UNEMPLOYMENT
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Are businesses really ‘crying out’ for staff?
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Orchardists reject Luxon’s claim sector is ‘crying out’ for workers
Craig Renney: A small wrinkle in the Jobseeker policy
Emma Gleason (Spinoff): By the numbers: the government’s tougher benefit rules for young people
AJ Hendry: “Punching down on the young...” Benefit policy punishes the poor
RNZ: Christopher Luxon defends cuts to benefits for youth
Henry Cooke (Post): Prime Minister tells jobless teens to move towns (paywalled)
Poppy Clark (Stuff): PM says Jobseeker benefit cut to young Kiwis is ‘a bit of tough love’
FAST-TRACK, ENVIRONMENT
Farah Hancock (RNZ): Environment Minister accused of staying silent on fast-track projects
Greg Severinsen (Herald): New Zealand is asleep at the wheel on environmental policy (paywalled)
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Bay of Islands residents’ group challenges government decision to fast-track Waipiro marina
Liz McDonald (Press): Dairy conversions boom in Canterbury despite ‘nitrate emergency’ (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Graeme Edgeler: Who should be denied the vote?
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Government agencies warned large Crown board fee hikes could impact services, worsen cost pressures (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): The staff survey the Ministry of Education tried to keep secret (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Law change coming for public service misconduct investigations (paywalled)
Chris Trotter: Ladies to the Left, Gentlemen to the Right. (paywalled)
PROTEST OUTSIDE WINSTON PETERS’ HOME
Adam Pearse (Herald): Person arrested after Winston Peters’ Auckland home attacked with crowbar
RNZ: Man arrested after window smashed at Winston Peters’ home
RNZ: ‘Disgusting coward’ - Winston Peters says window smashed at his home, police called
Natasha Gordon (Herald): Winston Peters calls out ‘violent, hate-filled’ alleged window attack on his home
1News: ‘Truly gutless’: Vandal smashes window of Winston Peters’ house
Thomas Manch (Post): Winston Peters says ‘disgusting coward’ vandalised his home (paywalled)
RNZ: Protesters target Winston Peters’ home again
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): These protesters are risking real goodwill to their cause
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): A protester from outside Winston Peters’ house was a speaker at the Greens’ press conference
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): One of the Kiwis detained in Israel is on hunger strike, sister reveals
Kim Baker Wilson (RNZ): Partner of NZ woman detained in Israel says she ‘can’t stand hearing the screams’
RNZ: Greens demand return of New Zealanders detained in Israel, government sanctions
John Hobbs (ODT): Foreign policy transparency lacking
Louise Ternouth (RNZ): ‘The job hasn’t been completed’ - Manawanui wreck still causing concerns one year after sinking
Giles Dexter (RNZ): New Zealand pays Samoa $6m over grounding of HMNZS Manawanui
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Samoa Govt gets $6m compensation for Manawanui sinking
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Jeffrey McNeill (The Conversation): Not voting in local elections is rational. Voters need better reasons to engage
Tina Law (Press): Environmentalists, business owners bankroll Christchurch mayoral candidates (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Lack of diversity in survey of 1000 council candidates
ODT Editorial: Democracy inaction (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): City is made of council
Michael Sergel (Herald): Local elections: Hundreds of races being won by default (paywalled)
Torika Tokalau (Local Democracy Reporting): Aucklanders urged to vote as election enters final week
Justin Wong (Post): Local election turnout under 30% in cities, with days to go (paywalled)
Ruby Shaw (ODT): Candidates hoping for last-minute voter turnout (paywalled)
Jack Riddell (Hawkes Bay Today/Herald): Napier’s $100,000 citizens’ assembly declines to recommend site for new pool (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): The case for every Wellington mayoral candidate
RNZ: Waikato water contamination: Schools stay closed for start of term
Madeleine Powers (Waikato Times): Bird poo? What could be behind north Hamilton’s boil water notice (paywalled)
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Hastings bars forced to close an hour earlier than Napier
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): The growing pains shaping a Canterbury mayoral race
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Bell tops mayoral spending for term
Ella Scott-Fleming (ODT): School lunch comments disappoint Allergy NZ (paywalled)
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Local elections: Will Upper Hutt elect Guppy for a ninth term, or vote for change?
Mike Yardley (Press): Countdown to the next iteration of Christchurch City Council (paywalled)
Sinead Gill (Press): Sign waving, skits, and a billboard over 400km away: How candidates grab your attention (paywalled)
RESERVE BANK
Justin Hu (1News): Why Adrian Orr was paid $416,000 after quitting Reserve Bank
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Adrian Orr got $416k payout to protect bank secrets after abrupt RB exit (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Ex-Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr to receive $416k ‘restraint of trade’ leaving payment
Sam Smith (Stuff): Former Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr to get $400k restraint of trade payment
David Hargreaves (Interest): Adrian Orr to get $400,000 RBNZ payout this month
Denise McNabb (BusinessDesk): Adrian Orr launches new company as restraint of trade lifts (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Taxpayers’ Union condemns ‘golden goodbye’ to Adrian Orr (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): RBNZ headcount rises, Adrian Orr gets restraint of trade payment (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Should the RBNZ be independent (paywalled)
BUSINESS, CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Russell Palmer and Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Business leaders’ fears over Fair Trading Act assuaged after meeting with ministers
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Commerce Commission rejects call for formal inquiry into airport regulation
John Weekes (Herald): Air New Zealand complains of soaring costs as Commerce Commission rejects calls for inquiry into airports (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): ‘Great stuff. Makes me look cheap’: Bricklayers warned after texts exposed (paywalled)
1News: Blenheim bricklayers warned after probe into suspected cartel conduct
Emma Gleason (Spinoff): A bleak, brief round-up of 10 years of factory closures in New Zealand
Amelia Wade (Post): Defecation, urination, abuse’: Auckland businesses say enough is enough (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Banking association rejects forced cash-trucking takeover theory
INSURANCE
RNZ: IAG hit with record $19.5m penalty for misleading customers
Mandy Te (Interest): IAG NZ to pay $19.5m penalty for overcharging 269,000 customers $35m
Rob Stock (Post): IAG’s ‘troubling compliance culture’, slowness to act called out in record judgment (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Insurer IAG fined $19.5m after confessing to accidentally overcharging many customers (paywalled)
Gegor Thompson (BusinessDesk): Jewellers decry lack of transparency in claims market (paywalled)
Simon Shepherd (NBR): The unhealthy insurance sector (paywalled)
SOCIAL MEDIA
Julia Gabel (Herald): Meta claims Instagram scrolling not ‘intentionally addictive’ as MPs probe social media harm
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Tech giants warn against banning under 16s from social media
Harriet Laughton (Post): TikTok, Meta warn NZ against banning under 16s from social media
Gordon Campbell: On The Social Media Ban For Young Kids
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Meta and TikTok urge MPs to avoid ‘blunt’ ban on under-16s
MEDIA
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Minister turned unionist to front in court for TVNZ
Gavin Ellis: Trump Filter reveals NZ news media need more protection
Dave Hull (Stuff): ‘We’re slapping progress in the face’: The risks of dismissing mainstream media
Ani O’Brien: The media missionaries destroying NZ journalism
Mountain Tui: RNZ just published a NZ Initiative Wesselbaum opinion piece on its front page
Shayne Currie (Herald): ‘F***ing cow’ - newspaper publisher and Auckland Council candidate Bo Burns’ expletive-laden rant about retiring councillor Sharon Stewart (paywalled)
RNZ: Pip Keane appointed RNZ’s first chief audio officer
Simon Shepherd (NBR): Podcast: Sinead Boucher talks about Stuff (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Treasury warnings over medical school ignored (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): School audits flagged with minsitry’s ‘red tape tip line’
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Government signs 83 new contracts with truancy services, Seymour says
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): Academic freedom and its enemies
Jaime Cunningham (Newstalk ZB): Teachers warn ‘one-size-fits-all’ school reforms risk harming students
Neil Sands (Law News): Law school support staff suspicious of move to combine backroom operations of law and business faculties
John Lewis (ODT): Charity house auction paused due to rising costs (paywalled)
HEALTH, DISABILITY
Ethan Griffiths (Newstalk ZB): Health NZ seeking to give more vaping kits to smokers wanting to quit, talks up PR benefits to suppliers
Jessica Roden (1News): Southern Cancer Society says some patients face unreasonable delays
RNZ: Luxon won’t say when free bowel cancer screening age will drop again
RNZ: ‘Silent killer’ - New Zealanders with type two diabetes having amputations in record numbers
Herald Editorial: The binge battle: Fewer young Kiwis drinking hazardously but binge culture still strong (paywalled)
GAMBLING
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): High Court agrees to $5m penalty for Christchurch Casino after Internal Affairs investigation
Brett Kerr-Laurie (Press): Christchurch Casino’s $5m anti-money laundering mistakes (paywalled)
Paddy Gower (Stuff): How offshore casinos infiltrated Otago uni flatting scene, paying students thousands to illegally promote online gambling
Mei Heron (1News): New campaign aims to combat gambling harm amongst Asian New Zealanders
Antony Young (Post): Gambling is a bad bet for Asian New Zealanders (paywalled)
ECONOMY
David Hargreaves (Interest): NZIER’s ‘shadow board’ mostly favours a 25 basis point OCR cut this week
Brent Edwards (NBR): NZIER shadow board recommends a 25bp October cut (paywalled)
Andrew Patterson (Newsroom): ‘We need a truly stimulatory rate’ – economists edge towards jumbo OCR cut
Aimee Shaw (Post): Lower interest rates don’t seem to have given consumers a nudge yet: Worldline (paywalled)
When will a journalist interviewing PM Luxon challenge him on the complete drivel he espouses. His assertions that employers are crying out for staff and that young people need to get off their playstations are not supported by the facts in your links on that subject.