HEALTH, TOBACCO
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Officials urged Associate Health Minister Casey Costello to retain parts of smokefree laws, briefings reveal
Felix Desmarais (1News): Poll: Most people opposed to Govt's smokefree law roll-back
Janet Hoek (Newsroom): Why curtailing tobacco outlets won’t increase crime
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Health services may need to be cut to slow rising costs (paywalled)
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Cancer patients left waiting for months for bone marrow transplants
Claire Trevett (Herald): Coalition Government to forge ahead with repeal of smokefree laws, Māori Health Authority this week
1News: Axing Māori Health Authority before hearing 'disrespectful' — expert
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (1News): Bill to scrap Māori Health Authority expected tomorrow
Tom Kitchin (RNZ): The Detail: The Waitangi Tribunal's losing battle
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Can the Government unseat the chair of the Covid-19 inquiry - and at what cost? (paywalled)
Muriel Newman (Newstalk ZB): Investigating Covid (paywalled)
RNZ: Covid-19 update: 6084 new cases, 20 deaths
Rachel Thomas (Post): Airdropped surgeons to continue in Wellington till 2025 (paywalled)
Robin Martin (RNZ): Taranaki initiative fosters growth in Māori healthcare workforce
DONATIONS
Farah Hancock (RNZ): $2m surge in election campaign spending by third-party groups
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): The politicians who were flush with cash and broke the bank campaigning
GANGS, POLICING
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Bill of Rights won't stop gang patch ban - Justice Minister
No Right Turn: An anti-constitutional government
Jo Moir (RNZ): Stuart Nash claims Labour Cabinet softened its gang asset seizure policy
ODT Editorial: Caution needed when rights infringed (paywalled0
Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): Tougher Love
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Prisons work, benefit sanctions work
NIva Chittock and George Hanafin (RNZ): Gang patch ban: Public want to know how it would be enforced
Imogen Wells (Stuff): Newsable: Australian expert warns against elements of government’s proposed gang laws
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): What will happen with the new gang patch ban?
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Gang Patch Crackdown Will Send a Message
1News: Commissioner: How police will enforce gang rules, patch ban
William Hewett (Newshub): ACT leader David Seymour, Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick clash over Government's gang crackdown in fiery AM interview
Stuff: New gang legislation would stop outlaw patches in public, stop gatherings
Anna Murray (1News): Govt moves to ban gang patches. What happened when Whanganui did it?
RNZ: Gang patch crackdown a 'waste of time and energy' - social worker
Molly Swift (Newshub): Police Association president Chris Cahill says officers supportive of Government's gang crackdown
Eda Tang (Spinoff): Did we just decriminalise family violence?
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