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Author: Bryce Edwards
GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Conflicts over conflicts: Why perception in politics matters
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Costello's accusation has had 'chilling effect' on democracy, public servants say
RNZ: Costello advice: Heated debate sees tensions boil over in the House
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Prime Minister apologises after comment about Labour MP's public servant relative
Adam Pearse (Herald): Public Service Association union decries Casey Costello’s ‘unacceptable’ attack on Ministry of Health staffer
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Real problem with Mike King is that politicians enable him
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): ‘I didn’t get the HRC job’: Stephen Rainbow’s Human Rights Commission appointment just got weirder
No Right Turn: Stephen Rainbow is ACT's crony
Harriette Boucher and Anna Whyte (Post): What it was like from the inside when public service cuts took hold
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Govts more prey than predator in public-private partnerships
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): National risks being eaten alive by NZ First & ACT
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Treaty at top of Roche's first week and more… (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Government will make agencies pay invoices faster after axing law change
BOOT CAMPS
Derek Cheng (Herald): Boot camps’ use of force: Christopher Luxon just dug himself an embarrassing hole (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Boot camps: Christopher Luxon claimed no conversation on use-of-force powers, despite Cabinet already agreeing to it
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Bootcamps: Minister defends proposing providers have use-of-force powers against kids, but can’t say who they could be
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Staff will use force in youth boot camps as 'a last resort', Prime Minister says
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Children’s minister clashes with Greens over ‘force’ at youth boot camps
Herald Editorial: Children’s Minister Karen Chhour needs to front on boot camp risks (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Boot camps must not add to our abuse shame
No Right Turn: National's privatised child-abuse camps
TREATY PRINCPLES BILL
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Treaty Principles Bill to be introduced to Parliament this week
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (1News): Treaty Principles Bill could be put before the House this Thursday
Julia Gabel & Claire Trevett (Herald): Treaty Principles Bill: David Seymour confirms plans to bring forward controversial bill
Emma Andrews and Giles Dexter (RNZ): Treaty Principles Bill: 'Paruwaru' politics doesn't stop hīkoi for kotahitanga
HEALTH
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Mental health crisis call-outs: Police agree to delay next phase after discussions with officials
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): The police pullback on mental health callouts, explained
Louisa Steyl (Stuff): Health NZ offers jargon not answers on conference travel cost
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Mayor hopeful southern delegation will make impact
Michael Morrah (Herald): Auckland family doctors, GP clinics, to hike patient fees amid Government funding crisis
John Boynton (The Hui): Unconscious bias a factor in Gisborne ED death
Anna Sargent (RNZ): Number of Christchurch Hospital staff potentially exposed to toxic fumes jumps to 84
RNZ: Minor ailment service funding needed, Pharmaceutical Society president says
Alan Perrott (NZ Doctor): Pharmac axes in-house Māori voice (paywalled)
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Northland's new mobile ENT clinic inspired by Māori Battalion
RNZ: Covid-19 update: 1248 new cases, 12 further deaths
Craig Kapitan (Herald): Court told of Brian Tamaki’s secret meeting with Police Commisioner Andrew Coster before Auckland Covid-19 protest
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Brian Tamaki defence team suggests political pressure to charge Destiny Church bishop
RNZ: Brian Tamaki's lawyer suggests police faced pressure to take action over Covid-19 breaches
ECONOMY, RBNZ FINANCIAL STABILITY REPORT
1News: Average household living costs up 3.8% in past year - Stats NZ
David Hargreaves (Interest): Household living cost increases slow - but are still higher than official inflation rate
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Household living costs increase 3.8%
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Debt servicing to stay hard unless house prices come down - economist
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Banks expect mortgage defaults to rise even as economy recovers
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): More mortgage defaults likely with higher unemployment - RBNZ
Ella Somers (Interest): RBNZ warns high-risk properties could see more insurance premium increases
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ‘Geopolitical’ risks emerging as banks’ worst nightmare
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): US election one of many geopolitical tensions: RBNZ (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Living in risky times (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): NZ economy resilient to manage shocks: RBNZ (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Inside Economics: How we know markets are picking a Trump win...and breaking down that Capital Gains Tax poll (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THREE WATERS
Ella Somers (Interest): New Auditor General report says councils need to have clear strategies for tackling climate change
Charlie Mitchell (Press/Post): Councils need better reporting on climate progress - auditor-general
Matthew Martin (Waikato Times): An appetite for amalgamation - Have we been here before?
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau reveals potential budget cuts, Crown observer yet to be announced
Harriet Laughton (Post): Mayor Tory Whanau breaks the ice on potential Wellington City Council cuts
Julie Jacobson (Post): Fireworks likely as opposition to bridge demolition sparks up
David Farrar: Vision for Wellington
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Wairarapa’s $410m question
Tina Law (Press): The cathedral, Gloucester St, Arts Centre, the A&P Show: the local govt controversies of 2024
Grant Miller (ODT): Radich silent on why report not shared (paywalled)
Susan Botting (Local Democracy Reporting): Why this councillor wears a Mickey Mouse T-shirt to meetings
Natalie Akoorie (RNZ): Hamilton councillor won't face further consequences for expletive-laden rant
Sarah Morcom (Waikato Times): Choice words for councillors unlikely to get results - professor
Local Democracy Reporting):Tauranga council staff 'unfairly' targeted on social media
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Southern council cars clocked speeding 1400 times
Michaela Gower (Hawkes Bay Today): Dannevirke Town Hall to host new Tararua District Council chambers; council says move will save ratepayers $91,000 a year
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
1News: US election: Building relationships, rapport key – Luxon
David Capie (Asia NZ Foundation): What would a Trump or Harris win mean for the Indo-Pacific?
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Schadenfreude Is Not Enough
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Nato, NZ security threats linked – ambassadors
David Chaplin (BusinessDesk): The transtasman fund trade balancing act (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour’s fiscal plan likely to spend more on infrastructure (paywalled)
Richard Prebble (Herald): Is copying the UK Labour budget and taxing the rich our future? (paywalled)
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: This week’s bills
Kelly Dennett (Post): Politics at noon: Chris Hipkins’ pick for the US presidency
TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Tom Hunt and Thomas Manch (Post): Two new tunnels earmarked for Wellington but will they deliver?
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Simeon Brown reveals estimated cost of Wellington’s scrapped mega tunnel, second Mt Victoria tunnel to be fast-tracked (paywalled)
Kate Green (RNZ): Two new tunnels: Simeon Brown reveals government's preferred plan to lower congestion
Grant Bradley (Herald): Air New Zealand fare row: Consumer watchdog pushes for market probe (paywalled)
David Long (Stuff): Auckland public transport fares to increase by 5.2% on average from February
BUILDING REGULATIONS, HOUSING
Cécile Meier (BusinessDesk): Penk ignores officials' advice on green building regulations
Sarosh Mulla (Newsroom): Random checks needed for self-cert buildings
RNZ: Building consents up but time needed for new builds to return, economist says
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua emergency housing: Hearing to extend use of motels begins in Rotorua
Miriam Bell (Post): The rapidly approaching debt-to-income squeeze
EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Study finds phonics tests made little impact on reading achievement in UK
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Unions seek international inquiry into charter schools policy
Julie Jacobson (Post): Gaming the system adds to NZ’s ‘literacy freefall’: researcher
RNZ: Upskilling teachers a better approach to improve students' math ability
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Education shouldn't be left up to chance
Ashleigh McCaull (RNZ): School lunch questions: 'None of those things have been made clear to us'
Brett Kerr-Laurie (Press): Getting In: Zone cheats and the zone police
Davina Zimmer (RNZ): The Detail: Why AI won't ruin children's education
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ‘Tweaks’ large and small likely outcome of health and safety review, says minister
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How special are supermarket specials?
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): BNZ seeks to bankrupt Homestead Bay investor (paywalled)
Mike McRoberts (NBR): People over profit: Māori businesses report low positivity (paywalled)
1News: Timaru jobs expo aims to help laid off workers into new jobs
1News: Enormous competition as students struggle to find summer jobs
RNZ: Tourism troubles: 'We are really worried about summer'
POLICE, LAW AND ORDER
Julia Gabel (Herald): Ōpōtiki Mongrel Mob raids: Police Minister denies claims children were left alone, Labour’s Peeni Henare says inquiry needed
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Ōpōtiki raids: Iwi rejects minister's denial children were left without parents
Jo Moir (RNZ): Police minister denies claims children left on their own following police raids in Ōpōtiki
Anna Murray (1News): Stalking isn't a crime in NZ – but that's about to change
RNZ: 3D-printed gun ban on police's radar
IRD
Phil Pennington (RNZ): IRD to stop sharing taxpayers' details with social media platforms following backlash
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): IRD admits supplying Facebook with ‘raw’ data on 268,000 taxpayers
BANKS
Rob Stock (Post): ASB Auckland branch shuts briefly amid protest over Gaza war
Ryan Bridge (Herald): Credit card fraud and a cashless society: What happens when banking tech fails (paywalled)
OTHER
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Chinese workers still waiting for answers a year after investigation began
Alecia Rousseau (Manawatū Standard): Lake Alice patient hopes redress comes before more survivors die
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Ministry for Culture and Heritage concerns about Te Papa’s international visitor fees revealed (paywalled)
Ryan Anderson (Stuff):‘Grim exercise’: Conservation sector facing cutbacks as Jobs for Nature funding dries up
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: TVNZ’s big strategic changes and quest to find $30 million come down to this - staff emails by 11am Wednesday (paywalled)
Maddy Croad (Press): Woman’s four-year wait for earthquake repairs made ‘harder’ by Government changes
Alka Prasad (Post): US election pushes Americans to NZ; Active Investor Visa settings repel them, say lawyers
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Power bills set to rise again
Amy Williams (RNZ): No money for school lunch staples: 'We're completely out of funding'
Poppy Clark (Stuff): South Auckland foodbank won’t last until Christmas after freezer turned off, community leader says
RNZ: Mosque fire in New Lynn deliberately lit, police say
Ava Whitworth and Shilpy Arora (Stuff): Fire at Auckland mosque ‘deliberately lit’, police say
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Zero-risk policy part of 'widespread erosion' of access to recreational areas
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Parihaka: Remembering a legacy of peaceful resistance
Matt Slaughter (Stuff): Full Disclosure podcast: Why Shaneel Lal’s fight for LGBT+ rights isn’t over
Mary Afemata(Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Cut them off’: Councillor calls for fireworks ban amid safety risks, distressed animals
RNZ: Melbourne Cup: Activists want to stop the race that stops two nations
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