
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Retail crime group rented expensive Symonds Street space against advice
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): $88m in 25 years, $33b in 15: Why Labour is calling foul on India FTA target (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Chris Hipkins writes to Christopher Luxon setting out conditions for supporting India FTA, warns of ‘significant risks’ (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Picking cherries, cooking books: the Public Finance Amendment Bill (paywalled)
Zeb Tupa’i (Herald): Big Gay Out protester removed after storming stage towards MPs in Auckland
WEATHER, INSURANCE, CLIMATE
1News: NZ’s safest city from natural hazards, according to scientists
Benn Bathgate (Post): Recovery minister says Waikato floods clean up set to cost millions (paywalled)
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): ‘Never seen anything like’ weather that hit Waipā - local
Reuters: New Zealand officials warn more flooding could hit north island as man killed after heavy rain
The Conversation: 4 lessons NZ should take from another summer of weather disasters
IDEA: Why insurance retreat is an inequality issue (paywalled)
Kate Newton (RNZ): ‘Every tonne matters’: The climate scientist who wants to give you hope
Catherine Knight: Climate change is not a big issue for New Zealanders
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Carbon price volatility hits Treaty forests (paywalled)
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Solids, liquids and gas - infrastructure ills back in the frame
K Gurunathan (Post): As Wellington’s crisis deepens, let’s turn the city over to central government (paywalled)
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Christchurch supermarket shelves stripped of bottled water after boil water notice issued
Maxine Jacobs (Press): Boil water notice for east Christchurch could stay another three days, council says (paywalled)
Maxine Jacobs (Press): Life and death: A boil water notice and a ‘medically fragile’ child (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Penny Smith (RNZ): Wellington mayor Andrew Little promises to cut commercial rates
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington Mayor Andrew Little commits to lowering commercial rates differential (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Top-level meeting on Chathams’ future as chastened CEO Paul Eagle quits
Liz McDonald (Press): From rubble to revival: The blueprint that shaped Christchurch’s comeback (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): RBNZ expected to leave OCR on hold, but signal rate rise later this year (paywalled)
Eric Crampton (Post): Disappointment in attempt to improve competition laws (paywalled)
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Nicola Willis sets up election fight over ‘fiscal credibility’ vs Labour’s ‘fiscal indulgence’ (paywalled)
Phil O’Reilly (Herald): NZ needs to debate what resilience means for our economic survival (paywalled)
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): ‘Frustrating’: Economic leaders’ impatience at policy inertia
Liam Dann (Herald): Reserve Bank expected to bring forward interest rate hike as inflation risk grows (paywalled)
Martien Lubberink: It Takes a Village: How the RBNZ left its covernor exposed
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Raising retirement age brandishes a keen two-edged challenge
ENERGY
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Ready to feel $4 richer a month as the planet burns? Why importing LNG isn’t the answer
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Gentailers expected to post record $1.86b interim operating profit (paywalled)
1News: Green Building Council calls for solar over Government’s LNG plan
HEALTH
Chris Roberts (Post): Why private hospitals are part of the future of healthcare (paywalled)
Gary Nicholls (Post): The past offers a vision of what future healthcare should be (paywalled)
Rob Campbell: Private or Public Health
Fiona Ellis (Waikato Times): The business of meth: Forum hears stark warning (paywalled)
HOUSING
David Hill (RNZ): Rangiora’s transformation from ‘dust bowl’ fields to housing boom
Doug Laing (Herald): Seven months since built – new Government-owned Napier housing development still empty (paywalled)
Charlotte Graham (Waikato Times): Welcome to Hamilton’s street of haves and have-nots (paywalled)
IMMIGRATION
RNZ: ‘Golden visa’ update announced by Immigration Minister
Amelia Wade (Post): $3.4 billion invested through ‘golden visa’ (paywalled)
Mountain Tui: Erica Stanford says she asks the uber-wealthy if “we can improve the service we offer you”
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): How this man’s dream of living in New Zealand ‘crumbled’
ENVIRONMENT
Joanna Mossop (Newsroom): NZ risks being left high and dry as High Seas Treaty enters into force
Andrea Vance (Post): NZ under fire for move to weaken deep-sea coral protections (paywalled)
CHARITIES
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): Charities regulator DIA investigates Destiny Church entities (paywalled)
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): Gloriavale trust faces charity status review, posts $1.8m surplus (paywalled)
GAMBLING
1News: ‘Sham’ organisations allegedly obtain $3.2m in gambling grant funds
Herald: Operation Indigo pokie fraud: 23 charged over $3.2m grant scam
CARTOONS