Table of Contents
Republished with Permission
Author: Bryce Edwards
GOVERNMENT
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Minister Andrew Hoggard’s sister lobbied him opposing tougher baby formula rules
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): Andrew Hoggard’s conflicts of interest and NZ’s culture of complacency
David Fisher (Herald): Winston Peters to deliver ‘roast’ as Whale Oil’s Cameron Slater celebrates 20 years of blogging (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): National’s pollster: There’s zero chance of Luxon being rolled. Who could step in if he was?
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Living wage cut from government contracts: Will Winston Peters ride to the rescue to help low-wage workers (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Road User Charges, Waikeria Prison, foreign investment: Christopher Luxon reveals new quarterly action plan
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Govt says first quarterly action plan on track - second may surprise
1News: Govt outlines its next quarterly action plan
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Economic growth top goal again in Government’s latest quarterly plan
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Luxon's 'going for growth' actually means 'going for debt reduction'
Anna Whyte (Post): Who’s who in Christopher Luxon’s communications bubble (paywalled)
David Fisher (Herald): Shane Jones and wife Dot say she was grabbed after altercation at Auckland Airport
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Dot Jones, wife of MP Shane Jones, assaulted at Auckland Airport
Stuff: Dot Jones, wife of NZ First’s Shane Jones, allegedly assaulted at airport
PARLIAMENT
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): MSD and Manurewa Marae face employment case over whistleblower claims (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): They think we are stupid (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Parliament’s secret “transparency” regime
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): Can you be a good local MP while in Cabinet? These politicians say yes, minister (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Plain language used in explaining environmental initiatives (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): Once a Labour stronghold, Mount Roskill set for ‘competitive’ race in 2026 (paywalled)
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Steven Cowan: The Green Party can expect the attacks to continue
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. the Benjamin Doyle affair (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): Benjamin Doyle’s bookcase
Ani O’Brien (Herald): Why I shared Benjamin Doyle’s screenshots and why I am furious at the Greens (paywalled)
Stuff: Unclear when Green MP Benjamin Doyle will return to Parliament
Robert MacCulloch: The Prize for "Biggest Green-washers" in NZ goes to .. The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Phil Smith (RNZ): Behind the door at a parliamentary privilege hearing
Anna Whyte (Post): How powerful is Parliament’s Privileges Committee? (paywalled)
1News: Q+A: Tiriti activist pressed for details on Māori Parliament proposal
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Mariameno Kapa-Kingi: Being our strongest Māori selves (paywalled)
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RNZ: Labour, Te Pāti Māori lose ground - April Taxpayers Union-Curia poll
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Coalition back on track in polling after months behind Labour
Stuff: Coalition holds on to power in latest political poll
Kelly Dennett (Post): ACT, NZ First gain support in latest poll, National static (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Trump tariffs weigh on NZ’s value and values
Luke Malpass (Post): Todd McClay after ‘Liberation Day’: there might be benefits for NZ (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): If it walks like a penguin, and talks like a penguin…
Craig Renney: Tariffs hurt – because we let them hurt
Liam Dann (Herald): As tough new tariff reality dawns, New Zealand needs to hold its nerve (paywalled)
Eric Crampton (Post): Tariffs, AI, and the certainty of volatility (paywalled)
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Time for NZ to take charge in trade leadership (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Trade war, but make it stupid
RNZ: New club of countries to emerge from Trump tariff turmoil - economist
Brad Olsen (Post): Trump tariff spells trouble for New Zealand – and the world (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Trump tariffs: Trade Minister Todd McClay gets clarification on how the United States' new regime will work
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Sour Grapes With Much At Steak
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): 'Clearly markets didn't expect this': Tariffs and Kiwisaver
Robert MacCulloch: Its official (according to the best NZ estimates): Trump's Tariffs will boost NZ's GDP
Monique Steele (RNZ): NZ timber exports immune from Trump tariff hit
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): The NZ product exempt from new US tariffs – for now (paywalled)
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. King Lux
Suzannah Jessep (Newsroom): Common ground with India in turbulent times
ENVIRONMENT, FAST-TRACK, PRIMARY INDUSTRIES, RMA
Michael Morrah (Herald): Environmentalists claim footage shows coral destruction caused by NZ fishing vessels (paywalled)
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Pine planting: Ministers 'dreaming' about amount of suitable land, say green groups
John Drummond (ODT): New Zealand’s climate credibility is going down the plughole
Brian Easton (Pundit): Resource Management And Property Rights
Ashleigh McCaull (RNZ): Palm kernel protesters breach security at Port Taranaki
Joe Shaw (RNZ): Plastic wrap producers targeted under proposed 'Green Farms' scheme
Julie Asher (ODT): Fast-track panel for gold mine nominated
Liz McDonald (Press): Blame game over eel graveyard (paywalled)
David Williams (Newsroom): Judge says there’s merit in Crown argument on water declaration
Mary Williams (ODT): Ngai Tahu water rights under scrutiny (paywalled)
Caroline Williams (Stuff): Majority of Auckland beaches marked unsafe for swimming after month’s worth of rain
Michael Neilson (Spinoff): Where does your recycling end up – and who bears the brunt of ‘waste colonialism’?
1News: Q+A: Farmers at crossroads as Parliament considers gene technology legislation
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): The worrying circumstance in which barn eggs can be sold as ‘free-range’
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Canterbury farmers ask MPs to cut red tape
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Mata: Episode 6: Green MP Hūhana Lyndon on taking on the Public Works Act
HEALTH
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): Heart surgery delays costing lives, doctors warn: ‘Te Whatu Ora is a shambles’
Rachel Thomas (Post): A stocktake of NZ’s health agencies, from an outgoing health reporter (paywalled)
Rachel Thomas and Mariné Lourens (Post): The patients waiting at least three years for surgery in a healthcare crunch (paywalled)
Benjamin Plummer (Herald): Girl, 11, mistaken as woman: Director of Mental Health launches probe after child restrained, injected with antipsychotics
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Hospital's faulty pipe upgrade marked as complete, when it wasn't
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Man with cerebal palsy can't get diagnostic scan due to radiology staff shortages
ODT Editorial: Rural health woes (paywalled)
John Lewis (ODT): Pressure cooker for rural GPs (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Ward staff assaulted: allegation
RNZ: Petition supporting change to volunteer firefighters ACC eligibility reaches 30,000
Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): Flu season comes early as record high cases sparks warning
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Why midwives won’t support a bill for increased postnatal care
Arena Williams, Stuart Smith (Stuff): Health plans must do what is best for New Zealanders
Emma Andrews (RNZ): Is whakapapa the answer to better health treatment?
RNZ: 'It's timely now' - HIV self-tests to be available at pharmacies
RNZ: Easier access to long-acting contraceptives proposed
JUSTICE, POLICE
Derek Cheng (Herald): The Government has had enough of ‘lenient’ sentences - it has the previous National Government to thank for enabling them (paywalled)
Amy Williams (RNZ): Family Court changes: Politicians have little knowledge of 'buried' report
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Review of emergency call systems remains inconclusive three years on
Roger Brooking (Listener): Criminologist: Tamatha Paul should be commended, not criticised (paywalled)
John Weekes (Herald): Public Defence Service job cut proposal raises concerns about miscarriages of justice (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (RNZ): New laws needed for high-risk offenders, Law Commission says
Post: More ‘humane’ regime for high-risk offenders mooted (paywalled)
Mike White (Sunday Star Times): Steven Wallace’s controversial shooting goes to UN after 25 years
Deborah Morris (Post): New law and systems in train to prevent litigation abuse (paywalled)
Neil Sands (Law News): Complaint to Chief Justice, Attorney-General about use of karakia in court
Gill South (Stuff): AI is like having a high-performing junior lawyer, says a leading barrister
TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Rejected but not dejected - has the Treaty Principles Bill been successful?
Julia Gabel (Herald): Minister celebrates defeat of Treaty Principles Bill, another urges Māori to accept ‘trade offs’ of economic development
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Christopher Luxon should vote down the Treaty Principles Bill in person (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Justice Select committee calls for Treaty Principles Bill to be scrapped
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Treaty Principles Bill: Justice select committee reports back with public submissions overwhelmingly opposed
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: The parliamentary processes behind the missing submissions story
Duncan Garner (Listener): Ban them! Te Pāti Māori’s one-fingered salute to New Zealand (paywalled)
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): Select committee recommends scrapping Treaty principles bill amid huge opposition
No Right Turn: The people have spoken
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Te Tiriti o Waitangi lawyer unsurprised most submissions oppose Treaty Principles Bill
MANAWANUI SINKING, DEFENCE
RNZ: Crew on Manawanui during sinking were under-trained, ship not up to task - report
RNZ: Transcript: What happened when the Manawanui Navy ship grounded off Samoa
Corazon Miller (1News): Manawanui sinking: Final report points to a 'series of human errors'
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): ‘This cannot happen again’: How Judith Collins reacted to Manawanui findings
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): NZDF removes entry requirements in bid to boost numbers
SUPERMARKETS, BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Can Nicola Willis succeed in breaking supermarket duopoly? (paywalled)
Steven Joyce (Herald): Supermarkets should front-foot a break-up before legislators arrive (paywalled)
RNZ: FMA takes case against IAG for overcharging consumers
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): FMA files civil case after IAG admits misleading on pricing (paywalled)
RNZ: Aerospace Centre puts forth business case to government
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): 2degrees fined $325,000 over misleading roaming claims
RNZ: New Zealanders stand by ethical investment
Rob Stock (Post): KiwiSaver ethical expectations survive ‘anti-woke’ backlash (paywalled)
Dougal Sutherland and Amanda Wallis (Post): A major productivity problem: Presenteeism (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): On The Money: Car envy, notable sightings, hat dilemmas and more (paywalled)
HEALTH AND SAFETY LAWS
Max Rashbrooke (Post): Rearranging the road cones while workers are dying weekly (paywalled)
RNZ: Work safety expert critical of Minister Brooke van Velden's workplace 'myths'
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Road cone tattle line won’t help, say traffic bosses
1News: Company fined for 'conveyor belt death-trap' that killed worker
HOUSING
Ben Leahy (Herald): Kāinga Ora’s half-billion-dollar state home sell-off excites developers (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Larger granny flats to be built without consents after Govt changes coalition promise (paywalled)
RNZ: Government to allow bigger granny flats to be built without consents
Felix Walton (RNZ): New granny flat policy will boost NZ housing, property investors' group says
Ben Leahy (Stuff): Auckland’s Ōrewa in Government’s Fast-track Approval Bill for 1250 new homes (paywalled)
Shilpy Arora Gaikwad (Stuff): Loud music, violence and break-ins: Woman recounts horror of living with ‘neighbours from hell’
TRANSPORT
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Auckland council wants changes to parliamentary congestion charging bill
Nick James (RNZ): Wellington mayor plans fight against speed limit changes
Tom Hunt (Post): Beehive vs Wellington City Council in speed limit standoff (paywalled)
RNZ: Cost of Lower Hutt's Riverlink project doubles to $1.5 billion
Justin Wong (Post): Melling Interchange to begin this year as part of now $1.5b RiverLink project
Emma Stanford (Stuff): The domestic flight routes most likely to be cancelled
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Palmerston North street 'no longer a viable option as a key response route'
Karl du Fresne: My war with the NZTA: Part Deux
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Dennis Wesselbaum and Ronald Peeters (The Conversation): 5 years on from its first COVID lockdown, NZ faces hard economic choices – but rebuilding trust must come first
Rob Stock (Stuff): Shame and blame experienced by ‘Generation Debt’
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): The JobSeeker on a benefit for 40 years
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Are rates bills forcing pensioners out?
Good Ideas: Should the over-65s face a higher tax rate? (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): It's a strange world when about the only predictable thing is an OCR cut
Liam Dann (Herald): OCR Preview: Amid tariff turmoil, will the Reserve Bank cut again? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Savers weighing up their options as term deposit rates fall
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ‘If the number has a four, take it’ ‒ advice as further OCR cut looms (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Time for NZ to revisit 400-year-old charitable purposes, tax experts say (paywalled)
Terry Baucher (Interest): The New Zealand Tax Podcast - The United Nations enters the tax chat; concerns over rising GST debt
SOCIAL MEDIA, MEDIA
1News: Q+A: 'Ruining civilisation' - Labour's David Parker on social platforms
Herald Editorial: We are losing the battle to protect our kids from online harms (paywalled)
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): The Detail: The New Zealand institution heralding change
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Offshore drift of ad revenue continues mostly unreported
NBR: Grenon 'may not have been in compliance’ on NZME share buys (paywalled)
BusinessDesk: Takeovers Panel will meet on NZME issue (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Sky TV’s new satellite - the three regions where some customers need extra help, including possible new dishes (paywalled)
Simon Robertson (BusinessDesk): Sky TV and the prisoners’ dilemma
Herald Editorial: On The Up: NZME campaign for a better today and better tomorrow (paywalled)
