PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE, LOBBYING
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Who Benefits: How a tiny charity rewrote NZ’s environmental law
Mountain Tui: Taxpayers Union isn't even a union - but they're coming for local control
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Here's what MPs own shares in
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Treasury warning: Kiwis must accept lower quality public services to hit Government spending goal (paywalled)
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Treasury warns Govt about increasing cost of its tough on crime policies
Audrey Young (Herald): Christopher Luxon leadership speculation: Why rolling a PM is so rare (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Govern with Te Pati Māori? The dilemma Labour’s grappling with
Henry Cooke (Post): ‘Shocking’ by-election loss puts Labour-Te Pāti Māori relationship in spotlight (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr and Glenn McConnell (Stuff): New Taxpayers’ Union poll sees coalition ousted - but there’s good news for Luxon
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Coalition loses power in new political poll
Jamie Ensor (Herald): New poll: Left-wing parties could form Government, but close race predicted
Anna Whyte (Post): Latest poll suggests left bloc could form a Government (paywalled)
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Van Velden ventures out to meet the people
Chris Trotter (Interest): Most people think 'centrist' means 'moderate', but it ain’t necessarily so
Herald: Grant Robertson with Paula Bennett - Ask Me Anything
NZ FIRST
Russell Palmer (RNZ): New Zealand First AGM about projecting unity, stability, common sense
Thomas Manch (Post): Christopher Luxon says he could 'make it work' with Stuart Nash (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Does Labour know what they lost this weekend?
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): NZ First KiwiSaver policy could cost Government $12b-$28b
Luke Malpass (Post): NZ First’s big compulsory KiwiSaver play (paywalled)
Delphine Herbert (RNZ): NZ First's promise of compulsory 10% KiwiSaver and tax cuts not feasible, economist says
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Compulsory KiwiSaver is a no-brainer
Melanie Nelson: Is NZ First Digging Its Own Grave by Backing the Regulatory Standards Bill?
RNZ: Winston Peters reheats policy of getting migrants to abide by 'NZ values’
Chris Trotter: The Once and Future Nation
HEALTH
Melissa Nightingale & Azaria Howell (Herald): Wellington Emergency Department: Third of patients treated in corridors where 10% more people die
Rose Crossin and Laura Joyce (Newsroom): Government prioritising alcohol industry over health
Jenny Carryer, Andrew Jull, Nicolette Sheridan (Post): Community health, patient safety under increasing threat (paywalled)
Press/Post: Top doctors vote for two-day strike over stalled pay deal (paywalled)
Sophie Triggers (1News): Pharmacists call for more support amid 'very dire' workloads
RNZ: Ambulance arrives 30 minutes after son drove father to hospital
EMPLOYMENT, WORKPLACE SAFETY
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Hospice, Plunket nurses fear they won't see payout even if pay equity claims succeed
RNZ: Plunket and Hospice nurses refile pay equity claims
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Nurses first to test the Govt’s new pay equity regime
Gregor Thompson (BusinessDesk): Workplace safety failures cost NZ $5.4b, report finds (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Cost of workplace fatalities tops $1b as report links that with poor productivity (paywalled)
RNZ: Plunket and Hospice nurses refile pay equity claims
Sarah Hearn (Herald): It’s only fair for employers to make KiwiSaver contributions for over-65s (paywalled)
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): BNZ and whistleblower Melissa Bowen challenge $506,000 ERA award (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
RNZ: More than 60 jobs to go at Wellington City Council
Andrea Vance (Post): Wellington council job cuts spark backlash ahead of election (paywalled)
Dave Armstrong (Post): No harm in pushing pause button for bridge demolition (paywalled)
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): City to Sea Bridge on death watch as barriers go up
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Wellington's City to Sea bridge closed as council prepares for its demolition
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Skeletons, vampires, clowns and other notes from the Mt Victoria candidates debate
Post: Wellington mayoral candidates on limiting rates rises (paywalled)
Alka Prasad (Post):Auckland $1.3b fund manager appointed a day late and a few dollars short, councillors say (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Wayne Brown’s exciting week of insulting everyone
Peter Newport (Crux): Darren Rewi rejects $5,000 Rod Drury donation
Peter Newport (Crux): Rod Drury donates to Darren Rewi's mayoral campaign
Peter Newport (Crux): Exactly who did what - and how they voted - on the Niki Gladding dismissal
Mike Mather (Waikato Times): Mayoral contenders make their pitch with visions of city in 10 years time (paywalled)
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua local elections: Haehaetu Barrett drops out of mayoral race for health reasons
Maxine Jacobs (Press): Waimakariri mayor Dan Gordon faces challenge from colleague promising a 0% rates rise (paywalled)
RNZ: A guide to voting in the local elections
Herald Editorial: Why local body election hoardings need to change (paywalled)
EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Two state schools poised to become charter schools
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Northland College partners with Ngāpuhi for charter school plan
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Principals polarised over NCEA replacement plans
RNZ: Public Service Commissioner warns primary school teachers over strike
RNZ: Primary school teachers reject latest pay offer, will vote on strike action
John Gerritsen (RNZ): PPTA recommends secondary teachers reject improved pay offer
RNZ: Education Ministry roughly doubles pay rise offer to secondary teachers
Hanna McCallum (Post): Pay offer still below inflation, secondary teachers union says (paywalled)
Hanna McCallum (Post): University winter energy grant uptake more than triples (paywalled)
Cate Macintosh (Press): Christchurch kura hopes air purifiers provide relief from mouldy, damp classrooms (paywalled)
Hanna McCallum (Post): Victoria University to increase tuition fees by 6% from next year (paywalled)
ODT: Steadfastness, solidarity on show
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, RESERVE BANK
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Tackle food insecurity at home before exporting, Salvation Army says
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Is Reserve Bank overstating impact of interest rate cuts?
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The case for an independent central bank (paywalled)
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Forget rockstar days, this is a shut-up-and-take-what-you’re-given economy
CLIMATE CHANGE
Rob Stock (Post): Hipkins teases Labour’s emissions-reduction ambitions (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): The Paris Agreement isn’t perfect. Leaving isn’t the answer
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): NZ at a crossroads on international emissions pledges (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Pulling out of the Paris climate deal will only become more popular (paywalled)
Nina Hindmarsh (Press): Record rain, record dry: Nelson Tasman’s winter weather extremes (paywalled)
TRANSPORT
RNZ: New trains on way for lower North Island: 'This is a game-changer'
Sam Smith and Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Lower North Island to get brand new fleet of electric trains
Thomas Manch (Post): Wairarapa, Manawatū rail lines to get $800m battery-electric French trains (paywalled)
JUSTICE, CORRECTIONS
Edward Gay (Stuff): He earned $150k, and got legal aid. She paid her lawyer with a bank loan
David Harvey (Law News): Will the legal aid review compromise the right to counsel?
Anna Sargent (RNZ): 4000 cases of under-18s being detained in police cells in last year, new figures show
ODT Editorial: The pursuit of justice (paywalled)
The Ministry has fallen: It's out: the Law Commission report
Ani O’Brien: Institutional Insanity: The Law Commission jumps the shark in new report
GAMBLING
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ‘Tsunami’ of adverts coming for online casinos if Parliament lifts ban (paywalled)
RNZ: New campaign aims to reduce gambling harm in New Zealand
Blake Bennett (The Conversation): New online gambling laws could deal a bad hand to NZ’s grassroots sports clubs
HOUSING, BUILDING
Dat Tien Doan, Ali Ghaffarian Hoseini and Amir Ghaffarianhoseini (The Conversation): Building consent reform: how digital technology can make new liability rules watertight
Malcom Fleming (Herald): The empty chair and the future of building liability (paywalled)
Natalie Akoorie (RNZ): Granny flat battle: 11 months, $38,000 and counting, and still no consent
Mountain Tui: National tries to re-invent itself as homelessness surpasses 113,000 and over 600 Kiwis live in cars
Stuff: National average rent falls to lowest point since 2023
RNZ: Rental prices fall to lowest level in two years
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Wellington house prices slump 30 percent from peak, QV says
POLICE, CRIME
RNZ: Christopher Luxon speaks to media after fugitive Marokopa father killed in police shootout
Eva Corlett (Guardian): Tom Phillips, fugitive father on run with children for nearly four years, shot dead by NZ police in exchange of fire
Paora Manuel (Waikato Times): ‘Tom should have just come out’ - mayor laments tragic end (paywalled)
Jaime Lyth (Herald): Police college taught recruits ‘dangerous’ arrest tactic for three years ‘under the radar’ (paywalled)
Jared Savage (Herald): No charges for former deputy police commissioner following investigation into sex allegations made by former police employee
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): Hawke's Bay community leader sceptical more police would address cause of gang conflict
Kate Green (RNZ): Police ask for public for help reporting child abuse: 'Can't battle this alone'
Nadine Roberts (Stuff): From blue lights to movie nights: How much police spent turning a car into a cinema
ANZ BANK
RNZ: ANZ to pay millions to settle false representations case
Rob Stock (Post): ANZ to pay $3.25 million for overcharging customers on unarranged overdrafts (paywalled)
BusinessDesk: ANZ pays $3.25m for fair-dealing breaches, avoids pecuniary penalty (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): ANZ admits customer breaches, pays Crown $3.25m (paywalled)