Collected stories - 1 June to 31 August 2022
Stuff
Labour's 2017 offer to NZ First was less than National's. But Jacinda Ardern's canny offer to Winston Peters may have shaped the next six years. Andrea Vance reports.
Stuff
ANALYSIS: Barring some economic calamity that drives global oil prices down, there is no chance this charge will go back up before the 2023 election.
RNZ
Health Minister Andrew Little admits waiting times at the Emergency Department are getting longer but says health entities are doing all they can to make improvements.
Newshub
The Government on Sunday announced an extension to the cuts to fuel tax, road user charges, and public transport.
Reduced fuel excise duty, road user charges and half price public transport will remain in place until the end of January 2023.
Stuff
OPINION: Soaring covid numbers aren't a sign of Government failures, but understaffed hospitals are.
Newshub
"They are sending a very clear signal with the way they're following up that there will be consequences."
Newsroom
Nobody has been more surprised by just how much business has been done online during Covid times than the trade minister and his negotiating teams. Damien O’Connor has been on the road more than most since the borders reopened. The Trade Minister spoke to political editor Jo Moir about the muddled and confusing world he has found himself back in.
Tony Kokshoorn says Andrew Little has "his head in the sand" over the rest home nursing crisis.
Newsroom
Two weeks into the new health order, Health NZ says it's concerned and reveals how it's working to address the shortage of doctors and nurses.
Stuff
OPINION: Making the first $5000 of income tax-free would say a minimum-wage worker almost five times what National's plans would achieve.
NZ Herald
The Labour Government got one major issue right this week, says Bryce Edwards.
RNZ
Many rangatahi get their first say in October’s local elections. The issues Aotearoa faces have changed recently adding more reasons that young people must defy turnout trends and information scarcity to have their say.
RNZ
Analysis - More than 900 doctors warn the health workforce is in serious trouble as the surge in Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations draws a response from the government.
Māori Television
The New Zealand gaming industry is being enticed across the Tasman with attractive tax incentives that could see a mass exodus to Australia. And the small,...
Newshub
There are currently 765 people in hospital with COVID-19.
Newsroom
The new tertiary institution is facing a full year deficit and having to delay consultation on where staff fit into the new entity.
Stuff
The health minister says the money is in the bank ready to pay nurses more and has come out swinging, for the second day in a row, at their biggest union.
Stuff
One model suggests 1200 people could end up hospitalised with Covid this winter. This time around, the virus is hitting different.
The Standard
During January of this year Christopher Luxon described the traffic light system as confusing. This week he described it as "very, very confusing". It is of concern that he appears not to have learned about what the rules require in the meantime.
RNZ
The government's gang crackdown has ignited opposition from both sides of the political spectrum but gained a thumbs-up from one of the country's foremost gang experts.
Stuff
The rising tide of cases doesn't tell the whole story. It's the cohort of New Zealanders getting infected that is making waves in hospitals.
todayfm.co.nz
"He's refused to call it a crisis for weeks," writes Lloyd Burr.
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Insufficiently Woke? It is difficult to read the leaked review which sank Professor Richard Jackson's bid to become a co-director of the Ce...
Stuff
The Government won't confirm or deny a report that Five Eyes countries, including NZ, would have been sold Pegasus spyware under a deal that was brewing in Israel.
It's a highly politicised term, but what does it actually mean?
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