ENERGY POLICY
Mandy Te (Interest): NZ First, the Greens and Labour all eyeing change to the gentailer model
Nick James (Post): Energy Minister says nearly $1m salary for head of defunct Crown-owned fund ‘hard to justify’ (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): LNG plan ‘worst of both worlds’, environment watchdog warns
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Electricity Authority launches ‘Billy’ as Consumer NZ says it’s not shelving PowerSwitch (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Electricity Authority launches Billy for power price comparison, switching (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Supply of new power industry workers not keeping pace with forecast demand, report warns (paywalled)
Gamaliel Ramos (Post): The ghost of 1988: Contending with Rogernomics at the petrol pump (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Ministers soften stance on Onslow (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Fuel price surge sharpens scrutiny of Gull–NPD merger as Exxon sale talk builds (paywalled)
IRAN WAR: ENERGY CRISIS
Luke Malpass (Post): Iran war: Fuel pressure builds as Government prepares to unveil high-level response plan (paywalled)
Janet Wilson (Post): As the pressure mounts over building fuel crisis, Nicola Willis is showing why she’s there (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Government considers helping refurbish Channel Infrastructure’s empty Marsden Point fuel storage tanks (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Fuel update: Government to announce fuel alert framework on Friday as stocks fall 10% in two weeks
Richard Harman: What aren’t we being told about fuel supplies? (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Shane Jones canned emergency diesel plan: Labour (paywalled)
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Fuel price shock: Who misses out under tax credit boost
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): EV owners complain of ‘50 percent’ power price increases
Lee Marshall (Post): Fuel price-gouging claims aren’t true or helpful (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Interest): Questions about next phase of fuel response as more flights cancelled and jet fuel prices jump
IRAN WAR: GOVT $50 SUPPORT PACKAGE ANNOUNCED
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): $50 a week for some in NZ. How are other countries dealing with the fuel crisis?
Tyson Beckett (Herald): Fuel crisis: Anti-poverty group slams lack of financial support for beneficiaries
Bella Craig (RNZ): ‘Uncaring and humiliating’ - fuel package leaves many drivers out in the cold
Susan St. John (Daily Blog): Fuel crisis package and the ‘paid work first’ failure
GOVERNMENT FISHING BACKDOWN
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): U-turn on fish sizes not enough for some
Gill Higgins (1News): Hooked: Govt U-turn on changes to commercial fishing size limits
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Government backdown on removing commercial fishing size limits
Emma Ricketts and Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Government squabbles over who forced fishing backdown
GOVERNMENT
Jamie Ensor (Herald): NCEA to be abolished: Government confirms new secondary school qualifications coming - what parents, students need to know
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): Bluesky social media move makes Parliament and courts look partisan (paywalled)
Richard Prebble (Herald): AI is breaking our transparency law – and it could be the only fix (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): The many dodgy claims behind the government’s major events fund
Newstalk ZB: Pay equity overhaul: Govt minister ‘surprised’ by rights watchdog pushback
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Fast-track Act slammed as dictatorial (paywalled)
Joanne Naish (Post): Government Bill undoes Pike River legacy, families say (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Bullying allegations against senior Corrections staffer raised more than a month ago
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Treasury told minister reviewer had taken Reserve Bank to court but it saw no conflict of interest (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): ACC helps launch Zealandia investment fund, targeting public-private partnerships, with $300m commitment (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): ACC stumps up with $300m for new PPP fund (paywalled)
Herald: Editorial – Government right to review dog control laws (paywalled)
NATIONAL PARTY FUNDRAISING
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Selling access to the PM for $10,000
Anneke Smith (Post): Gold-plated dinner: How much you’d pay for a meal with Christopher Luxon, Nicola Willis or Simeon Brown (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Should we be outraged at the dinner charging $10k to sit with Luxon?
No Right Turn: Naked corruption
PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): It’s election year – let the lies, damn lies, and dodgy statistics flow
Andrea Vance (Post): Election at risk? The hidden hurdles facing the 2026 vote (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): Speaker Gerry Brownlee asks court to recall and reconsider Mariameno Kapa-Kingi judgment
Brent Edwards (NBR): The debate on strengthening New Zealand’s ailing democracy (paywalled)
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Can a ‘CEO’ PM survive a crisis when his own partners are eating his vote?
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: MPs debate an apparent offer to assist in the Strait of Hormuz
Joe Hendren: Winston Peters: Pugwash for the People
Brent Edwards (NBR): Legislation will increase workplace harm, select committee told (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Hard hats, the ultimate accessory for the plan-challenged politician
Steven Cowan: Workers won’t miss Brooke van Velden
GREEN PARTY HOUSING POLICY
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Greens promise to cap rent rises at 2 percent a year
Adam Pearse (Herald): Green Party election housing policy: Rent increase caps, a rental WoF and tens of thousands of new public homes
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): ‘They’re must-haves’: The Greens’ fuel relief package should be seriously considered
Mandy Te (Interest): Greens pledge ‘to stop housing being treated as a state-sanctioned casino’
Harriet Laughton (Post): Greens to cap rents at 2% in sweeping housing policy (paywalled)
HOUSING
Julia Gabel (Herald): Auditor-General says social welfare staff need clearer guidelines on declining emergency housing under new criteria
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): Emergency housing rejections surge with Māori continuing to bear the brunt
Greg Ninness (Interest): Residential investment property is becoming characterised by increasingly low returns
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): Ockham lays off staff amid ongoing apartment downturn (paywalled)
ECONOMY
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): New Zealand is expensive, Reserve Bank economist says - here’s what we can do about it
Stuff: Productivity growth the only way to lower cost of living, Reserve Bank says
David Hargreaves (Interest): Westpac economists see 1% house price fall, 5.6% unemployment and 4.1% inflation
Anna Whyte (Interest): Monetary policy can’t fix cost of living, structural reform key to growth, RBNZ chief economist Paul Conway says
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Infrastructure spend in New Zealand must work harder: user-pays in focus
Liam Dann (Herald): Iran conflict fallout: Westpac tips GDP to shrink in June quarter (paywalled)
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): RBNZ soothes on oil shock but inflation pressures are building (paywalled)
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): From 60c to $5.79: Farmer says ‘someone is making a big margin’ as plant shuts
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): Nestlé visits New Zealand, pitching dairy partnerships and net zero (paywalled)
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): Decline in director bans expected to reverse (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): NZ Post and eight courier firms warned over cartel conduct
Miriam Bell (Post): ‘Who is making the margins?’ McCain closure and war price spike crushing NZ vege growers (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington water bills: Local Govt Minister Simon Watts steps in over higher-than-expected charges
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Wellingtonians face average $2400 water bill next year, massive increases to follow
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington Water ‘clarifies’ Moa Point staffing claims but won’t say if alarms acted on (paywalled)
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Whanganui council faces criticism after $62k logo spend
Blayne Slabbert (Press): Ratepayer-funded agency secures $114m investment, but creates just 69 of 500 target jobs at halfway point (paywalled)
RNZ: Dunedin councillor Benedict Ong asked to resign after code of conduct breach
Grant Miller (ODT): Ong asked to resign as mayor ‘horrified’ by conduct report (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Councillor Ong stays on (paywalled)
Matt Cowley (Herald): Bay of Plenty Regional Council should not rush investment portfolio, Tauranga Port decision (paywalled)
Ben McNulty (Post): It’s your time to be heard on Wellington City Council’s spending (paywalled)
HEALTH
RNZ: Dozens of modern medicines languish on Pharmac’s drug wish list. for years
RNZ: More recruitment leading to shorter wait times for mental health patients, govt says
Lianne Dalziel (Newsroom): ‘Peters misrepresents global pandemic rule changes’
Kate Green (RNZ): Health NZ staff told to stop using ChatGPT to write clinical notes
Chris Wilkins, Marta Rychert and Robin van der Sanden (The Conversation): The price of meth has been plunging in NZ. Are Mexican cartels driving the drop?
MEDIA
Catrin Owen (Stuff): How billionaire Jim Grenon’s name came up in a defamation case against TVNZ
Gavin Ellis: Ad spend milestone is nothing for New Zealand to celebrate
Spinoff: Anna Fifield joins The Spinoff to take the reins of the World Bulletin
Steve Braunias (Listener): On legends of the trade: Bernard Orsman, Mark Sainsbury, Fran O’Sullivan, Cathy Campbell and Chris Rattue (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Former TV3 boss Juliet Peterson to leave Sky TV after just eight months (paywalled)
Annabelle Russell (NBR): Substack appoints ANZ head of partnerships (paywalled)
CARTOONS