PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Andrea Vance (Post): Beehive staffers exit for lobbying jobs (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): National MPs on how Kiwis will react to board members’ pay hike, cost-of-living struggles
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Cabinet Ministers defend hiking board fees for Crown bodies
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): 80% pay rise for Crown board members ‘out of touch’ with most who are doing it tough
No Right Turn: Feathering their cronies’ nests
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Lawyer calls for investigation into MBIE officials over banking class action
Herald Editorial: What the Government’s passport decision says about priorities (paywalled)
Sam Smith (Stuff): Prominent historian accuses Government of ‘war on history’ amid cuts at ministry
Chris Eichbaum and Owen Harvey (Newsroom): It’s time for Abundance: ideas for ‘fighting forward’, while fighting back
ELECTORAL REFORM
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Voting reforms a 'backward step' - Human Rights Commissioner
Gordon Campbell: On National’s Bid To Steal Future Elections
Nik Dirga (RNZ): Voting reforms, prisoner bans and enrolment changes - What you need to know about the Electoral Amendment Bill
Davina Zimmer (RNZ): The Detail: When it's worth waiting for democracy
RNZ: Electoral Amendment Bill passes its first reading in Parliament
REPEAL OF OIL AND GAS BAN, FAST TRACK, ENVIRONMENT
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Last-minute change puts oil and gas cleanup decisions in ministers' hands
RNZ: 'Way too much flip flopping' on resource management law - Labour
Sharon Davis (Westport News): Climate Liberation Aotearoa protesters hunker down in aerial coal bucket in the rain
Sharon Davis and Ellen Curnow (Westport News): Climate Liberation Aotearoa protesters target Stockton Mine
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government eyes more spending cuts as patience with economic strategy frays
Anna Whyte (Post): ‘Let's see if we can't save more next year’: Govt eyes next Budget savings (paywalled)
Keith Rankin (Evening Report): How did New Zealand compare in the first half of the 2020s?
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Butter prices are just a symptom of everything being completely rooted
Rob Stock (Post): Kiwibank survey shows nearly half of all Kiwis raided long-term savings to survive (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Savings momentum building - but who's struggling?
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Big business coping better than small in current economy
Mike Jones: NZ’s wobbly economy steadying?
CARD SURCHARGES
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Why banning surcharges may hike prices for all
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Should Eftpos and cash-users get a discount?
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Ban ignores the surcharging elephants in the online retail space
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Why the tax for a tap? Retail surcharges explained
Peter Griffin (BusinessDesk): The surcharge ban looks like a consumer win. But is it? (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Retailers should be optimistic about open banking: Minister (paywalled)
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Health and safety reforms deserve the early airing (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Minister Brooke van Velden claims some farmers fear kids collecting eggs is illegal
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Labour questions need for government consultation over what chores farm children can do
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Govt to regulate farm kids collecting eggs and watering plants?
RNZ: Chores young people can do on a farm changing
RNZ: Current health and safety rules are unworkable, manufacturers say
HOUSING
RNZ: One in every 1000 New Zealanders without shelter - Salvation Army
RNZ: Homeless situation in Auckland now at 'crisis' point - council committee
Amelia Wade (Post): ‘Change those policies’: Missioner warns homelessness will keep rising (paywalled)
Mildred Armah (Stuff): Four-year wait almost over for father, son stuck in emergency housing
Rachel Maher (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon hints at new rules for foreign home buyers amid immigration concerns
RNZ: Home affordability and rent levels improving - Massey University
1News: Record switching mortgage lenders as loan terms shorten
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Bank-hopping among mortgage holders hits record high as loan terms remain short
Tom Hunt (Post): 37 days to save her home: A mother’s fight against mortgagee sale (paywalled)
Tracey Roxburgh (ODT): Urban planning gives town ‘deferential’ treatment
Tracey Roxburgh (ODT): Arrowtown may get height reprieve (paywalled)
HEALTH
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Health NZ preparing to send gynaecological cancer patients to Australia, citing specialist shortage (paywalled)
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Dargaville Hospital loses its only full-time doctor
Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): Seclusion is still happening in mental health care. This is what it’s like for patients and their families
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Nurses say strike isn't just about the money, also a call for safe staffing levels
RNZ: What you need to know about Wednesday's nurses strike
Sam Smith (Stuff): Over 30,000 nurses are striking today: Here’s what you need to know
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Pharmacist says sector is under 'immense pressure', warns of further 'terrible incidents'
Frederick Sundram and Amy Chan (Newsroom): What pharmacists can do to help our mental health crisis
Maddy Croad (Press/Post): The Dementia Crisis: What it’s like to get dementia in your 50s (paywalled)
RNZ: More support needed for rural Māori looking after whānau with dementia, researchers say
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): How New Zealand has responded to the Israel-Gaza War
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Kiwi charity struggles to maintain aid deliveries in Gaza as funding, food and water dry up
Michael Koziol (Sydney Morning Herald): ‘Trends are worrying’: Incoming US naval boss sounds AUKUS warning
RNZ: Solomon Islands PM Manele visiting New Zealand this week
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Simon Wilson (Herald): Barbarians at the gate: Now the Government is attacking architects (paywalled)
Gary Taylor and Greg Severinsen (Herald): Why cancelling regional councils would be a very bad idea (paywalled)
David Long (Stuff): How to make Auckland great again: Facing the city’s growing pains
Todd Niall (Newsroom): Top adviser to leave Wayne Brown’s office after undeclared liquidation
Torika Tokalau (Local Democracy Reporting): The Auckland elections you probably don’t know about
Gwynn Compton (Local Aotearoa): Wellington City Council isn't to blame for the city's economic malaise
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Crippling’ bills likely in South Wairarapa with water reform
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua Council maintains pokie rules but warns of wider gambling issue
Craig Ashworth (RNZ): ‘Keep our Māori wards’ campaign kicks off with security caution
Ethan Manera (Herald): Controversial Wellington mayoral candidate Graham Bloxham quits race
RNZ: Graham Bloxham drops out of Wellington mayoral race
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Time is running out: Carterton yet to have enough candidates to fill council seats
Kira Carrington (Local Democracy Reporting): We have an election ‒ in the Blenheim ward, at least
ENERGY
Raphael Franks (Herald): Top power company moves to stop disconnecting customers in hardship - Power to the People, part 3
Raphael Franks (Herald): Could you get a cheaper plan for electricity? Most companies won’t tell - Power to the People, part 2
Hamish MacLean (ODT): Warning Aurora power bills may rise $10
RETIREMENT, KIWISAVER
Liam Dann (Herald): KiwiSaver hardship reveals hidden cost of this economic downturn (paywalled)
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Govt KiwiSaver cut ‘final nail in the coffin’ for self-employed
Anne Gibson (Herald): Retirement village disputes: Scheme proposed to cut role of lawyers
Herald Editorial: Retirees lean on children for financial support on top of superannuation (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Russell Palmer (RNZ): More than 700 Ministry of Education staff to test new partial strike pay-docking laws
RNZ: Dropping NCEA level 1 'overwhelmingly positive' so far - principal
Robbie Nicol (Spinoff): ‘So many issues’ but ‘alright, I guess’: What students actually think of NCEA
Ava Whitworth (Stuff): Craned in and class ready: Are these classrooms the future for education in Aotearoa?
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Anger over axing of scholarships (paywalled)
BUSINESS
Luke Malpass (Sunday Star Times): Where will Willis end up on supermarkets reform? (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): When big companies face criminal charges, what does it actually mean?
RNZ: Commerce Commission raises issues with Viridian Metro Performance Glass merger
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Takeover bid for Metroglass comes under competition watchdog gaze (paywalled)
Greg Ninness (Interest): The number of building consents issued for residential building alterations has declined by 20% over the last three years
Miriam Bell (Post): Greenlighting more products ‘won’t make a difference’ to plasterboard market (paywalled)
INFRASTRUCTURE
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Labour clubs Govt performance, ministers trump it with spades
Brent Melville (NBR): ‘Range anxiety’: powering the public charging network (paywalled)
Kaitlyn Morrell (Bay of Plenty Times/Herald): Civil contracting future ‘bright’, PM Christopher Luxon tells Tauranga conference (paywalled)
MEDIA, ONLINE HARM
Gavin Ellis: TVNZ’s digital war calls for urgent reinforcements
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Online harm law is gameable and needs reform, ex-head says
Andrew Cushen (Post): The little-known tool to help hold social media giants to account (paywalled)
Michael Daly (Stuff): Wealthy Wright family ends operational funding for Sean Plunket’s The Platform
Shayne Currie (Herald): Sean Plunket’s The Platform – Wright Family Trust ends start-up funding, multi-millionaire shareholder tells of new revenue mix, challenges (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Sky TV lodges a new name, logos after buying Three and ThreeNow for $1 (paywalled)