HEALTH DATA BREACH
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Politicians’ names and ‘Charlie Kirk’ used in MediMap data breach, raising ‘hacktivist’ questions
Poppy Clark, Paula Penfold and Isaac Davison (Stuff): Major NZ health app breach: Alive patients marked as deceased, names changed to Charlie Kirk
Kim Baker Wilson (RNZ): MediMap health portal hack ‘a wake-up call’, cyber security expert says
RNZ: Patient data changed as major NZ health app MediMap hacked
Flynn Acworth (Newsroom): NZ doesn’t take data breaches nearly as seriously as it should
POLICE MOVE-ON ORDERS FOR HOMELESS
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Move-on orders are a game-changer for fixing the nation’s complex problems
Daniel Vernon: Where exactly are we “moving on” all these people in need of housing?
Herald: Editorial – Move-on orders are a temporary fix, not a long-term answer (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Oi, you can’t sleep there mate (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Move on the threat, not the homeless (paywalled)
Frances Chin (Post): Move-on orders, from both sides of the street (paywalled)
Science Media Centre: Police given powers to order homeless to ‘move-on’ – Expert Reaction
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Kindness has its limits
Kelly Makiha (Herald): Rotorua reacts to new laws allowing police to ‘move-on’ homeless and beggars
Amy Williams (RNZ): Number of Auckland rough sleepers drops, advocates say true figure remains unknown
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION, GOVERNMENT
Claire Robinson: From Rhythm to Chaos
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Questionable retreat from X
Nik Dirga (RNZ): AI and privacy: Commissioner signs on to global statement on ‘potential harms’
Henry Cooke (Post): Is New Zealand ready to embrace user-pays? (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Ministers clash over Hauraki Gulf protections (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (The Post): Government still taking aim at social media - but coalition backing uncertain (paywalled)
Liz McDonald (Press): Housing developer Matthew Horncastle says Green Party leader is ‘the most dangerous person in NZ’ (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Immigration officers to get increased powers to ask suspected overstayers for identification
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Human rights protections for transgender Kiwis not a priority – Govt
Sharon Brettkelly (Newsroom): Citizens arrests, armed guards, and the power of Sunny Kaushal
Lane Nichols (Herald): Teaching Council chief executive Lesley Hoskin earned more than $400k salary ahead of resignation (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Reform, mergers, speaking English and more (paywalled)
PAY EQUITY
Julia Gabel (Herald): Calls for political parties to make repealing pay equity changes a ‘bottom line’
Anna Whyte (Interest): Labour pledges pay equity reversal but withholds specifics, for now
Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco and Thomas Schober (The Conversation): The work women do has changed. The case for pay equity in NZ hasn’t
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Former MPs release scathing review into the Government’s pay equity law changes
Henry Cooke (The Post): Brooke van Velden suggests new report on pay equity ‘a waste of time’, Labour cautiously endorses repeal (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): Changes to pay equity laws ‘flagrant and significant abuse of power’, say former MPs (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Can we find the money for the pay equity scheme?
SEWAGE INFRASTRUCTURE
Ethan Manera (Herald): Labour’s Ayesha Verrall calls out Moa Point sewage failure response, Andrew Little says comments not fair
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington sewage spill: ‘Variety of possible causes’ behind Moa Point fiasco but nothing confirmed (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Moa Point sewage disaster: Wellington Mayor Andrew Little wants to reopen impacted beaches as soon as this weekend
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): ‘We can’t keep telling people just to stay away from the beach’ - Wellington mayor
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): The non-smoking gun
RNZ: Wellington business losing thousands after sewage leak restrictions
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Lyall Bay businesses excited at prospect of Wellington south coast beaches reopening
Amber Allott (Press): Mana whenua slam ‘serious failure’ in council communications over Lyttelton Harbour sewage spills (paywalled)
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE AND QUALITY
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Comcom finalises disclosure requirements for water providers (paywalled)
Mary Williams (ODT): Nitrate ‘news not good’ (paywalled)\
Mary Williams (ODT): Cows probable cause of alarming nitrate spikes (paywalled)
HEALTH
Felicity Goodyear-Smith (The Conversation): We studied primary care in 6 rich countries – it’s under unprecedented strain everywhere
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): HNZ lambasted for not firming up new hospital lab solution (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Contract sharing concerns Treasury (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): Urgent calls for action on youth mental health following report release
RNZ: Youth facing more psychological distress, finding it harder to get specialist help - report
Louisa Steyl (Press): Cancer diagnosis delayed as patients waited up to 14 times longer than target (paywalled)
Tracey Martin (ODT): Urgent need to fund ageing infrastructure (paywalled)
Bella Craig (RNZ): ‘It has been a very invisible service’ - district nurses struggle with understaffing
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Health NZ’s redundancy payouts a ‘disgraceful waste of money’ - PSA
Ethan Griffiths (Herald): Health NZ hands out over 7000 free vapes in two months to help smokers quit
TRANSPORT
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): How the cash-for-driver licence bribery scandal unravelled - and why the public wasn’t told
Rebecca Stevenson (BusinessDesk): Air NZ lands blame for high domestic airfare prices on climbing airport charges (paywalled)
John Weekes (Herald): Airways New Zealand warns MPs on global poaching of air traffic controllers (paywalled)
RNZ: Companies could favour road as KiwiRail assets face decline
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Greater variety of used cars imports likely in wake of relaxed clean car standards (paywalled)
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Wayne Brown plans dramatic overhaul of Auckland roads after Auckland Transport break-up
ELECTRICITY
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government celebrates as an electricity price falls – is it because of the new LNG terminal?
Kate Newton (RNZ): Power concerns: Lines companies urged to consider ‘non-network’ solutions
RNZ: Genesis Energy a ‘fair proposition’ despite some customers bills increasing by 30%
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): We should be shouting from the rooftops about solar
Alan McDonald (Post): Terminal investment: Why NZ was right to greenlight the $1b LNG lifeline (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Double-digit power rises coming this winter (paywalled)
NZ Energy: Data Refineries
LABOUR PARTY
Justin Hu (1News): Hipkins won’t rule out working with NZ First despite ‘pure racism’ row
RNZ: Labour’s Chris Hipkins to wait until after Budget 2026 to make commitments
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Chris Hipkins’ underwhelming State of the Nation speech
Greg Ninness (Interest): The current exodus of New Zealand citizens overseas began in earnest under Labour while Hipkins was PM
ENGLISH LANGUAGE BILL
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Downgrading the status of English
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Does New Zealand need to make English official?
Elspeth McLean (ODT): Going the full pizza cutter on official English bid (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Business group lays out plan for growth - but not everyone convinced
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Growth NZ wants to achieve 5% annual economic growth by 2035 (paywalled)
Peter Griffin (BusinessDesk): Tax breaks for Big Tech? Not really (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Why childcare costs could be set to rise
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): New Zealanders’ dismal savings balances revealed
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Iwi returns lift but stay low (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Good or bad story at university?
Susan Hornsby-Geluk (Post): Employment law changes: a dark day or a new dawn? (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Harriet Laughton (Post): LGNZ gets behind push to abolish regional councils - with conditions (paywalled)
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Napier mayor tries to sack deputy - she’s not having a bar of it
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Napier mayor Richard McGrath stands down his deputy
Will Harvie (Press): ECan projects canned as rates rise kept to 3%, not 17% (paywalled)
Liz McDonald (Press): Rating values up an average 1.8% for homes, 3.4% for businesses (paywalled)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND TRADE
RNZ: Political support for NZ-India FTA getting closer - trade minister
Soumya Bhamidipati (RNZ): Christopher Luxon attends Coalition of the Willing meeting on 4th anniversary of Russia-Ukraine war
RNZ: NZ will support Britain removing Andrew from line of succession, Christopher Luxon says
RNZ: Ukraine conflict: NZ PM to take part in Coalition of the Willing meeting
CARTOONS