HOUSING
Luke Malpass (Post): Like it or loathe it, the coalition is cracking on (paywalled)
Miriam Bell and Thomas Manch (The Post): The billion-dollar question hanging over housing reforms (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour and National housing policy leaves anti-density backers nowhere to run (paywalled)
RNZ: Housing reforms mean a free market and 'extremely ugly buildings', developer says
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Thinking outside the shoebox: How small is too small for an apartment?
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Sweeping central government rules will promote smaller homes, sprawling cities, and hopefully lower house prices
Georgina Stylianou (Post): How Chris Bishop has got it right with his housing plans (paywalled)
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell welcomes new Government housing growth plan
David Farrar: Finally a great housing package
RNZ: Ousted Kāinga Ora board member slams government plans as 'wanton folly'
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Is $2b accommodation supplement just lining landlord pockets?
Anne Gibson (Herald): Two Auckland developers gazumped Government: Housing ‘flood’ on outskirts already under way (paywalled)
David Chaston (Interest): More auctions, worse results for vendors
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Mortgagee sales on the rise as homeowners 'let it all go too long'
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Solution for homeless turned down (paywalled)
Justin Wong (Post): High Court quashes wāhi tapu classification for Waikanae Beach land (paywalled)
LABOUR, UK LABOUR ELECTION VICTORY
Danyl McLauchlan (Herald): Chris Hipkins needs to have some awkward conversations (paywalled)
Kelly Dennett (Post): When will Auckland forgive Labour? (paywaleld)
Andrea Vance (Post): Labour MP used charity’s van for political campaigning (paywalled)
Jack Vowles, Jennifer Curtin, and Lara Greaves (Herald): New book explores how NZ fell out of love with Jacinda Ardern (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): How the team of 5 million lost the game (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): The big lesson from the UK? Competence matters
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): Are there lessons for Hipkins in the UK Labour landslide?
Greg Presland (The Standard): The implications of UK Labour’s success for NZ Labour
Shane Te Pou (Herald): UK election victory is one Labour can’t afford to waste (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (Post): Sleaze, disunity and incompetence versus hope - but what does it mean? (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Green MP Darleen Tana spends 115 days suspended – half her political career
Frances Morton (Post): Golriz Ghahraman: ‘I feel more myself than I have for so long’
David Farrar: The Ghahraman judgment
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): From success to succession
Peter Wilson (RNZ): The Week in Politics: Is it 'mission accomplished' for Chris Bishop?
Claire Trevett (Herald): Christopher Luxon’s Nato trip perfectly timed for US, UK networking; Wayne Brown delivers bipartisan slapping (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Act MP Mark Cameron returns to Parliament after his son’s tragic death (paywalled)
Post: Beehive Briefing: Everything you need to know from today (paywalled)
Denis Welch (Listener): 1984 Revolution: David Lange - the leader that was led? (paywalled)
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): 1984 Revolution: The rise of Rogernomics and how it still shapes NZ lives (paywalled)
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Displacement, drift, layering and conversion: The changing parliament
FAST-TRACK, ENVIRONMENT
Andrea Vance (Post): Is rebooted fast-track a law written by the Government’s cronies? (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Government weighing second sea bed mining application (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Is the Govt’s need for speed undermining democratic processes? (paywalled)
1News: Q-A: Dig baby dig? Shane Jones on if his case for more mining adds up
Harriet Laughton (Herald): Forest and Bird’s first female president says Fast-Track Approvals Bill is one of NZ’s biggest conservation challenges
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Action plan: 40 shades of grey but no green
MEDIA
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Newshub closure: The slow death of linear TV - sadly this is just the start (paywalled)
Karl du Fresne: Here's the news: life will go on
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): The Weekend: Is there too much news about the news?
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider review: Stuff takes over TV3 6pm news after Newshub closure - here’s how it went (paywalled)
Janet Wilson (Post): Stuff’s ThreeNews; the verdict (paywalled)
RNZ: As it happened: Stuff's new 6pm bulletin goes to air
Tara Ward (Spinoff): Here is the (new) news: ThreeNews makes its news debut
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): Stuff’s 6pm bulletin is the boldest – and scariest – media bet in years. Will it pay off?
Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): Excitement and nerves ahead of new bulletin, Stuff CEO says
Newshub: Who's behind the next generation of ThreeNews?
Newshub: Goodbye from Newshub
Alex Casey (Spinoff): ‘No tears till 7pm’: How Newshub said goodbye to Newshub
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Newshub at 6 signs off with a bang - and a whimper
Press Editorial (Post): When the news is the news (paywalled)
Juliet Speedy (Newshub): What legacy does Newshub leave behind?
Newshub: Mike McRoberts and Samantha Hayes make an emotional farewell to Newshub viewers
1News: Thank you for being our people': Newshub's Hayes, McRoberts sign off
Daniel Rutledge (Newshub): Newshub closure: Looking back on the history of 3news.co.nz and newshub.co.nz as it ceases operations
Riria Dalton-Reedy (Te Ao Māori News): Haere rā Newshub - A look back at the Māori journalists who shone
Ashleigh McCaull (RNZ): Māori broadcaster Joanna Paul-Robie asked to present two shows in video closet
Eva Corlett (Guardian): End of an era for New Zealand media as Newshub set to air final bulletin
Good Ideas: A ray of light in the media gloom (paywalled)
Brodie Hunter (RNZ): Media student worried about finding a secure job in journalism
Justin Hu (1News): Internet-only: 'Sunset' for broadcast TV on cards, but timing unclear
Greg Bruce (Herald): Jack Tame on ‘that interview’ with Winston Peters, his old next door neighbour Wayne Brown and journalism’s future (paywalled)
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Mihingarangi Forbes: I’ve still got heaps of gas in the tank
Felix Walton (RNZ): Shortland Street cut to three episodes a week
Oscar Kightley (Post): Farewell Sunday News (paywalled)
TRANSPORT
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): NZTA taps WSP consultant for critical infrastructure job (paywalled)
Jessica Roden (1News): Questions swirl around ageing ports as Govt mulls new ferries
Anna Whyte (Post): KiwiRail meeting with staff over proposed restructure (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): NZTA urgently investigated safety concerns raised by Auckland and Wellington train bosses against KiwiRail; Simeon Brown to meet Auckland rail companies Monday
Herald Editorial: KiwiRail bosses jump ship as Interislander ferry future hangs in balance (paywalled)
Brendon Harre (Interest): What was the minimum viable upgrade for the mega-ferries?
Arena Williams, Stuart Smith (Stuff): We urgently need to know the Government’s ferry plan
RNZ: All new Roads of National Significance may be tolled
Felix Desmarais (1News): Early work set to begin on 7 Roads of National Significance - Brown
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Govt pushes ahead with Woodend Bypass
RNZ: Checkpoint: Auckland schools 'shocked and confused' over speed limit U-turn - councillor
Simon Kingham and Angela Curl (PHCCA): Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected
Christina Robertson (Newsroom): Safety features don’t end at the car door
1News: Air NZ flight to Hong Kong turned back after 2.5 hours in the air
Catherine Knight (Newsroom): Back to the future for Auckland’s transport woes
HEALTH
Brian Easton (Pundit): The Pharmac Fiasco
Ian Powell: Corporate general practice ownership highlights unintended perverse outcome
RNZ: Hospital wait for cancer treatment and surgery worse off at start of year - report
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Hundreds of cancer patients set to benefit from Pharmac boost - but some still missing out
RNZ: Cancer advocates hail funding of breast cancer drug Keytruda
Rachel Thomas (Post): Pharmac plans to fund Keytruda for five new cancers (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Government accused of 'gaslighting' over 'laughable' counselling for health staff
Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): The battle with ACC that lasted 40 years (paywalled)
Rachel Thomas (Post): The struggle is real to see a doctor in the Hutt (paywalled)
Kristie Boland and Mariné Lourens (Press): Health boss job advertised for third time this year (paywalled)
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Hauora provider: Where to now for Māori health after agency's gone?
RNZ: Covid-19: Mountains of expired PPE, rapid antigen tests to be turned into alternative fuels or recycled
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Years of ECT treatment she didn’t need
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Mary Afemata (Local Democracy Reporting): Manurewa Marae alleged to have politicised vaccination events
RNZ: Government rejects Future for Local Government review recommendations
K Gurunathan (Post): How local government became the punching bag of Kiwi politics (paywalled)
Raphael Franks (Herald): Mayor Wayne Brown has ‘Biden moment’, reveals confidential land purchase offer in council meeting
Wayne Brown (Post): Dumb tunnels and dumb laws (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Post): YMCA forced to pay back $1.1 million to Auckland Council in seven-year City Rail Link saga (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): Pitch to councils slated (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): Councils struggling to fund, deliver services
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Carterton councillors fear code of conducts silencing their views
Ryan Boswell (1News): Christchurch dealing with increasingly aggressive beggars
Erin Gourley (Post): Councillors pushing for venue guidelines after anti-trans event (paywalled)
Tom Kitchin (RNZ): The Detail: Tauranga's democratic comeback
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Windbag: Holy shit, there are hanging lights in that tree!
Iona Pannett (Post): Ending misogyny, homophobia and racism in the city (paywalled)
André Chumko (post): Social media maven ‘Simone’ signs off from council (paywalled)
Zita Campbell (Local Democracy Reporting): Tai Rāwhiti to see major land management shift under new council plan
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): $300k of misallocated funds returned to Martinborough
Hamish MacLean (ODT): DCC studying climate change resilience options (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Janet Wilson (Post): Putting the boot into the political football of Te Pūkenga (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Search begins for new education secretary (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Testing times for primary pupils (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Final hearing approaching for Education Ministry, union case (paywalled)
Isaac Davison (Herald): Screen time: New limits needed in New Zealand schools, experts say
Herald Editorial: Government needs to take screen time in schools seriously (paywalled)
Cecilia Robinson (Herald): Addressing New Zealand’s educational decline (paywalled)
ABUSE IN CARE REPORT
Tim Brown (RNZ): PM on defensive after minister admits not reading interim abuse report
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Cost of abuse in state care under spotlight ahead of Royal Commission of Inquiry’s report (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, REFUGEES, TRADE
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Repackaging New Zealand and the struggle to 'sell' a nation (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Luxon heading to US as Biden fights for his future (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Christopher Luxon heads to Washington as pressure mounts on Joe Biden
Adam Pearse and Julia Gabel (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he will work with likely new UK Labour Government ahead of US visit
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Christopher Luxon has a trump card in complex game of international politics (paywalled)
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Sacked probation officer’s alleged spy links ‘a wake-up call’
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Probation officer sacked for snooping is linked to alleged spy Yang Jian
Vaimoana Mase (Herald): Samoan citizenship bill: Aigagalefili Fepulea’i-Tapua’i among a new generation fighting for justice
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): NZ to send civil servants to boost Niue's public sector
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): 'No humanity': Asylum seekers in Nauru claim mistreatment but Adeang disagrees
Herald Editorial: Why should New Zealanders care about the US election? (paywalled)
Gregor Thompson (BusinessDesk): Indian government denied trademark of ‘basmati’ rice variety (paywalled)
Jarrod Gilbert (Herald): A message to Vladimir Putin after the Russian Government sanctioned me (paywalled)
Del Carlini (Post): The defence capability we actually need as global tensions rise (paywalled)
ECONOMY
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): We have to stop wasting time and refocus to avoid economic rocks
Liam Dann (Herald): OCR preview: No mercy – why the Reserve Bank won’t rush to soften its stance (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): Reserve Bank set to leave us guessing again
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): The non-tradable inflation conundrum
Liam Dann (Herald): Stats say Kiwis are getting wealthier but housing accounts for most of it (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): Rise in Kiwis' pension assets offsets renewed falls in housing values
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): RBNZ could hint cuts may come sooner
Esther Taunton (Stuff): What’s next for the official cash rate?
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Bank economists largely give blessing for Reserve Bank to leave OCR unchanged (paywalled)
PUBLIC SECTOR
Azaria Howell (Herald): Office for Māori Crown Relations mulls staff cuts; further reduction planned at Justice Ministry and Corrections
RNZ: 13 jobs set to go at Office for Māori Crown Relations Te Arawhiti
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour warns Oranga Tamariki cuts will ‘decimate’ youth justice system
Aroha Gilling (E-Tangata): Let’s do better for Māori in civil service
Rob Stock (Post): Government workers are giving themselves a payrise by cashing up annual leave (paywalled)
EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Government accused of undermining Uber drivers’ legal battle to be treated as employees (paywalled)
Tiana Thorpe (Herald): Kiwis’ average wage by age revealed - how does your salary stack up?
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Suppliers and shoppers can’t both win, unless supermarkets ‘take a haircut’
LAW AND ORDER, JUSTICE
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Police officers furious at union backdown in pay dispute
Maxine Jacobs and Katie Ham (Press/Post): ‘Knives out’: Cops rage after Police Association presents lower pay offer (paywalled)
Deborah Morris (Post): When courts are not safe to work at, what needs to be done (paywalled)
Soumya Bhamidipati (RNZ): Someone caught at least once a year caught trying to take a gun into a prison
Tony Wall (Post): Corrections staffer died from job-related stress, family claim (paywalled)
Gaurav Sharma (RNZ): ‘Our lives don’t matter’ - Indian businesses want action on violent retail crime
Samantha Hayes (Stuff): Gang chapter reveals long-term plan to remove patches
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