MEGA-STRIKE, EMPLOYMENT
Luke Malpass (Post): Mega strike: The unions are back — with poetic timing (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Mega strike: The fiery exchange that derailed secondary teacher talks
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): The mega strike and the politicking of ‘political motivation’
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Strikers’ demands ‘a mystery’, government’s top negotiator says
Elizabeth Fenton (The Conversation): Mega-strike: where is the ‘ethical line’ in public health and are doctors really crossing it?
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Public sector mega-strike: up to 100,000 health and education workers walk out
Anna Whyte (Post): From the front line, the picket line, to taking the hard line (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Public sector has a right to strike today but must keep perspective (paywalled)
RNZ: Country’s biggest joint strike action expected, despite last minute plea from ministers
1News: What to know about today’s ‘mega strike’
Emma Gleason (Spinoff): Brace for impact: here comes the mega strike
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Severe weather forces change to plans for mega strike rallies
Maddy Croad and Cate Macintosh (Press/Post): The faces behind New Zealand’s mega strike (paywalled)
Alice Peacock (RNZ): ‘Disappointing’: Govt kicks employment advocate regulation down the road
Kim Baker Wison (RNZ): Coroner calls for WorkSafe probe into ‘avoidable’ deaths of forestry workers
Davina Zimmer (RNZ): The Detail: Pike River a movie ‘fundamentally about justice’ for miners’ families
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
Janet Wilson (Post): Christopher Luxon is now a liability for National (paywalled)
Chris Knox (Herald): The Luxon family gets rates relief after challenging luxury Waiheke property valuation (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Revealed: $270k taxpayer bill for new science agency logos and rebrands
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson apologises after her Right to Repair bill dismissed as she was late to show up
No Right Turn: The Right to Repair Bill and parliamentary cooperation
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Question Time, not Answer Time
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Four MPs, three pies, one seafood salad, a hire car and a 523km roadie
Matt Burrows (Newstalk ZB): Chris Carter on legacy of being NZ’s first openly gay MP
PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES, ANIMAL WELFARE
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): ‘Brazen industry capture’ alleged in pig welfare rule changes
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Time to consider controversial changes to pig welfare rules cut
David Williams (Newsroom): Behind NZ Pork’s campaign to keep farrowing crates – Part 2
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Taxpayer to be tapped for half the cost of $8.7m cameras on boats scheme
Ross McNaughton (RNZ): Hauraki marine protection law creates ‘dangerous precedent’ - recreational fishers
Mike White (Post): Sam Neill slams Central Otago gold mine, pledges to fight it (paywalled)
Julie Asher (ODT): Sam Neill rails against ‘toxic’ Bendigo-Ophir gold mine (paywalled)
Lauren Baal (Newsroom): All eyes (and ears) on the gene tech bill
NBR: The plan to grow New Zealand’s agritech sector (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Agritech is NZ’s future, if it acts quickly enough: BCG report (paywalled)
Alka Prasad (Post): Chinese court awards Zespri NZ$1.3m in gold kiwifruit IP ruling (paywalled)
Nik Dirga (RNZ): Why is Fonterra selling off its dairy brands - and why is Winston Peters angry about it?
RNZ: Fonterra looks to boost butter production after selling off iconic brands
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): Why Fonterra wants to churn out more butter
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): Pāmu backs Dawn Meats’ $270m Alliance Group deal
CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT
Kirsty Johnston (RNZ): New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Climate reporting rules for large businesses to be eased
Hamish McNicol (NBR): Govt to lift climate reporting thresholds, remove liabilities (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Is our climate overhype coming to an end?
Dita De Boni (Post): NZ should stick to sustainability in trade with EU, says trade commissioner
Marc Daadler (Newsroom): NZ abstains on key shipping pollution vote despite Pacific pleas
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): Pacific officials criticise New Zealand’s weaker methane targets
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): What’s in New Zealand’s long-awaited climate adaptation plan? And what was left out?
Kris Faafoi (Post): We have the climate-risk framework; now we need action (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Assumption of buyouts after disasters ends now – minister
Madeleine Powers (Waikato Times): Flood funding for regional council in the wake of deluge (paywalled)
Lois Williams (RNZ): Long-awaited West Coast conservation plan paused amid uncertainty
MARINE AND COASTAL AREAS BILL, MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS
Adam Pearse & Jamie Ensor (Herald): Speaker Gerry Brownlee condemns Te Pāti Māori MPs burning bill on Parliament forecourt
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Speaker Gerry Brownlee ‘taking advice’ after Te Pati Māori burns a copy of a government bill
1News: Speaker ‘taking advice’ after TPM MPs burn bill outside Parliament
Gordon Campbell: On Māori Customary Rights, And Why Trump Thinks We Don’t Need AUKUS
No Right Turn: Raupatu
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): Final showdown in Parliament as Government pushes through Marine and Coastal Area law changes
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Ngāi Tahu slams new marine law (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, ASSET SALES, TAX
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Economic miracle? We have both high inflation and shite growth
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): The recurring nightmare of inflation (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): The Treasury must operate differently in a fast-changing world (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): Fiscal Choices: Scandinavia Or America
David Hargreaves (Interest): If we weren’t hell-bent on eating, owning homes and keeping ourselves warm, we could kick this inflation thing for good
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Dipping the tax collector’s fingers in molasses, so fewer coins slip between
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Inland Revenue says tax crackdown paying off
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Thousands of bank accounts closed, transferred to IRD
NBR: Watch out: IRD might be coming after you (paywalled)
Centrist: Economist: New Zealand’s emigration rivals some conflict zones “a beautiful but economically hollowed-out retirement destination
Amy Williams (RNZ): Auckland budgeting service reports increased financial, emotional distress
Nick Leggett (Herald): We shouldn’t sell our state assets unless we’re building (paywalled)
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): We don’t need an economic hero
David Hargreaves (Interest) We are still importing more than we export on an annual basis, but the deficit is $7 bln smaller than last year and $13 bln smaller than the year before
BUSINESS
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): Are Business leaders to blame for the broken state of New Zealand?
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Tighter supermarket rules: ‘It’s a brave supplier’ who will take on duopoly
Rob Stock (Post): Critics say proposed surcharge ban favours banks ahead of consumers (paywalled)
RNZ: Labour Day: What’s open, what’s not and when you have to pay surcharge
Maria Hook (Newsroom): Should we be worried about foreign jurisdiction clauses?
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Up the Crypto Wahs, Garry Moore gets dumped, Oliver Hartwich, Isuru Fernando, Woke banks, and more (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Heart of the City chair quits before end of term (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Hayley Horan named new Wellington Chamber of Commerce chief executive after leadership exodus
EDUCATION
Tom Pearce (Post): Curriculum upheaval is darkening the mood in school staff rooms (paywalled)
RNZ: Educators say they’ve been blind-sided by curriculum changes
Lisa Daragh (Newsroom): If the curriculum ain’t broke, don’t fix it
Cate Macintosh (Press/Post): Curriculum event positive but may be too late for some, principal says (paywalled)
Cate Macintosh (Press/Post): Principals boycott Minister’s curriculum roadshow (paywalled)
Ava Whitworth (Stuff): The subject about to disappear from Kiwi classrooms - and 50,000 people aren’t having it
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): What is outdoor education for? Teachers and ministry seem to disagree
Sue Parkes and Tina Williams (Spinoff): Home economics is about nourishing a nation. So why is it being scrapped?
Andrew Rogers (Herald): NCEA overhaul: why proposed changes could finally fix a broken system (paywalled)
Teitimoana Tairi (Cook Islands News): NCEA changes: Cook Islands education ministry submits official feedback
John Milne (The Conversation): Why claims of ‘transformational’ school reading improvement are premature
Herald Editorial: Data shows the structured literacy programme is working but more needs to be done (paywalled)
Louise Ternouth (RNZ): School lunch scheme ‘far from fixed’ after eight months
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Charter high school for Pasifika girls to open in Auckland next year
Adam Pearse (Herald): School for athletes: New sport-focused charter school to open next year
RNZ: New Zealand Performance Academy for sports announced as latest charter school
Hanna McCallum (Post): Boots and school books: NZ’s first sports charter school to open (paywalled)
Rongopai Kira (E-Tangata): Erasing Te Tiriti in education
Nadine Roberts (Stuff): A broken system: Calls grow for overhaul of NZ’s swim education
RNZ: Wesley College to close its hostels due to ongoing concerns around student safety
Sam Smith (RNZ): ‘Ongoing concerns’: Auckland school to close boarding hostels due to student safety
RNZ: Parents offered uniforms, stationery if children attend school regularly
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Simmonds accused of ‘favouritism’ towards SIT (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Popular polytech programme now a ‘shell’ (paywalled)
Matthew Martin (Waikato Times): Aussie inspiration aids Waikato medical school (paywalled)
Alison Jones (E-Tangata): A betrayal of academic freedom
RNZ: Massey University appoints Pierre Venter as new vice-chancellor
LABOUR
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Inside Labour’s Future Fund policy
Rira Dalton-Reedy (Te Ao Māori News): Waikato-Tainui backs Labour’s $200M Future Fund to boost Māori economy
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Political message to parents: There’s even more money in gaming
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Labour promises $11m expansion of game development subsidies
Thomas Manch (Post): Labour promises to boost access to $40m rebate for NZ gaming industry (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): Labour pledges bigger video game development rebate to boost studios (paywalled)
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): Labour pledges to explain video game sector rebate (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE, SPY AGENCIES
Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): New Zealand’s strategy for the East Asia Summit and APEC
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Prime Minister to travel to Malaysia and South Korea for economic summits
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Spy agency whistleblowers raised no ‘serious wrongdoing’ - watchdog