TE PĀTI MĀORI, TOITŪ TE TIRITI
1News: Te Pāti Māori MP speaks of ‘dysfunction’ after whip demotion
Denise Piper (Northern Advocate): Movement split from Te Pāti Māori creates political line between mother and son
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Hipkins still leaving door open to Te Pāti Māori, despite Toitū boycott
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour leader Chris Hipkins says Te Pāti Māori ‘a long way away’ from Government amid Toitū Te Tiriti split
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori emails to reassure members after ties cut with Toitū Te Tiriti
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): Toitū Te Tiriti cuts ties with Te Pāti Māori
1News: ‘Dictatorship model’ - Te Pāti Māori slammed by hīkoi leader
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Hīkoi Mō Te Tiriti leader calls out Te Pāti Māori ‘dictatorship model’
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Te Tiriti breaks with Te Pāti Māori as party rift widens
PARLIAMENT
Henry Cooke (Post): Majority of Government policy not going through proper process (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Luxon’s office admits leaking Hipkins letter to Herald
Audrey Young (Herald): Power games: Shane Jones’ silence on energy reforms speaks volumes (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Silence is golden (paywalled)
Stuff: Jacinda Ardern doco records strongest local debut in seven years
MANUREWA MARAE INVESTIGATION
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Police find ‘insufficient evidence’ to prove corruption at Manurewa Marae
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori News): Manurewa Marae avoids criminal probe after police find no proof of corruption
Andrea Vance (Post): ‘Insufficient’ evidence of corruption uncovered in Manurewa Marae probe (paywalled)
ENERGY
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Nearly $1 million budgeted for electricity market review, Simon Watts says ‘absolutely’ worth it (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Funding the freeriders: Public to pay for energy market failure
Tim Hunter (NBR) Govt kicks the energy can down the road (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Potential for energy reforms to lower prices is underestimated — minister (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Big new diesel power plant will help in energy crises, says Marsden Point chief
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Govt goes to market over LNG and leveraging demand (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE
Robert Patman (Newsroom): It will pay for NZ to be sceptical about Trump’s peace plan
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): New Zealand activists ‘kidnapped’ by Israel, so how will the government respond?
Adam Pearse (Herald): ‘Safety of New Zealanders is paramount’: Foreign Affairs Ministry responds as Kiwis aboard Gaza-bound flotilla intercepted by Israel
Stewart Sowman-Lund and Thomas Manch (Post): ‘Really proud’: Father of detained Kiwi teen not worried for his safety (paywalled)
Stuff: How Kiwi teen ended up in Israeli detention as part of Gaza flotilla protest
RNZ: Kiwi teen on board Gaza flotilla ship intercepted by Israeli forces
Alex Casey (Spinoff): New Zealanders ‘kidnapped’: Everything we know about the Global Sumud Flotilla attempting to reach Gaza
Thomas Manch (Post): NZ-India free trade negotiations cross halfway mark (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Kiwi businesses riding the Trump tariff train
Herald: NZDF confirms Military Police investigation at Burnham Military Camp
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, INEQUALITY
Matthew Hooton (Herald): NZ’s fiscal future may hinge on getting one million new immigrants by 2050 (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Some of the government’s earliest decisions are coming back to bite it
Samantha Hayes (Stuff): New Zealand’s ‘rock star economy’ is over - economist
RNZ: One third of Kiwi workers have more than one job, research finds
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Number of disabled people in financial hardship growing, data shows
Mildred Armah (Stuff): We asked what one thing would help you with the cost of living crisis. This is what you said
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How do our 1 percenters compare to the richest people in the rest of the world?
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): New Zealand’s debt, explained
Raphael Franks (Herald): House prices New Zealand: Economists say Official Cash Rate cuts needed to boost market
EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): 11,500 health workers locked in for mega strike, with more to follow
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): Mental health workers to join nationwide day of strikes
RNZ: Allied health workers vote to strike on same day as primary school teachers
RNZ: New Zealand mobile providers less transparent with customers, consumer watchdog says
NBR: Adrian Orr threats, Stubbs flubs, Wikeley overwhelmed, Being AI? (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
RNZ: More than twice the number of local election votes cast than this time in 2022
Neil Sands (Law News): Local government president urges voters to shift focus off rates caps and think about future infrastructure needs
Finn Blackwell and Lucy Xia (RNZ): ‘F*** off’, Auckland mayor Wayne Brown tells Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance
Simon Wilson (Herald): Mayor Wayne Brown to Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance: ‘F*** off’
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Wayne Brown’s response to the Taxpayers’ Union: an analysis
David Long (Stuff): Auckland Council sides with community groups against Ali Williams and Anna Mowbray helipad
Victor Waters (RNZ): Wayne Brown is urging Aucklanders to vote to ‘send Wellington a message’
Torika Tokalau (Local Democracy Reporting): Thousands of Auckland dog owners hit with fines
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Auckland’s animal justice mayoral hopeful no ‘one-trick pony’ (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Post): Israel-born election candidate dumped by ticket amid ‘security’ concerns (paywalled)
Peter McKinlay (Post): As local govt cost burden becomes unbearable, hard decisions loom (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Mayoral frontrunners: ‘Local democracy hangs on a photo and 150-word blurb’
David Farrar: Spending referenda are the way to go
RNZ: Rolleston 1080 bait factory sold at a loss
WATER
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Wellington Water tender exposes ‘unsustainable’ deficiencies
Neil Mallon (Post): Facing the flood of water complaints coming down the pipeline (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Post): Fewer leaks, more capacity, but Wellington residents asked to hold off hosing (paywalled)
RNZ: Havelock boil water notice lifted
BANKS, FINANCE, INSURANCE
Martien Lubberink: Size matters: How the RBNZ and Oliver Wyman use an old trick to make us believe that our banks are overcapitalised
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): RBNZ resists capital settings-research criticisms (paywalled)
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Smaller lenders interested, cautious as dawn of Open Banking nears: poll (paywalled)
CROWN-MĀORI RELATIONS, TINO RANGATIRATANGA
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Govt doubled down on limiting Māori coastline rights despite advice
Eric Crampton (Herald): The wisdom of starting small (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Real estate deals shouldn’t be race-based
HEALTH
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Documents reveal bullying at Dunedin Hospital, staff ‘live in fear’ at Southland
RNZ: Should New Zealand ban deals on junk food?
RNZ: Australia funding more medicines faster than Aotearoa, report finds
Marty Sharpe (Stuff) ‘Finally vindicated’: Community wins 10-year fight to close bottle store
INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT
Matt Lowrie (Greater Auckland): The secrecy of mega-projects
Thomas Manch (Post): Major Australian firm sees ‘strong’ public-private partnership opportunity in NZ (paywalled)
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Uncertain funding, politics hindering infrastructure and building development - report
NBR: Transporting NZ says freight plan doesn’t go far enough (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Industry backs government freight strategy moves (paywalled)
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Totara rail bridge closure cuts Ross off from West Coast Wilderness Trail for another summer
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): KiwiRail reduces losses to $422 million (paywalled)
RNZ: Relief in Chathams as new supply vessel commissioned
EARTHQUAKE REFORMS
Peter Dunne: Fingers Crossed For New Earthquake Rules
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Local elections: City leaders promise 15 year respite on quake-prone buildings
EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Tech teachers worry education reforms will harm NZ’s ‘world-leading’ curriculum
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Hospitality sector fears NCEA overhaul will worsen staff shortages
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): What are the lessons from Auckland University’s backtrack? (paywalled)
MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA
Catrin Owen (Stuff): TVNZ reporter stands by Talley’s stories amid defamation claims
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): A journalistic investigation, investigated
Eric Crampton: Gating speech
POLICE, CRIME, JUSTICE
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Prison violence, overcrowding and inmate numbers reach unprecedented levels (paywalled)
Aaron Smale (Listener): Not a patch on paedophiles (paywalled)
Ali Cook (Stuff): They told me my case wasn’t serious enough. But it destroyed me
Maggy Tai Rākena (Press/Post): Sexual violence support needs saving, but risks being buried
IMMIGRATION, HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Liu Chen (RNZ): Immigration New Zealand rapped over knuckles for ‘inappropriate’ internal guideline
Margot Staunton (RNZ): NZ and Pacific nations failing to tackle human trafficking - US report
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): INZ investigators want anti-trafficking unit to address ‘ad hoc’ responses
OTHER
Jo Cribb (Newsroom): Crackdown on rough sleepers ignores homeless kids
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Loafers Lodge firefighter refuses award calling it ‘premature and inappropriate’
ODT Editorial: Privacy matters
David Harvey (Listener): Law & Society: Why grey literature demands scepticism (paywalled)
Miriama Kamo & Mark Crysell (Herald): Golriz Ghahraman and Wellington mayor Tory Whanau discuss their public humiliation on The Elephant
David Farrar: Taxpayer funded redemption
Veronika Meduna (Listener): Slash & burn: How Trump’s health and science cuts are hitting home in NZ (paywalled)
George Driver (Listener): What tourist levies are really being spent on (paywalled)