WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Wellington’s politicians cannot escape the sewage blame
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Tempers flare as officials front for packed Moa Point public meeting
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington sewage plant failure: Government announces review into Moa Point
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington sewage spill: Government announces details of inquiry (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Minister confirms independent review into Wellington wastewater catastrophe
Julie Anne Genter (Post): Moa Point shows why critical infrastructure shouldn’t be outsourced (paywalled)
RNZ: Wellington Water chair’s resignation ‘right thing to do’ - Mayor Andrew Little
1News: Review announced as more raw sewage discharges at Moa Point
Justin Wong (Local Democracy Reporting): South coast businesses demand relief after Moa Point sewage failure
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION, GOVERNMENT
Tom Day (1News): Poll: Hipkins, Luxon neck and neck as preferred PM – Govt gets 5/10
Justin Hu (1News): Winston on the rise? Party leaders react to new 1News poll
Te Rina Ruka-Triponel (Spinoff): If Labour wants the Māori seats back, it needs to win over a new generation
Chris Trotter (Interest): Giving up our seats
Peter Williams: Why Maori seats won’t be abolished
Veronica Schmidt (Spinoff): Iain Lees-Galloway on crashing out of parliament and his new Opportunity
Anna Whyte (Post): From startup to high-stakes: The future of social investment (paywalled)
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): The winners and losers from the India trade deal
Henry Cooke (Post): India FTA: Chris Hipkins says he doesn’t want to play ‘chicken’ with NZ’s international reputation (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): One man, one instinct, one umbrella: When everything changed for Christopher Luxon
Sam Smith (Stuff): ‘This is the Christopher Luxon I know’: National MP gushes praise at PM after ‘no drama’ act
ACT PARTY
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Seymour’s balancing Act as party seeks second term in power
Ryan Ward: Stuck between a neoliberal rock and a populist hard place
Herald: Editorial – Too many ministries and too many ministers. Kiwis will like Seymour’s idea to radically transform our public service (paywalled)
ENERGY
Gemma Rasmussen (Consumer): 4 reasons why we think the Government’s LNG plan is a bad idea
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): LNG: The $1b energy insurance policy with a catch (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Energy Minister backs rural solar as power costs bite into rural businesses (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): The Reality of Everything: why climate change isn’t an isolated problem (paywalled)
CONTACT ENERGY
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Contact taps investors for $525m and signals more price rises coming despite profit jump (paywalled)
Jamie Gray (Herald): Contact Energy profit jumps 44% to $205m, plans $525m equity raise
Jamie Gray (Herald): Contact CEO Fuge says $525m capital raise proof of commitment to renewable energy buildout (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Contact lifts underlying ebitdaf to $522m, flags heavy second-half spend (paywalled)
HEALTH
Mary Williams (ODT): Health charity under scrutiny: Probe into Te Kaika widened by govt (paywalled)
Troy Matich (Herald): Free teen dental scheme under strain as dentists subsidise shortfall
Joanne Naish (Press): Patients waiting weeks, travelling for care as Westport’s search for new dentist stretches past 18 months (paywalled)
Jonathan MacKenzie (Waikato Times): Waikato Hospital needs to be open about mistakes (paywalled)
Fiona Ellis (Waikato Times): Eleven Waikato patient deaths exposed ahead of serious incident reporting overhaul (paywalled)
Louisa Steyl (Press): Delays, communication drive complaints at Southland Hospital (paywalled)
Kathy Spencer (Post): Tackling the rising burden of aged residential care (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND WORK
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Beware the insatiable beast that is the state
Dita De Boni (Post): Freightways says new border tax on offshore goods unfair (paywalled)
Catherine Beard (Post): Unlocking opportunity: The strategic impact of better workplace law (paywalled)
Martin Hawes (Post): NZ Super is a national treasure, but at what cost? (paywalled)
Tom Raynel (Herald): Small business stress: Nearly half of owners say they have considered giving up, Xero report finds (paywalled)
LAW
Lane Nichols (Herald): Judicial conduct hearing: Judge Ema Aitken questioned about alcohol consumption on night of Northern Club fracas
Catrin Owen (Stuff): District Court judge questioned over champagne intake before Northern Club incident
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): District court judge accused of yelling at Winston Peters faces cross-examination
ENVIRONMENT
David Williams (Newsroom): Appeal taken against High Court’s freshwater pollution decision
Jill Herron (Newsroom): Pushing down the cost of predator control one sausage at a time
Nadine Roberts (Stuff): Who blinded the salmon? Eco protest sparks fury in Canterbury town
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
RNZ: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ‘open’ to looking at bed tax in a second term
Max Frethey (Local Democracy Reporting): Iwi votes on committees divide Tasman council
TRANSPORT
Connor Sharp (Post): Auckland’s harbour crossing: A costly, car-centric failure that demands a more democratic fix (paywalled)
Thomas Nash (Sunday Star Times): What NZ can learn from a small English textile town’s public transport (paywalled)
CARTOONS