PARLIAMENT, 2024 IN REVIEW, 2025 PREDICTIONS
Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation): NZ report card 2024: How the country fared in 25 key global and domestic rankings
Post: The Post's political predictions for 2025 (paywalled)
Spinoff: Ten wild political predictions for 2025
Brent Edwards (NBR): The coalition is delivering worse outcomes (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Te Pāti Māori pushes the potential of the Māori economy (paywalled)
Mike McRoberts (NBR): How Māori faced a challenging 2024 (paywalled)
Greg Presland (The Standard): 2024 in review
Herald Editorial: A new year and the opportunities of 2025 (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Centre-left governments fall like dominoes. Welcome to 2025
Thomas Manch (Post): Summer off politics: Kieran McAnulty will be playing cricket and golf (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Summer off from politics: Ginny Andersen heads north (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Summer off politics: Willow-Jean Prime takes a staycation (paywalled)
Debbie Jamieson (The Press): The power of the provinces – a prime ministerial contribution (paywalled)
Harriette Boucher (Post): The Art of Parliament: Pucará bull (paywalled)
HEALTH
Libby Wilson (Waikato Times): Waikato Hospital sends $33.4m in surgery to private providers (paywalled)
RNZ: 'Crazy' - advocates question government's vaping plan
RNZ: Vaping kits to be made free for smokers to help them quit
David Farrar: Year 10 students smoking and vaping less
Rachel Thomas (Post): The health promises the Government kept, and didn’t, in 2024 (paywalled)
Rachel Thomas (Post): First look at Hutt Valley’s new mental health facility but hurdle remains (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Big thinking needed on obesity (paywalled)
Christina Persico (RNZ): Aotearoa's role in Pacific mental health statistics
Gary Moller: The Evolution and Decline of New Zealand's Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC)
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES, ANIMAL WELFARE
RNZ: Merino company says it will probe sheep cruelty claims
Grant Miller (ODT): Animal rights group’s footage a ‘hit job’
RNZ: Investigations launched after PETA cruelty allegations
Grant Miller (ODT): Bull put down after injury at Te Anau Rodeo
RNZ: Vertical farm that received public funding goes into voluntary administration
RNZ: Only a little slash on the Gisborne's northern beaches - council
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Tina Law (Press): Christchurch residents owe $1m in unpaid water charges (paywalled)
Julie Asher (ODT): Water reforms require decisions
Ke-Xin Li (Waikato Times): Has Hamilton City Council’s $60k water campaign paid off? (paywalled)
George Heagney (Manawatū Standard): Tararua District Council considers asset sales
Stephen Ward (Waikato Times): More council staff on the naughty step (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (The Post): Five Wellington City Council myths and misconceptions (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (The Post): No permission sought as artist paints over his own Ian Curtis mural (paywalled)
Zita Campbell (Local Democracy Reporting): Gisborne deputy mayor Josh Wharehinga won’t seek re-election after 11 years in local government
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Olympian-turned-mayor Mahé Drysdale reflects on first few months on the job
Sam Broughton (Post): What we want from the Government is partnership (paywalled)
Sarah Sinclair (Herald): The deal to solve Auckland’s infrastructure crisis (paywalled)
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Brave in challenging times’: Rotorua mayor, councillors share their views on 2024
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Fiscal policy will push New Zealand back to China (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): ‘Not immune’: What the US Treasury hack means for New Zealand (paywalled)
Phoebe Utteridge (Stuff): Divers begin removing fuel and other pollutants from sunken Navy ship Manawanui
Joe Hendren: Banning Israel from tennis tournaments should not even be a line call
TREATY OF WAITANGI
Hilary Calvert (ODT): Constitutional law: it is all the rage (paywalled)
Don Brash: Time to submit on the Treaty Principles Bill running out
Tina Ngata: Protecting Indigenous Treaties and Ending Colonialism everywhere – the International Dimensions of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Phoebe Utteridge (Stuff): Security insisted man take off his Toitū Te Tiriti shirt at ASB Classic. They later called it a ‘miscommunication
HOUSING
Don Brash: House prices in 2025 - up for down?
1News: Property values drop for ninth month in the past 10 - CoreLogic
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): What's ahead for the property market in 2025?
TRANSPORT
Herald Editorial: Can Winston Peters really find a ‘better’ ferry solution by March? (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Turns out motorists would rather not pay tolls (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Clean-ish cars, new highways, EV blues and tolls (paywalled)
1News: Provisional 2024 NZ road toll lowest in more than a decade
Frances Chin (Post): Road toll dips below 300 for first time in decade (paywalled)
Stuff: With the holiday period drawing to a close, the road toll stands at 11
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): 'I am scared': Auckland bus driver feels unsafe, data reveals number of physical attacks
ECONOMY EMPLOYMENT
Liam Dann (Herald): NZ’s top economists pick the three big issues for New Zealand in 2025 (paywalled)
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Many Kiwis working past usual retirement age for both financial and wellbeing reasons (paywalled)
Amy Williams (RNZ): Top tips for landing a job in tight labour market
BUSINESS
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): The businesses that didn't make it through 2024
Victoria Young (BusinessDesk): Editor’s note – 2024 in review (paywalled)
BusinessDesk: BlackRock writes down fund after SolarZero collapse
JUSTICE, CORRECTIONS
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): Police intel shows how Kiwi kids are being recruited into gangs
RNZ: Youths on roof 'not a protest' - Children's Minister Karen Chhour
RNZ: All youths come down from roof of justice facility
Shannon Pitman (Open Justice Reporting): Growing backlog of judge-alone trials causing concern among lawyers and frustrated defendants
MEDIA
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Five for 2025 - Media leaders on the year ahead (paywalled)
Stuff: Journalist Tova O’Brien gives birth to baby girl 10 weeks premature
TARIANA TURIA
RNZ: Dame Tariana Turia suffers a stroke, surrounded by family
Shilpy Arora (Stuff): Dame Tariana Turia suffers stroke; whānau thank people for love and prayers
Whatitiri Te Wake (Te Ao Māori News):“She is still with us” Kahurangi Tariana Turia suffers stroke
Herald: Te Pāti Māori co-founder Dame Tariana Turia suffers stroke, ‘hasn’t been given much time’
OTHER
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Gambler’s death sparked a law change. So why have there been no prosecutions?
Benn Bathgate (Waikato Times/Post): Forget the 501s: New data reveals who New Zealand is booting out and why (paywalled)
David Williams (Newsroom): DoC’s big donation drive gets mixed reviews
Anna Leask (Herald): Faith-based abuse survivor and advocate rejects King’s Service Medal, blasts Government on treatment of victims
Tim Brown (RNZ): Survivors of abuse in care recognised in New Year Honours list
RNZ: Obituary: Former Race Relations Conciliator Wally Hirsh dies
RNZ: Kāpiti and Mana Islands return to Ngāti Toa
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Her KiwiSaver balance is $15,000, his $120,000: Women face motherhood penalty - how to avoid it
Lois Williams (Local Democracy Reporting): West Coast better prepped than ever before for the big one
RNZ: Police given wider anti-gang powers as woman's death investigated
Mike Mather (Waikato Times): Cops using anti-gang law in Ngaruawahia homicide case (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Notre-Dame’s rebuild highlights the shame of Christchurch’s still quake-stricken cathedral (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): Move over Generation Alpha, Generation Beta is here (paywalled)
Cartoons
PS. What about the principles from the 80s and on? The three P's and all that?
What's the deal with the Treaty Principles Bill? I don't get it. giggles. Bunch of stirrers on both sides.