FUEL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF IRAN WAR
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Labour leader Chris Hipkins not offering policy ideas to help Kiwis amid fuel price rises
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Government set to unveil details of fuel support package
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Fuel cost crisis: Govt to unveil ‘targeted and temporary’ support tomorrow
Julia Gabel (Herald): Fuel prices: Government to announce support package for families under the pump as petrol hits $4 a litre in some areas
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Cost of living relief is coming and we have a plan for the global fuel crisis, says Government
Henry Cooke (Post): Iran war: Chris Bishop says fuel crisis will force major rethink of transport plan - including fuel tax hikes (paywalled)
Nick James (Post): Iran war: No public transport fare hikes in the pipeline ‒ and definitely no subsidies (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Iran war: ANZ urges Government to avoid debt trap with its new fuel support package tomorrow (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): Iran war: NZ petrol stocks dip below 50 days, one tanker due the next week: MBIE (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Iran war: Why construction is one of the industries hit first and hardest in a fuel crisis (paywalled)
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Do we need a lockdown to dampen diesel demand?
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): It’s not ‘dirty’: NZ to start importing fuel to Australian standards amid oil crisis
Richard Harman: Little known trade agreement could save our fuel supplies (paywalled)
Richard Harman: Will politics trump the ratings agencies and Treasury? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Employers offering transport perks warned of tax rules
Dave Armstrong (Post): Fuel crisis exposes need for bold transport rethink (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): School attendance services warn rising fuel prices likely to drive up truancy
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Airlines fear being stranded in NZ as global jet fuel supply tightens (paywalled)
Katie Todd (RNZ): How rising costs are reshaping New Zealand’s regional air links
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Government relaxes fuel standards to secure more fuel shipments, Jones hints change could be permanent (paywalled)
ENERGY AND EVS
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Treasury revises advice after initial scepticism of $1 billion LNG terminal (paywalled)
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Government taps shuttered green fund to push ahead with $8m LNG import plan (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Government sticking by LNG plan in wake of Middle East conflict (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Will you get a solar rebate from your power company?
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Full steam ahead for plan to boost geothermal energy use (paywalled)
BusinessDesk: How decades of change ended Marsden Point refinery (paywalled)
John O’Sullivan (Post): Unleashing the energy superpower under our feet (paywalled)
David Williams (Newsroom): Slow chargers underpin Govt’s slow-track investment in public EV chargers
Jack Riddell (Herald): Fuel crisis: The next NZ shortage could be electric and hybrid vehicles, as customers flock to them
NZ FIRST
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Peters plays the power card
Luke Malpass (Post): Peters sets out NZ First’s new election stall leaning into conservatism (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Winston Peters acknowledges power companies may challenge split plan
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): What will this election do for New Zealand
RNZ-REID RESEARCH POLL
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): RNZ-Reid Research poll: Labour extends lead over National
Jo Moir (RNZ): RNZ-Reid Research poll: Bleak numbers for Luxon, but no obvious successors
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Christopher Luxon says he’s focused on fuel challenges not polls
GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
Mike Grimshaw: 5+8x10 = NZ? On tribes, politics and NZ society
Kate MacNamara (Herald): $1.2b Regional Infrastructure Fund: Which private companies have benefited so far (paywalled)
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): What did this coalition leave behind, a country feeling worse off?
Sam Crawley: How partisan is Treaty of Waitangi opinion?
Anneke Smith (Post): NZ public backs even tougher gun laws after Bondi shooting – survey (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Willis rejects further changes to personal tax thresholds (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Thin capitalisation rules acting as a ‘barrier to investment’ (paywalled)
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Push for container refund scheme ahead of election (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Critical infrastructure company directors could be fined under proposed cyber-security regulations (paywalled)
BANKS
Rob Stock (Post): Judge dubs outcome sought by ANZ borrowers in High Court class action ‘pretty extreme’ (paywalled)
Jaime Lyth (BusinessDesk): ANZ class action: 17,000 customers take on bank at High Court (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): New Zealand’s largest class action kicks off against ANZ (paywalled)
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Open banking: Big banks yet to issue end date for suboptimal transacting (paywalled)
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Payments NZ and MBIE resist claims of ‘significant disconnect’ in open banking progress (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): FMA makes ‘groundbreaking’ crypto ruling as sector pushes for regulation
HEALTH
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): His heart stopped. Days later, a letter arrived telling him he wasn’t a priority
Fiona Ellis (Waikato Times): Struggle to see specialist: Majority of cardiology referrals declined (paywalled)
Louisa Wall (Post): Fixing Māori health inequities demands system change, not tweaks (paywalled)
1News: Cocaine consumption surges to all‑time high in New Zealand
Harriet Laughton (Post): Record-breaking cocaine use calls for radical shift in government drug policy (paywalled)
ECONOMY
RNZ: Canterbury leads ASB’s rankings as Auckland rebounds and Wellington finishes last
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Don’t expect a lolly scramble from the Government
Damien Venuto (Stuff): The $50,000 tax trap that could quietly cost Kiwi investors thousands
Tom Raynel (Herald): Debt Awareness Week: Four in five New Zealanders ashamed to admit they are struggling (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Tasman exodus in charts – better pay, higher costs
Stuart Williams (Post): ‘Meat-and-potatoes’-like NZX is not a total insulation from the ripple effects of war (paywalled)
David Chaplin (BusinessDesk): KiwiSaver reforms for farms and rentals expose politics over policy (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): India a key export growth priority, but risks still linger (paywalled)
FISHING AND AGRICULTURE
Gill Higgins (1News): Debate grows over proposed changes to commercial fishing size limits
Ross McNaughton (RNZ): Shane Jones labels critics of fisheries bill as ‘noisy voices’
Andrew Jeffs (Post): Auckland seafood harvesting ban hides hidden hooks (paywalled)
Tina Morrison (Newsroom): ‘Incredible risk’ as calls for national farm database rejected
Mike Yardley (Press): Wattie’s closure threatens food security and demands taking a stand for our growers (paywalled)
Paul McBeth: Fonterra’s mission impossible becomes mission accomplished
Liam Dann (Herald): Fonterra profit jumps, risk around costs of war disruption flagged (paywalled)
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): Fonterra milks the gains but Middle East conflict looms over outlook (paywalled)
Will Mace (NBR): Fonterra shirks off supply chain disruption, boosts forecasts (paywalled)
1News: Five applicants seek to operate NZ’s largest farm
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; DEFENCE
Chris Trotter (Interest): When it comes to national security, small countries can either obey or think
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): How NZ military plans to ramp up drone use
Olivier Jutel, David Jenkins, Richard Jackson and Fairleigh Gilmour (ODT): Otago is lining up with an Israeli cyber war giant (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Weapons not part of any future NZDF contracts: Uni (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): Candidates distance themselves from fraudulent election
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Wtf: we are throwing out so many votes for no good reason
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Council staff face ‘emerging tensions’ on Rakiura/Stewart Island
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Documents reveal disharmony between Napier Mayor and councillors
HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS
Maui Brennan and Jacqueline Paul (Newsroom): Fact-checking Potaka’s claim that rents are more affordable
Mina Martin (NZ Adviser): Housing slump leaves RBNZ with fewer levers and buyers squeezed
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): 400 new homes in pipeline (paywalled)
Kelvin Davidson (One Roof): First-home buyers still on top - but the storm clouds are gathering
TRANSPORT
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Road rage of a different kind: How cranes and trucks are feeling jammed up
Nick James (Post): Auckland Harbour Bridge investment case to be considered by NZTA board (paywalled)
Deborah Chambers (Herald): Auckland’s motorway crash response system is so outdated (paywalled)
1News: Six remote roads set to lose full NZTA funding, mayors want rethink
Nick James (Post): Auckland Harbour Bridge investment case to be considered by NZTA board (paywalled)
Charlyse Tansey (Newsroom): Road rules shakeup on the table
EDUCATION
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Education website removes videos of sex offender after Stuff inquiry
Rachel Maher (Herald): Massey University brings back in-person exams to combat AI cheating (paywalled)
Chris Abercrombie (Herald): The new school qualifications system needs to be introduced as a whole package (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): School attendance improves in some areas after truancy overhaul
CLIMATE CHANGE
Thomas Mead (1News): Council proposes to move beach community amid sea level rise
Thomas Mead (1News): As waves surge, tiny Canterbury community raises $200,000 for seawall
Herald: Editorial – The conversation you have to have if you live in a beachfront property (paywalled)
CARTOONS