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Author: Bryce Edwards
PARLIAMENT, POLITICAL FINANCE, 2025
Greg Presland (The Standard): Who funds the Taxpayer’s Union?
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Labour, don’t waste this crisis
Geoff Fischer (Daily Blog): Political quackery: Dr Palmer’s prescription for what ails New Zealand “democracy”
Simon Shepherd (NBR): Podcast Summer Series: Political editor Brent Edwards on 2024’s highs and lows and what’s facing NZ in 2025 (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): 2025 in the outlook for Māori, with Anthony Ruakere (paywalled)
Mike Friend: Rejection of the RSB
Ryan Ward: Neoliberalism in 100 words
TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Parliament website issues could be cost-cutting - tech experts
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Extension for Treaty Principles Bill submissions 'likely' after website woes
Shannon Redstall and Caron Copek (Stuff): Justice Committee to discuss whether to extend Treaty bill submissions time frame
Hanna MCCallum and Maxine Jacobs (Post): Justice Committee to decide on extension to Treaty bill submissions (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SPY AGENCIES
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Trump card looms large for foreign policy in 2025
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): New Zealand still considering sharing criminal offending info with Five Eyes nations
David Robin (Evening Report): An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia over political critics
Kate Green (RNZ): Travelling through the UK? You might need to apply for this before you leave
HEALTH
Suetonia Green, Leigh Hale, Bruce Russell, Tania Slatter (Post): The vital role of Dunedin’s new hospital in the future of healthcare (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Free vapes raise questions (paywalled)
Tara Shaskey (Open Justice Journalism): Grieving families speak out amid calls for 100% funding of ambulances services, rise in complaints
James Pocock (Herald): Tairāwhiti after-hours care tender delayed, ED faces daytime pressure
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
David Long (Stuff): Auckland Minister Simeon Brown wants fewer rules for the city in 2025
Craig Ashworth (Local Democracy Reporting): No confidence: Iwi reps call out Taranaki regional councillors
Crux: Revealed: The QLDC "hard bargain" for five campgrounds. Was it an Aussie steal? (paywalled)
ODT: Glendhu Bay campers fear tone of site will change
Avina Vidyadharan (Waikato Times): Locals back Nawton’s FIFO in booze war (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): Pipe work brings motorists seven months of disruption
TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Nick Leggett (Herald): Toll road announcement pivotal moment in transport future (paywalled)
Russell Brown (Listener): Our neighbourhood is now an exemplar of urban design philosophy all but outlawed (paywalled)
Phoebe Utteridge (Stuff): ‘Rare’ ghost tickets leave more Cook Strait ferry passengers waiting on refunds
Local Democracy Reporting:'Ready to take off': Plans to save troubled southern airport
CLIMATE
Katie Todd (RNZ): NZ's 10th warmest year on record: What we can learn from 2024 climate data
Michael Daly (Stuff): Despite two unusually cool months, 2024 was still NZ’s 10th-warmest year on record
RNZ: How has 2024 fared in the climate record books?
Jack Horsnell (1News): NZ's sunniest, wettest and warmest places in 2024
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT, MIGRANT WORKERS
Ernie Newman (Herald): Government should be focused on fixing market failures (paywalled)
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Immigration adviser's poor communication a factor in scam, tribunal says
Liu Chen (RNZ): Migrant worker dies as workplace fall probed
Michael Wright (Press): Failed daycare deal triggers businessman’s $2.6m insolvency case and bailout (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Whakaari White Island tour company has $8.5m debts, report shows
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Calls for use of webcams ‘impractical’
David Chaston (Interest): Our economic saviour?
RNZ: Fruit fly incursion: No new insects found as intensive search continues
Mike Dinsdale (Northern Advocate): Northland’s multi-million dollar horticulture industry at low risk from Oriental fruit fly
HOUSING
Federico Magrin (Waikato Times): House prices, rents, rates on the rise – when nowhere is affordable (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): 'Expect sub-5 percent home loan rates'
Dita De Boni (Post): Tales from the Tenancy Tribunal: Problems with pets (paywalled)
RESERVE BANK
David Chaston (Interest): The Deposit Takers Act upgrade spawns a new NBDT
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): New finance company receives non-bank deposit takers license (paywalled)
BusinessDesk: RBNZ issues first non-bank deposit-taker licence in nearly a decade (paywalled)
NBR: Out of Office Reply: Paul Conway (paywalled)
OTHER
Deborah Coddington: You’re not going out dressed in that!
Virginia Fallon (Post): Who remembers the outrage for Baby Ru? (paywalled)
Kate Green (RNZ): Meta removing fact checking will have 'catastrophic consequences' - disinformation expert
Lindsay Mitchell: Remembering Tariana Turia
John Lewis (ODT): ‘Matter of when, not if’ H5N1 bird flu arrives (paywalled)
RNZ: Otago farm's bird flu recovery could take months
RNZ: New Zealand walking trail inspired by Camino de Santiago
Ágnes Szabó, Mary Breheny, Polly Yeung (The Conversation): ‘Cold violence’ – a hidden form of elder abuse in New Zealand’s Chinese community
Mike Dinsdale (Northern Advocate): Plans for improved resilience of Northland electricity network announced
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Central North Island iwi elect first post-settlement board
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