IMMIGRATION NZ AND PUBLIC SERVICE INTEGRITY
Adam Pearse (RNZ): Immigration scandal: Winston Peters says officials who misled ministers, avoided Cabinet should lose jobs and be imprisoned
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Fears about failing IT project kept under the radar, sidelined staff
Alexia Russell (RNZ): Immigration’s bungled tech upgrade - there could be more missing millions
Henry Cooke (Post): Senior team involved in Immigration IT scandal may still be in public service (paywalled)
Herald: Editorial: Public servants must show us why politicians and the public can trust them (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial: Immigration IT debacle (paywalled)
1News: ‘Diametrically opposed to the truth’: Stanford on botched $33m IT project
Herald: MBIE chief defends Immigration NZ staff integrity after minister claims officials misled her
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Heads could roll at Immigration NZ as Public Service Commissioner investigates integrity
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Winston Peters wants to see prison terms for Immigration officials
Poppy Clark (Stuff): Public Service Commissioner slams ‘complete lack of integrity’ in MBIE failure, says rebuilding ministerial trust ‘quite the task’
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Why $33M down the drain doesn’t surprise me
Stuff: Winston Peters says government officials who mislead ministers should be ‘put in prison’
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The NBR Rich List and the political donations of the very wealthy
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Private limo on standby for 24 hours part of Shane Jones’ $63k travel bill
Charlie Mitchell (Post): What does it really cost to employ a Cabinet minister? (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Review of Public Service Commission’s social media adverts could cost up to $67k
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Costings unit a good idea, big parties agree - but how could it work?
Derek Cheng (Herald): Coalition checklist: 500 police, GE laws, stronger electronic monitoring among commitments up in the air (paywalled)
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): Ministers must hold regulators to account (paywalled)
Newsroom: Seymour sells his red tape ministry – but who reaps the rewards?
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Do we really need another special unit that costs more money?
Stuff: Greens surge could lift left bloc into government in latest political poll
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Surge in Greens’ support could put left bloc into government - poll
Michael Swanson: The Map Has Changed
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Labour have no idea
Henry Cooke (Post): Speaker proposes Parliament sit more - and Beehive might need to be vacated for 18 months of renos (paywalled)
RNZ: ‘Can’t be put off forever’: Beehive could be vacated for up to 18 months for repairs
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Speaker says Beehive may need to be vacated, Parliament should sit longer
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Vacating Beehive for upgrade could be option, Speaker Gerry Brownlee says
Rachel Pannett (BusinessDesk): Brooke van Velden defends small business safety reforms amid ACC cost fears (paywalled)
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Pike River campaigners ‘bloody angry’ about planned workplace safety law
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE
RNZ: Maps reveal where conservation land could be sold off after government reforms
Jen Purdie (Herald): Ask 20-year-olds, not Winston Peters, if we can afford to exit the Paris climate agreement (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Finance Minister grilled on emissions reductions plan (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt to quietly scrap looming ban on coal boilers
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Iwi leader Mike Smith asks UN to intervene before government introduces new climate law
Ian Taylor (ODT): Doubting Thomas or just asking? (paywalled)
FIRE AND EMERGENCY NZ (FENZ)
Andrea Vance (Post): Brooke van Velden slams FENZ spending, launches major reform of ‘unfair’ levy system (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Minister ‘shocked’ by relaxed approach taken to public accountability by government agencies
NBR: Half-century-old Fenz funding model under scrutiny (paywalled)
Stuff: Government to review how our fire service is funded
HEALTH
Tim Tenbensel, Bill Rosenberg, Jacqueline Cumming and Paula Lorgelly (The Conversation): NZ’s health spending isn’t enough for current, let alone future needs – we’ve calculated the shortfall
Kate Green (RNZ): Politicians clash over best way to fix health system
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao News): Simeon Brown accused of political interference over Medical Council chair decision
Jenny Carryer (Post): Cultural safety is not ‘inappropriate ideology’ - it’s critical to effective health care (paywalled)
RNZ: Government announces more funding for pharmacies to prescribe common treatments
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Minister says ACC turnaround showing early signs of progress (paywalled)
ODT: Hospital ‘Band-Aid’ solutions decried (paywalled)
Jane Phare (Herald): Andrew Barnes donates $22.7m to breast cancer research after his partner’s terminal diagnosis (paywalled)
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