PARLIAMENT, ELECTION, GOVERNMENT
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Luxon, Hipkins and 17 years of drift leaving living standards stagnant (paywalled)
Peter Dunne: Hipkins’ Auckland speech hit the right tone, but is anyone listening?
Azaria Howell (Herald): Taxpayers’ Union slams nearly $1m Ministry of Education Te Tiriti course as ‘unjustifiable’ cost
Greg Presland (The Standard): In support of Chris Bishop
Max Harris (Post): The rise and fall of the universal basic income
David Williams (Newsroom): Cracks showing in DoC’s Chathams restructure
Nick Clark (Herald): The RMA reform we were promised is not the reform we got (paywalled)
CHILD POVERTY
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): Our alarming rates of child poverty are entirely avoidable
Nick James (RNZ): One in seven New Zealand children living in hardship, new data shows
Aziz Al Sa’afin (1News): ‘Unacceptable’: Children’s Commissioner says child poverty progress has stalled
CHILD ABUSE
Julia Gabel (Herald): Lake Alice data breach: Minister Erica Stanford asked Sir Brian Roche to personally sign apologies to survivors (paywalled)
Herald: Editorial – New Zealand’s culture of silence around child abuse must change (paywalled)
Gloria Masters (Herald): Let’s hand the shame back to the perpetrators of child sexual abuse and protect kids (paywalled)
HEALTH
Sophie Trigger (1News): Health Star ratings mandate – will NZ fall into line?
Paula Penfold (Stuff): ‘Goodbye for now’: Email from apparent MediMap hacker claims security threat is over
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Hospital IT outages will continue due to Health NZ staff cuts, union warns
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Auckland and Northland hospitals hit by ‘major’ IT outage
Vaimoana Mase (Herald): Vaping dangers: Study reveals alarming nicotine dependency among high-risk teenagers
Kate Green (RNZ): Thousands of ambulance callouts for mental health non-urgent, study shows
Joanne Naish (Press): Operations postponed as Christchurch Hospital hits 99% capacity (paywalled)
RNZ: Ultra-processed food marketing needs tougher regulations - researcher
Peter Williams: Make New Zealand Healthy Again
HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS
Alexia Russell (RNZ): A home for granny, a headache for the homeowner
Harriet Laughton (Post): Rates cap could force councils to charge market rents, officials warn
Kelly Makiha (Herald): Kāinga Ora’s Rotorua plans: More than 100 new social houses due this year (paywalled)
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Aucklanders protest government’s move-on orders for rough sleepers
Riria Dalton-Reedy (Te Ao Māori News): Homelessness is a mental health crisis, not a criminal issue - advocates say
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The political divide on homelessness
AIR NEW ZEALAND
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Winston Peters rails against ‘blind ideology’ panic amid talk of Air NZ sale
RNZ: Air New Zealand CEO says airline was dealt ‘tough cards’ as Seymour calls government to sell stakes
Stuff: Peters and Seymour spar over whether to sell Air NZ shares after $59m loss
Harriet Laughton (Post): ‘Get woke, go broke’: David Seymour pushes sale of Air NZ after $59m loss (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Was David Seymour right about Air New Zealand going ‘woke’?
PAY EQUITY
Chris Trotter (ODT): Is report an abuse of power or nonsensical political rhetoric? (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Pay equity backlash is ‘hyperbole’, Finance Minister says
ODT: Editorial – Fronting up on pay equity (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): What’s not being said about pay equity
LAW AND ORDER
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Government ‘very proud’ of drop in violent crime victims, according to survey
Benedict Collins (1News): Gang members now officially outnumber police officers
RNZ: Ministers say ‘tough on crime’ working as new figures unveiled
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): New Zealand is genuinely safer than it was a few years ago (paywalled)
RNZ: Minister mulls changes after deadly dog attack as SPCA calls for law reform
Josephine Bartley (Herald): Without law change, more fatal dog attacks will occur (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Court sets aside Silvereye’s $3.27m demand against Gillies Group (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Silvereye’s $3.2m success fee claim ‘an affront to decent society’, lobbyist says (paywalled)
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Growth NZ wants to achieve 5% annual economic growth by 2035 (paywalled)
Thomas Mead (1News): Students ‘cannot survive’ on allowance payments, leader says
Jaime Lyth (BusinessDesk): National Aus Bank fights to shut down BNZ whistleblower’s court challenge (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Alcohol consumption drops sharply across New Zealand as venues call for tax relief (paywalled)
Samantha Gee (RNZ): Foreign crew on retired Interislander ferry earning below minimum wage
JACINDA ARDERN MOVES TO AUSTRALIA
RNZ: Former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern moving to Australia
1News: Jacinda Ardern now based in Australia ‘for the moment’
Stuff: Jacinda Ardern and family move Down Under, excited for ‘more time back home in NZ’
Jack Marshall (Herald): Dame Jacinda Ardern now living in Australia after being spotted house-hunting in Sydney
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Jonathan Killick (Post): City Rail Link’s $3.4 million marketing and PR bill questioned (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Call for ministers to stop ‘derogatory’ rhetoric against councils
Tom Eley (Herald): Hamilton City Council audit report highlights issues in spending processes
INFRASTRUCTURE AND SEWAGE
Tom Hunt (Post): The mystery of blogger ‘Peter Bassett’ deepens after site scrubs post (paywalled)
Charlotte Cook (RNZ): Residents remain cautious about Moa Point despite authorities’ all clear
Barrie Saunders: Engineers – your country needs you
Susan Botting (Local Democracy Reporting): Northland must not be sidelined in Government infrastructure plan – business group
EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Woman describes sexual abuse complaint process with Teaching Council as ‘traumatic’
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): Protest and partnership: The paradox of Māori charter schools under Seymour
Janhavi Gosavi (Herald): Vice-chancellor Nic Smith leaves Victoria University of Wellington for University of Auckland
DEFENCE
RNZ: Defence Force to test air, land, and sea drones from Mount Maunganui company
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Syos drone deal with NZDF ‘strategically important’, CEO says (paywalled)
JUSTICE
Neil Sands (Law News): Big Law warns competition shake up could drive up prices
Neil Sands (Law News): Chief Justice underscores Te Tiriti’s importance, hails tikanga education
POLICE
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Jevon McSkimming documents: Police fail to release information relating to complaints by their own deadline (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Police release guidance for officers dealing with ‘sovereign citizens’ who consider themselves immune from legal obligations (paywalled)
ELECTRICITY
Janhavi Gosavi (Herald): Wellington electricity workers claim power outage was worsened by Omexom understaffing issues
Pat Baskett (Newsroom): If governments won’t try energy quotas, we should do it ourselves
CARTOONS