CYBER SECURITY
Rob Stock (Post): My health data was among those hacked - here’s why I’m not surprised (paywalled)
Kim Baker Wilson (RNZ): Lawyers say privacy rules need more teeth, following Manage My Health hack
Tom Hunt (Post): Manage My Health warned of vulnerabilities six months ago (paywalled)
Jaime Lyth (BusinessDesk): Manage My Health, Privacy Commissioner warned of security risks six months ago (paywalled)
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Manage My Health: Patients start to be notified after massive leak
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): ManageMyHealth turns off mobile app, sets up advisory board, warns against communicating with hacker
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Ex-users’ data may have been stolen in Manage My Health breach
Virginia Fallon (Post): Manage my health? Don’t mind if I do (paywalled)
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): The Government could step in regarding Manage My Health if it wanted
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Who are the hackers behind Manage My Health’s cyber attack?
RNZ: Manage My Health hackers removes information about data online
Tom Hunt (Post): Full scope of Manage My Health breach revealed in court documents (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Request to delete patient data denied (paywalled)
Joanne Naish (Press): Lack of ‘informed consent’ for app before data hack, patient says (paywalled)
Jenny Ling, Sarah Curtis, Karina Cooper (Northern Advocate): Manage My Health cyber attack: Northland GP patients demand to know if they are impacted
Fiona Ellis (Waikato Times): Manage My Health breach: Silence over Waikato impact (paywalled)
HOUSING
Derek Cheng (Herald): ‘Hopelessness and desperation’: The impact of new emergency housing policies on those at the coalface (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Post): Ministers decide on ‘move on’ powers but keep decision secret (paywalled)
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Primer #3 for 2026: Magical thinking reigns supreme on housing (paywalled)
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Hawke’s Bay Māori housing project wants to see the model rolled out nationwide
Benn Bathgate (Waikato Times): Hamilton Kāinga Ora tenant booted after failing to pay rent for seven months (paywalled)
VENEZUELA, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): NZ’s timid stance on the US invasion of Venezuela
Tim Watkin (Pundit): How The Trump Doctrine Is Different... The Rise Of Unbridled Power
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): When freedom advances, tyrants panic (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): NZ troops in Ukraine for ceasefire would need Cabinet signoff - Ministry
John Braddock (World Socialists): New Zealand Deputy PM visits Argentina’s fascist President Milei
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
Brent Edwards (NBR): The Greens’ counting on ‘power of the people’ (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Under-resourcing transparency
Zoran Rakovic: Elections Are So Inconvenient
Russell Brown (Listener): Looking back at the year that was 2026 (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Tom Hunt (Post): Scrutiny on Independent Together’s Wellington campaign after leaked bank statements (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Seaview wastewater treatment plant stench likely to return this weekend
Justin Wong (Local Democracy Reporting): Financial hole of $840,000 in Lower Hutt pool budgets
André Chumko (Post): How did Wellington become an arts capital, and how can it stay one? (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press): Councillor backs single board for Canterbury Museum and Arts Centre, despite legal hurdles (paywalled)
HEALTH
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): ‘I want to sit down with her’: Cancer patient demands meeting with Nicola Willis
ODT Editorial: Junk food advertising limits (paywalled)
Amber Allott (Press/Post): Simeon Brown personally calls Christchurch man after ‘unacceptable’ Health NZ letter (paywalled)
Waatea News: Mike King Steps Down — A New Chapter for I Am Hope and Mental Health Advocacy
ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
David Williams (Newsroom): Court decision sets up a big year for freshwater
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Court rejects climate protester’s hand-drawn $50 note featuring Shane Jones
Nick. James (RNZ): $5.9 million fence to protect Wellington forest from pests
Sam Smith (Stuff): Queensland fruit fly found in Auckland suburb
INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT
Richard Prebble (Herald): How to achieve political bipartisanship on infrastructure (paywalled)
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): How land-banking cripples infrastructure funding (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Clifford Bay: The one that got away again PW (paywalled)
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): ‘Shambles’: Metlink troubles makes return to work even more sour for Wellington commuters
OTHER
Rebecca Stevenson (BusinessDesk): Golden visa influx: Putin’s war in Ukraine driving rich to NZ (paywalled)
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Record number of New Zealanders face visa troubles in United States
Neil Sands (Law News): Judge Aitken seeking to summons Chief District Court Judge to give evidence at disciplinary hearing next month
Sam Smith (Stuff): Prominent activist targeted in ‘pathetic’ attack on property
Yolisa Tswanya (Northland Age): Kaitāia rodeo bull escape sparks fresh call from animal welfare group for the sport to be banned
Michael Wright (Press/Post): Alan Reay fails in latest court battle over CTV building fallout (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): ‘Changing lives every day’: Inside the Citizens Advice Bureau
Kurt Bennett (Listener): What lies beneath? The submerged secrets of the Hauraki Gulf - and why they need protecting (paywalled)
Peter Newport (Crux): NZ Post degrades local Queenstown services after paying $100 million Government dividend
1News: Woman pleads for Jevon McSkimming’s sentence to be appealed
Anne Goulding (Newsroom): Why reading for pleasure matters
David Farrar: A good bill from Melissa Lee to reform the HDCA
CARTOONS