HEALTH
Thomas Manch (Post): Health NZ’s $1.4b overspend: Who knew what, when?
Isaac Davison and Adam Pearse (Herald): Former Health NZ board members disappointed in Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s ‘personal’ and ‘baseless’ comments (paywalled)
Kate Green (RNZ): Former Te Whatu Ora board member says Christopher Luxon's claims are disinformation
ODT Editorial: Health concerns overshadow tax cuts (paywalled)
Ruth Hill (RNZ): 'Sledgehammer' hospital back office cuts hurting patients, clinicians warn
RNZ: What's gone wrong with New Zealand's health system?
Anna Murray (1News): Where have all the doctors gone?
RNZ: Four new regional directors for Te Whatu Ora announced
Felix Desmarais (1News): Health Minister grilled about hospital staffing, management layers
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Radiology outlook for South dire (paywalled)
RNZ: Checkpoint: Buller community losing confidence in new hospital amid closures, mayor says
Isaac Davison (Herald): Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora apologises after nursing graduates have job offers retracted
Liam Hehir (Blue Review): "You forgot Poland” (paywalled)
Haimona Gray: Are 'They' Going To Privatise Our Public Health System?
Jenny Carryer (Post): History repeating as nurses again bear the brunt of health cuts (paywalled)
1News: 'No evidence' heated tobacco products will help smokers quit – expert
Robin Martin (RNZ): 'Lost' report sheds light on contamination at controversial New Plymouth chemical plant
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Hospitals' medical tech supplier Philips fails to find root cause of problems
Isaac Davison (Herald): Hidden costs of cancer drugs: Auckland patient pays $45,000 to have medication administered
Matthew Dallas (Stuff): ‘They don’t exist’: Teen dares Health NZ to front up with treatment options
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Police Minister Mark Mitchell on mental health callouts: Other agencies must step up
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Let the police get back to policing
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government wants ‘line by line’ review of council spending and floats asset sales (paywalled)
Gwynn Compton (Local Aotearoa): Secret Wellington amalgamation plans more advanced than previously revealed
Nick Clark (Herald): Rethink needed on council funding (paywalled)c
Gerrard Eckhof (ODT): Daily transparency is a necessity
Salene Schloffel-Armstrong (Spinoff): A slippery slope towards the privatisation of our pools?
RNZ: Auckland debates diving in to privatising its pools
David Long (Stuff): Auckland Council to vote on whether to privatise the running of its pools and leisure centres
RNZ: Māori MPs who backed ward changes have 'internalised' racism - Te Pāti Māori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): No Minister, this is not a win for democracy
Waikato Herald: Hamilton Māori Ward byelection 2024: urgent call to raise voter turnout
Grant Miller (ODT): Cr Vandervis’ code of conduct: legal advice on action (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): 'It's about prejudice and bigotry': Vandervis complaint upheld
Samantha Gee (RNZ): Dunedin councillor Lee Vandervis ordered to apologise over racial comments
Ben Tomsett (Herald): Dunedin councillor Lee Vandervis censured over Māori representation comments
Adam Burns and Samantha Gee (RNZ): Nobby Clark defends partner over response to councillor Lee Vandervis' breach of conduct
Michael Fallow (Stuff): Nobby Clark makes public in-person council apology
Matthew Rosenberg (ODT): Mayor apologises to councillors
Sinead Gill (Press): SailGP walked because of ‘reputational damage’ (paywalled)
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Southern museum build will push on despite budget concerns
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Council wasn't advised of ageing water mains under Thorndon Quay - business group
PARLIAMENT
Anneke Smith (RNZ): ACT accuses Speaker of failing to address racial harrassment in Parliament
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Inside Act’s dramatic tiff with Speaker Gerry Brownlee
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Discontent brews over Speaker Gerry Brownlee
Adam Pearse (Herald): Speaker and Act MPs Todd Stephenson, David Seymour butt heads over lapel pins in rowdy Question Time
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Logo gate: ACT goes to war with the Speaker
Thomas Manch (Post): Christopher Luxon puts investment property on the market (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Why haven’t the Greens learned their lesson? (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to speak to Todd McClay over Mexico remark to MP
Andrew Gunn: 'You're Not In Mexico Now' - The Todd McClay Story
Post: Beehive Briefing: All the gossip, pictures and buzz from politics today (paywalled)
VESTED INTERESTS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Rise and Fall of a top lobbying PR firm
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Wellington branch of SenateSHJ could break away in liquidation (paywalled)
RNZ: The Detail: Political donors now on the radar
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