Table of Contents
Republished with Permission
Author: Bryce Edwards
PARLIAMENT
Russel Norman (Post): The dangers in the Regulatory Standards Bill (paywalled)
Ryan Ward (Newsroom): How the Regulatory Standards Bill could leave taxpayers on the hook
Maioha Panapa (Te Ao Māori News): Govt blasted over submission glitch on controversial Regulatory Standards Bill
Brent Edwards (NBR): Incoming Deputy PM eyes up electricity assets (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): The highs, lows and wtfs of Winston Peters, deputy prime minister
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Forgot where they came from’: Why Ria Bond joined pay equity inquiry
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Government urgency plans slow to a crawl
RNZ: Hipkins pushes back on Peters' ruling out Labour again
Audrey Young (Herald): Ex-PM Jim Bolger on handling kidney failure, David Seymour, and turning 90 (paywalled)
Nick Stride (Interest): A new Public Finance Bill aims to make it harder for governments to conceal cost blowouts
Joe Bennett (Press/Post): Raise your drinks to the man in the street, the bulwark against tyranny (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Pint of Order’: Parliament’s new bar will open next week
BUDGET
Toby Moore (Newsroom): The maths lesson the finance minister won’t take from Chlöe Swarbrick
Thomas Manch (Post): Billion-dollar defence bill a 'fiscal hole' in Budget, Labour says (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Taking the biscuit: Embedded in the Luxon and Willis post-Budget factory tour (paywalled)
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Why messing with NZ Super remains political dynamite
RNZ: MPs urged to 'lead by example' and trim superannuation subsidy
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Radical millennial idea: don’t raise the age of superannuation eligibility
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Nicola Willis rules out scrapping Government’s KiwiSaver contribution, saying it’s an ‘affordable’ incentive (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): 'Every little bit counts': Willis says ministers 'worked hard' to find savings, Seymour's cuts 'small portion'
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Labour's finance spokesperson gives few details about party's fiscal policy targets
Thomas Manch (Post): Barbara Edmonds says Govt’s ‘Investment Boost’ good for business (paywalled)
Michael Reddell: One last post on Investment Boost
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Budgets: Past, present and future (paywalled)
Sarah Aiono (Aotearoa Educator Collective): Beyond Capacity: Budget 2025 - What Was Asked For and What Was Delivered
Joe Hendren: Parental means testing of adults is a cruel joke
Justin Hu (1News): Govt committed to 2028 child poverty target despite forecast - Willis
Maddy Croad (Press): Lack of long-term budget funding brings uncertainty for food rescues (paywalled)
Dean Chadwick (Post): The wins and the watch-outs: What Budget 2025 delivered for SMEs
Lachlan Colquhoun (NBR): A tale of two very different budget strategies (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Nicola Willis’ choice of Budget day attire is a sideshow to policy debate (paywalled)
Anna Rawhiti-Connell (Spinoff): Why what Nicola Willis wears matters
FAST-TRACK, ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Eva Corlett (Guardian): Fast-track to where? The new law opening up New Zealand to a mining boom
Mana Epiha (Te Ao Māori News): Turning sacred sands into concrete: hapū oppose sand extraction at Te Ākau
ODT Editorial: A moth in the night (paywalled)
Hamish MacLean (ODT): Discovery of rare moth may thwart mine expansion plans (paywalled)
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Climate target failure would bring overseas scrutiny, government warned
Amanda Gillies (RNZ): The Detail: Climate solution all but buried before it begins
No Right Turn: Climate Change: Denying our obligations
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Ban on taking crayfish from Northland's east coast on the cards
RNZ: Nelson mayor renews calls for rain radar after flash flooding
PUBLIC SECTOR
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Crackdown on public service leaks is leaked to RNZ
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): How many public sector jobs have really been axed?
Kate Green (RNZ): Department of Conservation proposes cutting 84 jobs, primarily affecting women
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Shake-up at the top for Treasury (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): AI in Government: A shortcut to cuts? (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): AI use in public sector step closer - but trust still a big issue, says survey (paywalled)
OCR, BANKS
Luke Malpass (Post): Christian Hawkesby readies to front first full OCR call ‒ a likely cut (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Inside Economics: Reserve Bank’s big rate call today, plus are flat whites cheaper now than in the 1990s? (paywalled)
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): RBNZ set to cut official cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.25 percent
Sam Stubbs (Post): Open banking, or closed shop? (paywalled)
Kent Dunston (Post): The Reserve Bank needs to do more than fiddle with the OCR
Lane Nichols (Herald): TSB Bank accused of using $1m scam victim’s financial hardship to avoid potential liability
Janine Starks (Post): The online shopping protection your bank does actually offer (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Member's bill from Labour's Arena Williams seeks full disclosure of international money transfer costs
Lane Nichols (Herald): West Auckland woman who received $158k in account transfer error charged with theft (paywalled)
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Will continued OCR cuts affect the property market?
Capital Issues: Time to Retire the Circus? Reflections on the May 2025 RBNZ Financial Stability Report Press Conference
HEALTH, AGED CARE
Matthew Littlewood (ODT: Attack on politicians placed in large print
Mary Williams (ODT): Changes in personnel leading new hospital build continue
Alexa Cook ( RNZ): Senior Gisborne Hospital doctors on 24-hour strike, say hospital 'on the brink of collapse'
RNZ: Labour says new Nelson Hospital plan lets residents down
Andrew Ashton (ODT): Hospital housing for out-of-town families under threat (paywalled)
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Health NZ wants to close this mental health facility, staff say more people need it
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): GPs say 12-month scripts will ease workload, but won’t apply to many meds
Azaria Howell (Herald): Health Minister Simeon Brown intervenes as Ministry of Health reduces posting on social site X
Mildred Armah (Stuff): NZ records highest number of Aids diagnoses for more than a decade - report
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Public health response to Auckland measles case stood down
Alexa Cook (RNZ): 'Left in her chair covered in faeces' - widespread failures at resthome
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): Extension of aged care funding labelled an ‘insult’ (paywalled)
ENERGY
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Why does Shane Jones want to buy a 15% stake in speculative gas fields?
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Big power users accuse generators of bogus hedge argument (paywalled)
RNZ: Power prices rise faster than rate of inflation
Guy Williams (ODT): Tech entrepreneur calls for electricity sector shakeup
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt ‘actively considering’ financing home solar via council mechanism
POLICE, CORRECTIONS, CRIME
RNZ: Retailers relieved at police commissioner's clarification on when to investigate crimes
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): 'Giving liberty to the criminals': Shopkeeper speaks out on police memo
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Police Commissioner on controversial shoplifting directive
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Police Commissioner slams shoplifting directive as 'confusing and unhelpful'
Herald: Cop memo on shoplifting ‘confusing’, response assured under $500 - Police Minister
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Tom Hunt (Post): Call for please-explain as Wellington mayoral candidate linked to conspiracy group
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington’s Crown Observer issues warning over party politics round the council table
Harriet Laughton (Post): Crown observer warns of dangers of party politics swaying decision-making (paywalled)
RNZ: Wellington Ministry of Innovation, Business and Employment work from home for over week after pipe bursts
Brent Melville (NBR): Council rejigs spending plan by $1.4b, adjusts DC rates (paywalled)
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): $3.58m Tarawera Sewerage Scheme loan gains regional council approval
Tony Wall (Stuff): Man accused of harassment after delivering ‘threatening’ letter to council manager’s home amid pool dispute
Ruby Shaw (ODT):Landfill going ahead: council
Tina Law (Press): Cancelling long-awaited community centre one option to reduce rates rise (paywalled)
Paddy Gower (Stuff): Absolutely Positively Christchurch - why it’s New Zealand’s best city by far
Sandy Eggleston (ODT): Need for ‘ethical housekeeping’ on Israel involvement (paywalled)
HOUSING
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Confidential Auckland Council blueprint to address housing intensification, flood risks
ODT Editorial: Putting Nth Dunedin’s house in order (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Tenants scarred by flat of horrors
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): New cost for first-home buyers
James Ball (1News): No-fault law sees tenant facing eviction after major knee surgery
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Māori housing developer not concerned by Budget 2025 funding change
Greg Ninness (Interest): More first home buyers taking out low equity mortgages
David Hargreaves (Interest): New mortgage activity takes a dip
TRANSPORT
Nick James (RNZ): Transdev threatened to axe hundreds of Wellington trains over stoush with regional council
1News: Horowhenua 'blindsided' by changes to expressway project
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Expressway changes 'force fed to the community'
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington leaders slam 'retrograde' expressway changes (paywalled)
Antony Young (Post): Kāpiti Expressway roundabout is a step backward (paywalled)
RNZ: KiwiRail weighs 70 job cuts as Aratere ferry retirement looms
Shilpy Arora Gaikwad (Stuff): ‘Road to nowhere’: One of NZ’s most expensive roads is making things ‘worse’, locals say
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland Transport plan for $380,000 raised crossing project paused to consider cheaper option
RNZ: Auckland rail system to shut down over long weekend
RNZ: Speed limit increase on Auckland's Northern Gateway toll road will get people to destination 'quickly and safely' - transport minister
Stuff: Auckland toll road’s speed limit to rise to 110kmh
Sam Smith (Stuff): Auckland Transport’s revenue from parking fines doubles in a year
GAMBLING
Tim Hunter (NBR): Govt mulls issue of Entain’s Aussie bets after NZ greyhound ban (paywalled)
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Social media influencer Millie Elder-Holmes fined $5000 in online gambling crackdown
RNZ: Millie Elder-Holmes fined $5000 for promoting online gambling
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
RNZ: Government sets targets to reduce new agricultural and horticultural product approval wait times
RNZ: High quality agreements with new trade partners priority for agricultural sector - report
Brent Edwards (NBR): What keeps agribusiness leaders awake at night (paywalled)
Blayne Slabbert (Press): Tipping point: Farming’s future hinges on hard trade-offs (paywalled)
Jacqueline Rowarth (Herald): Agriculture needs protection and investment
RUN IT STRAIGHT
RNZ: Uncle of Ryan Satterthwaite calls for cancellation of 'Run It' events
Ethan Manera (Herald): Ryan Satterthwaite death: Palmerston North teen’s devastated family warn of viral tackle trend
Eva Gallot (Stuff): Police share new details about injury to teen who died after run it straight-style game
Benjamin Plummer (Herald): Runit Championship League’s $200k Auckland final blocked from major stadium
OTHER
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): ‘Where’s the money?’: Whistleblowers call for investigation as Manurewa Marae cuts govt-funded services (paywalled)
Yolisa Tswanya (Northern Advocate): Northland social workers stretched with caseloads above national average
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): Samoan villagers still fearful of contaminated fish near Manawanui wreck
Bethany Reitsma (Herald): Pike River feature film official trailer released starring Melanie Lynskey, Robyn Malcolm
Eva Gallot (Stuff): Watch: Audiences catch first glimpse of film about the Pike River Mine tragedy
