GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Christopher Luxon not ruling out directly appointing public service chief executives, Labour calls this Trumpian
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche considers axing government entities (paywalled)
Chris Trotter (Interest): Ideology problems
Azaria Howell (Herald): Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment cuts spending on ‘Big Four’ consulting firms by more than 60% in a year (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): SOEs struggle in tough economic times (paywalled)
Simon Wilson (Herald): Christopher Luxon’s long, slow walk to oblivion (paywalled)
Alex Casey (Spinoff): Exclusive: We found Act MP Simon Court’s full menstrual cup sales pitch
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): ‘A republic, if you can keep it’
Natalia Albert: Chlöe Isn’t a Saint, David Isn’t a Villain
HEALTH
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Going private: Is it the answer to public health woes?
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: NZ health crisis deepens with trio of top-level resignations
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): The Detail: Is NZ's health leadership in crisis?
Russell Palmer (RNZ): 'Massive body count' in health due to targets falling short - Labour says
Mary Argue (RNZ): Struggling Christchurch ED asks patients go elsewhere unless it's 'life-threatening'
Rachel Thomas (Post): Hospital rejecting Porirua patients based on BMI, GPs say (paywalled)
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Data reveals drop in access to mental health and addiction services
Ian Powell: When overlaying fact in health systems with fiction morphs into embellishment
Janet Hoek, Anna DeMello and Lani Teddy (The Conversation): We asked young people if they wanted tighter vaping regulation to phase out nicotine – here’s what they said
Herald: Labour’s Kieran McAnulty wants guarantee Masterton ratepayers aren’t helping plug Health NZ’s deficit
Chris White (Post): The case for public-private partnerships in healthcare (paywalled)
Susan Botting (Local Democracy Reporting): 'Disgrace': Winston Peters slams Whangārei fluoridation mandate
Peter Davis (Newsroom): Don’t be afraid of what sociology can tell us about ourselves
BUSINESS, BANKS
Rob Stock (Post): Why anti-monopolist Tex Edwards put his mum's cookie recipe in his competition review submission (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Monopolies watchdog warns Government: 'Capitalism needs to be saved, not tinkered with’ (paywalled)
Sue Chetwin (Post): The one action needed to force competition into the grocery sector (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Arch enemy in Wānaka (paywalled)
John Anthony (BusinessDesk): Blame poor regulation not banks for lack of competition, experts say (paywalled)
Kent Duston (Post): The most expensive government agency in the country is the Commerce Commission (paywalled)
Hamish McNicol (NBR): Criticism FMA ’too aloof’ was correct, Commerce Minister says (paywalled)
Rob Collins (Herald): Labour’s banking claims challenged by credit union leader (paywalled)
Arena Williams (Herald): Making banking fairer, more accessible for everyone should be the Government’s focus
Lee Marshall (Post): Banks’ good intentions risk paving the road to oblivion for service stations (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION, FISHING
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Environment was fast-track priority before minister’s intervention
Michael Morrah (Herald): Superyacht with dirty hull allowed in Hauraki Gulf regatta in ‘highly unusual’ move
Luka Forman (RNZ): Conservationists oppose MPI upped crayfish catch proposal
1News: Northland fishing company fined for incorrect gear, false reporting
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): The hydro alternative to Government's $80m+ mining cleanup bill (paywalled)
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Sewerage pipeline work near tapū lake to continue despite protests
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Heat goes on KiwiSaver investments in fossil fuels
HOUSING
Garth Bray (BusinessDesk): Developers nervous as infrastructure fund changes management (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): No sprinklers in Wellington City Council fire flats (paywalled)
Kate Green (RNZ): Social housing residents plead for stability in quake-prone complex
Nick James (RNZ): Six Wellington social housing buildings earthquake prone
Tom Hunt (Post): Hundreds of council tenants finding out they live in quake prone homes (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Six Wellington City Council housing complexes declared quake-prone (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Auckland councillor among those helped into homeownership
Greg Ninness (Interest): Trade Me Property starts the year with surge in listings and a drop in asking prices
ENERGY
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Watts waves unspecified regulatory stick at electricity sector (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Energy task force reforms could save consumers billions
Georgina Stylianou (Post): Growth dreams need more than marketing and hope (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Some home truths about deindustralisation and the energy sector (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Contact boss suggests Shane Jones’ attack on power firms is ‘retail politics’ (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Contact profit down, earnings up as it looks to a calmer future (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Sunday Star Times): Rod Carr argues gas may be dirtier than coal – could he be right? (paywalled)
Jamie Gray (Herald): Genesis Energy beefs up coal supply to avoid 2024 winter power price spike (paywalled)
RNZ: Power companies launch online resource for struggling customers
NBR: Greymouth hits fresh gas in Taranaki (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Windbag: Begonia House and the hypocrisy of ‘nice-to-haves’
Dave Armstrong (Post): Pedestrian ban key to finding our pathway forward (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): Business rates in store for Wellington’s Airbnb-style homes (paywalled)
Julie Moore (Post): Flouting Moore Wilson car park rules emblematic of council attitude (paywalled)
Justin Wong (Post): Proposed Porirua Mormon temple gets resource consent go-ahead (paywalled)
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown to announce plans for second term on Wednesday
Justin Hu (1News): Auckland mayoral hopeful pledges 'different style' of leadership
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Council cuts funding to long-standing coastal erosion group
Chris Lynch: Christchurch City Council won’t fund Canterbury’s 175th anniversary, citing colonisation concerns
Joanne Naish (Press/Post): Stadium wars: Christchurch’s covered stadium gives it advantage over Wellington (paywalled)
RNZ: Otago Regional Council's strengths and weaknesses exposed in new report
Local Democracy Reporting: Recycling rule breakers in Southland could lose their bins
ECONOMY
Brent Burmester (Newsroom): Golden visa? More like lead balloon
Edward Miller (Newsroom): Foreign investors’ use of tax havens as murky as the Panama Canal
David Hargreaves (Interest): NZIER panel of experts see RBNZ needing to be cautious
Andrew Patterson (Newsroom): OCR cut a given, but what next from fiscal chocolate box?
Katie Bradford (1News): OCR preview: You betcha — it's likely another rate cut
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Rate cut expected, NZ dollar's direction hinges on RBNZ forecasts (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Animal spirits are back in fashion in NZ (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): Services sector breaks 10-month run of contraction
RNZ: Services sector shows signs of promising recovery
Jenny Ruth: Green shoots may be emerging – but they’ve been elusive before now
TOURISM
Eva Corlett (Guardian): New Zealand’s ‘Everyone must go!’ tourism campaign ridiculed as emigration hits record high
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): From '100% Pure' to 40% off: NZ's new sales pitch (paywalled)
RNZ: Government announces $30m spend on tourism infrastructure and biodiversity projects
Thomas Manch (Post): Govt to spend $30m on conservation to aid tourism industry (paywalled)
Ralph Hanna (Crux): Economist: Low wage tourism at heart of local productivity and infrastructure problems
DAMAN KUMAR CASE, MIGRATION
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Kiwi kid who has never left NZ may be spared deportation
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Preventing deportation of NZ-born teen 'sensible thing to do' - Labour
1News: Associate Minister considering case of NZ-born teen facing deportation
Mary Argue (RNZ): New Zealand-born teen's deportation to India paused at last minute
Herald Editorial: Deporting Daman Kumar would be grossly unfair – it’s not what NZ is about (paywalled)
1News: Net loss of NZ citizens hits calendar year high in 2024
Greg Ninness (Interest): The outflow of NZ citizens appears to have peaked while inflows of foreign migrants have declined
Liam Dann (Herald): Migration data: New stats reveal age of Kiwis leaving the country (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE, DEFENCE
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZ government should resurrect Trump taskforce - security expert
Laura Walters (Newsroom): NZ set to formalise its say over Pacific nations’ security
Barbara Dreaver (1News): Cook Islanders to protest for greater transparency
Eva Corlett (Guardian): Cook Islands PM defends signing of wide-ranging deal with China
Christoph Schumacher (NBR): Tariffs reality is rarely straightforward (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Tighter laws for technology exports on the way
RNZ: NZDF takes Selwyn District Council to court seeking complaints ban near rifle range
TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL, WAITANGI, TE AO MĀORI
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith and Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Treaty principles bill hearings, day six: ‘A travesty, a tragedy, a call to action’
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith and Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Treaty principles bill hearings, day five: ‘Nice to be here – not really’
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Treaty Principles Bill: Auckland Council calls bill ‘unworkable’, Ngāi Tahu leader says it could breach $170m settlement
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Ngāi Tahu 28-year treaty settlement at risk (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): Treaty Principles Bill: Far North mayor says law would place near ‘impossible’ costs on council
Julia Gabel (Herald): Treaty Principles Bill: 15-year-old slams bill, says it’s damaging Govt’s ‘positive’ relationship with young people
Megan Ellison (ODT): Kāi Tahu holds strong to right to invite PM
Anaru Eketone (ODT): Lasting progress the legacy of a distasteful violent incident (paywalled)
DESTINY CHURCH, DRAG STORY TIME
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Brian Tamaki's end game, explained
Anna Rawhiti-Connell (Spinoff): When protest isn’t peaceful, you don’t have to be a church mouse about condemning it
David Farrar: Fascism is wrong
RNZ: Destiny Church library protest 'intimidating and unacceptable' - police
Raphael Franks & Nazahryth Bernard (Herald): Destiny Church protests: Niu FM radio personality Bailey Palala, young primary school worker among demonstrators
RNZ: Auckland Council slams Destiny Church for library protest
Herald: Prime Minister hits back at Destiny Church after violent Auckland Rainbow event protest
Andrew Gunn: Storytime: Brian And The Fabulous Rainbow Folk (paywalled)
Tumamao Harawira (Te Ao Māori News): Haka as a form of protest: Destiny Church targets LGBTQIA+ with haka
TRANSPORT
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Winston Peters announces Cook Strait ferry company directors - Chris Mackenzie, Heather Simpson, Greg Lowe
RNZ: Rail Minister Winston Peters announces new chairperson of Ferry Holdings Limited
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Government appoints ferry procuring company directors (paywalled)
Michael Daly (Stuff): Court hearing starts into Cuba St rainbow crossing
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Furious motorcyclists slam $1 per hour Wellington City Council parking proposal
Tom Hunt (Post): Changes coming for tricky Cuba St intersection (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): For sale: 26 surplus Wellington City Council electric car chargers (paywalled)
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Martinborough speed review in limbo as community mourns fatality
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Flying is about to get even more expensive (paywalled)
JUSTICE, LAW AND ORDER
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Luxon unsure how many boot camp participants back in custody
Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation): The threat of 3D-printed ‘ghost guns’ is growing, but NZ is yet to act on these three big legal gaps
Gaurav Sharma (RNZ): Government considering 'big' measures to tackle retail crime
Katie Ham (Post): From entrepreneur, to advocate, to government adviser for victims (paywalled)
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): ‘More golfers than gangsters - we’re not the hood’, Ōpōtiki says
INFRASTRUCTURE, PPPS
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Bipartisan cooperation key to NZ’s infrastructure future (paywalled)
No Right Turn: PPPs are still a rort
Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): 'Devastating': Hundreds of engineers leaving NZ due to infrastructure delays, CEO claims
EDUCATION
Julia Gabel & Rachel Maher (Herald): David Seymour disputes ‘overstep’ during teacher-only day crackdown, says ‘overlap’ is better term
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Fears uni funding lifeline to be cut
Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): Savings are worth nothing if the kids don't eat
SUPERANNUATION
Alka Prasad (Post): Young people on back foot in retirement path - and retirement saving (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Call for richest 1% to donate state pension
Duncan Garner (Listener): Our economy is broken, so why give millionaires taxpayer-funded pensions? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Pensioners ask: Why can't I get US Social Security as well as NZ Super
WATER
David Williams (Newsroom): Ngāi Tahu mourn another loss – one of their own
David Williams (Newsroom): Ngāi Tahu witness allays fears over water consents
Murray Neilson (ODT): Freshwater claim offers hope to Otago
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Legal fight looms over Wairoa’s freshwater
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, NATURAL DISASTERS
Phil Pennington (RNZ): New Zealand still lacking cohesive storm response, Emergency Management Minister says
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Emergency Management Minister overstates cost to replace Beehive bunker by 10 times
Brent Edwards (NBR): Southern Response needs another indemnity to keep it solvent (paywalled)
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Cyclone Gabrielle victims still struggling with land issues at its second anniversary
Cartoons
I cant believe all the mainstream media is ignoring the mob violence inflicted on the public by thousands of rainbow activist haters at Albert park when Posie Parker was talking to NZers at an open event. The Police are hypocrites who told the public to leave if they didnt like it, but let the queer rainbow mobsters beat up on the public so they could get some queer trans joy from their violent bashing of the public. That was a hate crime against the public and the Police just ignored the perpetrators. They are prejudiced and corrupt. Go Destiny Church with plenty more Hakas please.