PALESTINE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Coalition’s Palestine cop-out puts pragmatism above principle
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice
Thomas Manch (Post): New Zealand sides with Israel, US on Palestine question (paywalled)
Logan Church (1News): ‘Sad charade’: Former PM slams Govt decision on Palestinian statehood
Molly Swift (RNZ): New Zealand on ‘wrong side of history’ with Palestine position, opposition parties say
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): New Zealand Palestinian angry, upset at government’s decision on statehood
Bryan Bruce: You did not speak for me Mr Peters
Mountain Tui: Year of shame
1News: ‘Now is not the time’: Luxon defends Govt decision on Palestine
RNZ: PM Christopher Luxon defends NZ decision to not recognise Palestinian state
Adam Pearse (Herald): Palestine recognition: PM Christopher Luxon denies concern over US backlash at heart of statehood decision
Anneke Smith (RNZ): NZ not yet recognising Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces
Adam Pearse (Herald): Govt fears recognising Palestine state will embolden Israel and Hamas for further conflict (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Govt will not yet recognise Palestine, Peters tells UN
RNZ: Palestinian statehood: ‘We came to the conclusion that this wasn’t the right time’ - Peters
Ed Scragg (Stuff): Foreign Minister Winston Peters reveals decision at UN not to recognise Palestinian statehood at this time
Thomas Manch (Post): New Zealand will not recognise Palestine - for now (paywalled)
RNZ: Three New Zealanders detained in US immigration detention
Dita De Boni (Sunday Star Times): Is NZ risking cocking-up its relationship with China? (paywalled)
Mary Argue (RNZ): NZ charity dodges drone swarms to deliver life-saving equipment in Ukraine
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Chris Knox (Herald): Multiple MPs to update their property declarations following Herald investigation and Carl Bates inquiry (paywalled)
Bridie Witton (Stuff): The one National MP who doesn’t own any property - and Parliament’s biggest landlord
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Voting enrolment cut-off an unwelcome and undemocratic blast from the past (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): An ‘election changing’ 55,000 votes could be barred under controversial new law (paywalled)
Editorial (Press/Post): Say no to less democracy (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon urged to ‘take much more care’ with comments after laying down expectations for Electoral Commission
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): ‘Slowest folk on the planet’: Luxon says he wants votes to be counted faster
Bridie Witton (Stuff): New election law could scrap 55,000 votes - and not even speed up counting
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Luxon’s struggles a sign of things to come for future PMs
NBR: Mood of the boardroom, troubling forecasts, new RBNZ governor (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Saving the rights of teenage workers, one petition at a time (paywalled)
ECONOMY
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Long-term problems, short-term coverage
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Treasury reminds voters: 40 years until fiscal ‘Armageddon’
Luke Malpass (Post): The Budget time bomb only the Treasury wants to talk about (paywalled)
Sam Stubbs (Sunday Star Times): How to save the economy (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Pension tension: the sacred cow eating the Budget (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Major parties not keen on idea of linking super payments to inflation, not wages (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): Around The Corner?
Liam Dann (Herald): New Zealand’s rickety two-speed economy needs to find a third gear (paywalled)
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): GDP slump exposes deeper cracks in economy and government response (paywalled)
Shane Te Pou (Herald): The economy is in bad shape, it’s time for Plan B (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Feeling wealthier? Here’s how much household net worth has lifted
Ben Thomas (Post): Government finally learning how not to drag the disappointment out (paywalled)
Andrew Gunn (Press/Post): The crystal-clear laser focus approach to fixing the economy
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Consumer confidence takes knock from shock GDP decline
RNZ: Consumer confidence remains weak - ANZ-Roy Morgan index
MOOD OF THE BOARDROOM, BUSINESS, MIGRANT WORKERS
Damien Grant (Stuff): Corporate New Zealand has written off this administration
Adam Pearse (Herald): How the Govt can prove it’s listening to the Mood of the Boardroom (paywalled)
Rachel Maher (Herald): Education Minister Erica Stanford fires back at team player critique after survey ranks her top
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): On the Money: Anna Breman, Adrian Orr, Nicola Willis, Kelly Eckhold, and more (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Game studios on target to be $1b industry as Government ups funding PW (paywalled)
1News: 59 roles under threat in Nelson as Sealord proposes more change
RNZ: Sealord’s latest proposed staff cuts another blow for Nelson, union says
RNZ: Sealord proposes more job cuts, making part of its Nelson operations seasonal
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Tokoroa plywood plant workers wait to hear if still have job
James Fleury (1News): Skilled migrants at risk as English test barrier threatens BoP business
Sonita Chandar (Post): Red meat sector welcomes new visas
HOUSING
Amelia Wade (Sunday Star Times): How Kiwis are being turned away from emergency housing (paywalled)
Katie Ham (Post): A tragedy, a sister’s vigil and the guilty verdict that followed (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Sunday Star Times): Firing squads, lethal injections: all the hyperbole from Auckland’s intensification vote (paywalled)
Gary Blick (Interest): Where Auckland wants to live. What land values tell us about demand for housing
Zane Small (Stuff): The ‘wealth effect’ and how it could bolster Luxon’s hope for economic recovery
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Land sale a ‘trampling’ of public’s expectations
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Julie Jacobson (Post): Rates rises ‒ rubbish deal or a necessary evil? (paywalled)
Andrea Vance and Charlie Mitchell (Post): Behind the boring promises: the protesters trying to reshape local democracy (paywalled)
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown talks to Simon Wilson: Grumpy no more? (paywalled)
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Auckland mayoral race attracts less than 10 percent of voters with two weeks left
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): We are never, ever, ever getting back together
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland Council: The things they’re saying on the campaign trail (paywalled)
Jesse Richardson (Post): Why land value rates are needed to help fix the city
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): The morning after the mayoral race (paywalled)
Post: Mayoral candidates on keeping or removing Wellington’s Māori ward (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Post): Campaign countdown: Rote craziness, cute dogs and a few beers (paywalled)
RNZ: Confidential Wellington council documents found by man in mayoral desk brought from dump
Deborah Morris (Post): Cricket great’s private papers left in dumped mayoral desk (paywalled)
Peter Newport (Crux): Lisa Guy’s undeclared conflict could derail QLDC $1 billion water CCO
Peter Newport (Crux): Lewers claims “misinformation”, Guy resorts to insults. Wong says Lewers is right.
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): Tauranga City Council sank $4.7m into scrapped pool plans
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Incidents of speeding work cars increase at Southland council
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘That building is a dog’: Masterton town hall debate gets feisty
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Hamilton hopes party will get people interested in voting
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): A tour of New Zealand via some of the best local election websites
JUSTICE, POLICE, CRIME
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith warns government prepared to remove tikanga Māori from court rulings
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Justice Minister looks to legislate ‘over top of’ tikanga and Treaty court decisions
1News: UN torture watchdog visiting New Zealand prisons
Katie Harris (Herald): Member of wealthy family convicted over child abuse images granted sentence reduction for donation, experts weigh in
ENERGY
RNZ: Majority back government intervention in power prices - poll
Andrea Vance (Post): Genesis boss pushes back on calls for electricity market shake-up (paywalled)
Gary Hamilton-Irvine (Hawkes Bay Today): Helios Energy’s $150 million solar farm approved for Hawke’s Bay (paywalled)
BANKS
Mandy Te (Interest): ‘Woke Banking’ Bill could have ‘unintended consequences’ for insurance customers
RNZ: Banking review: scams proving more expensive for victims
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Open banking regulations due October after frustrating process (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Drop in number of complaints made to Banking Ombudsman Scheme but wariness about scammers remains
EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Teaching Council investigated over management of procurement and conflicts of interest
RNZ: Hundreds of principals to boycott curriculum roadshows
Bevan Holloway: Sunday Read: Recapturing the Senior English Curriculum
John Gerritsen (RNZ): About $190m needed to restart polytechnics - consultants reports
Joseph Los’e (Herald): University of Auckland vice-chancellor Dawn Freshwater recommends controversial Waipapa Taumata Rau course be made optional
Emma Gleason (Spinoff): When was the most shit of all the shit times to be a uni student in New Zealand?