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lare Curran resignation
Audrey Young (Herald): Clare Curran may be gone but more headaches loom
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Wounded Clare Curran had no choice but to quit
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Curran: The best of intentions now subject to ridicule
Bryce Edwards (RNZ): Curran’s misery at an end, but the PM’s goes on
Tim Watkin (RNZ): Clare Curran controversy: PM finally rips off the band-aid
Richard Harman (Politik): Why did Labour let Curran go
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Parliament’s pressure cooker claims Curran
Claire Trevett (Herald): Clare Curran the canary in the mine for Jacinda Ardern
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Ardern reaffirms that she still won’t be firing Clare Curran
Martin Johnston (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told two radio stations she was not firing Clare Curran
David Farrar: Ardern misleads
No Right Turn: Dishonest
Herald Editorial: PM not impressive when dealing with Clare Curran
Duncan Garner (Dominion Post): Time for weak Ardern to show them who’s boss
Steve Braunias (Herald): Secret Diary of Jacinda Ardern
1News: Clare Curran’s resignation as Minister a ‘significant but necessary blow’ to Government
Kerre McIvor (Herald): Clare Curran had to go but must own mistakes
RNZ: Possibility for Clare Curran’s emails to be made public through OIA
Herald: Clare Curran hits back at RNZ journalist on Twitter, then deletes account
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Clare Curran’s agonising downfall
Audrey Young (Herald): The real reason Clare Curran resigned as a minister
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Pressure sinks Curran
No Right Turn: Good riddance
David Farrar: Curran resigns
RNZ: PM: Clare Curran under ‘huge’ pressure
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern accepts Clare Curran’s resignation as a Minister
Jo Moir (RNZ): Clare Curran’s resignation: ‘This pressure has become intolerable’
RNZ: Clare Curran: ‘I’ve made some mistakes’
Audrey Young (Herald): Clare Curran fronts following resignation
Herald: ’Unacceptable distraction’: Besieged Clare Curran quits as a minister
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Clare Curran says her mistakes were ‘greatly amplified’
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): “Intolerable” pressure pushes Curran to resign as Minister
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Clare Curran’s short time as a Government minister
Bryce Edwards: Top tweets about the resignation of Clare Curran
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Clare Curran’s resignation provides opportunity to change course
Mke O’Donnell (Stuff): New CTO must have full support of industry
Vaughn Davis (Stuff): Time for government to grow up on CTO idea
John Anthony (Stuff): New broadcasting minister must negotiate ‘incredibly important’ and ‘delicate’ portfolio
Government, Pacific Forum, Nauru
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern was equally to blame for last week’s Coalition chaos
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Jacinda Ardern faces growing challenge of Winston Peters
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Media go OTT on PM as RNZAF VIP
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Why it’s right to call out PM over Nauru flight of fancy
Nick Perry (AP): Unwanted by Australia, refugees on Nauru have few options
Herald: Stuck on a tiny Pacific island: Teen refugees taking desperate measures to get off Nauru
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Pacific needs hard hats, not silly shirts
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Nauru squirms under the spotlight
Maureen Dowd (New York Times): Lady of the Rings: Jacinda Rules
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern opens up about Nauru flight backlash in New York Times profile
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Global hype continues to paint Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a cliche
David Farrar: How the Meka inquiry should have happened
Provincial Growth Fund
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Govt announces $152m investment for Gisborne area
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Shane Jones dishes out $152m in Tairāwhiti
Emma Hurley and Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): East Coast gets $153m investment from Provincial Growth Fund
Political finance
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Is the public being ripped off by politicians’ spending?
Bill Ralston (LIstener): Politicians spend taxpayer dollars. Get over it
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): The curious case of the ‘secret’ state gift
Official Information Act
Mitchell Alexander and Finn Hogan (Newshub): Ticked Off: The Official Information Act
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Ombudsman tackling increase in complaints about OIA requests
Parliament
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Ministers need training and performance reviews
Peter Wilson (RNZ): Week In Politics: Policy problems and woeful performances
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Below the beltway
RNZ: Focus on Politics for 7 September 2018 (audio)
Point of Order: So how did the politicians dish out our money this week? Let’s check it out…
Stephanie Mitchell (Stuff): Social media can prove a minefield for politicians
Alison Mau (Stuff): Politicians and social media: A very bad combo
Daniela Maoate-Cox (RNZ): Crossing enemy lines for women’s representation
Miranda Burdon (Herald): Kate Sheppard’s legacy still inspiring at 125th anniversary
Morgan Godfery (Māui Street): Rino Tirikatene pulls one out of the bag
Dominion Post Editorial: Fix the gap in our history by honouring Land Wars dead
Peter de Graaf (Northern Advocate): Northland MP’s ‘coward’s punch’ Bill drawn from ballot
Anna Whyte (1News): Proposed law aims to ‘focus on the lethal nature’ of coward punches – MP
State sector
Audit Blog: Free and frank advice to Ministers: why it matters…
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Crisis looms without privacy funding
Foreign Affairs and trade
Keith Locke (Spinoff): Why on earth is NZ sending a plane into the Kim-and-Trump tinderbox?
Newshub: New Zealand deploys Air Force against North Korea over sanctions breaches
Stuff: Government to send RNZAF Orion maritime patrol aircraft to enforce UN sanctions against North Korea
Laura Walters (Newsroom): NZ sends troops to North Korea over sanction breaches
RNZ: NZ airforce plane to join patrol near North Korea
1News: NZ, Australia deploy planes to Japan to help enforce UN sanctions against North Korea
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Was a Govt beset by problems given a sympathy ‘second chance’ on Salisbury statement?
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): New Zealand joins UK condemnation of Russia in Salisbury chemical attack
Stephen Jacobi (Spinoff): Belt and Road doesn’t mean anything to most of us. Here’s why it really should
Justice, corrections, police
Mei Heron (1News): Government under fire from National over $1.5 million bill for Justice Summit
RNZ: Criminal Justice Summit cost balloons out to $1.5m
Blair Ensor (Stuff): Disgraced prison boss says dismissal unfair, plans legal action against Corrections
Chester Borrows (Whanganui Chronicle): Destiny Church’s heady blend of bikies, bishop and bigotry
Laura Tupou (Newshub): ’I’ve got people batting for me’: Life-long Kiwi criminal on what’s keeping him out of jail
Mike Williams (Hawkes Bay Today): Mitchell’s ‘soft on crime’ message disgusting nonsense
Edward Gay (RNZ): Prison guards acquitted of assaulting prisoner
Isobel Ewing and Wilhelmina Shrimpton (Newshub): Auckland Prison guards found not guilty for role in inmate attack
Imran Ali (Northern Advocate): Northland dairy owner threatens hunger strike over youth offending
RNZ: Record number of Samoa police recruits sworn in
Newshub: Police enthusiast’s replica cop car ordered off Auckland roads
1080
Northern Advocate: 1080 – Damned if you do and damned if you don’t
Christine Rose (Daily Blog): Talking about 1080 & dispelling the ignorance of science
Matthew Theunissen (RNZ): Brakes put on 1080 programme in Hunua Ranges
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Court delays Hunua 1080 poison drop
Herald: Environment Court orders halt to Auckland Council’s 1080 drop in Hunua Ranges
RNZ: Court delays 1080 drop in the Hunua Ranges
1News: DOC joins agencies in fight against ‘campaign of disinformation’ over 1080
Maddison Northcott and Christina Persico (Stuff): Protesters make a nationwide stand against 1080
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Nationwide silent hīkoi protests held against 108
Newshub: Ban 1080 protesters descend upon Parliament
1News: Sharp rise in threats to DOC as 1080 protesters hold demonstrations
Newshub: 1080 protesters continue war for national ban despite public push-back
George Block (ODT): Protesters decry use of 1080
Environment and conservation
Jamie Morton (Herald): Three of four NZ fish ‘staring extinction in the face’
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Farmers can do much better
Richard Harman (Politik): National and the Greens get slightly closer together
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Bottling company took 10 million litres of water illegally before being caught
Bryan Gould: Who do you trust on climate change?
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Waimea Dam investor that revived project remains a mystery
Tracy Neal (RNZ): DOC to manage tourist numbers and cut aircraft noise at parks
1News: Big changes proposed to manage Aoraki Mt Cook National Park’s visitor influx
Juliet Speedy (Newshub): Drastic changes proposed for Mt Cook visitors
Stacey Bryan (RNZ): Push to cut copper brakes from mainstream use over pollutants
Lana Hart (Herald on Sunday): Straw ban: How did it all go so very wrong for straws?
Laine Moger (Manukau Courier): Plastic bag ban could create hardship for south Auckland businesses, consumers
Financial sector
Nikki Mandow (Newsroom): Greedy, tacky, slow: FMA boss hits out at industry
Liam Dann (Herald): What the Lehman Bros crash cost us socially
Brian Gaynor (Herald): Who are the real Bonus Bonds winners?
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): KiwiSaver funds should be investing more in NZ companies: Grant Robertson
John Berry (Stuff): Future murky for KiwiSaver predictions
Business, Budget, economy
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Does business confidence foretell a slowdown, or mark a corporate conspiracy
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Should we care that business confidence is so low
Geoff Bertram (Newsroom): Austerity – a cautionary tale
Cameron Bagrie (Herald): Public sector pay the Government’s ‘canary in the coal mine’
Rebecca Stevenson (Stuff): Can Bridges pull off the ultimate confidence trick?
Chris Trotter: Bridges’ Message To SMEs Should Be: “Survive Or Die.”
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Small business owners having their say
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Spending, job ads buck confidence trend
John McCrone (Press): Reasons to worry about another GFC … and where NZ stands in the global economic order
Paul Drum (Herald): What the tax working group has in store for business
Sophie Boot (BusinessDesk): Adrian Orr’s plea to quit short-term thinking
Housing
Herald: Phil Twyford sets out plan for massive housing development in Auckland’s Mt Roskill
Newshub: ’Fantastic outcome’: Mt Roskill to get 10,000 new homes, Housing Minister reveals
RNZ: Govt announces 10,000 new homes in Mt Roskill
Herald: ASB drops minimum deposit to 5pc for KiwiBuild applicants
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): ASB offering 95% mortgages for KiwiBuild homes
ODT Editorial: Unrealistic expectations for landlords
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Landlords should be banned from renting out bad homes – Greens
Stuff: Greens want a mandatory rental WOF, but National says it will force people into sleeping in cars
Newshub: Rental WOF could fix ‘power imbalance between tenants and landlords’
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Prefab housing ‘potential game-changer’ for KiwiBuild
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Mum’s desperate solution to escape mouldy, rotting Dunedin home
David Slack (Stuff): Mining the seam of self-interest
Hannah McQueen (Stuff): When renting makes sense – living central Auckland life on south Auckland prices
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Schools use students and admin staff to facilitate classes – PPTA
Josephine Franks (Stuff): School a ‘babysitting service’ because of lack of relief teachers, principals say
RNZ: Bill requiring primary schools to teach second language drawn from ballot
Herald: Primary school principals showing signs of post-traumatic stress disorder
Alex Baird (Newshub): Tauranga primary school educating high need pupils is crippled by debt
Rob Stock (Stuff): Teenagers love tax, and other surprises from school money lessons
Māori TV): Rangatahi share their stories: Part Four
1News: ’Signs out, cross now’ – thousands of Kiwi kids help celebrate nearly 90 years of school road patrol
Herald: Auckland high school cuts toilet breaks during class time
Herld: Pay rise means three jobs down to one
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Students have 30 days to save Elam’s Huia house
Health
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): ’No reason why NZ women shouldn’t expect the same quality of life’ – Aus Oncologist
Ruth Hill (RNZ): New Zealand falling behind in breast cancer treatment – report
Ruby MacAndrew (Stuff): Kiwis dying from stage 4 breast cancer twice as fast as those in similar countries
Laura Tupou (Newshub): Breast cancer sufferers dying twice as fast in NZ
Megan Sutherland (Newshub): Women in New Zealand die twice as fast of breast cancer than in some other countries
1News: Ambulance services call for more Government funding for proactive approach to health
Laurel Stowell (Whanganui Chronicle): Ohakea residents have blood tested for PFAS compounds
Karen Brown (RNZ): Insight: Nurses pay and staffing deal – hospital crisis averted?
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Aged care sector warns ‘we’re now at crisis’ as nurses leave for DHBs
RNZ: Pacific the solution for aged care in Australia and NZ – World Bank
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Earned $325 – billed $365 by ACC
Laine Moger (Stuff): Privacy commissioner warns against ‘alarmist comments’ that cause anxiety for patients
Mike Wesley-Smith and Finn Hogan (Newshub): Govt claims National quietly gutted disability sector
Andre Chumko (Stuff): Cannabis oil could help prevent sick girl have seizures, but Pharmac doesn’t fund it
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Counties Manukau DHB calls in lawyers to investigate financial reporting
Andrew Bydder (Waikato Times): DHB staff need to be accountable
RNZ: Group seeks to avoid labour delays at Dunedin hospital build
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Vest cameras not a response to increased violence – DHB
Bruce Munro (ODT): Going viral
Mental health, suicide
Chris Reed (Herald): NZ’s record high suicide numbers prove need for action, says health minister
Herald: World Suicide Prevention Day: Everyday Kiwis reveal their stories of hope and survival
Newshub: World Suicide Prevention Day: Call for regular mental health check-ups
James Croot (Stuff): Greg Boyed: Why we need to talk about depression
Mere McLean (Māori TV): Youth worker encourages more talk around suicide
Isaac Davison (Herald):’If you’re worried about somebody, don’t leave them alone’ – Taranaki shearer John Herlihy
State and church abuse
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Cabinet yet to hear abuse inquiry proposal
Chris Morris (ODT): What victims want most: justice
Adam Dodds (ODT): Confession, not denial, the way to address wrongdoing
Tom O’Connor (Waikato Times): Church must be subject to law of the land
Te Reo Māori
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Green Party starts new push for compulsory te reo
Herald: Greens push for compulsory te reo Māori in schools by 2025
Carmen Parahi (Stuff): Why the Government could face legal challenges over te reo Māori
Ngahiwi Apanui (Stuff): What’s the point in learning te reo Māori, a language spoken only in New Zealand?
Matt Rilkoff (Taranaki Daily News): Editorial: Understanding the value of te reo Māori key for language to flourish
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Te Ataarangi to empower te reo Māori in region
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Awanuiārangi to launch te reo strategy
RNZ: Call for broadcasters to be censured if they butcher Māori words
Whanganui Chronicle: Chronicle puts the ‘H’ in Whanganui in time for Māori Language Week
Patrick Crewdson (Stuff): Why Stuff has become Puna for Māori Language Week
Philip Matthews (Press): The borrowers: Why you are speaking more Māori than you think
Thomas Manch (Stuff): New Zealand Fire Service to overhaul firetrucks with te reo Māori
Michael Neilson (Herald): Learning te reo is a challenge worth taking
Michael Neilson (Herald): So you want to learn te reo Māori? A fluent Pākehā shares his inspiring journey
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Tourism is embracing te reo and visitors love it
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Kaua e pukuriri ki te reo – don’t be angry at the language
Chelsea Manning
Newshub: ’An Evening with Chelsea Manning’ leaves audience frustrated
Laura Tupou (Newsroom): Chelsea Manning’s audience deserved better
Simon Wilson (Herald): Battle-weary, Chelsea Manning soldiers on
Damien Grant (Stuff): Chelsea Manning is on the right side of history
John Roughan (Herald): Disgust has not stopped Chelsea Manning speaking here
1News: Chelsea Manning lands in NZ declaring Donald Trump ‘not unusual in American politics’
Newshub: Chelsea Manning touches down in Auckland
Racing industry
ODT Editorial: Racing industry’s integrity at stake
RNZ: Another arrest in race-fixing investigation
Herald: Police make another arrest into harness racing investigation, taking the number to 11
RNZ: Harness racing arrests: ‘If they want to play with fire they get burnt’
Primary industries
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Care of meat chickens must improve: SPCA
Sally Rae (ODT): Annual results will put Fonterra under microscope
Jamie Gray (Herald): Fonterra set for big fall in annual earnings as margin pressure bites
Defence
Kirsty Lawrence (Stuff): Retiring Defence chief says allegations of ‘SAS murders’ in Afghanistan were upsetting to children of serving soldier
Andrew McRae (RNZ): NZ’s Vietnam vets shirk support due to stigma – advocates
Local government
Dominic Harris (Press): Political group puts stake in ground to keep asset sales on the table
Rob Stock (Stuff): ‘Mischievous’ data dump reveals 4850 local council employees earn more than $100,000
ODT Editorial: Councils disconnecting with public
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Huge costs loom for councils as sea levels rise
Liu Chen and Todd Niall (Stuff): Chinese voters call for more Howick by-election information in their language
Māori TV: Desecration of son’s grave leaves family devastated
Transport, petrol prices and road safety
Zane Small (Newshub): Government’s belief it can control petrol prices ‘political puffery’ – Road Transport Forum chief
Juliet Speedy (Newshub): Calls for Government to incentivise owning electric cars
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Electric cars’ use of priority lanes ditched
Ben Strang (RNZ): Wellington bus network has become a joke – Labour MP
RNZ: Police to target sections of state highways to prevent crashes
Heritage, history
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Make Tītokowaru a New Zealand hero
Māori TV: Te Kooti – Villian of Hero?
Ross Meurant: Red Squad Revisited
Richard Swainson (Waikato Times): There’s still power in the press
Elton Rikihana Smallman and Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Captain Hamilton statue a ‘ratepayer liability’, mayor says
James Croot (Stuff): Academic tells Sam Neill Māori not exploited in early European encounters
Fire Service
Jonathan MIlne (Stuff): We don’t need rah-rah or jingoism – just simple respect for returning heroes
Katie Doyle (RNZ): NZ firefighters return home after battling California blazes
Alice Wilkins (Newshub): Kiwi firefighters who helped battle US blazes return home
1News: Inspirational volunteer firefighter, 68, proves it’s never too late to give back to the community
Other
Michael Morrah (Newshub): Company director who underpaid staff is approved as an immigration adviser
Bess Manson (Stuff) Victims of partner violence see death as an escape: report
Michael Hayward (Stuff): EQC settles nearly half its Christchurch quake claims, but almost as many new ones filed
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Time to cut the cord with the tech titans?
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): ’Five Eyes’ spy network and access to your private data: What it means for you
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): The downside of too many tourists loving New Zealand
Marta Steeman (Stuff): Property owners’ rights are at risk under proposed changes to building law, surveyors warn
Cathy Murphy (Herald): Sexism in the law – a note to my younger self
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Conference numbers drop when we’re building big new convention centres
Māori TV: Fraudster a family friend to CEO of Waitangi National Trust
Kennedy Warne (E-Tangata): Tāmati Kruger: Down that way, glory waits
Lloyd Ashton (E-Tangata): Tiki Raumati’s challenge for us
Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Māori TV): Whānau want name change for Tau Henare Marae
Adam Dudding (Stuff): National Portrait: Dame Anne Salmond – walking between two worlds
Mary-Jo Tohill (Southland Times): Submissions on Clutha Licensing Trust pub sale close today
Kirsty Wynn (Herald): Overseas buyer withdraws bid for $20m+ waterfront estate
Matt Heath (Herald): New Zealand is open for the apocalypse
Tom Dillane (Herald): ’Very little’ training put into Auckland corporate boxer KO’d after 8 sec
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Mind the gap: Money hurdles for women remain
Todd Niall (Stuff): Long-time activist Penny Bright in battle mode with ‘days to live’
