HOLIDAYS ACT
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Employers backs plan to replace Holidays Act, unions push back
Herald: Union blasts Holidays Act changes, business advocates praise clarity
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): The winners and losers of the Holidays Act overhaul
Brent Melville (NBR): Holidays Act repeal provides much-needed clarity: EMA (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Annual leave overhaul: Here’s how the way you earn holiday pay will change
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Part-time workers to get less sick leave as law changed
Adam Pearse (Herald): Sick leave entitlement for part-time work scrapped as Govt reforms ‘broken’ Holidays Act
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): How the Holidays Act overhaul will change sick leave rights and how time off is paid
Amelia Wade (Post): Holidays Act explainer: How your leave entitlements are changing (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Post): ‘Broken’ leave laws to be replaced in biggest overhaul in decades (paywalled)
Poppy Clark (Stuff): What does the new Employment Leave Act mean for me? Some examples to help explain
HERALD’S MOOD OF THE BOARDROOM SURVEY
Richard Harman (Herald): National Party poll slump sparks questions over Luxon’s leadership (paywalled)
RNZ: PM Christopher Luxon ranked 15th in Cabinet, latest Mood of the Boardroom survey reveals
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Erica Stanford leads rankings, Luxon and Willis fail to make top ten (paywalled)
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Business leaders back Luxon’s China strategy but question domestic leadership (paywalled)
Tim McCready (Herald): Business leaders doubt Nicola Willis’ growth agenda after weak GDP result (paywalled)
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Business leaders call for bold growth strategy as Luxon rating falls in survey (paywalled)
Tim McCready (Herald): Hipkins rated 2/5 by CEOs in Mood of the Boardroom survey (paywalled)
Tim McCready (Herald): CEOs see Edmonds’ potential but await tax plan (paywalled)
Herald: Chief executives rank Government ministers and Labour leaders
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Fear, panic and a sour mood in the boardroom (paywalled)
Thomas Pippos (Herald): Survey reveals rising concern over government spending
Anne Gibson (Herald): Government visa changes and lower rates will lift property market, says real estate boss
Tim McCready (Herald): CEOs back local government reform as survey rates councils as ‘broken’ (paywalled)
Tim McCready (Herald): NZ CEO survey shows weaker confidence as global trade tensions bite (paywalled)
Tim McCready (Herald): Leaders warn global instability hitting business (paywalled)
Duncan Bridgeman (Herald): CEOs more upbeat on revenue and profit but hiring plans stay weak (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Inside the hush-hush visit that brought Trump’s FBI boss Kash Patel to NZ
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Trump’s criticism of UN ‘undiplomatic’: Peters
RNZ: Winston Peters refuses to be drawn on whether NZ will recognise Palestinian state
Rachel Maher (Herald): United Nations not fit for purpose, weakest it has ever been, says former PM Helen Clark
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Work finally begins on ‘largest defence housing project in decades’
IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT WORKERS
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Winston Peters is (sort of) right about migrants moving to Australia
Teuila Fuatai (RNZ): ‘Overstayers not a problem’: Migrant advocates criticise govt’s proposed deportation laws
Jamie Ensor (Herald): New Zealand First, National at odds on immigration policy, whether New Zealand a ‘launch pad’ to Australia (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): New pathways announced to make getting New Zealand residence easier for skilled migrants
Thomas Manch (Post): NZ First invokes ‘agree to disagree’ clause over migrant residency pathway changes (paywalled)
NBR: Winston Peters lambasts Govt’s immigration changes (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Amanda Gillies (RNZ): The Detail: A race to change laws sees a sprint to the courts
The Hui: Willie Jackson: Labour and Te Pāti Māori still ‘90% aligned’
Grant Duncan: Political polls: reading them critically, not trustingly
Henry Cooke (Post): New Zealand politics is stuck (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): One clause for the campaign; one law that actually works (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Public Service rebrand pricetag: $1.3m in less than two years (paywalled)
Katie Pickles (The Conversation): In her new children’s book, Jacinda Ardern explores working ‘mum guilt’ through her daughter’s eyes
Herald: Mum’s Busy Work review: How Dame Jacinda Ardern’s book portrays modern parenting
ENVIRONMENT, MINING
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): ‘The matua versus the maunga’
Mary Williams (ODT): Concern talks with mining giant secret (paywalled)
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): Pollution from gas stoves linked to hundreds of deaths a year in New Zealand
Andy Brew (Press/Post): An invisible killer: 1300 NZ deaths a year linked to unregulated fine particle pollution (paywalled)
Monique Steele (RNZ): Will NZ’s net zero 2050 climate targets include shipping and aviation emissions?
Pat Baskett and Joanna Santa Barbara (Newsroom): Climate change doesn’t care for politics
HEALTH
RNZ: Patients dying waiting for treatment - cancer specialist
Public Health Advisory Committee (PHCCA): Choosing a healthier, fairer future for Aotearoa: New report provides the direction
Kate Green (RNZ): Health NZ re-checking credentials of staff who work with children after whistle-blower goes to Ombudsman
Natasha Gordon & Samuel Sherry (Herald): Simeon Brown condemns union striker who scaled his electorate office
RNZ: Striking senior doctors hit back at Health Minister Simeon Brown’s message
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Health NZ scraps in-house AI tool in favour of private sector
Ian Powell: Pae Ora Act amendments and Māori healthcare
Fiona Cassie (NZ Doctor): Treasury advises costs to practices of 12-month scripts may outweigh patient benefits (paywalled)
Samantha Hayes and Sam Smith (Stuff): Calls grow to expand free meningitis vaccine following two deaths in five weeks
Sarah Sneyd (ODT):Alcohol laws are loosening: guess who is smiling?
ECONOMY, RESERVE BANK, PROSPERITY
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): New Massey University tracker shows New Zealand’s prosperity falling
Liam Dann (Herald): Reserve Bank Governor announced today, plus ... was GDP really that bad? (paywalled)
Richard Prebble (Herald): The case for a leaner state and savings-based welfare (paywalled)
RNZ: Reserve Bank governor appointment looms - who are the candidates?
Eric Crampton (Newsroom): Criticising the Reserve Bank for doing its job
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Reserve Bank about to appoint first female governor (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): SPeculation mounts new RBNZ Governor will come from overseas with announcement from Finance Minister expected Wednesday
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): RBNZ, Willis refuse to comment on new governor speculation (paywalled)
FIREARMS
Derek Cheng (Herald): New research reveals the who and the where behind firearms deaths costing hundreds of millions of dollars a year (paywalled)
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Otago University study finds firearms deaths cost NZ up to $321m a year
Maddy Croad (Press/Post): Call for strong gun laws as gun-related homicides reach highest rate in almost 20 years (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Labour, Police Minister condemn firearms vetting changes made by former Deputy Commissioner
JUSTICE, POLICE, CRIME
Katie Harris (Herald): Wealthy NZ family member guilty of having child abuse images given sentence discount for donation
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Man from wealthy NZ family donated $50k before sentencing for child sexual abuse material
Emma Andrews (RNZ): Funding cuts a ‘devastating blow’ to sexual support services
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Tom Phillips case renews calls for Royal Commission into Family Court
HarrIet Laughton (Post): A grieving father’s campaign to end family violence (paywalled)
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Official international abduction figures don’t tell whole story, says Auckland University professor
HOUSING
David Long (Stuff): Day of reckoning: The biggest planning decision in a generation
Simon Wilson (Herald): Residential zoning in Auckland: The council showdown today
Victor Waters (RNZ): Auckland Council to decide on housing density plan
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland housing density and ‘Chrissie’s little train set’ (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): First-home buyers’ 10-year, $260,000 rent bill to save deposit
Greg Ninness (Interest): Affordability getting better and better for aspiring first home buyers
EDUCATION
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Minister marked absent, speech not turned in to teachers at conference
Henry Cooke (Post): Polytech reforms ‘ideologically driven’ with no ‘problem’ to solve, critics say (paywalled)
RNZ: Classroom building work now ‘far more affordable’ - David Seymour
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): ‘Still tough out there’ despite Govt building announcements (paywalled)
RNZ: Daily school attendance averages 85% during team 3
John O’Neill (Aotearoa Educators Collective): Has National MP Dan Bidois been radicalised?
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau plans future run for Parliament, drops 2028 mayoral plans (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Mayoralty schmayoralty: these ward races will decide Wellington’s future
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Dunedin’s mayor confident as momentum gathers behind former deputy
Craig Ashworth (Local Democracy Reporting): Merge councils to slash elected reps by 95 percent: Councillor
Tommy de Silva (Spinoff): The supercity isn’t enough – why Auckland needs its own state government
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Canned cycleway through student quarter makes dramatic U-turn
ODT Editorial: Albany St flip-flop unedifying (paywalled)