CHRIS HIPKINS ALLEGATIONS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): When the personal goes nuclear
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Hipkins considered stepping down as Labour leader after ex-wife’s claims
RNZ: Chris Hipkins faces questions after rejecting claims by ex-wife
1News: Chris Hipkins explains what he’s seeking legal advice about
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Hipkins takes the least bad path in a no-win situation
Veronica Schmidt (Interest): Chris Hipkins and Jade Paul: How the personal became public and political
Richard Harman: The trolling of Chris Hipkins (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Hipkins and the political trust factor
Jamie Ensor, Thomas Coughlan, and Adam Pearse (Herald): Chris Hipkins arrives back in New Zealand amid questions over ex-wife’s allegations
Henry Cooke (Post): Chris Hipkins in tears addressing ex wife’s claims, denies affair (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Labour leader Chris Hipkins holds media conference over ex-wife’s allegations
Justin Hu (1News): Labour’s Hipkins chokes up as he speaks to ex-wife’s claims
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF IRAN WAR; ENERGY CRISIS
RNZ: Iran war will lead to more supermarket price rises - Foodstuffs boss
Tony Alexander (One Roof): Why the Iran war isn’t Covid round two for New Zealand
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Is Nicola Willis’s ‘worst-case’ scenario not bad enough?
Anna Whyte (Interest): Using the term worst case scenario ‘very dangerous’
Mandy Te (Interest): ‘Whatever your point of comparison it seems the worst-case scenario could be a lot worse than Treasury envisages’
Timothy Welch (The Conversation): Iran oil crisis: why NZ’s car dependence is now a strategic liability
RNZ: Will the government offer support as petrol prices rise?
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): New Zealand’s petrol supply is terrifyingly fragile
Eric Crampton (Newsroom): Let fuel prices rise and do their job
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Petrol is so expensive. Hopefully we’ve been reducing our dependence on it?
Rebecca Stevenson (BusinessDesk): Iran war sparks oil futures trading surge among NZ investors (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Government considers easing fuel quality standards to widen supply options (paywalled)
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Panic at the pump - and the policy choices that got us here
RNZ: NZ economy to face crunch point over next two weeks - economist
Herald: Dave Letele says ‘wave of crime coming’ if Kiwis don’t receive support amid soaring fuel prices
Nick James (Post): Iran war: The National Fuel Plan’s four levels - and when we move between them (paywalled)
Sue Teodoro (Local Democracy Reporting): Farmers watching international situation closely
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Pressure at the pump brings big risks for Pacific
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): LNG could reshape New Zealand’s gas decline by blunting the blow (paywalled)
Megan Wilson (Herald): Rotorua: Resources Minister Shane Jones unveils $50m fund for geothermal projects
PM IN THE PACIFIC; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Anneke Smith (Post): Christopher Luxon tight-lipped on 3am bid to scrap matai title (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Luxon, Tongan prime minister united on sharing more data to combat transnational crime
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon refuses to say if he tried to call off Samoa matai ceremony
Julia Gabel & Vaimoana Mase (Herald): Samoa Prime Minister says he asked Sir Michael Jones to calm Christopher Luxon’s nerves over matai ceremony
Anneke Smith (Post): Fuel crisis looms large in the Pacific, NZ and Tonga PMs pressed on supply (paywalled)
Barbara Dreaver (1News): Samoan PM says Luxon was hours away from cancelling chiefly title
Penny Smith (RNZ): ‘We feel abandoned’: Kiwi in Dubai describes fear, chaos and lack of consular support
Geoffrey Miller (ODT): Middle East war: a crisis and opportunity for NZ?
1News: NZ and Australia boost military co-operation over decade
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Incoming fire from US ambassador shows it’s crunch time for NZ
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Anzac ‘force multiplier’ talk risks NZ defence identity – expert
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Kirsty Johnston (RNZ): Why the government backed away from breaking up supermarkets
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Former Social Investment boss Andrew Coster won’t comment on deputy Kylie Reiri’s resignation
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): KiwiSaver withdrawal rule changes driven by anecdotes, farmers’ lobbying rather than evidence, MBIE report says (paywalled)
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): New Zealand’s conflict of interest problem
Greater Auckland: Who meets the Ministers
Steven Cowan: The Green Party candidates list: A working class free zone
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): The National Party needs to rethink its plan for this election
Gordon Campbell: On The Weaponising Of IRD
Daniel Vernon: What has the focus of our leaders during a crisis
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Invented stories and the media
David Farrar: The $30 billion Covid splurge on non-Covid projects
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Besieged All Blacks captain: “I’m not a 20-year rugby guy” (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Fraud, racism and politics: A unique re-election in Auckland’s south
Amelia Wade (Post): Auckland Council ‘considering options’ after housing mega-development in flood plain fast-tracked despite warnings (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington sewage spill: $5365-a-day Moa Point Crown review cops it from critics (paywalled)
Geordie Rogers (Post): Iran war: In a fuel crisis, bikes and buses keep Wellington moving (paywalled)
Sinead Gill (Press): Cutting edge or overpriced? Mauger’s trackless tram proposal just months away (paywalled)
ECONOMY, WORK AND BUSINESS
Paddy Gower (Stuff): ‘Absolutely brutal’: How today’s job market is destroying the ordinary Kiwi
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): ‘Your partner is your welfare system’: Coupled up with not enough
RNZ: Union calls for government to offer targeted financial aid to home support workers
Hillmarè Schulze (NBR): Why youth employment is New Zealand’s real economic test (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Supermarket price warning issued by Consumer NZ
Gwen McClure (RNZ): The future of the NZX
Brent Melville (NBR): No false alarm: Fenz levy premiums will jump ‘an average’ 71% (paywalled)
Helen Davidson (Post): Cutting consultants won’t make our infrastructure bill cheaper (paywalled)
Katie Townshend (Press): Global unrest causing uncertainty for Nelson’s port and airport businesses (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): NZTA ‘assured’ of Motu Move ticket rollout after Cubic NZ’s $28.9m loss (paywalled)
Alex Casey (Spinoff): ‘I feel like I have no future’: Calls to scrap ‘ageist’ student loan policies in challenging job market
Monique Steele (RNZ): Wattie’s NZ’s proposed cuts ‘a really big blow’ to seed, arable growers
Stuff: BNZ lifts home loan rates, second to do so
HEALTH
RNZ: Rising cost of getting to cancer treatment: ‘It’s already hard times and this is going to make it a lot harder’
RNZ: Dental Association blames workforce shortages on government’s dental school admission limit
Michael Plank and Helen Petousis-Harris (The Conversation): NZ’s 9th Covid‑19 wave: why infections are rising – and how booster shots still help
RNZ: Health support group calls for better government oversight of Long Covid effects
Kate Green (RNZ): New health funding for winter a drop in the bucket - unions
Kate Green (RNZ): Emergency doctors estimate AI scribe ‘Heidi’ saving up to 10 minutes per patient
David Farrar: Medical Council proposes striking off doctors who disagree with their political views
Claudia O’Neill (Herald): Otago psychology assistant programme pushed back as AUT, Canterbury on track
Alice Peacock (Spinoff): Alcohol reform signals end to carpetbagging licensing objectors
SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION
Serena Solomon (RNZ): Anxious, desensitised: How teens learn about news now
David Harvey (Herald): Online harm report a flawed call for powerful new regulator (paywalled)
Katrina Colombié (Herald): Social media ban debate missing important youth voices (paywalled)
Malindi Maclean (Post): Young people’s mental health is deteriorating and we’re still arguing about social media (paywalled)
MEDIA
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): TVNZ has lost its way and the public deserves better (paywalled)
Gavin Ellis: Business at 6.30am: Good move but watch for knock-on effects
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Westpac shakes up advertising agency model with new, bespoke company Goldilocks (paywalled)
EDUCATION
RNZ: New rating system for schools unveiled as ERO reports overhauled
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Mother’s fuel bill triples after child no longer eligible for government-funded school bus
Rob Stock (Post): How NZ can win a bigger slice of the Chinese student market (paywalled)
Cate Macintosh (Press): ‘You don’t want to be that ditsy girl’: The maths gender divide we’ve come to accept as normal (paywalled)
HOUSING
Greg Ninness (Interest): The housing market may be about to face its biggest challenge since the Covid pandemic
Miriam Bell (Post): NZ property investors fuel $25 billion economic engine, new research shows (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Five ways the Middle East conflict could impact NZ’s housing market (paywalled)
TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Geoff Cooper (Post): The approach that can solve NZ’s infrastructure problems (paywalled)
Herald: Warkworth to Te Hana motorway tolls proposed as public consultation opens
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Cubic NZ posts $28.9m loss as ticketing delays drag (paywalled)
Anya Fielding (RNZ): Speed limit confusion: NZTA reverses hundreds of fines
TAURANGA LANDSLIDE INQUIRY; LAND USE
RNZ: Retired Supreme Court judge to lead government inquiry into Tauranga landslides
Ayla Yeoman (Local Democracy Reporting): Govt sets terms for inquiry into deadly Tauranga landslides
Herald: Editorial – The conversation you have to have if you live in a beachfront property (paywalled)