GPJA News #2 – Week Ending November 5

NUCLEAR-FREE NZ

Nicky Hagar (Newsroom) Revealed: A startling secret of NZ’s nuclear free policy

ISRAEL-GAZA CONFLICT, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Eleisha Foon (RNZ): Fiji’s former leader and humanitarian groups criticise Pacific vote against UN resolution
Re:News: Thousands march in pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli rallies across NZ

Spinoff: ‘I cannot write a poem about Gaza’: a poem by Tusiata Avia

Gordon Campbell: On how the Americans helped put Hamas in power in Gaza
Mike Smith (Standard): Still pussy-footing on Gaza

Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Te Pāti Māori calls for US Ambassador to NZ to be expelled amid "genocide" in Gaza

Mick Hall: Concerns over ‘serious influence’ after Pacific nations vote against UN Gaza truce resolution

Avigail Allan (Spinoff): I am an Israeli Jew in Aotearoa. I want Palestine to be free

WORKERS

RNZ: Feature film to explore Pike River families’ fight for justice

Rebecca Macfie (Newsroom): Family’s case over forest worker’s death fails

Sapeer Mayron (The Post):Thank you Luddites: What big tech’s first rebels can teach us as AI grows (Paywalled)

Jordan Lane (1News): Whakaari owner found guilty of health and safety charge

Steve Kigallon (Stuff): Company linked to twice-bankrupt fraudster granted ‘high-trust’ visa status for migrant workers

Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Detroit union success lays path for New Zealand

Poppy Clark (Stuff) Supie workers to receive final pay after ‘substantial’ anonymous donation

Nick Truebridge (Newshub): Exploited migrants being kicked out of emergency housing

HOUSING, INTEREST RATES

Rob Stock (Post): Bank margins rose faster in New Zealand than in other ‘advanced’ economies: data (paywalled)

Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Reserve Bank warns Kiwi mortgage holders are particularly exposed to interest rate changes

RNZ: Household interest payments expected to double by next year

Spinoff: The house price downturn is ‘officially over’

HEALTH

Peter Reynolds (Spinoff): Will National deliver fair pay for the health and disability frontline?

Ian Powell: What New Zealand’s health system can learn from Wales (but who did Wales learn from?)

RNZ: Number of patients waiting over four months to see specialist jumps 46% in last year

Laura Tupou (Newshub): Leading doctor says poor housing, cost of living crisis putting more kids in hospital
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): NZ must prepare for Long Covid implications, researcher warns
Gemma Perry (Spinoff): How fees-free prescriptions changed my patients’ lives for the better

RNZ Babies ‘bearing the brunt’ of health system complications as preventable hospital admissions rise

JUSTICE

Madison Reidy (Herald): SkyCity chairman: We’ll probably admit to breaking the law

No Right Turn: SIS shows it cannot be trusted – again

David Fisher (Herald): Enemy of the State: Lawyer Deborah Manning on Ahmed Zaoui and his arrest in Algeria

RNZ: Call for limits to be placed on time people can spend in remand

MAORI

Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Māori title to marine areas could become ‘easier’

Amelia Wade (Newshub): Te Pāti Māori warns of ‘uprising of hikoi of all hikois’ if incoming Government responds to landmark foreshore, seabed decision

Catherine Hubbard (Stuff): ‘Huge sense of pride and also relief’ as Tenths hearing concludes

Ruwani Perera (Newshub): The Hui: Grandmothers come together over inhumane treatment of Māori, racism in Auckland’s Pukekohe

Rachel Pannett (Washington Post): For New Zealand’s Maori communities, climate change is already hurting

Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Māori title to marine areas could become ‘easier’

Anne Salmond (newsroom): Why a referendum on Te Tiriti will backfire

Deborah LaHatte (Whakaata Māori): Maori unemployment rises to 7.6%, as overall rate slightly up at 3.9%

PARLIAMENT

Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): New Zealand needs a more working-class Parliament

Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): How strategic conservatives have made NZ First a political force (paywalled)

Tema Hemi (Whakaata Māori): Dame Tariana Turia says ACT is using the Treaty of Waitangi document as a way to further disenfranchise Maori

BUSINESS

Gordon Campbell: On breaking up the supermarket duopoly

RNZ: Juken proposes closure of Gisborne mill; 80 jobs at risk

Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): What is the Reserve Bank’s dual mandate?

RNZ: ‘Very sharp’ construction downturn likely, as residential consents slump

Susan Edmunds (Stuff): The businesses failing under cost-of-living pressure https://www.newsroom.co.nz/pro/maori-title-to-marine-areas-could-become-easier

Katie Bradford (1News): Reserve Bank warns of further tough times for mortgage holders

1News: Unemployment rates lift again – Stats NZ

Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Milk prices: Reserve Bank signals tough times for dairy farmer

CLIMATE CHANGE

Robin Martin (Stuff): Lack of action over leaking oil and gas well sparks fury

Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Climate change: New Zealand ‘no longer on track’ to meet climate goals – officials (paywalled)

BOOKS, FILM & TV

Greg Bruce (Herald): Ms. Information movie review: Siouxsie Wiles, lockdown, and a whole lot of hate (paywalled)

Meg De Ronde (Newsroom): Book of the Week: Meg de Ronde on the futility of policing gangs

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