CYBER SECURITY
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Why the MisManageMyHealth debacle was preventable
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The MisManageMyHealth scandal
Tom Hunt (Post): ‘Chickens come home to roost’: Privacy cuts blamed after Manage My Health hack (paywalled)
Callum McMenamin: ManageMyHealth Hack: A failure of standards
Marcus Crane: A recap of the ManageMyHealth data breach so far
Keith Ng (Herald): Why Manage My Health data breach is ‘dire’, and patients deserve better (paywalled)
Luke Pierson (Post): Manage My Health: If this were a medical chart, we’d be worried (paywalled)
Kim Baker Wilson and Ruth Hill (RNZ): Criticism of Manage My Health cyber attack response mounts as another deadline passes
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Patient data still being uploaded to Manage My Health two years after contract ended
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Patients ask GPs for info on health records after Manage My Health security breach
1News: Manage My Health breach: 50% of affected patients contacted
Virginia Fallon (Post): ‘It’s frustration now’: Medical centres under strain as Manage My Health answers still missing (paywalled)
Jaime Lyth (BusinessDesk): ‘Falling behind’: Calls to overhaul Privacy Act after health data hack (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Health portal under fire as demand set to expire (paywalled)
Science Media Centre: Manage My Health data breach – Expert Reaction
Kevin Norquay (Post): Trust, fear and $80,000: 26 days in the clutches of scammers (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
RNZ: Christopher Luxon working from home as year gets underway
Amelia Wade (Post): The ‘summer shutdown’ is wrapping up ‒ so where is the Prime Minister? (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Winston Peters is promising an election like no other (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Plan on an MCERT (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Government planning to use AI for next New Year’s Honours
TIM SHADBOLT
Michael Fallow, Carly Gooch and Evan Harding (Southland Times): Sir Tim Shadbolt dies, leaving ‘enormous legacy’ (paywalled)
Herald: Tim Shadbolt obituary: New Zealand’s longest-serving mayor dies at 78 after long illness
RNZ: Sir Tim Shadbolt has died at age 78
Jared McCulloch (1News): ‘Our hearts are broken’: Sir Tim Shadbolt dies, aged 78
Laine Priestley (ODT): Sir Tim was last ‘celebrity-type’ mayor (paywalled)
Herald: Politicians pay tribute to former Invercargill Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt after his death
Post: In pictures: Sir Tim Shadbolt through the ages (paywalled)
VENEZUELA, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Matthew Hooton (Herald): NZ must prepare for the end of the rules-based era (paywalled)
Louisa Wall (Post): The ripple effects in the Pacific of a disdain for international law (paywalled)
Martin Van Beynen (Press): New Zealand’s secret weapon – the moral high ground (paywalled)
Tini Molyneux (Te Ao Māori News): Traci Houpapa: Venezuela must lead its own future amid US intervention
Tini Molyneux (Te Ao Māori News): ‘Modern-day colonialism’: Te Kuaka challenges US seizure of Venezuela’s president
ECONOMY
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Primer #4 for 2026: Another cost-of-living election?
John Braddock (World Socialists): New Zealand economy “subdued” going into 2026
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Jonathan Killick (Post): Who has the power in secret deal negotiations between ministers and Auckland? (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Post): Auckland election candidates to go to High Court to stop by-election (paywalled)
Federico Magrin (Taranaki Daily News/Post): Local government investing millions in AI, at what risk? (paywalled)
Sanda Arambepola (Stuff): Rainbow lights out at Wellington’s $2.3m public toilets
Sue Teodoro (Local Democracy Reporting): How Wairarapa councils team up when facing disasters
BUSINESS
Sanda Arambepola (Stuff): New father-and-son supermarket looks to take on the duopoly in Christchurch
Ryan Boswell (1News): Check out the new supermarket player hoping to lower prices
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Companies backtrack on four-day work weeks amid economic pressures
Ben Tomsett (Herald): Residents warn Ayrburn Screen Hub a ‘Trojan horse’, fear hotel-scale development in rural Lake Hayes (paywalled)
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Big-five banks approach $10b combined bottom line (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Australian lender fails in bid to avoid High Court in case taken by Commerce Commission (paywalled)
Aimee Shaw (Post): Optimistic NZ bosses plan more tech spending to lift AI game (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Josie Vidal (Newsroom): Please stop shouting, no one listens when you shout
Natasha Gordon (Herald): More heatwaves likely as climate change drives hotter summers across Aotearoa
Steve Hepburn (ODT): 2025 New Zealand’s fourth-warmest year
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): New Zealand and global temperatures push near record highs in 2025 (paywalled)
RNZ: Movement of produce restricted in Auckland suburb after fruit fly found
RNZ: Queensland fruit fly could have ‘massive impact’ on fruit and vegetable crops
RNZ: ‘It’s the Kiwi thing to do’: Aucklanders question fines for washing cars at home
JUSTICE, CORRECTIONS
Mike White (Post): Man awarded $500k after wrongful rape conviction (paywalled)
Anna High (ODT): It’s time the law caught up with society on consent
Mathew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Neighbour of Rotorua parolee facility speaks out as rehab programme faces next location battle
HOUSING
Rob Stock (Post): Glut of Wellington stock sees the average rent landlords are asking for drop 8.4% in a year (paywalled)
RNZ: The most expensive place to rent in New Zealand is Central Otago Lakes District
HEALTH
Claire Dale (Newsroom): Take care of our existing population, and we won’t have to rely on AI and immigration
Sam Olley (1News): Tourist accidents rising – ACC claims top more than $5m a year
OTHER
Megan Wilson (Bay of Plenty Times/Herald): Autistic Pāpāmoa 6-year-old faces deportation to Brazil after visa declined (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: UK rugby writer and haka critic Stephen Jones retires - then enters into an online storm; NBR lines up IRD in paywall scrap (paywalled)
Jamie Gray (Herald): Meridian CEO Mike Roan on where power prices are heading, and what he’s reading - Summer Questions (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): Concept delays tug at Port of Tauranga’s purse strings (paywalled)
Liz McDonald and Amber Allott (Press): Christchurch pedals to top of Asia-Oceania bike ranking (paywalled)
CARTOONS