FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Logan Church (1News): Welcome back to the UN, Mr Peters
Anneke Smith (RNZ): New Zealand waits as more nations recognise Palestine
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: New Zealand weighs recognition of Palestine as allies push ahead
RNZ: 'Not a race': Christopher Luxon tight lipped on recognising Palestinian state
Poppy Clark (Stuff): ‘Not a race’: NZ to make decision on Palestine statehood by end of the week
Thomas Manch (Post) Luxon maintains silence on Palestine position, as partners move to recognise (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Space fast becoming a 'war-fighting domain', military allies in Europe say
RNZ: Third round of free trade negotiations with India conclude in Queenstown
RNZ: Samoa's new prime minister flies to NZ for medical treatment within days of taking office
IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT WORKERS
Jamie Ensor (Herald): NZ First breaks with Govt over ‘unfocused immigration’ in major move
Stuff: New work visa pathways ‘fixing it’, Willis says, but NZ First invokes ‘agree to disagree’ clause
1News: New residency pathways for skilled migrants, NZ First 'agree to disagree'
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Popular Wellington Cafe calls for more pathways to residency for hospitality workers
Frances Chin (Post): Cafe owners want residency path for staff, but experts say it's complicated (paywalled)
Stuff: English is her first language – so why can’t she work as a nurse in New Zealand?
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): State of the coalition: ‘Dangerously strong’ or strongly endangered?
Jonathan Boston (Newsroom): Democracy in NZ isn’t inevitable
Chris Trotter (Interest): The Māori seats are not, by definition, for everyone
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): If you think I’ve come to dump on Te Pāti Māori then you’re sadly mistaken
Audrey Young (Herald): Christopher Luxon leadership strain - what’s the strategy on the ninth floor? (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon’s office refuses to release key Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce wedding invitation communications
RNZ: Green Party chief of staff Eliza Prestidge-Oldfield resigns
1News: Greens chief of staff resigns, citing 'health, wellbeing and whānau'
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): One MP, One Pint: Benjamin Doyle on going out on your own terms
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Government's new IT procurement changes could save billions (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): The custom of dragging a debate out as long as possible (paywalled)
ECONOMY, RESERVE BANK
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How NZ economy is tracking after gloomy GDP figures
Monique Steele (RNZ): More than quarter of kids struggling for food, study finds
Cameron Smith (Herald): Cost-of-living crisis: Almost half of Kiwis going backwards financially (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): Kiwibank economists say 'serious discussion' needed about OCR going to 2%
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Naming Adrian Orr's successor is past overdue (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): HSBC economists still see 'growth upswing' in summer and next year
Dave Armstrong (Post): Who killed the New Zealand economy? (paywalled)
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): Investor confidence hits lowest point since Covid-19
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): GDP figures: welcome to the L-shaped recovery (paywalled)
Jack Buchan (ODT): Let’s not replace the stuffing by pumping in hot air
ENVIRONMENT, MINING
Mary Williams (ODT): Online post in support of mine deleted (paywalled)
Julie Asher (ODT): Mining royalties ‘the preserve of the Crown’ (paywalled)
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): No change: Almost one in four Canterbury swim spots unsafe, report shows
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): Think like a forest
Tom Rose (Herald): Sam The Trap Man: How ambitious plan to ‘recloak Papatūānuku’, restoring native forests, could future-proof New Zealand
No Right Turn: Unravelling the Zero Carbon Act
Kate Green (RNZ): Weather supercomputer aims to predict more accurately over five days
John Lewis (ODT): Clark’s patronage of Wild Dunedin Festival celebrated
HEALTH
Rachel Graham (RNZ): Shortage of ICU beds causes delays to Christchurch cardiac surgeries
Paddy Gower (Stuff): Dear Prime Minister: please honour your cancer promise to my dead wife
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Thousands of senior hospital doctors on 48-hour strike
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Hospital system under pressure blamed for increased staff assaults
Gary Hamilton-Irvine (Hawkes Bay Today/Herald): Family visitor hours could be relaxed at Hawke’s Bay Hospital, but nursing union has a ‘lot of concerns’ (paywalled)
Fiona Cassie (NZ Doctor): ‘Conflict at the coalface’ as minister boosts patient expectations for 12-month scripts (paywalled)
MEDIA
Jane Yee (Herald): Front Page: Who’s keeping watch when local news disappears?
John Weekes (Herald): Talley’s defamation trial hears about ‘extremely lucky’ forklift accident escape, safety checks in Ashburton (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Independent report into TVNZ news - public broadcaster releases a summary of impartiality and balance findings (paywalled)
Roger Partridge: Why subsidising news won't save democracy
EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): NDAs will preventing consultation on crucial education changes - teachers
1News: $58m of new funding as part of $413m school property upgrades
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Back to school as the Government looks to help struggling construction industry
Herald: Government accelerates $413m school property upgrades with new $58m funding
RNZ: Christopher Luxon and Erica Stanford announce $413m investment in school property upgrades
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Primary principals, teachers and support staff join the marching masses
Amelia Wade (Post): Final brushstroke: Minister ‘very comfortable’ with cutting art history from schools (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Housing density, debt and rates – where local govt candidates sit
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Four departing mayors tell us what they really think
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘We fought for Māori wards - now we need to use them': Low voter returns worry candidates
1News: Māori wards candidate info errors: 'How is this happening?'
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): The rates battle continues as council debt rises
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Carterton council unlocks key water project
Madeleine Powers (Waikato Times): Rates soar while council staff clock in from the couch (paywalled)
Maxine Jacobs (Press):Growing trend: How ‘at large’ councillors are changing local politics (paywalled)
Peter Newport (Crux): Latest poll results: Glover leads QLDC mayoral race
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua Council axes 19 jobs, says nursery retail arm ‘not sustainable’
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): Western Bay of Plenty mayoral race: Margaret Murray-Benge wants to scrap regional council
Grant Miller (ODT): People’s Hub a ‘progressive alternative’ (paywalled)
HOUSING
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): Winton legal action costs Kāinga Ora $10m (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Politicians are embracing liberal zoning rules, enabling better cities, and winning elections
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Granny flat legislation: Select committee calls for minor amendments
Anne Gibson (Herald): Marutūāhu-Ockham Partnership completes 720 Auckland apartments, seven blocks (paywalled)
RNZ: Slow property market sees more build to rent apartments in Auckland
Jonathan Killick (Post): Auckland candidate calls for tax revolt over Bishop’s housing intensification legislation (paywalled)
TRANSPORT
Matt Lowrie (Greater Auckland): Great benefits, what about the costs?
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Transmission Gully led to fewer road deaths, shorter travel times, report finds
Thomas Manch (Post): No deaths, $173m saved: The benefits of Transmission Gully and Kāpiti expressways (paywalled)
Thomas Nash (Post): Public transport back on track but there’s a lot more to do (paywalled)
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Passengers stranded for hours on Wellington train handed 'travel johns'
Thomas Manch (Post): Soil broken, six years of Melling construction to come (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Post): How much to run the CRL? Wayne Brown says $400m, Auckland Transport disagrees (paywalled)
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Developer’s consultant criticises Auckland Transport over Milldale speed bumps
Catherine Hubbard (Nelson Mail/Press): Reinstatement of car parks in cycle lane ‘appalling’ (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Speed cameras are changing. Here’s what we know about the new technology
ENERGY
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Huntly power station: Security of supply or market dominance? ComCom to decide (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Contact boss’ energy policy plea: ‘Don’t play yesterday’s game’
RNZ: Genesis Energy strikes deal to increase domestic coal supply for Huntly Power Station
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Genesis turns to NZ coal as Huntly demand heats up (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Kiwis are shifting their electricity use, but not always in ways that are helpful (paywalled)
TE REO MĀORI
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Māori beaten for using te reo deserve apology - Dover Samuels
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): Looking backwards to move forward: 50 years of te wiki o te reo Māori
Vincent Olsen-Reeder (Spinoff): The future we spoke into being: te reo Māori as Aotearoa’s first language