PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
1News: Demoted Te Pāti Māori MP speaks out ahead of party ‘reset’
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere bats off questions about leadership
Andrea Vance (Post): Consumer NZ urges Government not to back down on fair trading reforms (paywalled)
Azaria Howell (Newstalk ZB): Stuart Nash swears at Trade Minister Todd McClay after being ‘thrown off’ business delegation (paywalled)
RNZ: The 33 things the government plans to do before the end of year
Anna Whyte (Post): Working from work: ACC pulls back on hybrid working provisions (paywalled)
Azaria Howell (Newstalk ZB): Ministry for Regulation probed ‘needlessly restrictive regulations’ on playgrounds
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): I thought I’d drop in to see what our Ministry of Regulation is up to
PROTEST OUTSIDE WINSTON PETERS’ HOME
Adam Pearse (Herald): Winston vs Chlöe: An ugly attack turns into ugly politics (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Politicians and privacy - how would protest ban work?
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Chris Hipkins explains Labour position on protest outside homes after Winston Peters’ Auckland property attacked
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Actor who shared Winston Peters’ address online says she regrets doing so
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Winston Peters’ house attacked: Activist actor Acacia O’Connor doesn’t think protest actions were wrong
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): One NZ cuts actor from ads over protest at Winston Peters’ house
Adam Pearse (Herald): One NZ to remove woman who publicised Winston Peters’ address online from ads
Thomas Manch (Post): Green Party condemns vandalism as Winston Peters points the finger (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Opposition accused of ‘weasel words’ over outlawing protests at MPs’ homes (paywalled)
Māni Dunlop Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): Greens call to avoid political tit-for-tat over protesters
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Luxon blasts Greens over Peters protest: ‘It’s not student politics. This is real life’
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Nicola Willis urges Greens to call off protesters outside Winston Peters’ home
Thomas Manch (Post): Man hands himself in after Winston Peters’ home vandalised (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Man charged after Winston Peters’ Auckland home attacked with crowbar, claims Swarbrick’s rhetoric on Gaza incited vandalism
Eva Corlett (Guardian): New Zealand foreign minister Winston Peters’ home vandalised ‘during a protest’
UNEMPLOYMENT, PAY EQUITY, INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Minister rejects Jobseeker eligibility changes is about meeting government targets
RNZ: The ‘longest, deepest, slowest’ job market - recruitment agency
Bridie Witton (Stuff): One job at Tank juice bar, 218 applications: Will PM’s welfare crackdown on teens work?
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Is this New Zealand’s highest marginal tax rate?
Elsie Williams and Catherine Hubbard (Press): ‘Point blank ridiculous’: Young jobseekers in disbelief over Government’s benefit cut (paywalled)
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Government benefit changes could leave more rangatahi homeless, advocate warns
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Poll: Controversial pay equity changes could cost coalition the 2026 election
Marilyn Waring (Spinoff): ‘A matter of social justice’: The old men of 1972 who got pay equity right
RNZ: Policy, IT and other back-office health workers to join major strike action
RNZ: Senior doctors and dentists to join massive strike this month
RNZ: Corrections nurses, health care assistants latest group to vote to strike in October
RNZ: Secondary teachers vote on series of strikes
ANIMAL WELFARE
Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere (Newsroom): Govt’s pig welfare amendment bill is Orwellian doublethink
Henry Cooke (Post): Ten more years of farrowing crates after Minister intervenes to double time until new rules (paywalled)
Monique Steele (RNZ): AgResearch reiterates halt to GE animal trials, amid fresh scrutiny
Hanna McCallum (The Post): Anti-vivisection group puts up $50k to find alternatives to animal testing (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Henry Cooke (Post): We haven’t had a foreign policy consensus in 60 years (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): ACT MP asks Parliament to limit use of ‘genocide’ when describing Gaza war
Saadet Gokce and Riyaz ul Khaliq (Anadolu Agency):2 years of Gaza genocide: How pro-Palestine sentiment surged in Australia and New Zealand
Herald: Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes address in House two years into Israel-Hamas conflict
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Time to ‘refocus’ foreign policy on Pacific - Peters
RNZ: New Zealanders detained from Gaza flotilla to be deported from Israel
BANKS
David Farrar: ASB settles, time to drop the retrospective law change
Rob Stock (Post): Lawyer makes history with NZ’s ‘largest settlement’ involving a bank
Anan Zaki (RNZ): ASB reaches $135.6m settlement over alleged historic breaches of credit disclosures
1News: ASB to pay $135.6m to settle class action
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): ASB to pay $135.6m to settle class action, ANZ fighting on
Rob Stock (Post): ANZ vows to fight on after ASB settles class action lawsuit for $135.6 million (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): ASB class action settles for $135.6 million, lawyer says (paywalled)
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): ANZ vows to fight CCCFA class action despite ASB settlement (paywalled)
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): ASB settles CCCFA class action for hefty $135.6m as ANZ fights on: lawyer (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Tex Edwards says UBS reports on ANZ show ‘alpha’ profits; the bank says they don’t tell the whole story (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): Who really runs our councils?
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Political heat over putting housing and parks on the block in Great Privatisation
RNZ: South Island’s biggest joint council water company, Southern Waters, approved by Department of Internal Affairs
Simon Wilson (Herald): Wayne Brown, Viv Beck and the art of complaining (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Mayor Tory Whanau to deliver blistering attack on detractors in final speech (paywalled)
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): Councils can’t keep spending faster than the economy grows
The Hui: Kerrin Leoni ‘shocked’ by sexism and racism in mayoral campaign
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Māori Ward councillors campaigning hard to retain Māori wards
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua council issues 10 election warnings – including mayoral candidate’s YouTube breach
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Boil water notice lifted for north-east Hamilton, other Waikato properties
Craig Ashworth (Local Democracy Reporting): Palestine profit splits New Plymouth’s would-be mayors
Tina Law (Press): Christchurch’s mayoral race is ‘too close to call’ as election day nears (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): The battle for Hamilton: A former climate activist takes on a former National MP
Sinead Gill (Press): Behind-the-scenes of New Zealand’s busiest vote processing centre (paywalled)
HEALTH, ALCOHOL HARM
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): ACC disputes resolution company accused of sending complainants cut-and-paste decisions
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): GPs question ACC clampdown on medical certificates
Danica MacLean (Newstalk ZB): Health NZ data shows $13m in ED vouchers given out since 2021
RNZ: Fewer workers reporting excellent health, doctors’ union report says
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Make it harder to buy booze with buy-now-pay-later, Salvation Army says
Harriet Laughton (Post): Government rules out ban on Buy Now Pay Later for alcohol (paywalled)
RNZ: Government announces New Top Up Community Grants scheme in boost for mental health
Robert Kydd (Post): Technology and innovation are the keys to the mental health crisis (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Bullying at Starship Hospital: Deadline for improvement nears
RNZ: Fewer smokers worldwide, but e-cigarettes fuel new addictions - WHO
Sheila Skeaff (The Conversation): More veg, less meat: the latest global update on a diet that’s good for people and the planet
POLICE, CRIME, JUSTICE
Derek Cheng (Herald): We’re drinking less and violent crime is dropping, new data show how strongly the two are related (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): Unnecessary, disproportionate, unjustified: Government backs off 5-year trespass notices, but concerns remain (paywalled)
Phoebe Utteridge (Stuff): Almost 8000 applications, no job: Man still haunted by what he did 28 years ago
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): The final four contenders for Deputy Commissioner of police
RNZ: Controversial police restructure canned after public backlash
Dave Armstrong (Post): The brewing crisis in our prisons (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Tom Phillips: Family Court judge grants second interim injunction
Ruwani Perera (Te Ao Māori News): Iwi programme offers proven alternative to government boot camps
RESERVE BANK
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The future of money and democracy: Economist believes golden age of central banking is over (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Orr what? Ex-Reserve Bank Governor’s tenuous restraint of trade payout
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Adrian Orr’s $410,000 payout was in his contract, Nicola Willis says
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Reserve Bank and Adrian Orr agreed not to bad mouth each other as part of exit deal (paywalled)
RNZ: Reserve Bank forms new financial policy committee
ECONOMY
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Vocal vested interests distract us from the need for economic change
Luke Malpass (Post): A quarter or a half - how much will the RBNZ cut rates? (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): One shot or two? Why the RBNZ’s interest rate call is so tricky (paywalled)
Sam Smith (Stuff): OCR set for latest review, but what can we expect?
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Weaker business survey tips odds towards bigger RBNZ rate cut
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Rare market split on Reserve Bank rate cut (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): Economy ‘spinning in the mud’ - 50 point cut to the OCR ‘needed’
Liam Dann (Herald): Business confidence drops in key survey for RBNZ ahead of rate call
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Business confidence weaker as inflation pressures up ahead of OCR decision (paywalled)
HOUSING
Chris Bishop and Simon Clarke (UK Daily Express): New Zealand shows how UK can end housing crisis - we must fix fundamentals
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): More than half of renters unable to afford to buy a home, housing report shows
Miriam Bell (Post): Most renters are not happy with the options available (paywalled)
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): What you need to know about Auckland’s new housing intensification plan
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Property investors are back, but are they pushing up house prices?
Herald: Housing market New Zealand: Mum and dad buyers lead increase in property investors, report says
David Long (Stuff): Pensioners furious as Kāinga Ora delays clearing ‘pigsty’ left by tenant