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Author: Bryce Edwards
JUSTICE, GANGS, CRIME
Derek Cheng (Herald): Ministry of Justice warns NZ First-National coalition commitment risks doubling prison population (paywalled)
Alice Neville (Spinoff): Inside the government’s beleaguered bid to reduce violent crime
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): PM struggles to explain why he backs the police on gangs, but not guns
Jo Moir (RNZ): Justice minister's advice to gang members who want to wear patches at home: 'Just don't get caught'
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Labour demands consultation after another 11th-hour gang patch ban amendment
RNZ: Explainer: What is a gang patch and what will happen when they are banned?
RNZ: Comanchero bust: 'Other suppliers will simply jump in to meet the demand'
Jared Savage (Herald): ‘Ghost Team’: Police allege former US marine trained Comanchero gang members in military tactics (paywalled)
Jared Savage (Herald): Police investigation ‘deals blow to heart’ of Comancheros motorcycle gang, with nearly every member facing criminal charges
1News: Nearly every Comanchero member charged amid years-long probe
RNZ: Nearly every member of the Comanchero motorcycle gang in New Zealand facing criminal charges
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Nearly all of Comanchero gang facing charges following three-year investigation
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Police bias questions with more Māori charged with cannabis-related crimes than Pākehā
1News: Kiwis lost $6.8 million to cybercrime last quarter
Michael Andrew (Law News): How the Court of New Beginnings is reducing re-offending
Neil Sands (Law News): Courts’ digitisation program hits snags but still on budget
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Where's the justice in concurrent prison sentences?
TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE, URBAN DESIGN
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government got advice on hiking bus and train fares and reducing subsidy (paywalled)
1News: Community meeting after 'bolt out of the blue' tolling proposal
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Objections raised to proposed toll for Manawatū Gorge road replacement
ODT Editorial: Wanted, dead or alive: Faster roads (paywalled)
Timothy F Welch (Newsroom): Slow down, Mr Brown
Thomas Manch (Post): Simeon Brown resists killing off Auckland mayor's bridge idea (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Screw it, build Wayne Brown’s weird bridge
Amelia Wade (Post): A bridge over troubled tunnels? Architect reveals concepts for Auckland crossing (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Auckland Council taps out of AIA capital raise (paywalled)
Post: Investors, institutions snap up over $1.2b in Auckland Airport shares (paywalled)
Anne Gibson (Herald): How Hawkins won giant $800m new Auckland Airport domestic terminal contract (paywalled)
1News: Auckland's Westgate let down by transport officials – owners
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Auckland Explained: Goodbye free car parks, hello bigger fines
Philip Matthews (Aotearoa NZ Review of Books): Urban Aotearoa: A vision for beyond the 'quarter-acre dream'.
Jonathan Killick (Post): NZTA says no to Jason Momoa filming stunts, explosions on Auckland motorway (paywalled)
GOVERNMENT, CROWN-MĀORI RELATIONS
Brent Edwards (NBR): Govt reviewing why it owns SOEs (paywalled)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Roche's return, Whānau Ora up for grabs and more (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): No decisions on whether NZ still needs a telecommunications commissioner (paywalled)
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): A long, personal and painful read for the minister they call Goldie
Audrey Young (Herald): 10 Māori policies in the sights of the coalition Government (paywalled)
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Mata: Rawiri Wright on Te Wiki o Te Reo, Jordan Williams on the Treaty Principles Bill
Philip Temple (ODT): We need to talk about paddling together
PARLIAMENT, FORMER MPS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): An Age of growing discontent in New Zealand
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Labour's Hipkins Problem Worsens (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Chris Hipkins poll results: Labour leader says he has ‘full support’ of caucus
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Is Hipkins the man to lead Labour into the next election?
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Bipartisan support for constitutional change to Parliament
Harriette Boucher (Post): Beehive Briefing: Everything you need to know from today (paywalled)
David Fisher (Herald): Aussie Malcolm sex abuse claims: How allegations emerged after former Cabinet minister’s death, plea for police to keep investigating (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Cop believed teen who alleged former politician sexually abused him
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Kiri Allan crash: Police defend heavy redactions in released file (paywalled)
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