PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Cameras on boats: Government confirms pro-industry fisheries changes
RNZ: Fisheries Act reforms to allow greater catch limits, on-board camera footage to stay hidden
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Biggest changes to Fisheries Act in nearly 40 years (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Fishing industry ‘let off the hook’ as conservation funding falls short (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): NZ now one of the most attractive nations for mining investment
Nick James (RNZ): Climate protestor claims Stockton Mine employee fired gun to scare him
Monique Steele (RNZ): Labelling rules ease for genetically-modified food made without new DNA added, amid reform
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): ‘Better with us than without us’: Farmers tout ripple effect of agricultural boom (paywalled)
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): Butter backlash overlooks farming’s crucial economic role (paywalled)
Ella Scott-Fleming (ODT): Ex-minister hits out at pine carbon farming
FORESHORE AND SEABED
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Former Attorney-General criticises marine and coastal rights law changes
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Minister confirms seabed and foreshore change, limiting Māori rights
Julia Gabel (Herald): Foreshore and seabed: Govt to pass marine, coastal areas bill despite Supreme Court ruling
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Government forges ahead with foreshore and seabed law
No Right Turn: “An illegitimate exercise of kāwanatanga”
PARLIAMENT, ELECTORAL REFORM
ODT Editorial: The govt’s capacity for opacity (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Changes to Ombudsman’s complaints procedures labelled ‘self-serving appeasement’ (paywalled)
Simon Wilson (Herald): The mess the National Party’s in now - four theories and a prediction (paywalled)
Roy Morgan: New Zealand: In July, National and Labour tied at 31%; National-led Government retains clear lead
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Bill English is right – lack of trust in govt is about disrespect
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Labour asks Auditor-General to investigate electoral roll complaints
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): Tāmaki Makaurau by-election candidates announced
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori News): Counterspin Media founder runs in upcoming Tāmaki Makaurau by-election
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Nominations close in Tāmaki Makaurau by-election (paywalled)
Elspeth McLean (ODT): Woolly thinking about tangled electoral reforms (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Balancing acts, Trumpism, mergers and more (paywalled)
HEALTH
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Cabinet paper leak suggests Minister Nicole McKee's U-turn on alcohol sales reform
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): ‘Lives are at risk’: The new poll that’s sparked political debate and finger pointing
Ruth Bonita (Newsroom): Making heated tobacco products cheaper than cigarettes is no scandal
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Two-month-old Bellamere Arwyn Duncan's death 'must be a turning point', says pharmacist
Herald: Probe into 11-year-old girl mistaken for woman, restrained and injected with antipsychotics delayed until December
Ross McNaughton (RNZ): Clinic, operator see rise in NZ medical tourism to Turkey
Fiona Terry (Listener): Why is it so hard to get the right help from ACC following a concussion diagnosis? (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Post): Nurses need 6 weeks’ overtime to hit government’s ‘average’ pay, union says (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Needle exchange handover concerns (paywalled)
EDUCATION
David Pomeroy (The Conversation): NCEA isn’t perfect but NZ shouldn’t forget why it was introduced in the first place
Connor Murphy (Spinoff): ‘Reckless and unachievable’: A tired teacher critiques the proposed NCEA overhaul
Julia Gabel (Herald): NCEA shake-up: Education Minister Erica Stanford defends ‘hasty’ six-week consultation period
Herald: Education Minister Erica Stanford says pupils sitting NCEA in final years not disadvantaged
Katy Jones (Stuff): Jury out on NCEA overhaul as principals await detail
Herald Editorial: NCEA reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity (paywalled)
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): NCEA overhaul concerns Kura Kaupapa Māori, opportunity to consider own qualifications
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): Kura Kaupapa Māori share ‘serious concern’ with move to end NCEA
Poppy Clark (Stuff): How the ‘flexibility’ of NCEA was being gamed by students
RNZ: Education Minister David Seymour says NCEA changes will challenge students more
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): I like the NCEA changes, but...
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): My thoughts on the NCEA changes
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Is the Knowledge Economy is the biggest political bust of recent times?
Hanna McCallum (Post): A short history of NZ's secondary school qualifications (paywalled)
RNZ: Dire need for AI support in primary, intermediate schools survey shows
Tim Brown (RNZ): Neurodivergent student quits University of Canterbury after being accused of cheating
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Building programme helps hard-to-reach kids into construction careers
INFRASTRUCTURE, FAST-TRACK
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Infrastructure leaders push Govt to deliver ‘the great privatisation’
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Spatial planning ministry ‘should be done’, but critics suspicious of motives (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): What's the deal with New Zealand's struggling infrastructure?
Bill Bennett (Herald): Public private partnerships return as solution to NZ’s $200b infrastructure deficit
Kali Mercier (Herald): NZ infrastructure faces crisis as maintenance lags behind (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Herald): Political changes threaten NZ infrastructure (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): The quest for political consensus on infrastructure (paywalled)
Bill Bennett (Herald): How asset recycling has transformed Auckland
Simon Bridges (Herald): Energy crisis threatens NZ economy, time for gentailer reform (paywalled)
Graham Skellern (Herald): Experts call for transparency in Wellington’s infrastructure strategy (paywalled)
Natalia Rimell (Herald): New Zealand’s largest infrastructure event begins
Emma Andrews (RNZ): 'Very dangerous': Waipiro marina rubber-stamped for fast track
Matthew Littlewood (ODT: Queenstown developers threatened with debt collectors (paywalled)
Nick Leggett (Herald): Long-term vision essential for NZ’s infrastructure future (paywalled)
David Jenkins (Herald): Infrastructure needs skilled workforce to tackle NZ’s skills shortage
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): PwC says infrastructure still core as leaders leave (paywalled)
Chris Bishop (Herald): Cutting red tape key to NZ’s infrastructure success (paywalled)
Kieran McAnulty (Herald): Government blame game stalls infrastructure growth (paywalled)
Julie Anne Genter (Herald): Invest in public good for a sustainable future (paywalled)
Sam Stubbs (Post): Who should own our infrastructure? (paywalled)
Andrea Fox (Herald): KiwiSaver funds could fill NZ’s $295b infrastructure gap, says expert (paywalled)
Fraser Wyllie (Post): Confidence through continuity: Building Nations sets the course (paywalled)
Michelle McCormick (Herald): New Zealand needs a cultural shift in infrastructure planning
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Audrey Young (Herald): Why Winston Peters and Mark Brown need help in resolving the dispute between Cook Islands and NZ (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Winston Peters’ adviser tells media to ask ‘questions that aren’t about politics’
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Luxon talks up more united Pacific on PNG visit
RNZ: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks to media in Papua New Guinea
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Luxon welcomed to Papua New Guinea for celebration of diplomatic ties
Jamie Gray (Herald): New Zealand will be worse off than its competitors under new US 15% tariff regime, international business group warns (paywalled)
Peter Davis (Post): 80 years on, the realities of nuclear warfare can’t be forgotten
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
Brent Edwards (NBR): Greenpeace asks whether foreign investment bill puts NZ first (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): Stamp duty, $5m minimum could feature in foreign buyer rules (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, BUDGET
Richard Harman (Politik): Former Nat MP challenges Treasury
Luke Malpass (Post): NZ can’t look to Australia for the upturn: economist (paywalled)
TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH
Azaria Howell (Newstalk ZB): Majority of Government’s $231m spend on Advanced Technology Institute funded through planned research funding cuts
RNZ: Cybersecurity warning: 'Widespread exposure of compromised credentials'
Chris Keall (Herald): Free Speech Union’s bid to reshape InternetNZ: The results are in, with a late twist (paywalled)
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Garden shed, sleepout and garage rules to be eased by government
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Government takes trimmer to garden shed and sleepout red tape
1News: Change coming to rules for residential sheds, garages
Dita De Boni (Post): Largely ignored rules around garden sheds binned by Cabinet
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): What will building products change mean for DIYers, new builds?
Brent Melville (BusinessDesk): Industry warns of ‘fishhooks’ in plan for new building products (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): The hard bite of a deep construction downturn (paywalled)
Greg Ninness (Interest): Slump in residential building consents flattening out as build costs hit a record high
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Residential builders giving up on recovery any time soon, says ANZ (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Here’s why there’s light at the end of the tunnel for the building industry (paywalled)
HOUSING
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Quarter of all tenant applications to Tenancy Tribunal relate to concerns about Healthy Home
Miriam Bell (Post): 300,000 more homes eligible for insulation grants
Kelly Makiha (Rotorua Daily Post/Herald): Is this what Rotorua homeless sleeping pods could have looked like? (paywalled)
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Shared housing for elderly a step closer in Rangiora
Greg Ninness (Interest): Property values 'going nowhere fast' Cotality says
MEDIA
Karl du Fresne : On objectivity, balance and honesty in journalism
Shayne Currie (Herald): Paul Henry sought Media and Broadcasting Minister Paul Goldsmith’s OK over The Chase host role, during TVNZ board appointment process (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Regional media firm in voluntary administration; staff hopeful of rescue deal; IRD among creditors owed hundreds of thousands (paywalled)
Whatitiri Te Wake (Te Ao Māori News): Māori media set for major shake-up
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: The politics of PayWave
Derek Whaley (Spinoff): Once, newspapers ruled Auckland’s suburbs. Now they’re almost all gone
RNZ: Mike McRoberts: 'You could read the 6 o’clock news and not know anything about te reo Māori back then'
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): NZOA has saved reality TV and soaps – what about all the shows left to die?