Table of Contents
Republished with Permission
Author: Bryce Edwards
DEFENCE, ANZAC DAY
Matthew Hooton (Herald): How military training could transform NZ society (paywalled)
RNZ: Government set to fight latest legal battle in Agent Orange case
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): Millions paid out for Defence redundancies amid multibillion-dollar boost (paywalled)
RNZ: Drone warfare: NZDF 'plugged in' to lessons on use
1News: Q+A: Inside the Tauranga drone company with a $66m UK defence contract
RNZ: Rocket Lab secures chunk of another Pentagon programme
James Graham (Spinoff): Lest we forget? The shame of our two-tier veteran system
David Hill (Spinoff): Seize the day
Reimagining Social Work in Aotearoa: Planning for peace
Sarah Sparks (Sunday Star Times): Have we truly learned the lessons of war? (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon delivers Anzac Day speech at Gallipoli
RNZ: Watch: Luxon's Anzac Day speeches at Gallipoli, Chunuk Bair
Post: ‘Nobody leaves here unmoved’: PM’s Anzac address in Gallipoli (paywalled)
Samantha Gee (Stuff): ‘We just get on with it:’ New Zealand’s role in clearing unexploded bombs in Laos
Scott Hamilton (Spinoff): New Zealand’s role in the mass deportation of Koreans from post-WWII Japan
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Don Brash: Our foreign policy is increasingly nuts
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): New Zealand’s careful dance with US and China amid trade tensions (paywalled)
Mike Smith (Standard): Poking the dragon
Giles Dexter (RNZ): China's NZ embassy expresses 'strong dissatisfaction' over MPs visit to Taiwan
1News: Q+A: Malcolm Turnbull: Trump 'enormous disruption', AUKUS 'absolute shocker'
Adam Pearse (Herald): Winston Peters says PM’s office concedes error over not releasing Luxon’s foreign affairs speech
Ben Thomas (Post): Spat between PM and Peters works to Luxon’s benefit (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZ submarine cables are 'attractive espionage targets', officials warn
RNZ: Prime Minister Christoper Luxon reflects on Pope Francis' funeral, talks Ukraine peace deal
1News: 'Tremendous privilege': Luxon reflects on attending the Pope's funeral
Post: Prime minister leaves London, heads to Gallipoli
RNZ: Kiwi travellers blown away by chance meeting with NZ Prime Minister Chris Luxon
Amanda Gillies (RNZ): The Detail: Detentions and arrests at US borders sow fear
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Australian politicians confirm New Zealanders’ citizenship pathway will stay after election
1News: NZ citizenship pathway in Australia appears safe amid election
DEMOCRACY
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): Integrity Briefing: Can New Zealand avoid kleptocracy?
Phil Smith (RNZ): Democratic guardrails: Is NZ safe from authoritarianism?
Mika Hervel (Newsroom): Deliberating on a future for democracy in NZ
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Kiwi citizens’ assembly succeeds in ‘experiment’ to find climate solutions
Emily Clark (ABC): How Atlas Network amassed a global network of free market think tanks and reached into Australia and New Zealand
Greg Presland (The Standard): Atlas and the Treaty Principles Bill
Carwyn Jones (E-Tangata): Moving forward with Matike Mai
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): Is MMP still right for NZ? Reflecting on 30 years of electoral change (paywalled)
HEALTH
Jessica Roden (1News): 200,000 Kiwis waiting for first specialist appointment
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): Nationwide shortage of 500 hospital beds revealed
Ian Powell (Newsroom): How our health workforce is jeopardised by political meddling
Kate Green (RNZ): New Zealand to recognise physician associates - minister
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): ‘Really concerned’: Hundreds of heavily pregnant women showing up to hospital with no or minimal antenatal care
Jessie Curran (RNZ): Three-day hospital stay bill will result in unintended consequences, NZ College of Midwives says
Anna Whyte (Post): Auckland intensive mental health service proposed to close (paywalled)
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): HNZ and senior doctors in mediation ahead of planned strike
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Pay the doctors what they’re worth (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Palmerston North Hospital staff haven't noticed promised boost in security, union says
Anna Sargent (RNZ): Christchurch hospital staff 'let down' after toxic fume exposure says union
RNZ: Medical Council investigating complaints over prescribing medicinal cannabis
RNZ: Supply chain issues for funded medicines increasing, Pharmac says
1News: Q+A: Shaun Hendy: NZ should collaborate with Aus to prepare for next pandemic
RNZ: Last call to share Covid-19 pandemic experience with inquiry
Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): Thousands of Kiwis share pandemic experiences as Covid submissions close (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Where has all the Covid gone?
Sarah Catherall (Listener): Cancer rising: Investigating the deadly increase in cancers in younger people
BANKS, FINANCIAL SERVICES
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Retroactive legal immunity - the government’s gift to banks (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Banks to lose veto power on Banking Ombudsman scheme (paywalled)
RNZ: Bank scam protections lacking in detail claims consumer advocate Janine Starks
Madison Malone (Herald): What would Kiwibank do with $500 million?
Sally Lindsay (Law News): Commerce Commission blinks in battle with mortgage advisers
WINSTON PETERS’ RNZ INTERVIEW
Kelly Dennett (Post): Winston Peters doesn’t hate the media, he’d just like you to think he does (paywalled)
David Harvey: That Interview: When Information Gathering Becomes Confrontation
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. the Dann-Peters interview
ODT Editorial: A rather Winston way of communicating (paywalled)
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Lord Winston
PARLIAMENT, WEEK IN POLITICS
Brent Edwards (NBR): Winston Peters’ war against woke and RNZ, the PM, and new roads (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): My lucky number is 52 (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On The Trump Upside, And Peters Persecution Of Trans People
Greg Dixon (Listener): God says JD Vance visit “last straw for Pope” (paywalled)
Gaurav Sharma (RNZ): No virginity testing and amending alcohol licensing rules on Indian origin MPs agenda
Sam Smith (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern to be awarded honorary degree from Oxford University
Victoria Carter (BusinessDesk): Fail File: Stuart Nash, former politician and businessman (paywalled)
Chris Bishop (Spinoff): An ode to Shihad’s Killjoy, the best album by the greatest band in the world
TRANSPORT
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Disregarding safety in raising speed limits is ‘highly unusual’ – transport agency
Nick James (RNZ): Speed limit increases on SH1 will risk safety - Horowhenua Mayor
Zita Campbell (Local Democracy Reporting): Gisborne clubs protest State Highway 35 speed boost amid crash fears
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Brace for impact: Why Air NZ market study might not fly (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Flying in the face of fairness (paywalled)
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Air NZ blames cost of inflation for rise in airline's airfares
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Air NZ faces new wave of anger over soaring fares (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government plans to build thousands of EV chargers by 2030, but more funding needed
RNZ: Government replaces EV charger grants with new loan scheme
Herald Editorial: We need a culture shift if Kiwis are to follow the Government down the EV road (paywalled)
SunLive: Accelerating the roll-out of public EV chargers
RNZ: Tolling an option for Mill Road project planned for south Auckland - Bishop
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Chris Bishop: PPP approach not suitable for Northwest Busway (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): 'Long history': NZTA endorses stage one of long-promised Mill Rd upgrade
Nick James (RNZ): Officials still mulling over options for recreational use of Manawatū Gorge road
ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Ministers rejected advice to review climate grants
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Inside the climate debate that quietly rocked the National Party (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Climate Change: F***ing the ETS again
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Why protesters spent Easter week suspended in coal carts
Adam Burns (RNZ): Catlins resident calls for beach bylaw changes after car salesmen race, do 'doughnuts'
Max Frethey (Local Democracy Reporting): Digital billboard given final sign off despite dark sky park concerns
EDUCATION, WORKPLACE TRAINING
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Workplace training may be privatised after Te Pūkenga dismantled
Rob Stock (Post): Government apprenticeship reform plan welcomed, but lacks detail (paywalled)
Michael Johnston (Post): The game-changing approach trades training needs (paywalled)
1News: Q+A: Just six state schools interested in charter conversion in latest round
Anna Whyte (Post): David Seymour pulls in mayors to lift school attendance (paywalled)
Ben Leahy (Herald): Cambridge International exams: The NZ schools that produced the highest-achieving students (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Jury out on ECE review (paywalled)
Ava Whitworth (Stuff): ‘Accident waiting to happen’: Water safety rule for ECEs on the chopping block
FAMILY BOOST POLICY, COST OF LIVING, BUDGET
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Nicola Willis faces dilemma on poorly designed Family Boost policy (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): Government plans FamilyBoost changes after low uptake revealed
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Nicola Willis confirms FamilyBoost eligibility to be expanded
Kelly Dennett (Post): IRD to ‘tweak’ FamilyBoost so more families claim the cash (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Fewer than 50 families to get National's full tax package, says CTU
Brian Easton (Pundit): The 2025 Budget In A World Of Trade Warfare
Nadine Higgins (Herald): Financial Resilience Index reveals how concerned Kiwis are about money
David Hargreaves (Interest): ANZ Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence survey shows kiwis see inflation being 4.7% in 2027 - the highest reading in this survey for two years
Harriet Laughton (Post): Wellington’s consumer confidence lowest in NZ (paywalled)
EMPLOYMENT
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Coalition clash over injury prevention plan for Māori and Pasifika
Adam Pearse (Herald): Act ramping up pressure on National Party minister Scott Simpson over ACC ‘ethnic outcome targets’
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): ‘Our dirty little secret’: The dark heart of the cleaning industry
Duncan Garner (Listener): When did our teens stop working and whose fault is it? (paywalled)
Jenny Ling (Northern Advocate): Workers in Northland struggle as wages lag behind living costs
HOUSING, PROPERTY INDUSTRY, BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): MSD workloads behind partial scrapping of programme to prevent people ending up in emergency housing, documents show
Edward Yiu and William Cheung (The Conversation): The billions spent on NZ’s accommodation supplement is failing to make rent affordable – so what will?
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Rents may be falling but there’s a long way to go
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Building firms trim specs to get biggest state housing project over the line
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Auckland councillor wants mayor to pressure government over building consents in flood-prone areas
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Plumbers get the power to sign off their own work (paywalled)
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Relief for Whangārei hapū as development plans on tapu land dropped
Janine Starks (Post): The disasters thousands of Kiwi homes may not be insured for (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Jonathan. Milne (Newsroom): Watercare engineer rips off $1m public money in fake invoicing scam
Richard Harman (Politik): Government faces another co-governance row (paywalled)
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Room for the right to capitalise on Wellington woes
Justin Wong (Post): Mayoral candidate clashes with protesters over ‘No Nazis’ sign (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington mayoral hopeful’s ‘threat’ email referred to police (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington Council backs voting age of 16 to boost turnout
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Councils take millions of dollars from mortgages for unpaid rates
Tom Belford (Bay Buzz): Overstaffed Councils?
Verity Elder (Stuff): Don’t think of Wayne Brown as a mayor, think of him as a strip club owner
Jonathan Leask (Local Democracy Reporting): Selwyn District councillor Shane Epiha fed up with online bullies
Phil Mauger (Sunday Star Times): Candidates Corner: Phil Mauger on Christchurch’s continued revival (paywalled)
Sara Templeton (Sunday Star Times): Candidates Corner: Sara Templeton on a sustainable, resilient Christchurch (paywalled)
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Over the rainbow: Dunedin cans rainbow crossings
Paul Gorman (ODT): Selling Dunedin: When it’s just marketing (paywalled)
Justin Wong (Post): Outgoing activist-turned-councillor has high hopes for local government (paywalled)
MEDIA
Grant Duncan: How much do people trust the news?
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): The future of news: yet another reckon (paywalled)
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: The health of health reporting
Laszlo Szollosi-Cira: Trust in Media and the War in Ukraine
Jaime Lyth (Herald): TVNZ viewers claim anonymous Destiny Church whistleblower’s face ‘visible’, TVNZ cuts clip out of ‘abundance of caution’
Robert MacCulloch: Turning around NZ for a few million $ by buying the NZ Herald is the Best Deal Ever
