Z ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): Z Energy’s greenwashing saga and what it says about corporate power
Bill Hickman and Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Z Energy apologises for 2022 ad campaign after legal action
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Settlement gets Z Energy out of court – not ‘out of the petrol business’
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Z Energy apologises over ‘getting out of petrol’ ad as fossil fuel greenwashing faces global reckoning (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Z Energy settles ‘greenwashing’ case without admitting liability (paywalled)
Mary Williams (ODT): Nitrate risks just below the surface (paywalled)
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Landmark Māori freshwater rights case in court this week
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): NZ Green Investment Fund unravels after SolarZero collapse (paywalled)
Rochelle Constantine (Newsroom): Can new Hauraki protections bridge the promise vs action gulf?
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): The tricky trade-offs in making room for rivers in the city
Victor Walters (RNZ): Conservationist Brad Windust slams Biosecurity NZ over hornet response
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Labour fires first salvo in battle for swing voters (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Labour’s capital gains tax ‘valuation day’ details not to be revealed until after election
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): The politics of whose capital gains get taxed (paywalled)
1News: Q+A: Labour has ‘listened and learned’ since 2023 defeat - Hipkins
1News: Q+A: Minister admits comments on state care abuse stats may have misled public
Ryan Ward: It doesn’t matter if free market liberals believe what they are saying
Donna Miles (Press): The politicians pushing back against corporate capture (paywalled)
André Chumko (Post): Extent of backlash over cuts to ministry history teams revealed (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): PSA launches legal action over ACC working from home rules (paywalled)
Herald: ACC restriction on working from home prompts legal action by union
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, TAX
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Beneficiaries, pensioners don’t have enough money for basics - report
Amy Williams (RNZ): Very few beneficiaries offered new non-financial sanctions, thousands have benefit cut
Cameron Smith (Herald): Fraud and double-dipping as KiwiSaver hardship withdrawals spike (paywalled)
RNZ: Pessimists outnumber optimists in latest consumer confidence survey
Liam Dann (Herald): Unemployment preview: New stats to reveal job market is still weak (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Unemployment may peak at 5.3%, but the recovery could drag (paywalled)
Graham Skellern (BusinessDesk): Unemployment expected to edge up to 5.3% in 3Q as labour market steadies (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): The economy should emerge leaner and meaner after long downturn (paywalled)
RNZ: Global shocks make setting monetary policy harder than ever: Economist
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Should parents get to share their tax bills?
Mildred Armah (Stuff): ‘Not blind enough, not poor enough’: Vision loss left her jobless and desperate
Brian Easton (Pundit): The Next Crash
Harriet Laughton (Post): Inland Revenue is using AI to chase millions in debt (paywalled)
Damien Venuto (Stuff): He’s approaching 75 and still worries he doesn’t have enough to retire. Can he make the money last?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE
Gordon Campbell: On Our Looming Spending Spree On Japanese Frigates
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Beyond Trump: Luxon’s quiet wins in Southeast Asia
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Luxon seeks helping hands to navigate choppy seas
Henry Cooke (Post): Christopher Luxon’s big week of building Plan Bs (paywalled)
Zane Small (Stuff): PM’s Asia trip: A business leader’s observation of what Luxon’s ‘so great at’
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): ‘Over their bollocks excuses, my time’s running out’: Dying Kiwi begs Luxon for help from Bali jail cell
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Grant Miller (ODT): Dunedin City Council restructure: Complaint filer made redundant (paywalled)
Nick James, (RNZ): Sold-off Wellington town hall furniture still had value - restorer
Blayne Slabbert (Press): Where ChristchurchNZ’s $19m budget went (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Post): A (rates owing) tale of two cities (paywalled)
INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): KiwiSaver provider Simplicity to invest in infrastructure, vows to buy NZ assets
Miriam Bell (Post): Is Simplicity’s new company the answer to NZ’s infrastructure problem?
Anne Gibson (Herald): Simplicity launches InfraKiwi infrastructure company, aiming for NZX listing (paywalled)
Garth Bray (BusinessDesK): ‘A pure NZ Inc play’: Simplicity’s InfraKiwi eyes power lines, ports, better returns than bonds
Tim Hunter (NBR): Simplicity touts KiwiSaver-backed listed infrastructure fund (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Investor survey shows sign of positivity, concern at policy stability (paywalled)
Connor Sharp (Herald): This Government’s legacy for transport in Auckland (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Years of Transmission Gully fix-ups needed as $32m summer rebuild starts (paywalled)
Roeland van den Bergh (Sunday Star Times): From Telecom to tarmac to top tier: Nikhil Ravishankar’s unique path to Air NZ CEO (paywalled)
ENERGY
Rob Heyes (Interest): How New Zealand powers itself
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Lake Onslow backers step into the light as Meridian blows dust off old ideas for extra hydro (paywalled)
Tim Hunter (NBR): Onslow, still the next big thing (paywalled)
RNZ: Genesis Energy announces plans for $487 million Waikato solar farm
Alice Peacock (RNZ): Commerce Commission investigating SolarZero for abandoning customers
Herald: Environment Court ruling clears way for Greytown solar farm powering 41,000 homes
HEALTH
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): ‘Rapid-build’ new wards need safe staffing - doctors
1News: Government announces ‘rapid build’ hospital wards in five regions
RNZ: Government announces 140 new hospital beds to boost capacity
Thomas Manch (Stuff): 140 new hospital beds coming in ‘rapid-build’ wards
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): ‘Very stressful’: Upper Hutt residents fight for access to health services as OIA reveal it’s an outlier
Herald Editorial: NZ in ‘extremely precarious position’ as measles cases climb (paywalled)
Mountain Tui: From Tend Health to Aratataki - A Fully Registered “Charity”
Thomas Manch (Post): NZ’s first depression recovery centre at risk of closing for lack of funding (paywalled)
Mariné Lourens (Press): Repairs at Burwood Hospital to start 15 years after earthquakes (paywalled)
EDUCATION
ODT Editorial: Draft curriculum controversy (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): School curriculum ‘will perpetuate racism and ongoing inequity in our schools’
Jaime Cunningham (Newstalk ZB): Christchurch principal says Ministry of Education threatened to withhold classrooms
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Emma Dunlop-Bennett: Investing in others
MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS
Mark Feary (E-Tangata): Why the system will never truly serve us
Julia Gabel (Herald): Foreshore and seabed: South Island group sent back to court after customary rights win
HOUSING, BUILDING
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland Council prohibits high-density housing in several flood-risk suburbs
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Inside the Canadian apartments redefining indigenous housing
Amy Ridout (Stuff): ‘Bugger off’: Coastal town fights back against ‘high intensity’ developers
POLICE, CRIME, JUSTICE
Mei Heron (1News): Long delays on mental health reports for court cases
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): ‘There was no pressure’: Police rule out reviewing breath-test targets after 30,000 tests falsified
Kingi Snelgar (E-Tangata): My season of renewal
ANIMAL WELFARE
Ben Tomsett (Herald): SAFE calls on Greyhound Racing NZ to halt races after Invercargill fatalities
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times/Press): Greyhound deaths at Invercargill track upsetting but rare, says industry boss (paywalled)
Sandra Kyle (Post): Excuses no longer wash - it’s time to ban horse racing (paywalled)
OTHER
Lisa Meehan and Gail Pacheco (Spinoff): New Zealand’s low birth rate isn’t just about maths – it’s about fairness
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Chinese tourists now able to visit NZ via Australia, visa-free
Herald: Visa-free travel to NZ opened up for Chinese tourists travelling via Australia
Audrey Young (Herald): Tāme Iti reflects on art, activism and regret in his new biography, Mana (paywalled)
Eugene Bingham (E-Tangata): Tāme Iti: The face of resistance and resurgence
Amy Ridout (Stuff): Online hate and gendered abuse: The high cost of leadership for young women