FAST-TRACT RESOURCE CONSENTS
Kate Green and Giles Dexter (RNZ): At least two businesses invited to apply for fast-track consents have donated to National, says Labour
Claire Trevett (Herald): Patchy sales job and arrogance means Fast Track Bill is fast becoming a problem for National coalition (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Government releases list of organisations shoulder-tapped for fast-track consents
Anne Salmond: My open submission on this radical, flawed fast-track bill
No Right Turn: A who's who of New Zealand's dodgiest companies
The Press: Editorial – The fast and the furious (paywalled)
RNZ: Firms invited to apply for fast-track consents include 'environmental destroyers' - Greenpeace
Bernard Hickey: 'This bill is dangerous for the environment and our democracy' (paywalled)
Zita Campbell (Local Democracy Reporting): Shane Jones will join 'shrill' climate voices for 'practical things'
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (1News): Concern Govt's fast-track legislation may breach Treaty rights
Brendon McMahon (Local democracy reporting): Coal mining law change ‘massive’ (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (The Post): Otago gold mine and controversial mineral sands project on 'fast-track' letter list (paywalled)
Debbie Jamieson (The Post): Central Otago gold mine backers aim for fast track approval (paywalled)
Troy Baisden: Trying to halt the fast-track?
The Standard: The list
WAITANGI TRIBUNAL AND ORANGA TAMAKI
Graeme Edgeler (Democracy Project): The Waitangi Tribunal Summons; or the more things stay the same
Audrey Young (Herald): Crown challenge to Waitangi Tribunal summons of Karen Chhour set to be heard today (paywalled)
Chris Trotter (Newstalk): Collision Course (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Ministers accused of Cabinet Manual breach with threats to Waitangi Tribunal
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk): Judges should not be above criticism
David Farrar: The Waitangi Tribunal is not a judicial body
Siena Yates (E-Tangata): Hanging an axe over the Waitangi Tribunal
AUKUS
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Let’s talk more about Aukus (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (The Post): Aukus, job cuts and why you can’t reheat the past (paywalled)
Don Brash: More about Aukus
Jason Walls (Newstalk): AUKUS – is a boon for Kiwi military intelligence worth poking the Chinese dragon? (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Aukus a step too far? (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Leaders asking us to take the Aukus 2 model for a test drive (paywalled)
Eugene Doyle: Joining US military alliance not in our national interest
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): How did PM Christopher Luxon perform on Southeast Asian business mission?
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Luxon’s diplomacy challenges both at home and overseas
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Christopher Luxon secures defence agreement with the Philippines which would allow war exercises
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Luxon boosts defence amid rising global tensions
Anna Whyte (The Post): PM brushes aside business comments - ‘We are open for business’ (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Luxon buoyed with confidence after Southeast Asia trade trip
RNZ: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon returning from Southeast Asian trip
Newshub: How Christopher Luxon sees New Zealand's foreign policy challenges
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Defence deal to counter Beijing’s aggression in South China Sea
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Luxon pushes at an open door in Southeast Asia
Anna Whyte (Stuff): PM’s tuk tuk motorcades, fireworks and headaches at home
Herald: Editorial: Hats off to our political leaders for doing New Zealand’s world business kanohi ki te kanohi (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (NBR): NZ-UK FTA in place, but efforts to favour UK produce gain pace (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Taiwan eyes NZ geothermal help for energy crunch
Simon O’Connor: Selling out our national security
1News: Impossible to entirely destroy Hamas, Israeli ambassador admits
GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT
Max Rashbrooke (The Post): Country’s populist shift manifests itself most clearly with Mr Jones (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Political promises don't match reality and people demand more for less
Janet Wilson (The Post): We need a roadmap to a better place, not things-to-do listicles (paywalled)
Charlie Mitchell (The Post): The words of Winston: How a 79-year-old’s vocabulary shows a political shift (paywalled)
Richard Shaw (The Post): Does the Government have a three-body problem? (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): Cut the 'dumb stuff' - Luxon and Willis on social investment (Herald)
Peter Davis (The Post): Can the centre in New Zealand politics hold? (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): It’s time for Luxon to turn off the hype, and quit magical thinking (paywalled)
Greg Presland (The Standard): The Liz Truss of the South Seas
Johnny Blades (RNZ): Who helps with the ‘huge emotional toll’ of being an MP?
Anna Murray (1News): Who holds the politicians' purse strings? How MPs' salaries are set
Brent Edwards (NBR): Long tunnel, mining coal, cutting emissions, inflation and jobs
PUBLIC SERVICE
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): JobWatch 2024: Is the Public Service Commission too top heavy? (paywalled)
Piers Fuller (The Post): Wellington salaries drop as public service cuts bite (paywalled)
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Government has a commitment to radical programme of cuts (paywalled)
Jemima Huston (RNZ): Public sector job cuts: Affected staff criticise leaders' handling of announcements
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Government expects public sector to be 'lean and efficient' - senior minister Paul Goldsmith
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Mental Health Foundation laying off 18% of staff, other charities also facing cuts
MEDIA
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Politicians may not like the daily news media, but they’ll miss them when they’re gone (paywalled)
Graham Adams (The Platform): The $55m media fund continues to stir controversy
Steve Maharey (Herald): It is possible to save the media (paywalled)
Duncan Garner (Listener): Congratulations on “saving” the 6pm news, here’s what needs to happen next (paywalled)
André Chumko (The Post): Good night, and good luck to the unsung heroes of the news (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – The 6pm television news (paywalled)
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Stuff / Newshub deal: a lifeline or the last chance?
David Harvey: Trotter on Wilson
David Farrar (Patreon): Why commercial media is struggling (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury: Labour’s Media Summit desperately needed
BUDGET, ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Azaria Howell (Herald): Budget 2024: Government promises to reinvest public sector cost savings in ‘critical front-line services’
Gareth Kiernan (Stuff): Making sense of the tax cut debate
Tom Pullar-Strecker (The Post): Supermarket competition report unlikely to reveal much change at the till (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (The Post): Watchdog raised raft of concerns with Foodstuffs North Island over supplier contracts (paywalled)
RNZ: Liam Dann: are we witnessing the death of paper money?
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): The industrial policy debate never seems to go away (paywalled)
Matt Peek (Herald): When will NZ’s economy get better? (paywalled)
Matt Nippert (Herald): How Sir Peter Jackson got to have his billion dollar exit cake and eat Hollywood too (paywalled)
Andrea Fox (Herald): Who’s behind the $300m manufacturing plant promising 100 jobs for Kawerau? (paywalled)
Laszlo Szollosi-Cira: Income trends in New Zealand: the root cause of widespread resentment
BANKING
Kent Duston (The Post): Whack the banks with a windfall tax to solve the Budget squeeze (paywalled)
RNZ: Profit squeeze on the cards for New Zealand's big four banks - rating agency
RNZ: Government announces lending changes
Rebecca Bull (Newshub): Government announces plan to 'cut red tape' on home loans, lending regulations
Luke Malpass (The Post): Andrew Bayly rings in the changes to CCCFA (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Ministers promise it will soon be easier to get a loan
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Government to remove hurdles to getting a loan with another CCCFA change, Labour says Kiwis at greater risk from loan sharks
Miriam Bell (The Post): Bank scam victims disappointed by Ombudsman's decision (paywalled)
Bryan Bruce: How banks really make their money
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Andrew Dentice on the competition, innovation & societal benefits of open banking, & its marketing problem
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Herald: Editorial: Simeon Brown right to hold line with Tauranga commission (paywalled
Wayne Brown (Sunday Star Times): Auckland has too many elected representatives (paywalled)
John Palmer (The Press): Let’s prod the elephant (paywalled)
Nicholas Boyack (The Post): Near-20% rates rise on the cards for Upper Hutt ratepayers (paywalled)
WELLINGTON
Nick Mills (Newstalk): Wellington is in a downward spiral and we're in trouble
Nick James (RNZ): Government sent please explain letter to Wellington City Council over transport disagreement
Erin Gourley (The Post): Why were 10 buildings removed from Wellington’s heritage list? (paywalled)
Piers Fuller (The Post): Would-be hospitality players hungry for a deal (paywalled)
HOUSING
Sam Stubbs (The Post): Are we building the wrong homes to address our housing crisis? (paywalled)
Siobhan Rosenthal (Spinoff): There’s no need to make emergency housing harder. It’s hard enough already
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Housing programme leads to 'impressive' long-term change in health and wellbeing
EDUCATION
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): How did the cost of moving two schools blow out to more than $400m? (paywalled)
Steven Joyce (Herald): In education, children need to know they have the power to succeed (paywalled)
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): ‘Shame on you’: Emails show not everyone happy with Grant Robertson’s appointment to Otago Uni’s top job
Hemopereki Simon, Kyle Tan and Waikaremoana Waitoki (E-Tangata): Why we need Māori and Pacific safe spaces in our universities
HEALTH
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): Thousands sign petition against Pharmac plan to change insulin pump funding
Herald: Editorial: ACC taxi service cost blowout and concerns are worthy of a timely inquiry (paywalled)
Eva Corlett (The Guardian): How New Zealand’s smoking ban got stubbed out – and what the UK can learn from it
OTHER
Lane Nichols (Herald): Former Port of Auckland CEO Tony Gibson on trial for workplace death of Pala’amo Kalati in unprecedented prosecution
Andrew Shepherd (The Post): High price to be paid for Government’s ecological failings (paywalled)
Neil Holdom (Stuff): Can the coalition Government keep its roading promises?
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): The celebrated recycling company that's dumping plastic in a landfill (paywalled)
Nikki Macdonald (Sunday Star Times): Is a methane vaccine New Zealand’s climate silver bullet? (paywalled)
Louisa Steyl (The Press): Care for New Zealand’s seniors branded a human rights crisis (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): We need to have a grown-up conversation about our future (paywalled)
Maamara Kāmira (E-Tangata): Whose Anzac Day is it?
Paul Buchanan: Again, hate crimes are not necessarily terrorism