Table of Contents
Republished with Permission
Author: Bryce Edwards
LOBBYING, INTEGRITY ISSUES
David Williams (Newsroom): Who Benefits: The power of the farm lobby, part one
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Alleged ties between NZ First and vaping companies a 'dangerous risk' to New Zealanders, anti-vape group warns
Andrea Vance (Post): Public Service Commission scrapped integrity board to save money (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): Research sheds light on how New Zealand's uber rich achieve offshore secrecy
WATER, ENVIRONMENT, FAST-TRACK
Gerrit Doppenberg (ODT): Water woes may worsen
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Overseas investment changes will undo water bottling safeguard
RNZ: Gore's brown trout statue defaced overnight amid drinking water crisis
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Elation as Whanganui gets voice in fast-track seabed mining decision
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Why this town’s lake is causing a stink
HEALTH
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Healthworkers want politicians to waive private healthcare while in office
Rose Crossin and Emma Shields (Newsroom): Alcohol can cause cancer. So where are the warning labels?
Jessica Roden (1News): Review uncovers 'significant' staffing issues at Nelson Hospital
Samantha Gee (RNZ): Nelson Hospital review dismissed as a 'plan to make a plan'
RNZ: Nelson Hospital review reveals 'nothing of substance' - patient advocate
Cate Macintosh (Press/Post): Junk food ads near schools feature supersized portions - study
RNZ: Twelve cases of Campylobacter reported in Nelson Tasman districts following severe flooding
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ACC to get $7 billion boost from accounting change (paywalled)
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Orthopaedic programme stalls due to lack of funding
Alice Neville (Spinoff): Rainbow charity Outline in limbo as ‘questionable financial practices’ alleged
COST OF LIVING, ECONOMY
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): KiwiSaver hardship withdrawals boom
RNZ: Sharp rise in housing and personal loans hardship cases over past year
Jack McDonald (Post): Lack of plans and action mean no sign of cost of living improvements (paywalled)
Richard Prebble (Herald): John Key is right that New Zealand needs to cut interest rates but we need more than that too (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Why inflation is back and why the Reserve Bank can probably ignore it (paywalled)
Terry Baucher (Interest): Sir Roger Douglas on the future shape of New Zealand's tax system. Also the pros and cons of raising GST to 18%
WILLIS-FONTERRA BUTTER MEETING
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Nicola Willis, Fonterra CEO discuss butter prices, no immediate relief
Giles Dexter (RNZ): 'Butter is expensive right now. There's no getting away from that' - Finance Minister Nicola Willis
Alka Prasad and Kelly Dennett (Post): Willis says Fonterra boss should explain butter prices to Kiwis (paywalled)
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): What did Nicola Willis’s cost-of-butter meeting with Fonterra actually achieve?
No Right Turn: Willis says “let them eat butter”
Vera Alves (Herald: Explainer: Why have New Zealand butter prices gone up – and when will that change?
RNZ: High cost of butter hurting baking industry, making things difficult for families, bakers say
Penny Miles (RNZ): A big, new Waikato butter factory isn't expected to cut prices
FOREIGN BUYER BAN
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon tight-lipped amid speculation over foreign buyers ban change
Dan Brunskill Interest): Foreign investors will get green light to buy luxury homes, Winston Peters says
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): New Zealand First signalling change to foreign buyers ban could be announced this year
Blayne Slabbert and Kelly Dennett (Post): Wealthy foreign investors may soon be able to buy property here (paywalled)
Mina Martin (MPA Mag): Foreign buyer ban stays, but luxury exemptions loom in NZ
HOUSING, HOMELESSNESS
Julia Gabel (Herald): Government report shows homelessness ‘appears’ to be outstripping population growth
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): 'We have a real problem': Homelessness increases but by how much unclear - government report
Max Frethey (Local Democracy Reporting): Issues with Nelson’s ‘streeties’ prompts new call for a shelter
Tom Hunt (Post): Rough sleeping surges 24% in Wellington as housing cuts bite (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Rents fall for first time since 2009
RNZ: Government and Ngāti Maniapoto iwi to build 40 affordable rental homes in Te Kūiti
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): 'We don't get richer buying each other's houses': How Auckland's affordability story has improved
EDUCATION
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Revealed: The bill taxpayers could get for closing Te Pūkenga
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Polytech staff ‘traumatised’ by new cuts (paywalled)
Cate Macintosh (Press/Post): Ministry of Education opens tender for new $3 primary school lunches contract (paywalled)
Good Ideas: 50% failure rate signals a slow-moving catastrophe in literacy and numeracy (paywalled)
RNZ: Secondary teachers union rejects lowest pay offer ever
Nick Agar (Post): Sloppy thinking in the debate over Waikato medical school (paywalled)
CLIMATE CHANGE
Jamie Tahana (RNZ): UN's highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for emissions
Nathan Cooper and Jennifer Campion (The Conversation): Do countries have a duty to prevent climate harm? The world’s highest court is about to decide
Jamie Tahana (RNZ): ICJ climate ruling: Will the world's top court back a Pacific-led call to hold governments accountable for climate change?
Monique Steele (RNZ): 'I'm so very sorry this cost has been put upon you', minister tells beef exporters
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE
Teitimoana Tairi (Cook Islands News): Cook Islands PM: ‘If we can’t get help from NZ, we will go somewhere else’
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Christopher Luxon’s push for deeper ties with China (paywalled)
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: Foreign Minister Winston Peters navigates opposition questions on Gaza
Katie Todd (RNZ): Dunedin councillors flooded with 'highly orchestrated' emails after supporting Green Party bill
Diane McCarthy (Local Democracy Reporting): Nandor Tanczos posts prompt hate crime complaint from Israel
RNZ: Kiwi donor outraged after Givealittle shuts down Gaza fundraising page
RNZ: Kiwi who raised $58k for a family in Gaza wants Givealittle to continue allowing fundraisers
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Trade surplus disappoints, but Finance Minister says export-led recovery not over (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): No sign 10% tariff will increase but uncertainty remains: Mfat (paywalled)
SPACE
Sam Smith (Stuff): Government takes action to deter foreign actors from abusing ground-based space infrastructure
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Space infrastructure bill requiring permits passes under urgency
Thomas Manch (Post): Parliament urgently passes ground-based space infrastructure law (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Justin Wong (Post): Plan changes from 34 councils in Government RMA firing line (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): ‘Supercity’ back on table as council bosses agree reform inevitable (paywalled)
Timothy Welch (The Conversation): Auckland is NZ’s ‘primate city’, but its potential remains caged in by poor planning and vision
Victor Waters (RNZ): Auckland councillor tries again to ban helicopters in residential areas
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Northland business leaders call for more government investment in infrastructure
Richard Harman: Look North – if the road is open
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Northland Corporate Group targets $60b regional economy by 2050 (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press): Council weighs in on industrial relations at Lyttelton Port (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press): Plans to finally develop Christchurch’s infamous seagull pit (paywalled)
Chris Lynch: Phil Mauger ranked New Zealand’s most popular metropolitan mayor
Brett Kerr-Laurie (Press): Waimak mayor crowned most popular mayor in NZ (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Echo Chamber: Chris Hipkins, you frickin’ smart-arse sausage roll eater
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): (Almost) everything our governments have inherited since 2005
RESERVE BANK
Michael Reddell: Bad behaviour: Orr, Quigley, and the rest
Michael Reddell: Willis and Quigley questioned
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Treasury and Reserve Bank chairman Neil Quigley respond to allegations around Adrian Orr’s resignation (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Willis told today of RBNZ email about Orr’s behaviour (paywalled)
SPORT, TRANSGENDER GUIDELINES
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Government orders Sport NZ to scrap transgender inclusive community sport guidelines
Adam Pearse (Herald): Govt forces Sport NZ to ditch transgender guidelines as NZ First threatens funding cut
Adam Burns (RNZ): Coroner seeks tougher controls on corporate boxing events
MEDIA
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Sky taking the reins at Three makes sense for everyone
Chris Keall (Herald): Sky TV-TV3 deal: Three, bought for $1, is worth $48m to Sky TV – fund manager
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Sky TV shares build on gains after gifting of TV3 (paywalled)
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
Victoria Young (BusinessDesk): Business of Food: What we’ve learnt (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): SkyCity swipes right on regulators, but maybe left on revenue, as mandatory carded play arrives (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): SkyCity expects to get New Zealand International Convention Centre keys in 90 days (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Push for 'super complaints' system to protect NZ consumers (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): What are people being paid in hospo?
TOURISM
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Tourism NZ braces for negativity over new plan for ‘rapid’ visitor growth
RNZ: International visitor numbers back to 93% of pre-Covid figures - DOC
OTHER
Neil Sands (Law News): ‘We undercharged customers and paid out $35 million,’ ANZ boss tells parliamentary select committee
Greg Ninness (Interest): Big drop in the number of twenty somethings coming to NZ on work visas
Mandy Te (Interest): Tower to end multi-policy discounts
Rob Stock (Post): Insurer Tower ends discount, says risk of overcharging too high (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Tower to join competitors in removing multi-policy discounts (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Govt’s 500 police target delayed again as Australia poaching campaign considered
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Police still searching for youths that fled remand home
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Destiny Church protesters in court over Pride Festival charges
