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Author: Bryce Edwards
TE PĀTI MĀORI
1News: Q+A: Te Pāti Māori won't put off potential Labour voters - Jackson
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Labour’s Willie Jackson doesn’t want a ‘war with the Māori Party’
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori haka: A balancing act for Labour as National seeks end to controversy
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Suspended Te Pāti Māori MPs to embark on national tour
RNZ: Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer on the longest suspension in Parliament
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Was the Māori Party haka suspension justified, or a ‘racist mischaracterisation’?
Post Editorial: The absurdity of the haka debate (paywalled)
1News: Opposition calls for tikanga committee following haka debate
RNZ: 'Sad day in Parliament': Winston Peters on Te Pāti Māori suspension debate
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: A sentencing hearing in Parliament
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR
1News: Q+A: The one prominent billboard turning heads in the Beehive
Thomas Manch (Post): Ardern the empathic, Luxon the punisher: how the political vibe has shifted (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Polls show Government suffers minimal political damage from pay equity shock (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Seymour on Māori funding: Need over race in Government policy shift (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Post): No winners and plenty of distractions amid very long week in politics (paywalled)
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: The latest in politics: Luxon’s aide scandal and the chaos of Te Pāti Māori’s suspensions
Brent Edwards (NBR): The haka (again), polling support, a sex scandal, WorkSafe (paywalled)
James Nokise (Post): Parliament, poor behaviour, and some petulant punishment (paywalled)
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Parliamentary week achieves two out of three goals
Harriette Boucher (Stuff): David Seymour debated at the prestigious Oxford Union, and lost. Here’s what happened
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Chris Bishop
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): The ‘sausage eater’ request of Winston Peters, and the response that ‘lacked mustard’
REGULATORY STANDARDS BILL
Brian Easton (Pundit): Taking Economics
Melanie Nelson: Economist Geoff Bertram: What the Regulatory Standards Bill Reveals About the Future of Government
Catherine Knight: Have you submitted on the 'dull but dangerous' Regulatory Standards Bill?
Ben Thomas (Post): Some legacy objectives achieved, but a key one may remain a hostage to fortune (paywalled)
MICHAEL FORBES ALLEGATIONS
Tracy Watkins (Post): Press secretary scandal a wake-up call for security agencies (paywalled)
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Anatomy of a scandal: Why frustrated sex workers went public about Michael Forbes
Paula Penfold (Stuff): What was on Michael Forbes’ phones and why does it matter?
Anna Whyte (Post): Is covert photography legal? Parliamentarians, advocates mull law change (paywalled)
Jo Adetunji (Herald): Resignation of PM’s staffer Michael Forbes highlights gaps in law on covert recording and harassment
WORKPLACE SAFETY, MENTAL HEALTH
Rebecca Macfie (Newsroom): History’s verdict is already in on van Velden’s safety reforms
1News: Q+A: Full Q+A interview: Van Velden grilled on WorkSafe reforms, pay equity
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Sector leader urges overhaul as builders face mental health crisis: 'You can't scale chaos'
BUSINESS
ODT Editorial: Slow supermarket competition progress (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Time to take action over supermarket competition (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): A Q+A, after a big week, for NZ’s grocery commissioner (paywalled)
Roger Partridge: A Straightforward Guide to Film Subsidies (Or Why Hollywood Gets Welfare and GPs Get an Apology)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk):On the Money: Peter Beck, Miss Takes, Adrian Orr in the wild, and more (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): A decade of disappointment: The grim, costly saga of the NZ International Convention Centre (paywalled)
Jeffrey Halley (RNZ): SkyCity sues Fletcher over delays in completing Auckland's convention centre
Anne Gibson (Herald): SkyCity Entertainment Group suing Fletcher Building for $330m over NZICC
NBR: SkyCity to sue Fletcher for $330m over NZICC delay (paywalled)
DEFENCE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Warren Thomson (Press/Post): Implications for NZ from Rocket Lab’s military work go undebated (paywalled)
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘This is diplomacy’: Winston Peters on trade wars and coalition dynamics
Phil Pennington (RNZ): New Zealand Defence Force using US Army wargame simulation software DATE
Teuila Fuatai (RNZ): Poor countries set to pay $22billion for China debt
IMMIGRATION
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Migrant communities celebrate parent visa, amid concerns it'll lock many out
Anna Whyte (Stuff): What exactly is the new ‘Parent Boost’ visa?
1News: 'Parent boost' visa offers five-year access for migrant families
RNZ: Government announces new 'Parent Boost' visa to bring families together
Anna Whyte (Stuff): ‘Parent Boost’ visa begins in September
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Immigration NZ alerted to child smuggling, families adopting more than 10 kids
JACINDA ARDERN
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret memoir of .. Jacinda Ardern
Philip Matthews (Aotearoa NZ Review of Books): Will this book change the minds of the crazies?
Nevil Gibson (NBR): Iron Ladies show their mettle
Jesse Mulligan: Behind the scenes of the Jacinda interview
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): I've struggled with the Jacinda Ardern book
Bob McCoskrie: The Media’s Lovefest With Jacinda (& Her Book)
The Standard: Meta Ardern
HOUSING
Timothy Welch (The Conversation): Making it easier to build a granny flat makes sense – but it’s no solution to a housing crisis
Nikki Macdonald (Post): Loafers Lodge fire: Healing the injustice (paywalled)
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): 'Kick in the guts': Government knocks back most of Christchurch council's housing plans
Sinead Gill (Press): ‘Wasted millions of dollars’: Christchurch forced to allow housing intensification (paywalled)
RNZ: Chris Bishop rejects Christchurch City Council's intensification rules
Mountain Tui: Homelessness up by 58%
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): Council’s $100k spend on influencers: What a sports star earned for two Instagram videos
Sinead Gill (Press): Christchurch council commits to pay equity despite law change (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press): Supermarkets and bottle stores hit back at plans to curb alcohol sales (paywalled)
Peter Newport (Crux): The three Trojan Horses designed to shift huge costs from central to local funding
Tom Hunt (Post): Our pipe, our torrent, not our responsibility: Wellington council declines flood payout (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington businesses paying $20,000 more in commercial rates than other cities (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington mayoral candidate admits $42m misstep over debt numbers (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Ray Chung launches Wellington mayoral campaign
RNZ: Wellington mayoral hopeful Ray Chung promises to slash council jobs
Tom Hunt (Post): Former chartered accountant, progressive takes Wellington mayoral race to seven (paywalled)
Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): Council chief executive warns of abuse, harassment of elected members
Justin Wong (Post): Late Porirua council budget rewrite attempt ‘election year politicking’ (paywalled)
Ruby Shaw (ODT): Radich sets out campaign aims (paywalled)
KIWISAVER, SUPERANNUATION
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): The Detail: New Zealand's mean testing creep
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): 50 years of superannuation and still we get it wrong (paywalled)
Ross Stitt (Interest): Danish fiscal restraint vs kiwi profligacy
Sam Stubbs (Post): KiwiSaver reinforced as our path to prosperity, now let’s make it compulsory (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): KiwiSaver providers hope public support for contribution increases will see default rates move higher
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Are you missing out on your last chance for $521 of 'free money'?
Janine Starks (Post): How to make the most of the recent KiwiSaver changes (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Jonathan Killick (Sunday Star Times): Parties, Pilates, private cars: State-school spending busted by auditors (paywalled)
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Auditor-General asked to look into food waste from school lunch programme
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Schools serve up their own lunches: 'We all want to keep the programme going'
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Māori, Pacific removed from extra education funding priorities
Hanna McCallum (Post): More than 10,000 stand-downs in primary schools last year (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): No law schools changing their curriculum, despite removal of tikanga requirement
Mohan Dutta (E-Tangata): Why ACT’s Dr Parmar is wrong about Te Tiriti rights
Eric Crampton (Newsroom): NZ can profit from US university turmoil
HEALTH
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Hospice funding crisis: Collapse of services could cost taxpayers millions
Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): New mental health co-response teams years away from being fully up and running (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): ‘Unethical’ vape sales questioned as disposable ban looms (paywalled)
Phoebe Utteridge (Stuff): Oral nicotine pouches on the rise, despite being illegal to sell
Christina Persico (RNZ): Concerns over Pasifika healthcare access in Aotearoa
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Expanded Lower Hutt medical centre to cater for 'daylight hours'
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How a health problem you don't know about could disrupt insurance
RNZ: Prominent medical bodies call for release of delayed gender affirming healthcare guidelines
TRANSPORT
Justin Hu (1News): Nationwide public transport card delayed again, minister 'concerned'
David Long (Stuff): Wayne Brown ‘very disappointed’ over access to Auckland’s new Maungawhau Station station
Amy Ridout (Stuff): Cycling community unites against cycleway tacker
INFRASTRUCTURE
Liu Chen (RNZ): Call for govt action to prevent repeat of warship internet outages
Phoebe Utteridge (Stuff): Concern NZ’s communication infrastructure is ‘fragile’ after Aussie navy ship interference
1News: Australian warship accidentally blocked radio, internet to parts of NZ
NBR: Central and local government must manage assets better: report (paywalled)
MEDIA
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Who calls the shots after change at the top?
Shayne Currie (Herald): AM transmissions of up to seven Auckland radio stations – including sport and Pacific broadcasts – threatened under RNZ plans to replace transmission masts (paywalled)
Vaughn Davis (Herald): The case for our taxpayer-funded national radio network to appeal to a wider audience (paywalled)
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