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PARLIAMENT
Andrea Vance (Post): Law-breaking, tantrums and misconduct. Just an average week in Parliament (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (Post): The long and ignoble list of MPs who resigned badly (paywalled)
Kelly Dennett (Post): The one about Winston Peters and the media conspiracy (paywalled)
Max Rashbrooke (Post): What will be Luxon’s ‘John Key’ moment of bipartisanship (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Manurewa Marae's election donation raises further questions of political neutrality (paywalled)
Janet Wilson (Post): The Greens and the gentle art of swallowing dead rats (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Darleen Tana and the Greens: The inconvenient truth is she could linger like a bad smell (paywalled)
Peter Wilson (RNZ): The Week in Politics: Will the Greens use the law they hate?
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Captain Chlöe
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Lobbyists: What do they do and why the bad rep?
Damien Grant (Stuff): On macro issues, Luxon's government is indistinguishable from its predecessors
RNZ: National, Luxon make gains in TPU-Curia poll
Thomas Manch (Post): Labour’s support drops in latest Taxpayers' Union poll (paywalled)
Stuff: Labour down, and more good news for Christopher Luxon, in latest poll
RNZ: Seymour to be Acting PM again as Luxon takes leave
Nic Duff (ODT): Act MPs explore how ‘real people’ feeling (paywalled)
Dileepa Foseka (BusinessDesk): On the Money: Synlait, ferries, non-announcements and more (paywalled)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Social investment is a numbers game (paywalled)
Katie Townshend (Stuff): South Island missing out under National: Hipkins
Richard Shaw (The Conversation): A nation reinvented: 40 years on from its 1984 victory, the Fourth Labour Government still defines NZ
Richard Harman (Politik): 40 years ago, inside the crisis that made modern NZ (paywalled)
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The 1984 Revolution Part II: Crash and burn (paywalled)
Ross Vintiner (Spinoff): The Sunday Essay: The Lange I knew
HOUSING
Rachel K Dohig, Sebastiaan Bierema, Lucy Telfar Barnard (Spinoff): How no-cause evictions make a farce of healthy homes standards
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ’Where will they all go?’ More than a dozen Kainga Ora tenancies terminated in three months
RNZ: Kāinga Ora evictions rise in crackdown on unruly tenants
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Chris Bishop’s housing policy is a genuine change in economic direction (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): The real cost of housing excuses (paywalled)
Don Brash: Another outstanding speech from Chris Bishop
Thomas Nash (Post): Higher density housing is coming. Here’s a toolkit to get it right (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): The big fishhook in Govt’s small apartments plan
Andrew Sweet: Imported modular houses could help to address NZ’s housing affordability crisis
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): What happened when the government gave cheap home loans?
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Reserve Bank grapples with Govt housing policies
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How much do you need to earn to get a home loan?
Kevin Norquay (Post): Should I stay or should I go? The retirement village quandary (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Post): Anglican church holds desperate leaseholders to increasing rents (paywalled)
Amy Williams (RNZ): Auckland Council wants to fast-track flood prevention work that would save 51 Māngere homes
TRANSPORT
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Interislander: Ministers warned 'careful' talks with Korea needed over ferry cancellations
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): KiwiRail recommended build-and-sell option to resolve $551m ferry contract (paywalled)
RNZ: Interislander ferries: Should a new entity be set up to run the vessels?
RNZ: Transport Minister tight lipped about whether Kiwirail could lose ferries
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): NZ will trail Europe by ‘4 years’ on car carbon emissions (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Tory Channel safety review could extend Cook Strait crossing (paywalled)
Peter Beech (Marlborough Express): Time to close dangerous and narrow Tory Channel to ferries
Rob Rattenbury (Whanganui Chronicle/Herald): Investment in inter-island ferries vital (paywalled)
Virginia Fallon (Post): Views and spews: There and back on the Interislander (paywalled)
RNZ: Aratere to return to full sailings by August after grounding, as Picton awaits government ferry plan
Francesca Rudkin (Newstalk ZB): Interislander needs to step up and own up over ferry embarrassment
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): NZTA reviews police, council access to state highway CCTV cameras
Richard Hills (Post): Our kids are worth more than 14 seconds: Forced safer speed reversal will cost lives (paywalled)
1News: Transport Minister outlines battle plan in war on road cones
Mountain Tui: Auckland & Transport Minister Simeon Brown's insanity
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Simeon understands your road cone pain
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): More road cones aren't the answer to workplace safety
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Christopher Luxon suffers amid Biden scrutiny in Nato debut (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): An energising trip with a sense of unease in the tail (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Luxon's NATO talks bring home what's at stake for New Zealand
Jo Moir (RNZ): Luxon's corporate career leaves him well prepped for political pomp and ceremony
RNZ: Christopher Luxon reflects on first US trip
Luke Malpass (Stuff): PM Luxon wins baseball ‘mad respect’ of California Governor Newsom - who is backing Biden
Luke Malpass (Post): This man could replace Joe Biden - and Luxon is meeting him tomorrow (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): ‘Ukraine could happen in our region’: Luxon meets Zelenskyy, Biden at Nato (paywalled)
RNZ: Christopher Luxon has no concerns about Joe Biden's ability to lead US if re-elected
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. Luxon’s Nato dinner in Washington
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): NZDF Red Sea deployment extended, despite insistence it would end this month
Felix Desmarais (1News): NZ Defence Force deployment in Red Sea extended
Russell Palmer (RNZ): New Zealand extends support for US strikes against Houthis in Red Sea
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Trade expert says the US is a riskier trade partner than China
Phil Pennington (RNZ): US leads international military exercise to sink old warship
Andrea Vance (Post): Warship gash cost $220k to fix (paywalled)
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Faeces and drugs ‘retaliation’ against protesters
CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): Democracy and trust
ODT Editorial: A token effort on the environment (paywalled)
RNZ: ACT MP submits bill to stop councils considering climate change
Greg Presland (Standard): Government is paying lip service to climate change
Bernard Hickey and Cathrine Dyer (The Kākā): Govt flounders while ocean temps soar
Jamie Morton (Herald): Kids in deprived neighbourhoods exposed to dirtier air, NZ-first analysis shows
Brendon McMahon (Local Democracy Reporting): Dead eels found in West Coast river below the Arnold River power scheme
RNZ: 'Cultures on the island need to be addressed': DOC explains Chathams cuts and changes
Peter de Graaf (Stuff): Northland iwi 'vindicated' by rejection of plans for major port expansion in Whangārei Harbour
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): GMO: Where will be the biggest benefits under looser regulations? (paywalled)`
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Masterton air marked as officially 'polluted' for another five years
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE, THREE WATERS
Thomas Manch (Post): National, Labour may collaborate on city and regional deals (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon’s lessons from Switzerland and the future of local governance (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Why Wellington is considering a switch to land value rates
Nicholas Boyack (Post):Scrap likely over move to get rid of Hutt community boards (paywalled)
Erin Gourley (Post): Airport shares could be gone within a year, tender documents show (paywalled)
Erin Gourley and Frances Chin (Post): No city council bid for ‘lemon’ Reading Cinemas site (paywalled)
RNZ: Reading Cinema site up for sale after Wellington City Council deal falls through
Frances Chin (Post): Abandoned Reading Cinemas site up for sale (paywalled)
Mary Afemata (Local Democracy Reporting): Auckland’s new alcohol rules step closer: ‘We don’t need bottle stores on every corner’
Wayne Brown (Stuff): Auckland CBD has a meth problem
Brendon McMahon (Local Democracy Reporting): Wairoa incident raises liability questions for Coast councillors
Grant Miller (ODT): Dunedin City Holdings Chairman backs use of consultants (paywalled)
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): The ups and down of Dunedin's $600k inner city playground
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Tauranga council election: It’s a choice about what kind of a city residents want it to be (paywalled)
RNZ: Nelson City Council recommends changes to controversial high density plan
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua Lakes Council announces proposed restructure, InfraCore reintegration
Phoebe Utteridge (RNZ): Tensions rise over scrap metal yard near housing and river
Campbell Barry (Post): What the UK can teach us about clean water (paywalled)
Nicholas Boyack (Post): New bridge will safeguard region’s water supply (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): Proposed adjustment could risk transparency: DCC (paywalled)
Jacob Johnson (1News): Fears Warkworth's wastewater woes could 'kill' growing town
HEALTH, DISABILITY
John Lewis (ODT): Costello could face further scrutiny (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: OIA compliance not a nice-to-have (paywalled)
Ian Powell: Health leadership, tobacco control and a sacred oath: ‘first do no harm’
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Frontline hospital roles going unfilled amid hiring freeze, despite Health NZ saying otherwise
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Health NZ misses own deadline for placing graduate nursing roles
Fiona Ellis (ODT): Patients to be told of surgery waiting times
RNZ: Lower Hutt clinic with just one GP insists it can meet patients' needs
RNZ: Pharmac looking to provide more drugs for cancers, other conditions
Laura James (1News): 'We can do better': Mum of disabled 8yo calls for funding changes
Rob Stock (Post): Health advocates are fighting insurers against ‘genomic discrimination’ (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Aged Care Association: Hundreds of aged care beds to attract premium charge if Health NZ doesn’t spend more
Ric Stevens (Open Justice Reporting): Two anti-fluoridation groups ordered to pay $41,000 after losing court case against council
Amani Sadique (RNZ): Abdominal Vascular Compressions Syndromes sufferers left fund raising for their own surgery
Shannon Pitman (Open Justice Reporting): Northland man wins battle against ACC after serious head injury
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, PERSONAL FINANCE
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Thousands of young job seekers to be case managed on the phone - and face sanctions if they don't pick up
Herald Editorial: New Zealand should not have anyone feeling the cold this winter (paywalled)
Liz McDonald and Rafaella Melo (Press/Post): Job market crunch hits students, young people (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): How many people has the living wage actually helped? (paywalled)
Ella Somers (Interest): Card spending falls for the fifth time in June as households face ongoing financial strain
1News: Consumers sit on wallets as retail spending continues to fall
Jemima Huston (RNZ): Retailers struggling as electronic card spending falls, costs increase
Alecia Rousseau (Manawatū Standard): ‘Struggling’ pensioners choose between heat and food
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): 'Time running out' for tax dodgers as Inland Revenue announces details of crackdown
David Hargreaves (Interest): Will the inflation figures let us have our interest rate cuts?
Liam Dann (Herald): Economic optimism has broken out... should we be worried? (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Inflation: Are we winning? Verdict due this week with Consumer Price Index data out (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Inflation figures expected to add to pressure for early rate cut (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Why did ASB and RBNZ change their mind about rate cuts?
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Opinion: Inflationary tax cuts may be a lucky accident
David Chaston (Interest): Savers should move quickly to capture term deposit specials before they expire
Hillmarè Schulze (NBR): Census data show demographic disparities deepening (paywalled)
Janine Starks (Post): The bank and the newcomer who are leading the way on scam protection (paywalled)
Sam Olley (1News): Kiwis could struggle to pay back loans as lending code changes
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Buy now, pay later providers to start doing credit checks under crackdown (paywalled)
BUSINESS
RNZ: Manufacturing hits post-Covid low - report
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Dire times for New Zealand's manufacturing sector (paywalled)
Lisa Asher and Catherine Sutton-Brady (The Conversation): Supermarket concentration benefits stores, not shoppers. It’s time to split Foodstuffs – not make it stronger
Ella Somers (Interest): Foodstuffs North Island’s annual revenue reaches $9.2 billion
Chris Keall (Herald): Spark customers face price rises, other shoe yet to drop (paywalled)
Jamie Gray (Herald): Electric future: Chasing green electrons is why Rio Tinto went all-in on Tiwai Point (paywalled)
MIGRANT WORKERS
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Evidence, witnesses, recordings: Why didn’t INZ act on alleged exploitation?
RNZ: Solicitor-General declines police request to lay human trafficking charges against Hawke's Bay man
1News: Tech blunder leaves 500 employers without migrant visa accreditation
EDUCATION
1News: Are charter schools a good idea?
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Polytech staff fear more cuts (payalled)
ODT: Students are VC’s priority, or not?
MEDIA
Eric Crampton (Post): Media bill isn’t a change for the better (paywalled)
Vivien Maidaborn (Post): New territory for internet regulation (paywalled)
Te Ahipourewa Forbes (1News): How Māori media has contributed to the revival of te reo
LAW AND ORDER, JUSTICE
Ryan Boswell (1News): 'Never worked': Abuse survivor's warning ahead of Govt bootcamps
1News: Q+A: Govt wants to 'clarify' how shopkeepers can 'defend their property'
RNZ: Checkpoint: Security Association wants clarity on powers security guards have to stop offenders
Amelia Wade (Post): ‘You can’t be in two places at once’: Police attendance at family harm events falls as focus moves to beat teams (paywalled)
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Making Auckland CBD safe again: Beat police teams take to city streets in new safety initiative rollout
Andrea Vance (Post): Judges’ individual expenses are still secret, as year-long battle drags on (paywalled)
OTHER
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): National Infrastructure Agency advice in, questions remain (paywalled)
Sasha Borissenko (Herald): Siouxsie Wiles case reveals gap in digital health and safety law
Lynley Tulloch (Press/Post): Who is the real devil in the war on feral cats? (paywalled)
Andrew Coleman (Interest): A history of New Zealand’s retirement policy
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Kiwis moving abroad: Is the grass really greener in the UK and Australia?
Megan Wilson (Herald): Tino Rangatiratanga flag: Te Tuhi Māreikura Trust launches campaign to protect design
Felix Desmarais (1News): Wairoa flood review to investigate sand bar monitoring
Amy Williams (RNZ): Public apology and adoption law changes: Demands from mum whose baby was taken in an Anglican-run home
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