ENERGY
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): The Govt’s energy reforms are a cowardly capitulation to the gentailers
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): How will we end the power price pinch? On this issue, Simon Bridges and the Greens agree
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Govt flails to coax gentailers to build power plants
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Flickering fortunes: National’s energy plan unlikely to light up polls
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Government takes softly softly approach to energy reform
Giles Dexter (RNZ): ‘Collective responsibility and whatnot’ - Shane Jones keeping quiet on energy reforms
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Power prices: New Zealand First’s Shane Jones appears to bite tongue over Government’s energy announcement
RNZ: Businesses, opposition slate government’s ‘weak’ energy reforms
Herald: Government energy plan unlikely to cut power bills, expert warns
Luke Malpass (Post): Frontier Economics power report too hot to handle (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Electricity market reforms cycle continues with incremental change (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Here’s what’s so disappointing about the energy announcement
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): A massive press conference to tell us very little
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): We need to break away from coalition governments
Bryan Bruce: Power Politics (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Shares in big power firms jump on NZX after energy announcement (paywalled)
Tim Hunter (NBR): Govt measures seen as positive for power companies (paywalled)
Tom Raynel (BusinessDesk): Government energy reforms spark NZX rally, Meridian leads gentailer gains (paywalled)
Jamie Gray (Herald): Power firms rally as Government confirms no structural split for generators (paywalled)
Jamie Gray (Herald): Energy sector reacts to Government move on capital raising and gas supply
Mike McRobert (NBR): Māori land and labour left uncertain in energy reset (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Labour asked for energy bipartisanship 41 days before Luxon’s letter
Ani O’Brien: The Energy Gamble: New Zealand needs stability, not partisanship
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Henry Cooke (Post): Government explored ban on people voting outside of their electorate (paywalled)
Benedict Collins (1News): Environment Minister accused of conflict of interest over water consents dispute
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Environment minister accused of using position to influence council’s legal process
Roy Morgan: New Zealand: In September, National-led Government and Labour-led Parliamentary Opposition are level
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Latest Roy Morgan Poll – hung Parliament, the need for a Kākāriki Alliance and winning men back to the Left
Amelia Wade (Post): How does ACT know where I live? The curious case of an unsolicited campaign text (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Purse strings to permanently tighten for the public service - Treasury boss
RNZ: New leaders announced for Māori entities
ENVIRONMENT, PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Enviro group back-footed as freshwater pollution limits loosened
Tim Chambers, Marnie Prickett, Simon Hales (PHCCA): ECan’s ‘Nitrate Emergency’: Good step but here is a more robust path for region’s drinking water
Maxine Jacobs (Press): Canterbury water worst for nitrate pollution
Kate Green (RNZ): Quarry firm looks to acquire section of Belmont Regional Park in land swap
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): New rules for welfare of pigs on farms - in 10 years
Brett Kerr-Laurie and Sinead Gill (Press): Waste processing giant wants to set up shop in Christchurch (paywalled)
Eric Frykberg (Interest): Farmers may not splash too much of their cash
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): Pāmu looking to exit Spring Sheep Dairy as it focuses on core farming operations (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Govt to restrict bottom trawling during orange roughy spawn
HEALTH
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Pasifika Medical Association seeks court injunction to block Herald reporting (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Target process varied (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Times ‘well below the milestone’ (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): ACC board chair confirmed as minister pushes ‘turnaround’ job (paywalled)
RNZ: New Pharmac boss Natalie McMurtry’s prescription for change
Adam Pearse (Herald): New Pharmac CEO Natalie McMurtry on empathy, political pressure and rebuilding the drug-buying agency’s reputation (paywalled)
RNZ: Foul stench from sewage, meatworks can make people sick, agency says
RNZ: NZ behind in getting nasal spray flu vaccine - expert
HOUSING
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Crown to underwrite loans to community housing providers
Harriet Laughton (Post): Wellington social housing residents endure ‘unbearable’ summer heat (paywalled)
RNZ: Spike in homelessness overwhelms Marlborough services
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua pensioner housing residents unhappy with council’s new partnership
Dushko Bogunovich (Herald): Housing intensification: Yes, but where and how? (paywalled)
Greg Ninness (Interest): NZ’s median dwelling value squeaked out a 0.1% increase in September
Raphael Franks (Herald): NZ house prices edge up in September after five-month slide, economists cautious
Greg Ninness (Interest): The mountain of housing stock for sale continues to get bigger - still a buyer’s market in September
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Is the house price slide over?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE, TARIFFS
‘Alakihihifo Vailala (Pacific Media Network): Expert: Backing Israel ties Pacific nations to powerful allies - NZ risks same perception
Jack McDonald (Post): Peters and Luxon have planted NZ’s flag firmly on the wrong side of history (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On The Bogus Peace Plan Being Imposed On Palestine
Nik Dirga (RNZ): How Trump’s ‘100 percent tariff’ on foreign films might affect New Zealand
RNZ: Timber industry welcomes 10% tariff as a ‘bit of relief’
Thomas Manch (Post): Wood exports to US get lower 10% tariff (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Trump is still announcing tariffs. Are they hitting our wallets yet?
ECONOMY, INEQUALITY
Susan St John: It is time for economists to stop trying to be accountants
Susan St John (Daily Blog): Treasury might have included ‘ frightening older people to death’ as a handy outcome of their dreamed-up alternatives
Ganesh Ahirao: Wealth divide makes way for chasm
Brent Edwards (NBR): Treasury’s ongoing concerns about the fiscal position (paywalled)
Richard Prebble (Herald): Winston Peters shows courage abroad, but must show it at home (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): We need to talk about how the Reserve Bank stuffed up
EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS
RNZ: Allied health workers vote to strike on same day as primary school teachers
RNZ: Union warns proposed NZ employment leave laws could disadvantage Pacific workers
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Are there recession-proof jobs?
Matthew Martin (Waikato Times/Post): Plywood plant shuts down - workers left to clean up
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Afterpay backtracks on ban on ‘no payment upfront’ for groceries and fuel
EDUCATION
RNZ: Education Minister Erica Stanford accused of ‘manufacturing a crisis’
Hanna McCallum (Post): ‘Shifting sand’: Teachers and industry brace for vocational education changes (paywalled)
Cate Macintosh (Press/Post): More than 5000 children waiting for specialist learning support (paywalled)
Jaime Cunningham (Herald): Te reo Māori enrolments surge as polytech shake-up looms
Shahper Richter, Patrick Dodd (The Conversation): AI in the classroom is hard to detect – time to bring back oral tests
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Auckland mayor Wayne Brown says comments about quitting blown out of proportion
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Whanganui mayor regrets speaking at Charlie Kirk vigil after backlash
Ethan Manera (Herald): Inside Wellington’s secret mayoral desk documents accidentally sold at dump (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington mayoral candidate Karl Tiefenbacher vows to resign if blocked by council
Linda Meade (Post): Coming up with a deal to pull city back from the abyss (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Apathy is dangerous: Why you need to vote in your local elections (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Race briefing: Will Palmerston North grow up, or out?
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Wrecking ball nears on town hall
SAFETY, REGULATION
Nicholas Jones (Stuff):‘Don’t panic, but be aware’ Govt tells gas stove owners after NZ study links use to early deaths
Anna Sargent (RNZ): Advocacy group says it repeatedly warned governments of fire risk caused by foam furniture before death of teen
MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Whistleblower quote scrutinised in Talley’s v TVNZ defamation case
RNZ: RNZ closes down TAHI youth platform
Shayne Currie (Herald): RNZ cuts youth brand Tahi, shows and roles as part of funding cutbacks (paywalled)
NBR: Andrew Barclay appointed chair of TVNZ (paywalled)
Paddy Gower (Stuff): What Elon’s sexual chatbot said to NZ Ministers: ‘Brooke and Erica - you’re cute’
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
Sam Smith (RNZ): Developer of Auckland ‘ghost tower’ granted foreign buyer exemption
Anne Gibson (Herald): Seascape developer Shundi Customs wins foreign buyer exemption to finish $300m+ tower
POLICE, CRIME, JUSTICE
Derek Cheng (Herald): ‘Tension and violence’: Prison assaults, double-bunking (paywalled)
David Harvey: Ia Tangata - Part 1 - Introductory
Neil Sands (Law News): Proposed new anti-boy racer law is unfair, unworkable and erodes judicial discretion, TLANZ committee says
Paddy Gower (Stuff): Why did this ACT MP make a deep fake nude of herself? (And how long did it take?)
FIRE SERVICE
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): Robbing Peter to pay Paul’ - firefighters to go on strike
RNZ: FENZ ‘disappointed’ after firefighters union announces plans to strike
Phil Pennington (RNZ): ‘Just jamming up all the lockers’ - new fire trucks don’t fit rescue gear
George Thomson (Chris Lynch): Christchurch firefighters frustrated as only high-reach ladder truck out of service
GAMBLING
Amanda Gillies (RNZ): The Detail: NZ Football League caught in offshore betting storm
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Four influencers, including Calen Morris and Millie Elder-Holmes, caught up in $125,000 Government gambling ad crackdown (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Sporting bodies unite to oppose online gambling bill