AMAZON ANNOUNCEMENT
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): The claims and counter-claims of Amazon’s non-announcement, announcement
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Amazon’s $7.5b New Zealand investment: What’s real and what’s not
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): A list of other things from 2021 that Christopher Luxon could reannounce
Poppy Clark and Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Luxon trumpets Amazon’s $7.5b, 100-job investment in NZ. Labour ‘embarrassed’ for him
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Christopher Luxon hypes Amazon data centre opening
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Luxon hypes AWS opening as critics call investment old news
Chris Keall (Herald): Amazon construction freeze? PM Christopher Luxon at tech giant’s launch but massive Auckland site abandoned – Tech Insider (paywalled)
Juha Saarinen (Interest): AWS NZ cloud computing region launch turns into political football
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): A year late, but the Amazon Web Services New Zealand region $7.5b investment is here
Dita De Boni (Post): Amazon repackages the old and the unknown into a golden future for NZ
Post: Amazon re-announces $7.5 billion data centre investment in NZ (paywalled)
FOREIGN BUYERS, INVESTMENT
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Foreign buyers ban: Public unlikely to get formal say on Government allowing overseas purchasers into NZ property market
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Winston Peters defends foreign investor compromise: 'Very, very, very minor'
Poppy Clark (Stuff): Peters says foreign buyers ban eased because country not ‘attractive enough’
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): What did it cost to get the foreign buyers clarification?
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Foreigners buying homes - we got there at last
Bryan Bruce: Who Owns New Zealand Now?
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Foreign buyers are being welcomed back, and they have Winston Peters to thank
Brianna McIlraith (BusinessDesk): Will New Zealand’s luxury real estate rise in price thanks to the ‘golden visa’? (paywalled)
Iain McLeod (Post): Investor change far more positive than negative (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Roy Morgan: In August, support for Labour surges to highest since the 2023 New Zealand Election
Azaria Howell (Newstalk ZB): Revealed: What ministry staff were told about proposed triple-merger of Ministry for the Environment, Transport and Housing and Urban Development
Laura Walters (Newsroom): If the political knives come out pre-election, who would be first to go?
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Peeni Henare keeps being asked if he's considering a Labour leadership bid - is he?
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Seymour's latest Pharmac challenge, CE danger money and more (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Stuff): Who showed Christopher Luxon’s TikTok to Travis Kelce? A Spinoff investigation
Herald Editorial: Taylor Swift engagement move: Christopher Luxon shows a bit of unexpected style (paywalled)
Stuff: Travis Kelce responds to Luxon’s Kiwi wedding and honeymoon invite
CLIMATE CHANGE
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): ACT wants out of Paris Agreement, National says no
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Au revoir Paris Climate Agreement, threatens ACT
Adam Pearse (Herald): Act calls for NZ to leave Paris climate agreement without ‘realistic targets’
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Act suggests ‘fundamental reform’ of Paris Agreement (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interst): Act Party climate policy would ‘punish farmers’, Prime Minister says
Richard Harman: Seymour’s cunning climate plan
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): We need to think critically about the future of the Paris Agreement
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Investors talk big game on climate but still slow to flash the cash
RESERVE BANK
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Nicola Willis denies Reserve Bank cover-up; insists she pushed for transparency (paywalled)
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Why National can't afford true RBNZ independence
RNZ: Hipkins accuses Willis of letting RBNZ chair 'mislead' public over governor's resignation
1News: Finance Minister 'donkey deep' in Reserve Bank turmoil - Hipkins
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Thomas Manch (Post): Deadline for council water plans arrives, now the scrutiny begins (paywalled)
Madeleine Powers (Waikato Times): Council says ‘complex’, experts say ‘cost-cutting’ (paywalled)
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Our water infrastructure simply isn't getting better
Tom Hunt (Post): Cayman Islands-linked contractors spark call to bring Wellington council services in-house (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Little tops first poll in Wellington mayoral race (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): ‘They’ll financially ruin us’: Council refuses to pay for $600k landslip repairs (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): Why Wellington’s ‘government town’ rhetoric is failing the city (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington council candidate billboard attacked with racist messages (paywalled)
Catherine Hutton (Open Justice Reporting): City to Sea bridge demolition could be imminent after judicial review dismissed
Michael Daly (Stuff): Contracts in place for demolition of iconic Wellington bridge
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Mayoral campaign billboards start to appear in Auckland
Simon Wilson (Herald): Maurice Williamson: Local hero in Howick (paywalled)
Fin Ocheduszko Brown (Whanganui Chronicle): Rangitīkei District Council to apply for exemption to Government’s plan-change halt
ODT Editorial: Time to turn the temperature down (paywalled)
RNZ: Youth say councils need to do more to reach young voters
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Who isn't talking to who at Christchurch City Council?
Samantha Gee (RNZ): Mayor wavers over funding for Nelson Provincial Museum's new storage facility
ALCOHOL REGULATION, EVENTS
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): 'You would have loved Silas' - parents' plea to minister after teenage son's drink-driving death
David Farrar: Sounds very reasonable to me
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Coalition eases regulation for events organisers
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): What’s the deal with liquor licensing trusts?
HOUSING
Nick James (RNZ): Pinch Point: Working poor forced to live in cars
RNZ: Auckland Council calls for government to help crack down on illegal boarding houses
Bernard Orsman & Chris Knox (Herald): Auckland’s skyline transforms with new housing intensification plan – see what it means for you (paywalled)
Julie Stout (Herald): Let’s build a great Auckland to live in (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, SUPERMARKETS
Gordon Campbell: On Why The Government Isn’t Fixing The Cost Of Living Crisis
Amy Ridout (Stuff): The grocery gap: This is how much more Kiwis pay for food
Elliot Crossan (Spinoff): Is it time for New Zealand to have publicly owned supermarkets?
Rob Stock (Post): Supermarkets’ complaint black box to be opened ... next year
Jacqueline Rowarth (Herald): Cost of living ‘crisis’: Why Kiwi expectations may be the problem
Liam Dann (Herald): Banks didn’t pass on the full Official Cash Rate cut ... is that fair? (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington Chamber of Commerce pitches plan to fix capital’s economic woes (paywalled)
Bernard Lagan (Listener): Can anything stop the tidal wave of Kiwis heading for Australia? (paywalled)
HEALTH
Felix Walton (RNZ): Health Minister leaves message for nurses striking outside office
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Nurses accuse Health Minister Simeon Brown of wages ‘disinformation’ amid strikes
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Conditions ‘often unbearable’ (paywalled)
David Fisher (Herald): Revealed: The secret NZ Rugby report Māori All Black Shane Christie wanted released (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Court of Appeal quashes challenge to Woolworths pharmacy contracts (paywalled)
JUSTICE, CORRECTIONS
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Tool to decide whether prisoners suitable to share cell under review
Blayne Slabbert (Press/Post): Jobs, contracts and double-bunking: Inside the $800m prison rebuild (paywalled)
Kathy Spencer (Post): More must be done to prevent miscarriages of justice (paywalled)
Anna Leask (Herald): Mama Hooch rapists’ legal aid tops $1 million, could rise further
1News: Advocates say impending stalking laws should be strengthened further
Benn Bathgate (Waikato Times): Justice Minister hits back at patch law critics, says new laws ‘highly effective’
Mike White (Post): New DNA testing cost at least $55k in Marlborough Sounds murder case (paywalled)
ENERGY
RNZ: West Coast hydro scheme plan submitted under fast-track legislation
Blayne Slabbert (Press): South Island now importing power after back-to-back dry winters (paywalled)
RNZ: Gas used by Methanex needs to be redistributed, says building industry
Julien Leys (Post): NZ should reallocate gas from Methanex to keep our manufacturing base alive (paywalled)
EMPLOYMENT, WORKPLACE SAFETY, MIGRANT WORKERS
Adam Pearse (Herald): PM asked Attorney-General to warn Cabinet after Brooke van Velden’s controversial ERA comments
Raphael Franks (Herald): KiwiSaver employer contributions for over-65s: Finance Minister rejects calls to mandate matching
Melissa Nightingale & Ethan Manera (Herald): Asbestos found in fire doors prompts probes by WorkSafe, MBIE
Monique Steele (RNZ): Accommodation for RSE workers a 'critical constraint' to scheme, says Fiji government official
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): ‘Let’s forget it, sir’: How a collapsed NZ company became embroiled in a scam
TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Megan Wilson (Bay of Plenty Times): Government to act after fast-track Port of Tauranga Stella Passage expansion halted by judicial review
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Ageing bridges must be replaced to withstand next big cyclone
Rob Stock (Post): Jetstar feels ‘sting’ of rising Fair Trading Act fines (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): PPP ’not working’ as advertised, global investment firm says (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Building cheaper, faster, better (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Erica Stanford (Post): Why we need to replace NCEA (paywalled)
Janhavi Gosavi (Re: News): How NCEA can be 'gamed', according to school students
Melissa Chan-Green & Paddy Gower (Stuff): Education Minister reveals shock school funding announcement