TE PĀTI MĀORI
Maiki Sherman (1News): Te Pāti Māori moves to suspend MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi
Thomas Coughlan & Adam Pearse (Herald): Te Pāti Māori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi faces suspension motion
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori to suspend MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi - reports
Waatea News: Te Pati Māori MP faces suspension
Sacha McMeeking (E-Tangata): Between cohesion and collapse
Shonelle Wana (E-Tangata): Our leaders are human too
LABOUR
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Labour to campaign on narrow capital gains tax, no wealth tax
Rachel Maher (Herald): Labour unveils targeted capital gains tax to fund free doctor visits
Luke Malpass (Post): Labour to take a capital gains tax to the election, give free GP visits in return (paywalled)
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Labour breaks the mould with policy for progress, not perks for swing voters (paywalled)
Mike Yardley (Press): The big challenge for Labour to claw back Christchurch support (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
Amanda Gillies (RNZ): The Detail: Taking the political temperature a year ahead of the vote
Audrey Young (Herald): Meet Brooke van Velden – the minister loathed by unions and loved by business (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Post): FamilyBoost’s ‘average claim’ includes rejected applications (paywalled)
Chris Trotter: Our Whipsaw Democracy. (paywalled)
Dave Armstrong (Post): Why NZ should keep the faith with MMP (paywalled)
John Highton (ODT): Hello New Zealand, are you really still out there somewhere?
Natalia Albert: You Can’t Take the Politics Out of Politics
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): How cool would it be to replace Christopher Luxon with a Māori person?
David Cohen ( Newsroom): Jim Bolger on how to lead NZ
Jenny Ruth: Remembering Jim Bolger and Jonathan Underhill
K Gurunathan (Post): From PM to Citizen Jim, a kaleidoscope of insights (paywalled)
ABUSE IN STATE CARE, CHILD WELFARE
Verity Johnson (Stuff): A grubby, grotty attempt to shirk responsibility for decades of horror
Tom Hunt (Post): Abuse of children in care jumps in year after Royal Commission
ODT Editorial: Spinning harm statistics (paywalled)
Michael Morrah (Herald): Minister won’t rule out closing Gloriavale amid ‘horrendous’ abuse claims (paywalled)
Lucy O’Hagan (Newsroom): A doctor on the Oranga Tamariki scandal
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE, SPY AGENCIES
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Trump dominates Asian talks as Luxon vies for trade insurance
Zane Small (Stuff): Trump, a trade truce and trying to branch out: 5 things to watch as Luxon jets to Asia
Henry Cooke (Post): Is there space for Christopher Luxon at the Trump show? (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Luxon says it is his job to get NZ ‘disproportionate influence’
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon expected to meet Malaysian Prime Minister, not concerned about differences over Palestine state recognition
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Malaysian Prime Minister calls for multilateralism at East Asia Summit
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon says New Zealand’s participation in wargames near Japan shows ‘we’re following through, not just spouting off’
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Important for China, US to have ‘positive conversation’ - Luxon at East Asia Summit
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): East Asia Summit: Important NZ is ‘in the room’ - expert
Thomas Manch (Post): Kiwi companies urged not to miss out on Ukraine rebuild (paywalled)
Benedict Collins (1News): PM arrives in Malaysia ahead of East Asia Summit
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon arrives in Malaysia for East Asia Summit; New Zealand Defence Force ship, plane in Asia for exercises
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Christopher Luxon says NZ-US trade deal unlikely as he prepares for potential Trump meeting
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Luxon shores up Indo-Pacific trade as volatile Trump impact continues
Henry Cooke (Post): Christopher Luxon touches down in Malaysia just behind Donald Trump (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon to push rules-based global trade at Apec, East Asia Summit meetings as Donald Trump causes economic uncertainty (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Grant Miller (ODT): STV: expert advice on how it works to give a better spread
RNZ: Thousands of households in arrears on council rates
Jamie Morton (Newsroom): The new threats in our drinking water
Wayne Timmo (Waikato Times): Council forks out $30,000 on garden fence over ‘fall risk’ (paywalled)
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): Tauranga Mayor Mahé Drysdale and councillors rate their performance after a year
Benn Bathgate (Waikato Times): A bridge too few: Waipā Mayor says location for new bridge by next December (paywalled)
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Building law shake-up gives hope to Rotorua’s historic Blue Baths
Reynold Macpherson (Rotorua Daily Post/Herald): Rotorua council election - How our city now needs to move forward (paywalled)
Matthew Martin (Waikato Times): Funnell flies in from left field to lead district (paywalled)
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Long-time council staffer turned councillor named as Ruapehu deputy mayor
Liz McDonald (Press): Cathedral donations ‘positive’ but large funding gap remains (paywalled)
Jonathan Leask (Local Democracy Reporting): Work begins on $10.4m first stage of Lincoln’s town centre redevelopment
Blayne Slabbert (Post): A deal that hopes to save Queenstown Lakes from itself (paywalled)
Russell Brown (Listener): Is it time for councils to fund music venues the way they do sports grounds? (paywalled)
HEALTH, AGED CARE
Ruth Hill (RNZ): ‘Not good enough’: Petition calls for urgent government action on youth mental health
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Ministerial advisory group to look at changes to aged care funding model
Herald: Government to set up Ministerial Advisory Group to review aged care sector funding
Anna Howe, Emma Best, Rachel Webb (The Conversation): NZ may be on the cusp of another measles outbreak – what happened in 2019 should be a warning
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): Hundreds of close measles contacts identified at Wellington College, Wellington Girls’ College
Shilpy Arora Gaikwad (Stuff): Is Wellington facing a measles outbreak? ‘Hundreds’ of close contacts identified at two schools
Tom Hunt (Post): Get them immunised, PM urges as measles confirmed in two Wellington schools (paywalled)
RNZ: Samoa calls on parents to vaccinate young children following cases in NZ, Australia
DRUGS, ALCOHOL, TOBACCO
Amelia Wade (Post): Revealed: Cabinet ignored police advice linking bottle-store booze to violent crime (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): New report says politicians could shift drug budget to a health focus without voter blowback
Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): New research shows public favours health approach in the fight against drug use (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): Casey Costello on saving a key programme fighting NZ’s growing meth problem (paywalled)
Lotta Dann (Listener): Moral failure or chronic illness? Meth use up 74%, cocaine use soars 229% but help for drug addiction gets harder to find (paywalled)
Herald: Study claims illicit tobacco is now more than a quarter of the New Zealand market (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Nitrous oxide misuse: Tighter controls on the sales of harmful ‘nangs’ needed (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): An education in teachers’ pay (paywalled)
Cate Macintosh (Press/Post): Latest changes to curriculum leaves educators daunted (paywalled)
David Pomeroy and Lisa Darragh (The Conversation): A rushed new maths curriculum doesn’t add up. The right answer is more time
Jessie Moss (E-Tangata): The imported ideology behind education reform
Camilla Highfield (Newsroom): Govt policy has produced an educational ‘polycrisis’
Ananish Chaudhuri and Brian Boyd (The Post): Should all students have to learn about New Zealand history? (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Do we still need home economics on the NCEA curriculum?
Mike Grimshaw (Plain Sight): Constrained and framed? The limitation of academic freedom by research funding and strategies
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Staff told not to leak to media (paywalled)
ODT: Barker appointed for university’s push into Q’town Lakes
George Heagney (Manawatū Standard/Post): Ashhurst parents say two buses for 300 students won’t work (paywalled)
TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): We’re spending all our money on roads that suck
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Economic drivers or money pits? The debate over the government’s billion-dollar roads
Tom Hunt (Post): ‘Getting ridiculous’: Councillor slams ticketing delays (paywalled)
David Long (Stuff): The $5.5b question with only one acceptable answer: Can trains bring a city back to life?
Will Mace (NBR): Nikhil Ravishankar didn’t aspire to be Air New Zealand CEO (paywalled)
HOUSING, BUILDING
Victor Waters (RNZ): Boom in DIY building expected as rules eased
Fiona Ellis (Waikato Times): Govt funds 210 new social homes in region (paywalled)
Anne Gibson (Herald): Auckland’s three new student accommodation towers: The developers and the demand (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Greg Clydesdale (Press/Post): When rich countries become poor (paywalled)
Christoph Schumacher (NBR): RBNZ’s gamble: erring ont he side of growth (paywalled)
Michael Turner (Post): HENRYs are the squeezed middle — and it’s getting tighter (paywalled)
Caron Copek (Stuff): ‘It makes a massive difference to our budget:’ Why families are leaving our big cities
EMPLOYMENT
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Unions are made of workers
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Dismissals and high-income earners: what you need to know (paywalled)
Steve Newall (Flicks): Pike River interview: “It makes you feel like you want your country back”
Alex Casey (Spinoff): How Pike River forged an unbreakable bond between Robyn Malcolm and Melanie Lynskey
BUSINESS
RNZ: Most retailers don’t plan to take on extra staff for summer, survey finds
Peter Bale (BusinessDesk): BusinessDesk CEO Index: Finding leadership among our leaders (paywalled)
MEDIA, INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA
Gavin Ellis: Trump pointer: NZ media should not take access for granted
Shayne Currie (Herald): NBR reaches settlements with national law firm, fund managers over ‘stealing’ of subscription news content (paywalled)
David Harvey: Age Restrictions, Social Media and Coincidence