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Author: Bryce Edwards
PARLIAMENT, PARTIES
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Bussy being green? (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Golriz’s defence of Tory Whanau highlights Green Party Candidate selection problems
Chris Trotter (Interest): What’s on the label versus what’s in the tin: Would our political parties get past the Fair Trading Act?
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): MPs are not powerless to stop the online abuse they complain about (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): Te Pāti Māori’s ongoing financial accountability failures
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On The Left’s Electability Crisis, And The Abundance Ecotopia
Brian Easton: Why Does Policy Failure Dominate New Zealand Government?
Rob Stock (Post): What members’ bills say about MPs and their parties' priorities
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): To snap or not to snap? Who’s ready for an early election?
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘We are ready to go’: Labour talks up potential for snap election
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Peters’ desperation is PM’s gain
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Labour doesn’t support Te Pāti Māori policy for Māori to get NZ Super at earlier age (paywalled)
RNZ: Labour's Chris Hipkins stands by initial Covid response, but admits mistakes were made
RNZ: Hone Harawira criticises former Te Pāti Māori candidate Pere Huriwai-Seger for confronting Casey Costello
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: What is the Two by Twos, the secretive sect linked to a National MP?
Anna Leask (Herald): Two by Twos: NZ police confirm ‘several’ new investigations into alleged sexual abuse within church
Greg Presland (The Standard): The National MP and the religious sect
David Farrar: Electoral law changes
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. Paddy and Amanda
WELLINGTON
Harriet Laughton (Post): Hefty salary offered to get ‘best possible person’ for council top job (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): How Labour walked away from Tory Whanau and backed Andrew Little (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Windbag: Andrew Little reshapes the Wellington mayoral contest
Dave Armstrong (Post): Suddenly the boring is making local body politics interesting (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Wellbeing or well spent? Wellington Water backtracks on hidden spending
Nick James (RNZ): High Court confirms Wellington cutback on character-housing protections in district plan
Ray Chung (Sunday Star Times): Candidates Corner: Ray Chung on standing up to ‘tax and spend’ (paywalled)
Andrew Little (Sunday Star Times): Candidates Corner: Andrew Little on facing ‘the tough challenges’ (paywalled)
Tory Whanau (Sunday Star Times): Candidates Corner: Tory Whanau on Wellington’s transformational change (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Deadline day for written submissions on council long-term plan (paywalled)
Tom Hunt and Hanna McCallum (Post): Council’s proposed Airbnb changes force widower into work
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Todd Niall (Newsroom): Wayne’s mate’s rates – $300k a year contract
Amy Ridout (Stuff): ‘More rewarding, more influence’: Making the jump from MP to mayor
Brooke Black and Chris Tobin (Timaru Herald): Era of lazy asset management over, economist says
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): 'Wall Street-style fit-out on the ratepayer tab': Taxpayers' Union criticises Tauranga City Council's new office
Alexa Cook (RNZ): 'Leave the library alone': Napier community fighting against Council proposal to close it
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Alcohol retailers fight Rotorua’s proposed freeze on new liquor off-licences
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Future of ‘grand old lady’ in commissioner’s hands
Helmut Modlink (Post): Porirua showing world better way to do democracy – Te tiriti-style (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT
Katy Jones (Stuff): Government 'wilfully blind' on climate change, specialists say
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Threat of climate change downgraded in defence force plan
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Pacific nations split, as NZ abstains vote from global shipping emissions pledge
Herald Editorial: We must navigate change on shipping emissions (paywalled)
Joanne Naish (Press/Post): Six arrested as mine expansion protest enters fifth day (paywalled)
RNZ: Protesters staying put despite trespass notice at Stockton mine on West Coast
Joanne Naish (Press/Post): One detained by police as mine activists settle in ‘for the long haul’ (paywalled)
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Protesters set up camp at fast-tracked coal mine
Liz McDonald (Press/Post): Protesters camp outside fast-tracked West Coast coal mine (paywalled)
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): What does the future hold for whenua Māori?
Nic Rawlence and Michael Knapp (Newsroom): Dire wolves: rather than ‘de-extincting’ species, let’s save those we have
Rod Carr (Sunday Star Times): Too much musing on renewing fossil fuels delays investment in clean energy (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE, DEFENCE
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Act left out of loop on PM’s tariff alliance plans
Herald Editorial: PM Luxon visits UK for trade talks amid global uncertainty (paywalled)
Soumya Bhamidipati (RNZ): Christopher Luxon meets King Charles, due to discuss trade and security with British PM
Herald: Luxon meets King Charles following death of Pope Francis
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon promotes NZ as ‘champion for free trade’ as he heads to UK amid global uncertainty
RNZ: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to talk trade and defence with UK prime minister Keir Starmer
Audrey Young (Herald): The truth about Christopher Luxon’s scrap with Winston Peters over US tariffs (paywalled)
Peter Dunne: Trump's Tariffs Still Pose Risks For New Zealand
RNZ: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to talk trade and defence with UK prime minister Keir Starmer
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Which NZ listed companies are feeling tariff pain?
Max Rashbrooke (Post): The challenge Trump’s tariffs pose for the progressive left (paywalled)
Robert MacCulloch: How NZ should be responding to the United States Trump Tariffs with the Aim of Making Kiwis Better Off
Arena Williams, Stuart Smith (Stuff): If a tariff war is coming, we need to be ready
Jamie Ensor (Herald): New Zealand MPs visit Taiwan, meet President Lai Ching-te despite not recognising it as country
Susana Leiataua (RNZ): What was HMNZS Manawanui was doing before it sunk? Calls for greater transparency
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Government commits to Ukraine support, extends Defence Force mission
RNZ: New Zealand extending military assistance to Ukraine
Post: New Zealand extending its military assistance in support of Ukraine
Marco de Jong & Dylan Asafo (E-Tangata):Towards a genuine ‘Ocean of Peace’
ODT Editorial: Veterans receive overdue recognition (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): Not his first rodeo: Winston’s horse, Stamina, and how he got his name
MEDIA
Philip Crump: NZME’s Future: Fresh Governance, Shareholder Value, and Balanced News
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: NZME board battle - Jim Grenon nominee Philip Crump on NZ Herald editorial quality and trust, says Grenon is not a ‘political extremist’
Jenny Ruth: If Grenon’s band wins control of NZME, will it facilitate commercial free speech? (paywalled)
Centrist: The Press gets curious about Centrist – but doesn’t quite hit the mark
David Harvey: The Freedom to Reject
Mick Hall: News bosses gave spy agency little choice but to investigate me
RNZ: NZSIS inquiries into former RNZ journalist 'appropriate' - spy watchdog
Gavin Ellis: Legion of wake-up calls embedded in news trust report
Nikki Macdonald (Post): What’s the future for media? (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): News with the lights on (paywalled)
Centrist: Same scandal, different script: how the Herald protects one MP and targets another
Hayden Donnell (RNZ): Mediawatch: Christian broadcaster Rhema expanding, bucking the media trend
Marc Greenhill (Post): The ‘gals’ bringing the fun back to political chat (paywalled)
PUBLIC SECTOR
RNZ: The House: The watchdog that listens: Peter Boshier reflects on nine years as Ombudsman
Mary Argue (RNZ): Will a new chief science advisor be appointed soon?
Eric Crampton (Post): When rules are only worth the paper they’re written on (paywalled)
RNZ: Stephen Wainwright is leaving Creative NZ "immeasurably richer" as a person
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Benefit numbers show big year-on-year rise: More Jobseekers than when Government formed
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Tariff turmoil radically changes the Government’s election calculus (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Luxon’s Lenten boost should have Labour thinking hard (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Minimum wage workers falling behind as inflation climbs back up to 2.5% (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): The future of NZ’s debt is here (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): What next for the economy?
Liam Dann (Herald): Reserve Bank needs to cut interest rates further and faster to save this economic recovery (paywalled)
Mary Jo Vergara (Post): Poised and primed for it, but the NZ economic recovery now looks less certain (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Here's what rising prices might mean for interest rates
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): What we've learnt from past economic volatility
Roger Partridge (Herald): NZ’s infrastructure crisis: Unlocking Crown assets for renewal (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Safe harbour: NZ attracts ‘increased interest’ from infrastructure investors looking for deals
Rebecca Stevenson (BusinessDesk): US investors dominate golden visa applications, $305m minimum new investment (paywalled)
HOUSING, PROPERTY INDUSTRY
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Does New Zealand still have a housing crisis? Yep
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Community housing builds stalled as providers left without financial security
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): When a roof over your head is not enough (paywalled)
Herald: Heritage advocates fear RMA reforms threaten Auckland’s kauri villas (paywalled)
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): Auckland’s Plan Change 78: In defence of the villa amid urban intensification push (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Debating the ins and outs of building a desirable residence (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How do home loan rates compare to other countries'?
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How has the housing market coped with population growth?
Catherine Masters (One Roof/Herald): Kāinga Ora declines to say who bought $2m state cottages
Hanna McCallum (Post): The vibrant suburb rallying around its growing street community (paywalled)
Alice Webb-Liddall (Spinoff): What mould means: exploring the connection between housing and health
Glen Jones (Post): Winter is coming but house prices are showing signs of a thaw (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Ockham’s Toi is the foundation block of a new Auckland suburb (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Sunday Star Times): Simplicity’s Ellerslie Racecourse build a ‘landmark’ for Auckland
Miriam Bell (Post): Fletcher’s Three Kings development ‘more than just houses’ (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Wellington’s Lido Apartments aim to ‘open up’ city living (paywalled)
HEALTH
Jessica Rosen (1News): Nelson patients wait as heart disease becomes inoperable — cardiologist
Azaria Howell (Herald): Health NZ paid for departing chief executive Margie Apa to do governance course as she was leaving
Azaria Howell (Herald): Why Director-General of Health Audrey Sonerson was hand-picked, not traditionally hired (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Health NZ report admits poor management of hospital facilities
Anna Whyte (Post): ‘Slippery’ health doc subject of several complaints (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): More than 2400 jobs on the line at Health NZ. Half are vacant
Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): Patients have 'bigger concerns' than one-day strike - advocate
Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): 'Shame' on Health NZ for years of unpaid nurses' work - union as strike looms
Rachelle Martin & Kaaren Mathias (The Conversation): 1 in 6 New Zealanders is disabled. Why does so much health research still exclude them?
Jenny Carryer (Post): Attacks on cultural safety in health highlight politicians’ ignorance
Vinetta Plummer (E-Tangata): The slow creep of alcohol
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Medical testing company Awanui loses millions amid 'funding gap', staff to strike over pay
Alison Pugh (1News): Heath experts call for centralised approach to breast milk banks
Virginia Fallon (Sunday Star Times): ‘A culture of silence’: How speaking up on suicide might save lives (paywalled)
CHATHAM ISLANDS
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Govt looks to compensate Chathams for ‘confiscated’ fishing quota
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Energy and shipping decisions needed before meatworks - Chatham Islands mayor
Adam Pearse (Herald): Shane Jones woos and warns Chatham Islands with ‘surprise’ abattoir and kūmara bin (paywalled)
Craig Hoyle (Sunday Star Times): The Chatham Islands, a long way to go for lunch (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): How life continues on the isolated Chatham Islands
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
David Williams (Newsroom): Questions raised over fishing trawlers’ benefits
Gianina Schwanecke (RNZ): MPI investigates high summer death rate in New Zealand King Salmon following SAFE complaint
Stephanie Ockhuysen (RNZ): 'Best farmers in the world': Christopher Luxon praises New Zealand's agriculture sector
NATURAL DISASTERS
Sam Olley (1News): Govt proposes to fine utility providers for failing to plan for disasters
Marika Hill (RNZ): Northland Civil Defence leader: Govt must 'wave the big stick' over telcos’ storm failure
Reid Basher (Post): Time to learn from history and properly tackle disaster readiness (paywalled)
Cécile L’Hermitte (The Conversation): NZ’s over-reliance on roads for freight means natural disasters hit even harder. But there is a fix
Phil Wilson (Herald): Thunderstorms are unpredictable, the team did extremely well
Karoline Tuckey (RNZ): Weather warnings questioned after overnight Auckland downpours
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘It’s bloody rude’: Cyclone victim hit with $1400 rates bill
POPE FRANCIS
RNZ: Pope Francis death: World leaders including Christopher Luxon, Winston Peters, react
1News: NZ leaders join world in mourning Pope Francis
