Table of Contents
Republished with Permission
Author: Bryce Edwards
PARLIAMENT, URGENCY
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Can parliamentary urgency and public accountability peacefully coexist?
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Pay equity changes: 'People's select committee' formed to gather evidence instead of 'high-flying cliches'
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Former MPs unite for ‘people’s select committee’ into pay equity
Julia Gabel (Herald): Pay equity: Former National MP Dame Marilyn Waring assembles ‘people’s select committee’
Thomas Manch (Post): Ex-National MP Marilyn Waring leads 'select committee' on pay equity changes (paywalled)
George Driver (Listener): Our secret beliefs: 35 years of election data reveals NZers' surprising views & values (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): These parody billboards targeted the Green Party and two MPs - why the Advertising Standards Authority has partly upheld complaints (paywalled)
GOVERNMENT
Carwyn Jones (The Conversation): Fourth time lucky? ACT’s regulatory standards law may finally pass, despite Treaty and legal doubts
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Winston Peters on China, Cook Islands and why he is ruling out Chris Hipkins ‘permanently’ (paywalled)
Alwyn Poole (Kiwiblog): Bryce Edwards on “soft-corruption” in New Zealand – especially re Robert MacCullouch
Jordan Williams (Post): Government undermining our reputation as a safe place for business (paywalled)
Poppy Clark (Stuff): Luxon says he was ‘wrong’ for not answering Bayly sacking question
HEALTH
Michael Morrah and Chris Knox (Herald): Christchurch ED sees record 400-plus patients daily, raising safety concerns
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Heart patients worse off in Northland than Auckland - specialist
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): Health NZ's $1m club - the doctors on big pay
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Private hospitals may be asked to pay for surgeon training
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Fear contractor may quit if HNZ still ‘changing minds’
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): The 82yo Dunedin doctor who did something very unexpected
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): ‘It’s the flatline Budget’: Patient and cancer advocacy groups criticise Budget
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Health NZ seeks ‘long-term partnerships with industry’ as it sets up major projects panel (paywalled)
Jessica Roden (1News): More than half a billion dollars for Nelson Hospital redevelopment
RNZ: Nicola Willis and Simeon Brown reveal more details about new Nelson hospital
Warren Gamble (Stuff): Temporary inpatient unit within a year for Nelson Hospital
BUDGET
Adam Pearse (Herald): More cuts possible to cover Govt’s extra KiwiSaver costs - Finance Minister
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): 'It's in the Budget': Nicola Willis denies Green claim of KiwiSaver fiscal hole
Herald: Nicola Willis confirms superannuation age rise still on National’s agenda
Brent Melville (NBR): Pushing NZ Super age to 67 a ’no brainer’ - Luxon (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Act’s David Seymour finds $115m in public sector savings in Budget 2025 that freed up $5.3b overall (paywalled)
David Chaplin (BusinessDesk): Bigger eggs: Budget opens cracks in KiwiSaver (paywalled)
Nadine Higgins (Herald): What Budget 2025 means for your back pocket
Michael Daly (Stuff): How do you know if you’re better or worse off after the KiwiSaver changes in the Budget
Simon Shepherd (NBR): Podcast: The Kiwisaver budget (paywalled)
Kate Newton (RNZ): Budget 2025: None of year's child poverty targets met
Brent Edwards (NBR): Targeted tax cut seen as best way to promote capital investment (paywalled)
Michael Reddell: Some more post-Budget thoughts
Monique Steele (RNZ): Farm machinery tax discount a 'boost' for rural economy
New Zealand Energy: Investment Boost - Energy Boost
Charlotte Bruce Kells (Newsroom): Best Start’s mean-spirited means-testing
Tom Peters (World Socialists): New Zealand’s budget for austerity and war (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): This was a classic centre-right budget
EDUCATION
Benedict Collins (1News): Investigation after dead larva found in Govt supplied school lunch
Herald: School lunch woes: Dead larva found in West Auckland school meal
RNZ: Dead insect larva found in government funded school lunch
Kelly Dennett (Post): ‘Serious concern’ as future of school lunches programme uncertain (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): School lunch documents reveal nutritional assessments, student taste test results
Cécile Meier (BusinessDesk): School lunches: More complaints in one term than last four years, orders drop (paywalled)
Aotearoa Educators Collective: Launch of Beyond Capacity: Learning Support In Crisis Report
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Parliament takes ‘nuclear option’ to kill off tikanga regulation
Julia Gabel (Herald): Government changes law schools’ tikanga course rules with parliamentary motion
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Simmonds taking charge as Te Pukenga gets whacked (paywalled)
Mark Baxter (ODT): Architectural diversity a fine thing
Christine McCarthy (Newsroom): The beauty of brutalism
ENVIRONMENT, FAST-TRACK
Eva Corlett (Guardian): New Zealand will not be ‘guilt-tripped’ over environment, resources minister says
1News: Fast-tracking of seabed mining revives decade-long fight
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Why a proposed change to glyphosate (or Roundup) residue levels is so controversial
Alka Prasad (Post): MPI’s herbicide proposal 'damaging' to NZ's export reputation, sector says (paywalled)
Kaya Selby (NRZ): NZ branded 'a fair-weather friend' after climate and aid funding cuts
David Williams (Newsroom): ‘It was a bombshell’: Govt culls pest eradication company
1News: Key piece of Predator Free 2050 pest eradication programme culled
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): They said it couldn’t be done: Gene editing breakthrough preempts new law
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Tech entrepreneur reveals what it may take to create third supermarket group (paywalled)
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Why NZ’s average wage is well below other OECD countries
Tony Wall (Stuff): ‘I felt ashamed’: Workers paying $175 for ‘overcrowded’ hostel rooms
Rob Stock (Sunday Star Times): ‘I feel in our hearts, that we represent the people’: Cleaning company boss calls for modern slavery laws in New Zealand (paywalled)
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Firing Winston Peters’ heckler would be risky: employment lawyer (paywalled)
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
RNZ: Economy could earn extra $10b in five to seven years through better land use - report
Michael Neilson (BusinessDesk): The multibillion-dollar NZ interests of the world’s largest dairy companies (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: If freezing works close, rural towns die. We need a plan to save them (paywalled)
Liz McDonald (Press/Post): 10,000 more dairy cows for Canterbury? High prices drive interest in farm conversions (paywalled)
MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: How a Budget is covered
David Farrar: Media funding
David Harvey (Listener): Social media ban for kids? The name is wrong and the bill is flawed (paywalled)
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Ryan Bridge channels Paul Henry
Gavin Ellis: Herald streaming breakfast show’s best ingredient – news
Tara Ward (Spinoff): Review: Ryan Bridge’s hectic new live morning show
Katie Oliver (Herald): Herald NOW: A new way to watch news
Ryan Bridge (Herald): The start of something new for me and the Herald (paywalled)
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): NZME bans media from its AGM (paywalled)
Keith Lynch (Stuff): Hello. I. Am. BudgetBot. This week we tried something different on Stuff.co.nz
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Tech entrepreneur reveals what it may take to create third supermarket group (paywalled)
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Why NZ’s average wage is well below other OECD countries
Tony Wall (Stuff): ‘I felt ashamed’: Workers paying $175 for ‘overcrowded’ hostel rooms
Rob Stock (Sunday Star Times): ‘I feel in our hearts, that we represent the people’: Cleaning company boss calls for modern slavery laws in New Zealand (paywalled)
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Firing Winston Peters’ heckler would be risky: employment lawyer (paywalled)
POLICE, CORRECTIONS, CRIME
RNZ: Retail group relieved police petty crime change not 'hard and fast rule'
RNZ: Police shoplifting changes: 'We have to prioritise and that's a challenge'
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Retail NZ wants 'urgent meeting' with police minister over police shoplifting change
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Confusion over how police investigate crimes like shoplifting after secret memo
Mike White (Sunday Star Times): Police dump 105 call-line target as wait times blow out (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): The Government needs to get out of the retailers' way
RNZ: McSkimming: Police find 'no evidence of improper process' of individual firearms licenses
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Jevon McSkimming 'strongly denies' inappropriate firearms process vetting allegations
RNZ: Boot camps are 'child prisons' says Kick Back's Aaron Hendry
Laura Walters (Newsroom): New Waikeria Prison to be quickly filled as prison muster hits record high
Lance Ryan (Herald): Former inmate turned AUT law lecturer calls for better reintegration (paywalled)
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua council publicly notifies Pūwhakamua consent application amid investigation
Rob Stock (Post): What you’re allowed to know about the Peter Huljich ‘true insider’ case (paywalled)
Katie Ham (Post): A grieving father’s crusade against family violence (paywalled)
DEFENCE, SPY AGENCIES, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Sunken Manawanui listed as $77m write-off in Budget
RNZ: Formerly secret spy data centre to open soon in West Auckland
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Spy agencies funds cut as security threats grow
Bharatha Mallawatachi (Herald): Sri Lanka and New Zealand discuss ways to deepen bilateral trade and investment ties
RNZ: China to host Pacific foreign ministers for first in-person summit in Xiamen
GREYHOUND RACING
Michael Guerin (Herald): Greyhound racing fights New Zealand ban with High Court review
Eva Gallot (Stuff): ‘This is an injustice’: Greyhound Racing NZ applies for Judicial Review on ban
RNZ: Greyhound Racing NZ applies for judicial review of ban
Kelly Dennett (Post): Greyhound Racing NZ seeks judicial review of Government’s racing ban
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Harriet Laughton (Post): Wellington Council wage bill up 40% despite fewer staff (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Cost increase for Wellington Water report into cost blowouts
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington City's 'record' pipe investment falls well short of neighbours (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Windbag: Khandallah Pool and the high price of inequality
Dave Armstrong (Post): Why not start charging for everything? (paywalled)
Phoebe Uttering (Stuff): Anti-queer attacks reportedly on the rise in city ranked best place for rainbow community
Tina Law (Press): Targeted plan to cut water leaks as millions of litres disappear each day (paywalled)
Mike Yardley (Press): Stadium speed limits the latest front in Christchurch City Council’s ‘war against cars’ (paywalled)
Yolisa Tswanya (Northern Advocate): Far North Council to landfill 190 tonnes of plastic waste
Timothy F Welch (Newsroom): Auckland’s half-hearted reach for the sky
Spinoff: Our thoughts on what it takes to run Auckland
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Invercargill mayor Nobby Clark at odds with council over blacking-out inappropriate language
Grant Miller (ODT): Council gives unanimous backing to in-house water model (paywalled)
Ruby Shaw (ODT): Councillors told option the riskiest (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): DCC lifts the lid on $15m plan for Edgar Centre roof
Ruby Shaw (ODT): Plan to charge international visitors entry fees rejected (paywalled)
ODT: Thriving communities sought by Greens candidates
ECONOMY, OCR
David Hargreaves (Interest): This OCR decision is easy - the next one is not
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk):RBNZ rate cut fully priced, but not everyone agrees (paywalled)
Nick Stride (Interest): NZIER shadow board divided over OCR cut or hold decision
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Rate cut on way ‒ but Reserve Bank ‘flying in the fog’ (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): House prices, unemployment: the latest view through Treasury's crystal ball? (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): RBNZ rate cut on track but future path holds the key (paywalled)
Kelvin Davidson (One Roof): Wednesday's OCR decision: What are the odds of another big drop in interest rates?
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Calls grow louder for Reserve Bank to cut rates by 50pts
