HEALTH, SAFETY
Ian Powell (Newsroom): Simeon Brown places target on patients’ heads
Kate McNamara (Herald): Health NZ board costs could triple amid deficit and staffing woes (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Health plan doubts (paywalled)
Azaria Howell (Newstalk ZB): Exclusive: David Seymour asked Ministry for Regulation to look into removing bike helmet requirements
Rowan Quinn: Patients 'sitting in pain', treated in corridors: Auckland ED nurses say this winter the busiest they have seen
Nicky Pellegrino (Listener): The shocking roadblocks to timely cardiac care in New Zealand (paywalled)
Megan Wilson (Bay of Plenty Times/Herald): Skin cancer: Some Bay of Plenty patients may face longer waits for surgery after funding change (paywalled)
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): Nurses start next round of industrial action today
Megan Wilson (Herald): New Zealand Nurses Organisation members vote to strike again in September
RNZ: Christchurch nurses regularly in tears over staff shortages
Judy Park (International Socialists): Healthcare in Aotearoa
Aida Dehkhoda (Newsroom): Assisted dying: Thoughts from the front line
Anna Whyte (Post): Health minister questions hospital food rules after marshmallow ban (paywalled)
Anna Sargent (RNZ): 'Silent crisis': Asian people missing out on mental health support
Ke-Xin Li (RNZ): Can you actually get a sick note from a pharmacy?
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION, HOUSING
Luke Malpass (Post): Government to unveil big shake-up of building regulations (paywalled)
Mountain Tui: How Could National Damage Construction So Quickly?
Andrea Vance (Post): Ministers urged to walk the streets as rough-sleeping crisis deepens (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): What are you on about? We don’t have an oversupply of housing
Amelia Wade (Sunday Star Times): A bed, a balcony, a place to belong: Seniors settle into new homes with no eviction fears
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Harriet Laughton (Post): Wellington City Council pushes back on Government’s ‘back to basics’ bill (paywalled)
Gwynn Compton (Local Aotearoa): Promises to slash rates increases without specific costings aren't worth the pixels they're projected on
Joseph Los’e (Herald): From the Pulpit: 100 churches unite to support Māori Wards - Seymour says religion and politics don’t mix
Jacob Jones (Herald): Māori wards: Mayoral candidates in three biggest New Zealand cities have differing views
K Gurunathan (Post): Things to understand when making sense of the Māori ward debate (paywalled)
Sapeer Mayron (Post): 21 councillors for 1.7 million? Experts say Auckland’s democracy is underpowered
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Who's running for Auckland's mayoralty?
Jonathan Killick (Sunday Star Times): ‘Good grief’: Auckland candidates’ petty spat over sign placements (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): ‘How do I not get rage-baited?’ Meet the under-25s vying for council seats
Duncan Garner (Listener): Power and money hungry councils must be wound down (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Swarbrick read the room, we’ve woken up on Gaza
Grant Duncan: Recognising the State of Palestine: New Zealand's having a wee think about it
RNZ: Watch: Pro-Palestinian protests across country call on government to sanction Israel
Damien Grant (Stuff): We cannot move the dial in Gaza - but here’s where NZ can make a difference
RNZ: Trade Minister travelling to United States after to discuss 15 percent tariff
David Williams (Newsroom): National security staff raise questions about restructure
Jayden Evett (E-Tangata): Impulse and ego are risking Pacific diplomacy
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): Cook Islands 'open to anything' for seabed mining partnerships
RNZ: New Zealand mother Sarah Shaw and six-year-old son detained by US immigration return home
Rayssa Almeida (RNZ): NZ reggae artist General Fiyah detained in US and deported
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Afghan veterans suffer, after breathing smoke from burning tyres, faecal matter
Tom Peters (World Socialists): New Zealand and Australian leaders discuss stronger military ties against China
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener) Hiding and hoping: Danyl McLauchlan on the coalition’s economic inaction (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Foreign buyers ban: Nicola Willis says decision on investors purchasing property in New Zealand coming within weeks
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): OCR preview: Rate cut a shoo-in, but how much lower will the Reserve Bank go? (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): High confidence Reserve Bank will cut OCR to 3% on Wednesday (paywalled)
Frances Cook (1News): How might this week's expected changes to the OCR impact your finances?
STATE CARE OF CHILDREN, YOUTH JUSTICE
Aaron Smale (Newsroom): The Ministry of Impunity
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): ‘The least we can do’: Marama Davidson’s plea for young people leaving care
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Labour MP Willow-Jean Prime’s claims of fight clubs, meth in youth justice facilities not substantiated by officials (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Oranga Tamariki put teen in motel for a year, bootcamp attendees reoffend (paywalled)
POLICE, CRIME
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Police minister blames previous government for poor asset management
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Police blame job cuts for not following Cabinet's orders to improve asset management
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): ‘In the naughty corner’: Dozens of police on restricted duties
Amanda Gillies (RNZ): The Detail: Northland's unprecendented crime surge
Denise Piper (Northern Advocate/Herald): Northland police officer claims staff leaving, top cop cites improved culture (paywalled)
Michael Morrah (Herald): 90 extra police officers sent to Northland amid surge in violent crime (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Combating organised crime: Call for government and businesses to pool data
Jared Savage (Herald): Poor information sharing between government agencies means NZ not keeping pace with organised crime – report (paywalled)
Michael Morrah (Herald): Criminals use codewords to sell guns and drugs on social media, police concerned (paywalled)
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Effective policing or fading social media trend? The rise and fall of ram raids
Robin Martin (RNZ): Coward punch victims and families call for faster law changes
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Retailers not reporting crime because they don't believe police will turn up
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Audrey Young (Herald): Grant Robertson reveals stress, health struggles before PM decision (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Politicians behaving unpredictably (paywalled)
Greg Dixon (Listener): Worldwide search begins for National Party’s spine (paywalled)
Chris Marriner (Stuff): Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins dad dancing for Indian Independence Day
MEDIA
Greg Treadwell and Merja Myllylahti (The Conversation): Why has trust in news fallen? The answer is more complicated than we thought
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): RNZ an easy target for flailing Goldsmith
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: RNZ flags changes to claw back listeners
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Palestinian statehood push vexes media
FERRIES, TRANSPORT
1News: 'Extremely rare': Air traffic control boss on fault that disrupted flights
RNZ: Air traffic control systems outage will be scrutinised, industry figure says
Tom Rose (Herald): New Zealand air traffic control system outage ‘very rare’: aviation expert
Nick James (RNZ): Aratere makes its final sailing across Cook Strait today
Justin Wong (Post): Contract for new lower North Island trains to be announced ‘soon’ (paywalled)
JUSTICE
Tracy Neal (Herald): Supreme Court declines family’s bid for man’s release after 20 years in secure care
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): Violence and riots now common in New Zealand prisons, staff union says
RNZ: David Tamihere case goes to the Supreme Court
Mike White (Sunday Star Times): David Tamihere’s last chance to prove innocence in Swedish backpacker case (paywalled)
MIGRATION, MIGRANT WORKERS, CITIZENSHIP
Brent Edwards (NBR): Proposed immigration levy labelled ‘another tax on employers’ (paywalled)
RNZ: Restaurant Association concerned many hospo positions left off list of new visas
Greg Ninness (Interest): Migration adding just over 1000 a month to NZ's population, down from 9000 a month two years ago
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): How can you be Māori, but not have Kiwi citizenship? All Black’s grandson demands answers
RNZ: Movie director James Cameron becomes New Zealand citizen after 13 years in Aotearoa - report
Miriam Bell (Post): Tourism leader wants working holiday visa age lifted to 50 (paywalled)
EDUCATION, TRAINING
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Six Māori words spark a debate over how children learn to read
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): Authors call out Stanford’s ‘racism’
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Staff shortages hit schools: Will a new curriculum add to the pressure? (paywalled)
KIWISAVER
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Your money might be invested in Gaza weapons, investment platform says
Mandy Te (Interest): Big rise in KiwiSaver weapons investment, Mindful Money says
Rob Stock (Post): Charity calls out KiwiSaver investments in weapon-makers supplying Israel in Gaza (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): KiwiSaver funds pile into global defence industry boom (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Do more expensive KiwiSaver funds give a better return?
ENERGY
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Energy Minister believes surgical intervention could fix power market (paywalled)
Tony Clifford (Herald): Industrial users demand electricity market reform amid rising prices (paywalled)
Blayne Slabbert (Press/Post): Ngāi Tahu invests $100 million in South Island wind and solar projects (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Gas Industry Co chief executive Andy Knight on sector’s pains and path ahead (paywalled)