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Author: Bryce Edwards

HEALTH
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): How multinational dairy companies convinced ministers to back away from new rules for baby formula
Jessica Rosen (1News): Why a senior doctor felt he had no choice but quit Nelson Hospital
RNZ: Nineteen month wait to see a specialist: 'I was suffering severe pain all of the time'
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): HealthNZ response to Nelson Hospital woes just window dressing - union
Ruth Hill (RNZ): One third of New Zealanders waiting more than two weeks to see GP - poll
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Revealed: Senior doctors told PM Gisborne Hospital is on ‘brink of collapse’
Alex Raines (Newsroom): I was overjoyed to move from the US health system to NZ’s. But then I could see the cracks
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): ‘Several failings’ led to wrongful detainment of 11-year-old and dosing of anti-psychotics, Health NZ says
Katie Todd (RNZ): Misidentified 11-year-old injected with drugs rarely given to children, review finds
Agence France-Presse (Guardian): Outrage in New Zealand after 11-year-old girl sent to psychiatric ward and drugged in identity mix-up
Phil Pennington (RNZ): 40% of most urgent hospital repairs aren't being worked on
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: ‘Backbone of the health system’: Calls for more support for GPs
Dita De Boni (Post): NZ’s ageing, burnt out, financially unviable GP sector
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Proposed med school ‘unaffordable’
Jo Lines-MacKenzie (Waikato Times/Post): Doctor backs Waikato Medical School to get GP numbers up (paywalled)
Prabani Wood (NZ Initiative): The heart of healthcare: Renewing New Zealand’s primary health care system
Olivia Caldwell and Rawan Saadi (ODT): Significant failures in Upper Clutha health system: report (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Faster approvals for medicines available overseas under new law
1News: Weight loss drug Wegovy approved for use in NZ
Baz Macdonald (Re: News): Cannabis clinics: Glorified dispensaries or filling patient need?
Stephen Forbes (NZ Doctor): Health workforce shake-up: Fears of a two-tier system spark debate (paywalled)
Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): Mental health programme ‘hugely popular’ with patients despite challenges (paywalled)

PARLIAMENT
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): 'Serious' consequences if Te Pāti Māori MPs don't attend Privileges Committee hearings - chair
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori to hold own hearing after boycotting Privileges Committee
Kelly Dennett and Anna Whyte (Post): Te Pāti Māori MPs a no-show at Privileges hearing
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Privileges Committee hearing to go ahead without Te Pāti Māori MPs
Stuff: ‘We’re not sorry’: Te Pāti Māori refuse to apologise for Parliament haka
1News: Haka in the House: Te Pāti Māori MPs absent from Privileges hearing
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori MPs' absence from Privileges Committee won't stop hearing - law expert
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Check Your Privilege
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David Fisher (Herald): Anatomy of a scandal - Green MP Benjamin Doyle’s case explained (paywalled)
Chris Trotter: Please Explain
Paul Buchanan: The Green’s Identity Bubble Problem
Richard Prebble (Herald): A four-year term for Parliament would be ‘recipe for chaos’ (paywalled)
Robert MacCulloch: Prebs is Right - a 4 Year Parliamentary Term is no panacea to NZ's stagnation
Neil Sands (Law News): Nearly one-third of Kiwis ‘open’ to a dictatorship, survey finds
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Threats without consequences: Parliament's 'schoolyard stupidity'
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Echo Chamber: Winston Peters, whale rider
Ian Powell: Revisiting Universalism
Elliot Crossan: What Is to Be Done? Taking the Fight to the Coalition in 2025

SUPERMARKETS
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): The Supermarket showdown
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Govt mulls radical supermarket reform, but an expert warns excess profits are just a small piece of the high grocery price puzzle
Eric Crampton (Herald): Real supermarket competition will require planning reform (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): The cost and excuse of living in a long, lean and small country (paywalled)
Bryan Bruce: Yada,yada,yada...I'm Over It! (paywalled)

TRANSPORT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Ombudsman forces release of ‘unacceptable’ and ‘excessive’ consultant spend KiwiRail wanted secret
RNZ: KiwiRail's $8m bill for consultants is unacceptable - minister
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): KiwiRail reveals $8m cost of McKinsey contract, Winston Peters blasts spend as ‘unacceptable’ (paywalled)
Local Aotearoa: Another Local Aotearoa transparency win as KiwiRail reveals $8m consultant bill
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On The Government’s Latest Ferries Scam
Brent Edwards (NBR): The twists and turns of replacing Cook Strait ferries (paywalled)
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland congestion: Motorists face longer commutes, possible charges
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Auckland Transport stops measuring its climate emission cuts
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington trains lose 2 million passengers in a year (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Disabled passengers allege ‘continued pattern’ of mistreatment by Metlink staff
Max Frethey (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Weird wording’: Parent says Nelson speed consultation is confusing

PUBLIC SERVICE
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Kāinga Ora to disestablish hundreds of roles
Kate Green (RNZ): MP says another 500 jobs to go as Kāinga Ora roles 'reset' looms
Herald Editorial: Judith Collins’ public service reforms may tread a fine line (paywalled)
Deb Te Kawa (BusinessDesk): Fixing the public service without forgetting the basics (paywalled)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE, DEFENCE
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Donald Trump’s tariffs: Government zeroes in on 20 areas as ‘Liberation Day’ dawns (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): The known unknowns of Trump’s tariff plans
Cameron Smith (Herald): ‘Liberation Day’: New Zealand and the world to learn Trump tariff fate
Luke Malpass (Post): Todd McClay warns NZ likely to be hit by ‘liberation day’ tariffs (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Russia-Ukraine war: Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushes for more sanctions in call with Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Lydia Lewis (RNZ): New Zealand tight-lipped over details of Kiribati aid review
RNZ: Ukraine a case study in how NZ needs to change defence spending - Hipkins
RNZ: RSA applaudes veteran Willie Apiata's Victoria Cross medal gift
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Police acknowledge ‘exposure to potential foreign interference’ concerns
Niva Chittock (RNZ): Chinese ship granted consent from government to undertake research

HEALTH AND SAFETY LAWS
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Planned health and safety law changes miss bigger problems - union
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Fourth reform in a week wraps up health and safety overhaul
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Third health & safety reform ignores Pike River lessons, says expert body (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Workplace safety shake-up: Compliance equals protection under new system of Approved Codes of Practice (paywalled)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER
RNZ: Chief Human Rights Commissioner apologises to Muslim community
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): Chief human rights commissioner accused of Islamophobia by Jewish groups
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): How an Otago bus safety campaign fuelled fierce debate

LAW AND ORDER
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Almost a third of people feel less safe than a year ago - poll
Jack McDonald (Post): The debate about Māori and police we should be having (paywalled)
Peter de Graf (RNZ): 'Safety is at risk': Warning as meth and crime crisis in Northland worsens

BANKING, RESERVE BANK
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Revealed: What Nicola Willis was told ahead of Adrian Orr’s shock Reserve Bank resignation (paywalled)
Martien Lubberink: On Nine to Noon: Banking inquiry has lost its way, capital expert says
Ella Somers (Interest): Too much capital in the banking system is like ‘over-insuring your house’

ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Richard Harman (Politik): Cracks appear in landmark Government policy (paywalled)
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): Rotokākahi protectors vow fight isn’t over as court greenlights controversial pipeline
Emma Andrews (RNZ): Rotokākahi mana whenua 'failed' by green light for sewerage pipeline
David Williams (Newsroom): Declarations might improve water quality, environment group says

EDUCATION
Riria Dalton-Reedy (Te Ao Māori News): ACT MP can’t name one ‘race-based’ policy she’s trying to outlaw
Robert MacCulloch: To National & ACT supporters attacking Auckland University. You voted for the changes there, which you now label "woke"
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Bullying, racism reported at uni's business school (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Number of foreign students continues to rise, select committee told

HOUSING, BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): The housing market has turned around - but is that a good thing?
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): The tenancies that have lasted 20 years
Sinead Gill (Press): ‘Stalling tactics’: Council seeks another extension to housing density plan (paywalled)
1News: Next property market upturn 'slowly building' – CoreLogic
Greg Ninness (Interest): 16,000 fewer new homes consented in year to February compared to same period of 2022
Miriam Bell (Post): Dodgy builders to be hit with tough new rules (paywalled)
Nick Hill (Post): Sorting out building consent delays requires rounding up the cowboys (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): 250,000 new build products is a pipe dream, industry says (paywalled)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Thomas Manch (Post): Government kills off ‘bed tax’ for struggling tourism hotspots (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Greater Wellington Regional councillor Thomas Nash won't run again (paywalled)
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): Bay of Plenty water plans: Councils eye joint-effort options for savings
Victor Waters (RNZ): Govt investment sought for Eden Park upgrade plan - CEO
Brent Melville (NBR): Eden Park’s $550 million plan unveiled (paywalled)
Laine Priestley (ODT): Ward gaining another councillor on ORC (paywalled)

EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS
Ella Somers (Interest): Many NZ workers expect to work into their 70s, SEEK says
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Why your next pay could be a little smaller
Brent Edwards (NBR): Tax experts welcome proposals to simplify fringe benefit tax (paywalled)
Paula Penfold (Stuff): EY NZ boss steps down
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Climate change is a real financial risk, Super Fund managers say
Rebecca Stevenson (BusinessDesk): On the Money: Lisa Eldridge, board bust-ups, Mondiale, having a Field Day, and more (paywalled)
Blake Benny (Herald): Consumer NZ urges Microsoft to extend Windows 10 support, warns of ‘tech nightmare’

PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
RNZ: Council move opens way for OceanaGold to extend open cast pit
Patrick Phelps (Herald): Mining in NZ: Offshore profits and the challenge of fair royalties (paywalled)
Gary Hamilton-Irvine (Hawkes Bay Today): Large Hawke’s Bay sheep and beef farm to be converted to forestry; sold to overseas buyer
Monique Steele (RNZ): Industrial hemp should be an 'agricultural crop' not a 'drug', says grower
Monique Steele (RNZ): Marsden Point closure sparks five-year delay, re-location of $70m glasshouse
Peter Griffin (BusinessDesk): AI policy under Trump: what it means for NZ (paywalled)
Jacqueline Rowarth (Herald): Why New Zealand needs to invest in young farmers now
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Yes, butter is expensive - but how does it compare to other countries?

ECONOMY
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Cutting the OCR next week 'likely the wrong thing to do' - economist
David Hargreaves (Interest): Westpac chief economist: 'No change in the OCR is appropriate'
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): An April cut likely the wrong move – Westpac Bank chief economist (paywalled)

ENERGY
David Dempsey (The Conversation): Hotter and deeper: how NZ’s plan to drill for ‘supercritical’ geothermal energy holds promise and risk
No Right Turn: We don’t need the fast track to kill fossil fuels

OTHER
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Destiny Church defends taking Covid-19 awareness grants despite anti-vaccine stance
Renee Liang (North & South): Child Poverty
Ella Stewart (RNZ): Government consulting with Māori landowners over changes to governing legislation
Scott Kennedy (Post): As online gambling rolls in, NZ needs to regulate ‘dark pattern’ design (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Takeovers Panel issues draft ruling on Jim Grenon’s bid for NZME boardroom cleanout - Australian report (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Mandates, lockdowns and misinformation: The revolt against Jacinda Ardern
Patrick Nolan (Interest): Getting our retirement policy right now is important for the long-term, young people and future generations
Michael Cugley and Te Rina Kowhai (Te Ao Māori News): Whānau Ora tender process challenged in high court

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