Republished with Permission
Author: Bryce Edwards
PAY EQUITY
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Lies, damned lies and political subterfuge
Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: Lack of debate fans pay equity fury
Mandy Henk (Newsroom): I’m a librarian and you’re right Mr Luxon. But not for the reasons you think.
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Is comparing librarians to fisheries officers really so ridiculous?
Melissa Ansell-Bridges (Post): What the Equal Pay Act changes really mean for women
Catherine Beard (Post): Pay equity was becoming unrealistic, both in cost and credibility (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The pay equity changes are in muddied water
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Echo Chamber: Cut it, gut it or re-up it, pay equity is ready to overshadow the budget
Cameron Slater: Luxon’s Pay Equity Debacle: A Political Trainwreck of His Own Making (paywalled)
THE C-WORD
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Brooke van Velden drops C-word in Parliament
RNZ: Labour defends raising column as C-word debate spirals
1News: Minister drops C-bomb in Parliament while quoting controversial column
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Brooke van Velden drops c-bomb after Labour asks if she agrees with column containing sexist slur
Thomas Manch (Post): Brooke van Velden says 'c...' in Parliament in response to Sunday Star-Times column (paywalled)
Alice Neville (Spinoff): A brief history of swearing in parliament
TE PĀTI MĀORI SUSPENSION
RNZ: Unprecedented punishment on Te Pati Maori MPs over protest haka not taken lightly - Judith Collins
Adam Pearse (Herald): Privileges committee recommends suspension for Te Pāti Māori MPs who performed House haka
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori MPs to be temporarily suspended from Parliament over haka
1News: Te Pāti Māori MPs suspended for performing haka in Parliament
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori receive ‘harshest punishment Privileges Committee’s ever handed out’
Anna Whyte (Post): Privileges Committee recommends Te Pāti Māori leaders suspended for haka (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Outrageous and antidemocratic
REGULATORY STANDARDS BILL
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Act’s ‘good lawmaking’ bill: Storm in a teacup or potential chilling effect?
Julia Gabel (Herald): Regulatory Standards Bill faces backlash at urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing
RNZ: Regulatory Standards Bill will lead to 'inappropriate, dangerous' powers, claimants say
Joel Maxwell (Stufff): Waitangi Tribunal hears it could get an 'anti-Waitangi Tribunal' in new ACT bill
RNZ: 18,000 register support for Tribunal claim against Regulatory Standards Bill
Maioha Panapa (Te Ao Māori News): Toitū te Tiriti lawyer speaks on behalf of 13,000+ in Regulatory Standards bill hearing
GREENS’ BUDGET
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Labour doesn’t rule out taxes from Greens’ $89b plan, will address policies ‘closer to election’
RNZ: Coalition deride Green budget as 'Marxist' and 'left-wing Trumpism'
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Green Budget would see $88 billion in new taxes pay for free ECE, dental, GP care
Thomas Coughlan & Adam Pearse (Herald): Greens promise $88b taxes including 33% inheritance tax for massive social safety net expansion
Nick James (RNZ): Greens promise free doctor visits, childcare but new taxes, higher borrowing
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Green Party would give almost $400 weekly payment to job seekers
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Green Budget proposes $22b wealth and private jet taxes
Thomas Manch (Post): Green Party pitches $20b wealth tax for free GP visits, ECE, and dental (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): What does Labour really think of the Greens' alternative Budget?
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): The Green's budget is in la-la land
Steven Cowan: Green Party Budget: The oligarchy is ’terrified’ by the prospect of change
BUDGET, FINANCE MINISTERS
David Farrar: An appalling decision by Treasury
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour policies offer hope in tough financial times (paywalled)
Cherie Howie (Herald): Finance Minister Nicola Willis signals KiwiSaver changes amidst Superfund withdrawal announcement
Herald Editorial: We’ve reached the point where KiwiSaver changes must occur (paywalled)
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Labour’s back to its old tricks
Michael Reddell: Ministers of Finance
HEALTH
RNZ: New Zealand has highest child suicide rate, a survey of wealthy countries shows
Phil Pennington (RNZ): RNZ obtains two OIAs - one redacted, one not
ODT Editorial: Silly surgery secrecy attempt (paywalled)
Amy Williams (RNZ): Public doctors will quit if easy operations are outsourced to private hospitals, radiologist says
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): When a life year costs $43k or $407,000, depending on the department (paywalled)
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Southland Hospital struggling with 'too small' ED
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Call for 24/7 trained security as survey finds daily violence normalised across EDs
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): First signs of life at hospital site
Public Health Communication Centre: International index ranks Aotearoa New Zealand last for effective alcohol policy
Nicolas Jones (Stuff): ‘People are dying’: Why this company wants to be ‘the Rocket Lab of immunotherapy’
ABUSE IN STATE CARE
Louis Collins (RNZ): Urgent debate on redress for abuse in state care
Tim Scott (ODT): Compensation complaint laid
SOCIAL MEDIA
Patrick Walsh (Herald): School leaders deal with social media’s harm every Monday morning (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): Under-16 social media ban: Three pain points as Australia grapples with how to implement it (paywalled)
Mike King (Herald): Banning social media won’t fix our kids’ mental health (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION, RMA
Richard Harman (Politik): Reforming the RMA; the tensions and problems (paywalled)
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Mayor supports hapū in fight against fast-tracked marina proposal
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Hauraki Gulf bottom trawling corridor proposals chucked on ice
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Ban on Northland rock lobster fishing on the cards
Kayla Kingdon-Bebb (Post): A tone-deaf happy birthday message to David Attenborough (paywalled)
Andrea Graves (Listener): Our longfin eels are endangered, so why are they being commercially fished? (paywalled)
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Council to step up investigation into source of asbestos found on East Auckland beaches
RNZ: Council warns of washed up asbestos on East Auckland beaches
WAITANGI TRIBUNAL REVIEW
Richard Prebble (Herald): Why the Waitangi Tribunal ‘should be disestablished’ (paywalled)
Jack McDonald (Post): Tribunal’s history based on making the country a better place (paywalled)
POLICE, CRIME, FIREARMS
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Police watchdog reveals nature of investigation into former deputy commissioner
Stuff: Former top cop Jevon McSkimming sells up property amid criminal investigation
Derek Cheng (Herald): ‘Ridiculous’ Cabinet paper: Why Firearms Minister Nicole McKee compared guns to ovens and toasters (paywalled)
Felicity Dear (ODT): Shock images show 3-D printed guns made in Oamaru (paywalled)
Virginia Fallon (Post): Juliana Bonilla-Herrera should have been told (paywalled)
MIGRATION
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Chasing higher pay and a brighter future, record numbers abandon NZ for Australia
Greg Ninness (Interest): March-year net migration gain tumbles 74%
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Reports of recruitment scams more than double (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Ethan Manera (Herald): The six men competing to be Wellington’s next mayor
Andrea Vance and Justin Wong (Post): Upper Hutt council rejects $1.5m deal for stalled mall development
Justin Wong (Post): New wastewater plant UV system fails three times in less than a year (paywalled)
Post: Cycleway appeal path opened (paywalled)
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Canterbury council votes to form water ‘coalition’ (paywalled)
Yolisa Tswanya (Northern Advocate): Far North Council euthanises 56 dogs in two months
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Plans for $2.5 million inner-city development in Hastings for vibrant living
Brent Melville (NBR): A mountain to climb in Queenstown-Lakes district (paywalled)
NBR: Court rejects Greg Olliver golf course’s council claim (paywalled)
David Long (Stuff): Point Chevalier library delay frustrates shop owners, concerns about crime and safety
EDUCATION, TRAINING
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Hamilton principal to use truancy funds to tackle poverty
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): What I would do if I was running the new truancy service
Katie Todd (RNZ): Queenstown principals, parents push back on possible govt bus cuts
Peter Griffin (BusinessDesk): Missing the digital bus: industry leaders urge a rethink on tech skills (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
RNZ: Todd McClay describes first round of FTA talks with India as 'constructive’
RNZ: US-China tariff truce provides 'cautious hope' for Kiwi exporters, NZ China Council says
Alka Prasad (Post): Tariff U-turn could still mean big returns for NZ exports to China (paywalled)
RNZ: NZ travellers warned of increased detention risk at US border
HOUSING
Ruwani Perera (The Hui): Age 11 and living on the streets: Auckland’s youth homelessness ‘crisis’
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): Kāinga Ora still doesn't have carpet provider months after reopening tender process
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Tiny homes on wheels: vexing questions for owners, councils and makers
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Almost one in 10 property sellers taking a loss
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): People selling their home within three years could be facing a loss, new report finds
Cameron Smith (Herald): Property resellers pocket $280k average profit in first three months of 2025 despite soft market
BUSINESS
Anne Gibson (Herald): Winton Land’s $200m Ayrburn screen hub fast-tracking follows Donald Trump’s 100% foreign film tariff (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): Fast-track review for $200m Ayrburn film studio (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): Winton takes a big-picture view in Ayrburn film hub (paywalled)
Anan Zaki (RNZ): Survey reveals growth a key concern for businesses, signals improving conditions
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Business has ‘relatively low expectations’ for Budget, BDO says (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): Retail card spending officially flat - but some signs of life
Eric Frykberg (Interest): New report says Māori interests in horticulture are growing fast while the industry as a whole faces constraints
Ella Scott-Fleming (ODT): Regulation loopholes exploitable: farmer
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): ANZ slips to bottom of Consumer NZ's annual bank satisfaction survey replacing Westpac
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): KiwiSaver and fossil fuels: Weighing the investment decision (paywalled)
Matt Nippert & Chris Knox (Herald): NZ’s top 10 banned business people: Fraud, bankruptcies, and lifetime bans
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): NZ’s sole aluminium recycling foundry may close because of gas shortage (paywalled)
INFASTRUCTURE
Hamish MacLean (ODT): '$3 billion' Otago inland port plan revealed
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Plans for NZ’s largest inland port announced: $3b private investment
Hamish MacLean (ODT): Proposed hub an ‘absolute tonic’
TRANSPORT
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown says congestion charging won't work if it's seen as a 'Wellington power grab’ (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Restoring flights to regional NZ: why it’s so hard (paywalled)
Jack Riddell (Hawkes Bay Today): Te reo Māori ‘stop-go’ sign at Hawke’s Bay roadworks doesn’t conform to rules, minister and NZTA say
Harriet Laughton (Post): More than 5000 ticketed by bus lane camera in two months (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Bike racks are back on buses – but why did it take so long?
TAX, IRD
Terry Baucher (Interest): How Mickey Mouse influenced the NZ tax system, IR uncovers more than $150 million from the property sector, plus 5 suggestions to improve our tax system
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Chasing overseas student loan debt is long overdue
MEDIA
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Herald withdraws ‘scoop’ finalist from awards after Tipene Funerals complaint
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Kamahl Santamaria tells Employment Authority: 'I became and remain unemployable'
OTHER
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Early KiwiSaver withdrawals used more for financial hardship than first homes
Dita De Boni (Post): Richard Wagstaff to step down as president of the CTU (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Chairs, board members named for new science mergers
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): ‘Surrendered’: Why a popular pub turned pool hall has to switch off its pokies
