Table of Contents
Republished with Permission
Author: Bryce Edwards
GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, OIA
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): How new electorate boundaries could affect key races in the 2026 election
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Labour's Greg O'Connor plans to stick around even if his Ōhāriu seat is carved up
RNZ: Wellington to lose an electorate as shake-up of local seats proposed
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Electorate boundary proposals: Three lower North Island seats abolished, two created
Glenn McConnell and Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Wellington’s lost MP and the very large Māori electorates, explained
Tom Day (1News): Wellington set to lose an electorate at next election
Sam Smith (Stuff): What are the electoral changes being proposed?
Richard Harman (Politik): O’Connor’s seat goes and puts Willis under pressure (paywalled)
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): The city that could be cut in half by proposed electorate changes
Luke Malpass (Post): New boundaries could mean ‘a different patchwork quilt of colours’ come election time (paywalled)
Liz McDonald (Press): MP could be booted from own electorate if boundary reshuffle goes ahead (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): ‘It’s politics’: Labour colleagues won’t go head to head (paywalled)
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No Right Turn: Improving OIA enforcement
LawFuel: NZ Law – New Zealand’s Transparency Legacy at Risk as Officials Seek to Circumvent OIA Scrutiny
Audrey Young (Herald): The secret of survival – Winston Peters is set to turn 80 (paywalled)
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Hunker down for a week of urgent plod sprinkled with chaos
HEALTH
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Health New Zealand under fire for inaccurate palliative care recruitment claims
Benjamin Plummer (Herald): Mistaken identity case: Missing girl, 11, was identified as female in her 20s via a photograph
Adam Pearse & Benjamin Plummer (Herald): Girl, 11, misidentified by police, cuffed and drugged: Christopher Luxon slates ‘unacceptable’ failure to tell ministers
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): PM says ‘accountability’ needed around 11-year-old girl handcuffed, dosed with anti-psychotic drugs
RNZ: 'Horrific': Luxon won't rule out heads rolling over girl's mistaken identity
RNZ: 11-year-old girl put in mental health facility after being mistaken for a 20-year-old
RNZ: Primary health organisations taking up too much health spending at GPs' expense - report
New Zealand Doctor: Simeon Brown’s meetings revealed: The sector groups lobbying the minister (paywalled)
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Health Minister Simeon Brown bumps pothole up the waiting list at Auckland hospital
Mountain Tui: NZ Government, an Atlas Network puppet, intent on ruining public healthcare
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): A vision of two New Zealands: The ‘war on woke’ and a hīkoi for trans healthcare
RNZ: Midwife left mum with no electricity, phone or internet during 'tragic' birth
RMA
Craig Ashworth (Local Democracy Reporting): Government’s RMA reforms an ‘open attack on Māoridom’
Justin Wong (Post): Concern over proposed planning rules for historical Hutt iwi sites (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Will RMA change mean cheaper houses?
Herald Editorial: Finally, a plan and timeline to fix the broken RMA (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): RMA reforms are a miss, on aggregate (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Ella Somers (Interest): Climate Change Minister says NZ can’t afford to quit Paris Agreement
Rob Stock (Post): National MP moves to shield companies from climate liability (paywalled)
David Williams (Newsroom): Just how much influence does Ngāi Tahu have?
RNZ: Minister closes inner Hauraki Gulf to fishing of rock lobster
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): ‘Not an adult in the group’: Teen power seeks to draw thousands to school strike
Joe Shaw (RNZ): Can't keep building stop-banks forever - scientists
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE, DEFENCE
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZ treads water in Indo-Pacific defence as US, Australia make plans
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Spy agency minister Judith Collins refuses to release Pacific cyber security documents
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon and PNG Prime Minister Marape sign new agreement (paywalled)
RNZ: Politics: Papua New Guinea PM and Christopher Luxon hold media conference after meeting
RNZ: Government opens consultation on free trade agreement with India
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Heat on Indian manufacturing as NZ vies for trade deal
Herald: Dame Jacinda Ardern joins Oxford University’s World Leaders Circle
AUCKLAND
Richard Harman (Herald): Wayne Brown’s rapport with Government tested by new transport challenges (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): ‘Trench warfare’: mayor accuses Auckland Transport of resisting change
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): New Watercare boss to borrow $10b for ageing pipes and plants
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland’s Huia water treatment plant cost blows out from $420m to $1.1b (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): Banks to lend almost half of $14b in new spending at Watercare (paywalled)
RNZ: Auckland Council seeks feedback on draft plan for the next year
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland stadium battle: Eden Park, Quay Park projects unfeasible without public funding - report (paywalled)
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): The Detail: Good riddance to bad rubbish at a north Auckland tip
Graham Skellern (Herald): Calls for productivity boost as Auckland’s GDP premium stalls
Simon Bridges (Herald): Auckland’s economic future: Opportunities and hurdles ahead (paywalled)
Bill Bennett (Herald): Auckland city upgrades spur billions in private investment
Viv Beck (Herald): Auckland’s growth hinges on improved public transport and safety
Dean Kimpton (Herald): City Rail Link nears completion, how it could ease Auckland congestion
Patrick Brockie (Herald): City Rail Link: Auckland’s underground railway enters final phase - Project Auckland
Peter Reidy (Herald): The final push on the journey to City Rail Link - Peter Reidy
Bill Bennett (Herald): How data is revolutionising the management of road traffic - Project Auckland
Bill Bennett (Herald): Auckland’s tourism strategy: Year-round events, funding, and growth - Project Auckland
Bill Bennett (Herald): Auckland Airport’s plan to get Auckland flying again - Project Auckland
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Peter Newport (Crux): (Some) QLDC councillors provide their position on sewage crisis
Brent Edwards (NBR): Govt rejects council ratings downgrades flowing on to LGFA (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Wellington council performance ‘markedly better’ than we think, says observer (paywalled)
Local Democracy Reporting: Tauranga faces 12 percent rates hike, council seeks further savings
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Whangārei's bid to halt water fluoridation rejected
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Te Ururoa Flavell seeks return of Rotorua reserve land to whānau
RNZ: Rodent droppings prompt boil water notice for Woodville residents
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): The National Aquarium’s future looks bleak. Could it become ‘Pandaland’?
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Kāpiti Coast vandals cost ratepayers tens of thousands, targeting public toilets
Grant Miller (ODT): Councillor rubbishes landfill plan (paywalled)
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT, CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Something big may be about to happen with supermarket competition (paywalled)
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Why is Labour MP Duncan Webb opposing a new supermarket plan?
Denise McNabb (BusinessDesk): Multinationals address vexed issue of transfer pricing with co-operative pricing agreements
Brent Edwards (NBR): Treasury advised against giving Whakapapa Holdings more money (paywalled)
Susan Hornsby-Geluk (Post): Bad bosses beware - ‘wage theft’ is now a crime (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): Employment confidence sags again
Cameron Smith (Herald): Employment confidence slumps to 2020 post-Covid lockdown lows
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Employment confidence drops to pandemic 2020 levels (paywalled)
MEDIA
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): A close read of the ‘Grenon letter’ – a billionaire’s vision for the future of the NZ Herald
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): NZME board play: Jim Grenon’s ‘extremist’ problem (paywalled)
Shane Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Trade Me could be eyeing potential acquisition of Stuff digital arm, website (paywalled)
Rachel Moore (Stuff): Speculation about Stuff and Trade Me deal, possible acquisition
RNZ: Speculation over possible Stuff, Trade Me deal
Shane Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Billionaire Jim Grenon inquired about buying Stuff during first Covid lockdown in 2020 (paywalled)
Shilpy Arora Gaikwad (Stuff): RNZ’s 6pm bulletin fails to go to air due to ‘technical issues’
EDUCATION, SCHOOL LUNCHES
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Petition launched against 'horrible, disgusting and inedible' school lunches
Deborah Morris (Stuff): Zone Out: School zones more important to buyers than safety
Analosa Veukiso-Ulugia (Newsroom): School sex education changes more than a backwards step
Graham Adams (Centrist): Auckland University has a death wish
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Further uni shake-up on cards (paywalled)
CHILD WELFARE
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Oranga Tamariki 'always intended to publish' scathing review
Listener: NZ’s stolen children: Aaron Smale’s investigation into abuse in state care reaches the screen (paywalled)
COVID
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): The next pandemic is coming. NZ isn’t ready
Paddy Gower (Stuff): Sir Ashley Bloomfield's lockdown anniversary warning: Another pandemic is coming
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Covid-19: Politicians' mixed feelings five years on from first lockdown
RNZ: Watch: The moment NZ went into its first Covid lockdown
Kate Newton (RNZ): Five years after Covid lockdown: Life now for one street
Catherine Hubbard (Stuff): Doctor faces discipline for promoting Ivermectin for Covid
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Air New Zealand employees take airline to court over Covid-19 vaccination mandate
JUSTICE, CRIME, POLICE
Azaria Howell (Herald): Police Minister Mark Mitchell blasts Green MP Tamatha Paul’s comments at ‘radical alternative to policing’ panel
1News: Concern at 'very visible' gun threat, PM says crime 'coming down'
Paul Goldsmith (Post): The end of the culture of excuses for crime (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Victim Support ditching volunteers from July
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Are banks' anti-scam tools enough?
Jeremy Wilkinson (Open Justice Reporting): Wellington law firms fall prey to offshore scammers posing as ANZ bank, over $2m stolen
RNZ: Disputes involving Asian parties clogging up courts
ECONOMY, TAX
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): FIF ’tax relief’ a step in the right direction for Govt (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Sharesies calls for ‘FIF’ tax tweaks to benefit locals with offshore investments, not just wealthy foreigners (paywalled)
RNZ: How will US tariffs impact NZ? Report sheds new light
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): US tariffs will ‘squeeze, not choke, growth’ (paywalled)
ENERGY
NZ Energy: Transpower CE drives a wedge into the narrative
RNZ: Work set to begin on $227 million Northland solar farm
Rob Stock (Post): Meridian greenlights its first grid-scale solar power farm (paywalled)
HOUSING
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Why housing affordability is improving even while prices aren't falling
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Now is the time to buy a house, buyers tell Trade Me
Greg Ninness (Interest): BNZ's chief economist sticks with prediction of 7% house price growth this year
Miriam Bell (Post): Is it the end of the golden weather for retirement villages? (paywalled)
TRANSPORT
Sinead Gill (Press): Canterbury bus fares unlikely to jump to $8 to meet 'unreasonable' NZTA target (paywalled)
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Train service on ‘knife edge’ for months yet
OTHER
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): INZ introducing automated decision-making in $336m overhaul
Anne Gibson (Herald): Assets of 10 biggest iwi rise only $100m since 2022: new TDB Advisory report out (paywalled)
Jenny Nagle (Newsroom): Dear Brooke van Velden, please pick up
