IRAN WAR: ENERGY CRISIS
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Diesel shortage: Why our ‘benign’ isolation is now a brutal risk (paywalled)
Margaret Cooney (Post): As the fuel crisis bites, politicians should go bold and fast on electricity (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): Government pushing ahead with plans for $1 billion LNG import terminal
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Truckies worry as diesel slows to a trickle: ‘Shortage would bring economy to its knees’
Matt Nippert (Herald): Iran war: What six incoming oil tankers mean for New Zealand’s fuel supply (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton and Nick James (Post): Iran war: Diesel, petrol and jet fuel to be given own alert levels in fleshed out fuel plan (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (Post): Iran war: Parliament preparing for hybrid sittings if fuel dries up (paywalled)
Timothy F Welch (Newsroom): Free public transport the fuel crisis response that makes sense
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Fuel crisis could get ugly, Bishop warns infrastructure sector (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Government’s oil-crisis response slick so far but the real test is coming; Labour navigates dangerous times (paywalled)
Richard Harman: Fuel supplies all at sea (paywalled)
Luisa Girao (Press): ‘Nothing left to cut’: Diesel surge squeezes rural New Zealand (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): Iran war: No on-site diesel for ambulances, but priority in national fuel plan (paywalled)
Bryce Wilkinson (Herald): The oil price policy traps from the 1970s which the Government should learn from (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Iran war: Pump price of 91 has risen by more than the imported cost, new figures suggest (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): NZ will not move up fuel alert level tomorrow, Willis says changes will not be sudden
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Concerns Iran war could hold up cancer care – Simeon Brown getting advice as helium supply, crucial for MRIs, put under pressure (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Interest): Deputy PM David Seymour stresses supply focus ahead of release of fuel plan detail
Nick James (Post): Iran War: MBIE defends twice-weekly updates on fuel stocks amid criticism (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Iran war: Fuel crisis a ‘gut punch’ for forestry company in salvage mode (paywalled)
Rob Brewis (BusinessDesk): Fuel is super tight, so let’s float some boats (paywalled)
Ganesh Ahirao: Is $4/litre inevitable?
Edward Miller: As oil prices surge, how realistic is a worst-case inflation scenario of 3.7%?
Robert McLachlan (The Conversation): Driving in the wrong direction: why NZ’s oil consumption is at a 5 year high
Julia Gabel (Herald): Half of country’s most vulnerable children excluded from Govt’s fuel relief package
Russell Palmer (RNZ): More than half of families in material hardship will not get $50 fuel support package
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Farah Hancock (RNZ): These Waikato hydro lakes are supposed to be safe to swim in, but a toxic algae problem is getting worse
Nick James (Post): Wellington water war: Andrew Little blasts minister over looming bills, demands urgent price oversight (paywalled)
RNZ: Wellington Water seeks tender for fixing smelly Seaview wastewater treatment plant
Tom Hunt (Post): Tiaki Wai set to open in the red as councils shift $1.7b debt (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press): Council staff reject mayor’s plan to pump partially-treated wastewater into sea, say it could cost up to $18m (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): Developers raise ‘serious questions’ over Auckland water deal (paywalled)
Madleine Carr White (RNZ): Toxic algae warnings issued for Hutt and Wairarapa rivers
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Mahurangi oyster farmers call for more transparency on Watercare’s compensation calculations
GOVERNMENT
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Pike River families say workplace safety reforms are ‘sociopathic’
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Proposed deportation changes could disproportionately affect Pacific Island nationals
Rob Kidd (ODT): Charity chair takes aim at critics (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): High Court rules in favour of NZ College of Midwives, against Government (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Minister confident her public service will help in private sector (paywalled)
NBR: ComCom selects Mbie deputy secretary Suzanne Stew as next CEO (paywalled)
SURCHARGE BAN
Mandy Te (Interest): Surcharge ban hits an impasse - ‘I don’t see a scenario where it gets passed before the election’
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Labour suggests way forward for card surcharge ban if retailers don’t bear the costs (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): ACT and Retail NZ claim paywave surcharge ban ‘dead’, but National says that’s wrong
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Commerce Commission under pressure to prune spending on office greenery (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
Nik Dirga (RNZ): Politicians and defamation in an election year - How far can you go?
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): With his move to NZ First, Alfred Ngaro joins the party hopper hall of fame
David Harvey: The Empty chair – Chris Hipkins and the bankruptcy of the New Zealand left
Ani O’Brien: The truth about TOP
Geoff Fischer: An Opportunity for Q – Qiulae Wong and the Opportunity Party
GOVERNMENT FISHING BACKDOWN
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Everyone in New Zealand vs Shane Jones
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): The Fisheries Amendment Bill – time to go back to the drawing board?
Herald: Editorial – Fishing industry: This week’s U-turn by the Government is a win for the small fish (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Some fishers apparently miss memo on size, quantity rules (paywalled)
MEDIA
Ian Taylor (Stuff): ‘A question of trust’: Why I’m walking away from the NZ Herald
Stuff: Stuff Group to consolidate its print operations in Christchurch
Shayne Currie (Herald): Stuff to close Wellington print plant, 30 jobs up in air (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Beer-ly a feud: Stuff and The Spinoff settle stoush over a pint (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Mark Richardson’s TV exit; Troy Bowker v Sinead Boucher - war of words over Stuff print plant closure; Are Media CEO quits (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): PPTA launches blistering attack on NCEA plan, as changes confirmed
Jaime Cunningham (Herald): More students, less money: Universities face unfunded enrolment crunch
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Association supports compulsory science for Year 11 students
Aotearoa Education Collective: Proposal to replace NCEA confirmed
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Tertiary Education Commission warns of government funding shortfall for domestic enrolments
POLICE
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Bill to give police new powers to move and detain introduced to Parliament
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): I’m surprised the police allowed the Tom Phillips documentary to happen
Paddy Gower (Stuff): Police forced to reveal Netflix is behind controversial Tom Phillips documentary
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): ‘No response’: Jevon McSkimming yet to pay back taxpayer funded hotel stays during affair
Michael Morrah (Herald): Woman in Jevon McSkimming case allegedly sent 87 emails to detective’s wife, some ‘threatening’ (paywalled)
Post: Frustration allegedly pushed McSkimming accuser to send offensive and threatening emails (paywalled)
COVID
Derek Cheng (Herald): Chris Hipkins says he never got the ‘unnecessary risk’ advice on teens and Covid vaccine. This Cabinet paper shows otherwise (paywalled)
Paula Lorgelly (The Conversation): In the next pandemic, NZ doesn’t need to choose between health and the economy
Peter Williams: Royal Commission always destined to come up short
Reid Basher: Weakness at the top: Covid-19 pandemic inquiry report
Reid Basher (Post): The even-bigger picture view of disaster readiness from the big-picture Covid review (paywalled)
JUSTICE
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Move to strip upbringing info from alcohol and drug court reports angers lawyers, counsellors
Catrin Owen (Stuff): What it’s cost taxpayers (so far) for an inquiry into a judge who spoke out at the Northern Club
Andrea Vance (Post): Judicial inquiry costs nearly $1 million – Judge Ema Aitken’s legal fees top the bill (paywalled)
Rachael Kelly (Press): Fake evidence or digital alibi? How AI is rewriting the rules of New Zealand courts (paywalled)
RNZ: Fewer victims of crime, annual Justice survey reveals
ECONOMY
Susan St John: Time to reset both the economy and income support
Martin Van Beynen (Post): How to stop major employers closing down (paywalled)
Sally Riad, Charlie Mitchell and Urs Daellenbach (Newsroom): How supermarkets use frame game to deflect attention on profits
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Student loans: Government giving Inland Revenue discretion to provide interest relief for overseas-based borrowers (paywalled)
HEALTH
Kate Green (RNZ): Emergency Department AI gives meth recipe in ‘jailbreak’ testing
Joanne Naish (Press): Call for constitution to give New Zealanders legal right to health care (paywalled)
RNZ: New needle exchange provider denies drug users are avoiding it
HOUSING
Henry Cooke (Post): Auditor-General wants clearer rules on emergency housing rejections following ninefold rise (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Minister stands by decision to tighten emergency housing criteria despite criticism
Pierson Palmer (Common Ground Aotearoa): Decay hurts us all
MINING AND DRILLING
Ruby Shaw (ODT): Jones pulls out of debate, blames media (paywalled)
Rachael Comer and Brooke Black (Press): Oil and gas exploration could mean significant economic opportunity for South Canterbury (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Expansion won’t encroach on town: miner (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Sams Creek drilling project firms up Golden Bay gold prospects (paywalled)
Liz McDonald (Press): Bids sought for oil and gas search off South Island coast (paywalled)
CARTOONS