POLICE
1News: Q+A: Minister walks back ‘corrupt police’ remark after McSkimming report
David Farrar: Was the McSkimming affair corruption?
David Fisher (Herald): Top 10 New Zealand scandals of the century - and where the McSkimming fiasco and police wrongdoing ranked (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Is Andrew Coster a bad man or a bad cop? (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diaries of .. McSkimming and Coster
Gordon Campbell: On The Toxic Police Culture That Enabled Jevon McSkimming
Laura Walter (Newsroom): ‘Devastated’: Beyond a few bad apples, police face new cultural reckoning
Julia Gabel & Jamie Ensor (Herald): Department of Internal Affairs says interference with Police Minister’s emails was inappropriate
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Former Police Commissioner not sure if he’s ‘free to comment’ on scathing report
Michelle Duff (1News): Scorned women, great men: when will police update their take on sexual violence?
RNZ: Police need reform, external monitor, organisation working to end sexual violence says
RNZ: Why an ‘Inspector-General’ might not have stopped the Jevon McSkimming cover-up
Andrea Vance (Post): Top cops, top cover-up: why no-one should be buying police spin (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Sunday Star Times): Pass the blame, protect the badge: what the McSkimming finger pointing says about our institutions (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): The scandal that could break Police HQ (paywalled)
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Full inquiry into police needed to change ‘old boys club’ culture (paywalled)
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Top police executive who ‘did not disclose’ McSkimming material for reference now works for Justice
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Jevon McSkimming case: High-ranking police officer put under investigation before he could officially retire
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Ms Z’s lawyer has applied to dismiss charges over her emails to another cop
ODT: Civis: Disregard of duty, abuse of power (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): Investigating the police (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Police must adopt full transparency in McSkimming scandal to rebuild trust (paywalled)
Duncan Garner (Listener): Top cops failed themselves - and us (paywalled)
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Former PM John Key says public’s trust in police threatened by recent events McSkimming case
Justin Hu (1News): Timeline: How the Jevon McSkimming scandal unfolded over nine years
Mike White and Katie Ham (Post): The cops, the culture - and the cover-up (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Jevon McSkimming scandal: An anatomy of a cover-up (paywalled)
Lucy Rogers (Kiwiblog): The IPCA and the NZ Police are not drinking buddies: it’s the opposite
Zoran Rakovic: The Minister Is Asleep. Long Live the Commissioner
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT, POLLS
Bryce Edwards (Integrity Institute): Can the Greens capture the “Broken New Zealand” Zeitgeist?
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): John Tamihere will need to do something he’s never done before if he wants to survive (paywalled)
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Te Pāti Māori’s unravelling will only help re-election of coalition Govt
Chris Lynch: Christchurch branch accuses Te Pāti Māori leadership of shutting down member communication
Sacha McMeeking (E-Tangata): Which mandate matters most?
Luke Malpass (Post): Christopher Luxon needs to learn when to show up (paywalled)
Mark Feary (E-Tangata): The slow demolition of our democracy
Louis Collins (RNZ): Government completes four bills in a week of political sideshows
Brent Edwards (NBR): Opportunity comes knocking for new party leader (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Mr Fix-it tackles ‘reinvention’ of the public service
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Echo Chamber: Act gets a big win, and ‘everything is ka pai’ for Winston
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): The five best moments from the launch of Juggernaut 2
Greg Dixon (Listener): Luxon denies plan to sell off Peters: ‘He’s no asset’ (paywalled)
ASSET SALES
Brent Edwards (NBR): The likelihood of a mature debate on tax and asset sales (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Post): Winston Peters fans coalition flames with asset sale rebuke (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Asset sales and a mature conversation? Yeah right. (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Sunday Star Times): A ‘mature’ conversation - about selling the family silver (again) (paywalled)
EMPLOYMENT, WELFARE, WORKPLACE SAFETY
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Benefit change ‘throwing young people’ to food banks - Greens
Joanne Naish (Press/Post): Fifteen years on from Pike River, New Zealand is still failing workers, experts say (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Battles intensify as mega-strikers remain at loggerheads with govt (paywalled)
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): ‘Slave labour’: Teen paid $8 to deliver 42kg of phonebooks
Cameron Smith (Herald): Nearly half of NZ workers don’t fully disconnect from work on holiday - study (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Ben Leahy (Herald): Charter schools: Opus Dei-inspired Tōtara Point School to be taxpayer-funded
Andrea Vance (Post): ‘This wasn’t a playground scuffle - he was beaten until he collapsed’ (paywalled)
RNZ: Many primary prinicpals likely to leave job in next five years, according to insights poll
Hanna McCallum (Post): ‘Incredibly overwhelming’: Primary principals push pause on curriculum changes (paywalled)
Stuff: Primary school principals at breaking point, union says, pointing to grim survey findings
Cate Macintosh (Press/Post): Principals at ‘breaking point’ as poll shows 73% likely to quit within five years (paywalled)
Michelle Duff (Guardian): ‘Reframes history’: fears Māori knowledge diluted in plan to revise New Zealand curriculum
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Mary Afemata (Local Democracy Reporting): Petition calls for inquiry into Papatoetoe election as voters report ballots cast without consent
Tina Law (Press): How much is too much? Inside the Christchurch City Council’s vast $3b property portfolio (paywalled)
Amy Williams (RNZ): $300,000 Auckland Christmas decorations spark mixed feelings
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): ‘Unnecessary’ for ratepayers to fund meals, newly-elected councillor says
RNZ: Sewage overflow: $1 million compensation deal struck with oyster farmers
Mary Afemata (Local Democracy Reporting): Forged by hardship: Auckland’s new councillors bring lived experience
Bernard Orsman (Herald): New Auckland councillor Victoria Short reflects on journey from teenage pregnancy and surviving domestic violence to politics
Jonathan Killick and Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Viv Beck is trying to be more positive about Auckland CBD (paywalled)
Sue Teodoro (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Be careful what you wish for’: Australian mayor’s warning about proposed rates cap
Ethan Manera (Herald): Confidential council documents in old Wellington mayoral desk not the only mishandled files (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Wharf rethink: $800k already spent as council reopens debate on waterfront fencing (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington’s Golden Mile project over budget, city council to vote on review next week
Tom Hunt (Post): Off the carbon cliff: How Wellington ratepayers lost $3 million in 24 hours (paywalled)
Nick James (RNZ): Seaview residents warned sewage plant stench will return following ‘error’
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Kylie Wihapi confrimed as Porirua Māori Ward councillor
Sandy Eggleston (ODT): Plan received on possible reorganisation of councils (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Council unity and division (paywalled)
Ruby Shaw (ODT): Mayor, councillor to split economic development portfolio (paywalled)
Nick Davis (Post): Water reform isn’t about big borrowing, it’s about smart spending (paywalled)
RNZ: Local government approves Dunedin City Council’s new water plan
Grant Miller (ODT): Council’s water plan signed off (paywalled)
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Hawke’s Bay water restrictions begin as record low aquifer levels recorded
Jonathan Leask (Local Democracy Reporting): Pay rises of up to 25% for Selwyn councillors
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Pay rise for Southland councillors
Paora Manuel (Waikato Times): Developers ‘double dipping’ claims fall over in High Court (paywalled)
Zita Campbell (Local Democracy Reporter): Council agrees to sell land blocks to Ngati Oneone for kura project
Max Frethey (Local Democracy Reporting): Go-to councillors for Nelson’s communities
Lois Williams, (RNZ): Remote Haast township challenges need for chlorination
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Reward up to find sealion killers
MIGRATION, ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Admit it, taxes have to rise and house prices cannot
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Ministers react as brain drain hits record high
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): A dive into the numbers: Here’s NZ’s migration data, without the political spin
RNZ: ‘Painfully easy’: Why more Kiwis are choosing to go to Australia
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How expensive is life in NZ really?
Liu Chen (RNZ): Business summit highlights ethnic contributions to economy
Rod Carr (Post): Societies that are unwilling or unable to meet the costs of sovereignty lose it (paywalled)
Rob Campbell (Post): Why savings aren’t the shortcut to economic prosperity (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): ‘Disappointing result for the RBNZ’ as consumer spending remains flat
BANKS, FINANCE, ARMOURGUARD
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Is moral suasion the pathway to changing bank behaviour?
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Compounding interest in select committees banking inquiry (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Should I switch from my two Aussie banks to put my money with a NZ bank? (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Armoured van monopoly is no Hollywood heist
Tony Wall (Stuff): ‘Scandalous’: The fees that drained a disabled man’s income - and the dispute over his mother’s will
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Bank repossesses a vehicle a day in debt crackdown – starting with a Maserati
BUSINESS, FOREIGN INVESTMENT, CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Stuart Nash (Sunday Star Times): The easy, strategic change the Government should make to the ‘golden visa’ (paywalled)
Nikki Preston (One Roof/Herald): ‘Disappointing’: New foreign buyer law delayed until next year
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ACT Party issues dissenting opinion on payment surcharge ban (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): The bitter truth behind your Christmas chocolate (paywalled)
Brett Kerr-Laurie (Press/Post): Liquidations hit decade-high in worst period since global financial crisis (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Armoured van monopoly is no Hollywood heist
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): On the Money: Mark Mitchell, Rob Hewett, Taurus Taurima, Amanda Luxon, and more … (paywalled)
Stuff: Supplier costs to Foodstuffs supermarkets rise by 2.5% in latest year on year analysis
CLIMATE CHANGE
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): ‘Ego manoeuvring’ behind the scenes at COP30, Pacific delegate at the UN climate talks says
Caleb Fotheringham and Lydia Lewis (RNZ): Palau’s leader urges stronger climate action after New Zealand lowers methane targets
Kate Newton (RNZ): NZ committed to climate target despite Australian opposition dumping net-zero
Mandy Te (Interest): ‘Reinsurers are not going to back it up’: Tackling climate change adaptation
Sue Teodoro (Local Democracy Reporting): Councils workshop told rural Wairarapa stands ‘in the firing line’ of climate change
Steven Hepburn (ODT): Medal for Sir Alan’s life work
GAMBLING
Felix Walton (RNZ): Internal Affairs tells gambling website 20Bet to stop targeting New Zealanders
Bella Craig (RNZ): ‘All it takes is one taste’: concerns Online Gambling Bill could lead to more addiction
Rob Stock (Post): SkyCity wins 15-year Queenstown licence extension
CARTOONS