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Author: Bryce Edwards
RMA
Anneke Smith (RNZ): RMA overhaul: Government seeks common ground with opposition
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): RMA reform: Government promises overhaul of zoning rules, end to councils’ tight control of development with $14.8b in benefit (paywalled)
RNZ: Christopher Luxon reveals Resource Management Act reform
Kelly Dennett and Anna Whyte (Post): RMA minister: Reforms will hinge off being able to do what you like, with your own land (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Central government to standardise 1,175 zoning rules
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Standardise and streamline: Government unveils RMA replacement bills to overcome 'culture of no'
Brent Edwards (NBR): Govt: RMA reform legislation to standardise rules and cut costs (paywalled)
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Government unveils sweeping RMA overhaul with focus on property rights
OIA
Anna Whyte (Post): Peter Boshier’s unfinished business (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Parliament says "no" to transparency
Neil Sands (Law News): Outgoing Chief Ombudsman blasts Health NZ for ‘disgraceful’ attitude to OIA compliance
Martin Johnston (NZ Doctor): Penalties urged for chiefs of persistent OIA flouters (paywalled)
GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT
Anna Whyte (Post): The North Island electorate in line to be scrapped revealed on Tuesday (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): NZ First and Labour’s attacks ratchet up, but can they work together again?
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Winston Peters hadn’t directed ministry to roll back diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) policies before new bill
Natalie Albert: Winston Peters message to New Zealanders without the hecklers
Matt Burrows (Newstalk ZB): Ardern Government ‘veered too far’ from Kiwis' expectations of democracy: Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith
Lyndy McIntyre (Spinoff): Going backwards for growth
David Long (Stuff): ‘Jobs, health and homes’ - Carmel Sepuloni sharpens Labour’s focus on Auckland
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Labour’s rising star Tangi Utikere on being a Pasifika politician from Palmy
Charlotte Graham-McLay (Associated Press): New Zealand parliament shows its spooky side in a tour of mysterious deaths and cat infestations
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE, DEFENCE
Chris Trotter (Interest): What does India want? What is New Zealand willing to give?
Jo Moir (RNZ): India trade talks: Winston Peters pours cold water on immigration changes
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Luxon’s wins and compromises in India
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Winston says no to free trade in labour with India (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Kiwi’s Indian citizenship visa revoked for ‘causing disharmony’
Alka Prasad (Post): ‘It’s growing like crazy’: NZ secures wins on Indian trade mission, with one major loss (paywalled)
Petrina D’Rozario (Press/Post): Reviving New Zealand’s screen collaboration with India (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): The new threat to the undersea cables keeping our internet going
ODT Editorial: Bewildering defence cuts (paywalled)
HEALTH
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Approval for Waikato medical school predicted (paywalled)
Benjamin Plummer (Herald): 11yo girl misidentified by police handcuffed, injected with antipsychotic drugs at Waikato mental health facility
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Outsourcing being used to pretend hospital wait times are being fixed - doctor
Herald Editorial: One specialist goes on leave and the cracks appear in the health system (paywalled)
Ian Powell: A devastating critique; but there’s always a but!
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Bored with the job description (paywalled)
David Farrar: Exposing the out of control deep state in NZ
Simon O’Connor: Beware signs on footpaths
Post: Deputy chief Mark Shepherd latest to go at Health NZ (paywalled)
Louise Ternouth (RNZ): Anti-smoking advocates concerned about new nicotine pouches
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): 30% of doctors leave NZ after graduation
RNZ: Primary care nurses to get pay increase
RNZ: Southland Hospital missed man's lung cancer for five years
Ric Stevens (Open Justice Reporting): Health and Disability Commissioner: Man developed terminal cancer after signs missed on X-rays and scans
Robin Martin (RNZ): Urgent surgery for woman forced to 'scrounge up' for private ultrasound
Stephen Forbes (NZ Doctor): Lester Levy defends ‘unrealistic’ plan to slash waiting lists (paywalled)
TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Analysis: Looming ferry decision one of the most significant for coalition Government
Brent Edwards (NBR): FerryCo director appointment expedited by Treasury (paywalled)
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Government accused of misleading over $78m Christchurch project
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Crown Infrastructure Delivery seeks agent to sell prime Christchurch development lots (paywalled)
Sam Smith (Stuff): Uncertain future for 40-year-old ship that brings the Chatham Islands its fuel
Gary Hamilton-Irvine (Hawkes Bay Today): Crown to sell half share of Hawke’s Bay Airport to Mana Ahuriri
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Iwi forge global alliances on back of infrastructure summit (paywalled)
ORANGA TAMARIKI
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Oranga Tamariki still to fix systems that led to 'grievous' breaches
RNZ: Oranga Tamariki grievous privacy breaches must not 'continue under our watch' - minister
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Oranga Tamariki privacy breaches: Abused woman's file shared with father
Anna Whyte (Post): Oranga Tamariki union steps up industrial action, ERA orders facilitation (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Maddy Croad (Press/Post): Almost 60 expressions of interest made for new charter schools (paywalled)
Brittany Keogh (Post): Zone Out: School rolls in more ‘expensive’ parts of Porirua are growing (paywalled)
Duoya Lu (RNZ): Mandatory NZ history course at Auckland University spurs debate
COVID
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): What the Royal Commission really said about the Covid response
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Five years on: Reflecting on NZ’s first Covid lockdown and its impact
Katie Todd (RNZ): 'Terrible surprise': 33 Air New Zealand employees fighting company's Covid policy
Spinoff: Remember this? A collection of warm and cursed memories from the first lockdown
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Harriet Laughton (Post): Public spats and an ‘overwhelmed’ Wellington council (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Post): Minister not impressed with mayor’s cycling missive (paywalled)
Dave Armstrong (Post): Proposal can’t target all Airbnb hosts in the city (paywalled)
Eva Gallot (Stuff): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown giving away a ‘succulent Chinese meal’ for council input
David Long (Stuff): Illegal dumping on the rise in Auckland as council battles to keep it under control
Simon Shepherd (NBR): Podcast: The stadium debate (paywalled)
Brooke Black (Stuff): Timaru District Council announces plan to cut 71 roles
Tina Law (Press): Councillors call out ‘cowardly and desperate’ fake social media accounts
Debbie Porteous (ODT): Vandervis slammed over mural comments (paywalled)
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Craig Little seeks fifth term as Wairoa mayor
JUSTICE, CORRECTIONS, POLICE
RNZ: Prisoner on hunger strike after alleged beating calls for footage to be made public
RNZ: Prisoner on hunger strike after alleged beating taken to hospital
Sam Smith (Stuff): Hunger-striking prisoner Dean Wickliffe hospitalised
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Proceeds of Crime Fund to re-open to community after three-year freeze
Mike White and Blair Ensor (Post): How a controversial police tactic was rejected, then green-lit after top cop's intervention (paywalled)
Juliet Speedy (Stuff): Police Association warns frontline officers are weary of gun crime
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Former Russell McVeagh lawyer James Gardner-Hopkins and the unforgivingness of being brown
ENVIRONMENT
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Fact checking Winston Peters on climate accord
David Williams (Newsroom): Water control by Ngāi Tahu ‘potentially disastrous’
Rob Stock (Post): More scientific consensus on safety of GM food than on climate change, MPs told (paywalled)
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT, CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Nikki Macdonald (Post): Who are our biggest migrant employers? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Working past the age of 90
GoodIdeas: Should the Sanitarium tax ‘loophole’ be closed? (paywalled)
Matt Rama (Post): Beware - IRD is stepping up its efforts to recoup $800m in unpaid tax from business (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): GST debt creating 'zombie companies', tax expert says
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Psst! Want to know how much I earn? (paywalled)
Chris Schulz (Consumer NZ): Suppliers say supermarket duopoly using power to squeeze margins
1News: Calls for more transparency on shrinkflation at the supermarket
Jehan Casinader (Stuff): Farmers need support, not an endless stack of regulations
ENERGY
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Daily cap on power prices to rise again next month after neutered review (paywalled)
Karyn Scherer (NBR): Power to the people, or to the power companies? (paywalled)
Stephen Batstone and David Reeve (Herald): Why more generation won’t solve New Zealand’s energy woes (paywalled)
MEDIA
Chris Trotter: Red Flagged – Who is this guy Chris Trotter?
Gavin Ellis: Forensic detail on NZME but where are the guarantees?
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): NZME billionaire coup: Union says question it asked Jim Grenon was a simple one (paywalled)
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): ‘Classic PR tactic’: E tū responds to Grenon’s open letter (paywalled)
Robert MacCulloch: The NZ Herald's Board Should Be Fired
David Harvey: Media Reform Proposals; Regulation - Part 1
Mick Hall: A public broadcaster's Gaza whitewash
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Tearful RNZ host Charlotte Ryan signs off from show with immediate effect (paywalled)
ECONOMY
David Hargreaves (Interest): Economists see RBNZ still on track to cut the OCR at its next two meetings
Laszlo Szollosi-Cira: Covid inflation and Adrian Orr’s resignation
HOUSING, BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION, PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT
1News: Q+A: MP pushes for restriction on rent increases
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): ‘Value has decreased’ since Kāinga Ora bought site deemed too costly to redevelop
Shilpy Arora Gaikwad (Stuff): ‘I can’t breathe’: Woman living in leaky, mouldy Kāinga Ora house for three years
Jonathan Killick (Post): Retirement village taking Auckland Council to court over ‘unjustified’ rejection (paywalled)
RNZ: Construction minister Chris Penk criticises councils for pausing consents
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): Development levy system ‘music to the ears’ (paywalled)
Greg Ninness (Interest): Affordability starting to flatten out for first home buyers
Anan Zaki (RNZ): Building product price rises likely to push up new home costs
Brent Melville (NBR): Building supply costs track up, builders forced to pass on hikes (paywalled)
OTHER
Maddy Croad (Press/Post): ‘I’m sick of living life’: Abuse survivor calls out government for lack of action (paywalled)
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): The left must leave the past behind
Gordon Campbell: On Israel’s murderous relapse, and Peters’ sad decline
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Racetrack punch-up: no charges, more angry video emerges
Jack Riddell (Hawkes Bay Today): Online casino licences threaten community sports funding in Hawke’s Bay
Virginia Fallon (Sunday Star Times): Strip Destiny’s charitable status? Turns out it’s not quite that simple (paywalled)
Michael Cugley (Te Ao Māori News): InternetNZ dismisses concerns over Hobson’s Pledge’s influence on council and constitution
Vivien Maidaborn (Post): As the internet tightens its grip, the case for regulation grows (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): When music and protest collide: Spark Arena’s ban on pro-Palestine merch labelled ‘discrimination’ (paywalled)
1News: Q+A: What next for the derelict Chateau Tongariro?
Steve Armitage (Press): Local Alcohol Policy will shape Christchurch’s hospitality sector (paywalled)
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Bars sit empty as law change enables liquor licence naysayers
Monique Steele (RNZ): NZ rodeo final draws crowds, protesters and a satisfied minister responsible for animal welfare
Natalie Akoorie (RNZ): Drownings of eight children under six one summer prompts coroner's investigation
RNZ: NZ businesses complacent over cyber security threats - report
Anne Gibson (Herald): Property Insider: Two Woolworths sell for $45m+; Swarbrick backs Karangahape Rd building; Tenancy Tribunal awards levies to bodies corporate; Canadians with $1.1b of property here selling Manukau Supa Centa (paywalled)
