PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE, ELECTORAL REFORM
RNZ: Christopher Luxon defends voting changes after Judith Collins raises problems
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Govt to increase Crown body board members’ fee ranges by up to 80% (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Senior lawyer calls for investigation into MBIE's 'poor advice' on banking law (paywalled)
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): The ‘war’ on NZ values
Chris Trotter: Collision Course
Herald: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon booed at ANZ Premiership netball final
RNZ: Watch: Christopher Luxon booed at netball premiership finals
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Watch: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon booed by netball fans during trophy presentation
Luke Malpass (Post): Jacinda Ardern’s Covid-era leadership remains popular (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Green MP Tamatha Paul on trying to navigate a fine line (paywalled)
HEALTH
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): A tobacco product tax cut slated for one year has been extended by two
Jessica Roden (1News): 'You've had long enough': Cataract surgery still not equally accessible
Denise Piper (Northern Advocate): Health NZ apologises: Whangārei Hospital patient starved 16 hours a day for six days waiting for surgery
Jessica Roden (1News): Health NZ's South Island boss to step down
RNZ: Over 36,000 nurses, midwives to strike for 24 hours on Wednesday
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Clinical director supports law change calls after two-month-old dies
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Whakatāne rest home failed to care for resident with dignity and respect, report shows
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, BUTTER
RNZ: Government's cost of living speech 'more spin than a front load washing machine' - Labour
Herald: 'More spin than a front load washing machine': Hipkins blasts Willis for 10-minute cost of living 'sermon'
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Cost of living: 'NZ is back on course,' says government
Julia Gabel (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says Government must ‘double down’ on economic plan
Kelly Dennett and Anna Whyte (Post): Prime Minister says Govt is ‘listening to’ Kiwis on cost of living (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): One year, 27,850 jobs gone Stats NZ latest data shows
Tom Hunt (Post): ‘Incredibly tough’: Nearly 6000 jobs lost in capital over past year (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): High butter prices is actually a good thing for New Zealand, economists say
Hanna McCallum (Post): From Covid to cost of living: Food support demand hits new highs (paywalled)
CARD SURCHARGES
RNZ: Businesses should pass Paywave costs on through prices, Nicola Willis says
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Ban on card payment surcharges: Cafe owner says they'll have to pass on cost
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Surcharges at the till gone by May - but will you pay more? (paywalled)
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Surcharges on in-store payments, including PayWave, to be banned
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Surcharge sticker shock to end as government bans most fees at the till
Jenée Tibshraeny & Tom Raynel (Herald): Government to ban card payment surcharges, businesses to pick up the tab
1News: Govt proposes ban on in-store payment surcharges
Glenn McConnell and Bridie Witton (Stuff): Surcharges on in-store payments to be banned
EMPLOYMENT, HEALTH AND SAFETY
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): ‘What exactly are you announcing?’ Minister is asked at press conference where she said there would be an announcement
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Government proposes scaffolding rules change to align with risk level
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Scaffolding rules set for overhaul under health and safety reforms (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Govt to ease building and construction H&S rules (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Govt to clarify whether farm kids are safe collecting eggs and watering plants
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Farmers to help shape new regulations on quad bike use (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Tiny number of new pay equity claims expected – but first is ‘very close’ (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Pay equity changes ‘demoralising’, says Global Women (paywalled)
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Serious misconduct no slam dunk for employers, lawyer warns (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Gareth Hughes (Post): Wellbeing is at the heart of what local govt does, law change or not (paywalled)
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Crippling’ water bills likely outcome without Government support
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington City Councillors more complained about than elected officials in other main centres
Nick James (RNZ): Wellington water loss drops but warning investment in new pipes needed
Hanna McCallum (Post): Water leak repairs cuts daily water loss by 11 million litres (paywalled)
Dave Armstrong (Post): Rating change could give city a boost (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Windbag: Why the Taxpayers’ Union endorsed this Green Party policy
Ruby Shaw (ODT): MP ‘ill-informed’ on seesaw (paywalled)
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): Tauranga CBD fringe parking fees spark resident backlash
David Long (Stuff): ‘It’s going to destroy the whole area’: Locals upset as Hindu temple gets resource consent
EDUCATION
ODT Editorial: Med School business case unconvincing (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): ‘Flaws’ in Waikato med school business case
Giles Dexter (RNZ): New medical school at University of Waikato boasts better cost-benefit ratio, case shows
Ben Woodgates: Training doctors but undermining trust
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Fears grow for NorthTec as more cuts loom amid break-up of Te Pūkenga
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Government says university reform process on track (paywalled)
Hanna McCallum (Post): Vic Uni surplus climbs as enrolments rise (paywalled)
HOUSING
Natasha Gordon (Herald): Sharp rise in homelessness prompts Salvation Army call for action
RNZ: More Pasifika households denied emergency housing - report
Amy Williams (RNZ): More women living without shelter in Aotearoa
Amelia Wade (Post): Auckland’s homelessness has almost doubled, says council report (paywalled)
Amy Williams (RNZ): Auckland woman horrified council tried to take rough sleepers' tents, sleeping bags
Lizzie Strickett (E-Tangata): Is a blanket enough?
Laine Priestley (ODT): More being priced out of Dunedin rental homes: charity
Harriet Laughton (Post): Demolition set for summer for derelict Gordon Wilson Flats (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Westpac cuts house price forecast
CLIMATE CHANGE, NATURAL DISASTERS
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): New Zealand at 'significant risk' of missing 2050 climate target, government making it worse
Teall Crossen & Bjørn-Oliver Magsig (Post): If we want a rules-based order, we have to play by the rules (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): The carbon market is on course to collapse in the 2030s
Rod Carr (Sunday Star Times): Farmers should be careful what they wish for (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): NZ is off track on emissions targets: Climate Change Commission (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Climate Change: The inevitable consequences
Sharon Davis and Ellen Curnow (Westport News): Climate Liberation Aotearoa protesters target Stockton Mine
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): What Canterbury can teach the rest of the country about insurance stress
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE, SPY AGENCIES
Robert Patman (Newsroom): Why NZ must resist the trashing of international law
RNZ: NZDF combat-ready soliders deployed to South Korea to work with local and US army
Thomas Manch (Post): Govt yet to respond to intelligence law review, two years on (paywalled)
Cole Martin (Spinoff): New Zealand must move beyond empty statements on Gaza
Thomas Manch (Post): India free trade deal by year's end 'aspirational', Todd McClay says (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Never mind the tariffs, NZ must prepare for the Chinese consumer rebound (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Sunday Star Times): A year on, EU trade deal delivers billion-dollar boost for NZ (paywalled)
Louis Collins (RNZ): European Union parliamentarians in antipodes
Thomas Manch (Post): Trial of soldier charged with espionage to begin next month (paywalled)
RNZ: No penalty clauses paid on stalled Waiouru army base housing project
CROWN-MĀORI RELATIONS
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Govt finalises 23 laws in scope of Treaty clause review
Claire Charters (Post): David Seymour’s UN letter: arrogance, ignorance and hypocrisy (paywalled)
Susan Botting (Local Democracy Reporting): Bay of Islands hapū achieve Ngāpuhi-first Treaty of Waitangi milestone
PASSPORT CHANGES
Ian Taylor (Stuff): Winston, let’s talk passports and getting the focus back to what matters
RNZ: Te Pāti Māori, Greens outraged at 'marginalising' passport changes
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): English to appear above te reo Māori in New Zealand passport redesign
Emma Stanford (Stuff): The small change confirmed for the New Zealand passport
JUSTICE
Andrea Vance (Post): High-powered panel appointed to investigate Judge Ema Aitken (paywalled)
Katie Todd (RNZ): At-risk Invercargill prisoners still being placed in dry cells, despite warnings
Jordan Dunn (Newstalk ZB): Gangs: Prison segregation requests soar amid rising gang tensions
ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Charlie Mitchell (Press/Post): No coherent strategy behind freshwater ‘tinkering’, watchdog says (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Ministers seeking advice on fate of endangered penguin
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Department of Conservation backtracks after decision that could have cost 700 jobs at Otago mine (paywalled)
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Holes in wall designed to keep polluted water out of Lake Rotoiti alarm locals