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Author: Bryce Edwards
1NEWS-VERIAN POLL, RNZ-REID RESEARCH POLL, PARLIAMENT
Tom Day (1News): Poll: NZ First keep rising as National and Labour fall
1News: 'Looking to other quarters': Minor party leaders on poll boost
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Left bloc would have enough support to turf coalition government out of power - poll
Jo Moir (RNZ): Analysis: New Zealand First gets bump in support after keeping mum on pay equity debate
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): More Kiwis oppose than support government's pay equity changes, new poll shows
Kate Newton (RNZ): RNZ-Reid Research poll: View all results and charts
Michael Swanson (Newsroom): Peters-Seymour switch more about Luxon than his deputies
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): We shouldn't have to work for the government
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Watch: A sneak peek inside Parliament’s new bar
Luke Malpass (Post): Parliament’s new bar - Pint of Order - opens its doors (paywalled)
PUBLIC SECTOR, SOES
Cécile Meier (BusinessDesk): $30m loop: Public sector rehires ex-staff as contractors (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): More than 30% of jobs at DPMC to be disestablished (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Government ‘concerned’ about state companies’ commercial performance, David Seymour says time coming for ‘hard questions’ (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Minister expects Landcorp to deliver bold turnaround plan (paywalled)
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): NZ Post: The secretive SOE transforming into a courier operator (paywalled)
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): PM’s new top scientist was nearly a construction worker in Chicago
MEDIA
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): NZME declares peace, Stuff and TradeMe declare war
RNZ: NZME board shake-up: 'An opportunity to debate editorial policy'
Shayne Currie (Herald): NZME’s changing of the guard - Steven Joyce, Jim Grenon and the focus on editorial endeavour and an intensified real estate battle
Philip Crump: NZME Shareholder Meeting; RNZ Corrects the Record
Hamish McNicol (NBR): NZME editorial board nothing to fear, new chair Joyce says (paywalled)
Hamish McNicol (NBR): Takeovers Panel NZME process a ‘disservice’ to NZ, Grenon says (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Steven Joyce, Jim Grenon join NZME board as Stuff deal casts shadow over shareholders’ meeting (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): No fireworks but plenty of flannel from new directors at NZME AGM (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Stuff-TradeMe deal should be a boost for media industry (paywalled)
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): Stuff says it won’t rekindle acquisition talks with NZME (paywalled)
1News: Stuff Digital to be half-owned by Trade Me in media shake-up
RNZ: Trade Me to buy 50% of Stuff Digital
Luke Malpass (Stuff): Trade Me set to take a 50% stake in Stuff Digital
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Stuff/TradeMe go head to head with NZME (paywalled)
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): Podcast: The Fold: Trade Me buys 50% of Stuff Digital
Nikki Macdonal (Post): Funding cut or correction? What now for RNZ? (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (RNZ): Climate change coverage in a changed media climate
Shayne Currie (Herald): MediaWorks posts $16.2m after-tax loss; growth in revenue, Ebitda - ‘positive momentum’ for 2025 (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. Ryan Bridge
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): MediaWorks’ back to basics approach working
RNZ: Cameron Bennett: Māori journalism takes a 'less adversarial approach'
Susan Sandys (Ashburton Courier): End of an era for newspaper dynasty
BUSINESS, LOBBYING, CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Bruce Curtis (The Integrity Institute): Corporate welfare for agribusiness
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): How pulling out of a long-planned new infant formula standard left the government with an expensive problem
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Millions in taxpayer cash on the line as Government pushes for Wellington premiere for Avatar sequel (paywalled)
1News: Foodstuffs successfully trials facial recognition — but concerns remain
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Privacy commissioner inquiry finds supermarket facial recognition tech's use is justified
Garth Bray (BusinessDesk): Supermarkets speak up at last about private-label products (paywalled)
Eric Crampton (Post): The only way to find out if more supermarket competition is real (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Nicola Willis is right about supermarket reform
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): On the Money: Christian Hawkesby and his job, Jason Paris and his AI, Anna Mowbray, Winston Peters, and more … (paywalled)
Catherine Beard (Post): What makes New Zealand an investment destination? Here’s the shopping list (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): New Zealanders' testimony about short-life consumer culture (paywalled)
RMA, ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Marnie Prickett (Post): Changes to freshwater policy written with, and for polluters (paywalled)
John Maassen (Law News): Why New Zealand needs a new framework for strategic sustainability development
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Fast-track decision gives communities more info on local projects
RNZ: Luxon dismisses international climate scientists as 'worthies'
Mary Argue (RNZ): Engineering firm strips doors off Pūkaha aviary after $245,000 bill unpaid for months
EMPLOYMENT, PAY EQUITY
Craig Renney: Not safe for work – the Government's Worksafe reforms
RNZ: WorkSafe changes will deter employees from raising concerns - CTU
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): The dangers of tinkering with Health and Safety
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Our workplace fatality rate is appalling
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): What seemed to start as an Auckland ‘war on cones’, has made it to the Beehive
ECONOMY, KIWISAVER, COST OF LIVING
Susan Hornsby-Geluk (Post): How employees are set to pay the price of new KiwiSaver contributions (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Call to rethink tax on KiwiSaver
Rob Stock (Post): Increase in NZ borrowers in serious arrears as job market stalls (paywalled)
Keith Woodford: New Zealand’s decline in per capita economic growth is fundamental and long-term
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Households boosted by falling interest rates
RNZ: High food prices, 'tariff noise' cast shadow over consumer confidence
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Instead of focusing on the lack of jobs, the Government seems intent on giving the boot to people (paywalled)
REGULATORY STANDARDS BILL
Ella Stewart (RNZ): ACT leader David Seymour suggested 'bots' drove 'fake submissions' against his Regulatory Standards Bill
Ryan Ward: The Regulatory Standards Bill will change everything
JACINDA ARDERN BOOK
Grant Duncan (The Conversation): In her memoir, Jacinda Ardern shows a ‘different kind of power’ is possible – but also has its limits
Grant Duncan: Jacinda Ardern on political leadership
Janet Wilson (Newsroom): Jacinda, by Janet Wilson
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): A Jacinda Ardern biographer reviews Jacinda Ardern’s memoir
Kelly Dennett (Post): Inside the Dame Jacinda Ardern book publicity juggernaut (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): I see nothing's changed in camp Jacinda
Eva Gallot (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern is back in the international spotlight, here’s why
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Bound to lose money?
CHRIS BISHOP AT THE AOTEAROA MUSIC AWARDS
RNZ: Chris Bishop frustrated by 'politicised' Stan Walker Aotearoa Music Awards performance
RNZ: Luxon 'comfortable' with Chris Bishop's response after Aotearoa Music Awards 'rant'
1News: Luxon responds after Bishop's music awards comments
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua Lakes Council to explore unitary authority options with neighbours
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): Palmerston North waits for willing water partners
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Water finally restored in Dargaville
HEALTH
RNZ: Smoking rates plateau bucking downward trend, latest survey figures show
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Leaked document reveals Immunisation Advisory Centre could cut staff by 40 percent
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Major healthcare provider Evolution Healthcare eyes growth, as Government ups outsourcing (paywalled)
Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): The rise of weight-loss drugs and surgery in Kiwis’ battle to lose weight (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Rafaella Melo (Herald): School literacy service axed in Budget 2025, leaving 109 specialists jobless
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Finger-wagging won't get more kids going to school
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Will fining parents of absent kids help?
Richard Prebble (Herald): Government’s $140m school attendance initiative overlooks New Zealand’s missing children crisis (paywalled)
TRANSPORT
Brent Edwards (NBR): Crown reserves right to decide who runs the Cook Strait ferries (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): ‘Let's have a performance conversation’: Peter Reidy on getting KiwiRail match fit, chasing freight volumes (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Calls for national workforce plan as NZ rail sector faces ‘retirement cliff’ (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): All councils should learn from ECAN's open mind on rail
RNZ: Council wants train connecting Christchurch with growing Canterbury towns
Mike Yardley (Press): Commuter rail: pie in the sky, or worth yet another look? (paywalled)
POLICE, CRIME
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Judge reserves decision on injunction on Jevon McSkimming investigation
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Police launch review after controversial retail crime directive
Al Williams (Open Justice Reporting): Cop who stomped on man during South Auckland arrest resigns, avoids prosecution after police investigation
Alecia Rousseau (Stuff): It’s nationwide’: Violent boy racer culture needs stamping out, says mayor
COLLISION GAMES
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The Govt can't rule on 'Run it Straight'
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Sometimes a ban isn't the answer
Tobias Macintosh (Stuff): Legislation won’t stop a 21st: PM speaks on calls to ban RunIt
RNZ: Not a sport': Top NZ sports doctors call for ban on RunIt
ENERGY
Richard Woodd (Listener): Powerless progress: NZ energy woes continue as winter starts to bite (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Commerce Commission head John Small calls business fear of power companies ‘major concern’ (paywalled)
NZ Energy: Rudderless
OTHER
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Hikoi to lift tapu off Kaikohe following child death - Shane Jones calls out Ngāpuhi’s silence
Azaria Howell (Herald): Government considering ‘demolition’ for Chateau Tongariro deemed ‘fiscal risk’ in Budget 2025; potential buyers interested in Ruapehu hotel (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Couple owes $20,000 Working for Families debt 'through no fault of our own'
Claire Jewitt (Post): Feeling punished for doing the right thing (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): MPs recommend new safeguards for foreign interference law
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