At least 17 centres around Aotearoa New Zealand will be out protesting this weekend – from Rawene in the North to Invercargill in the South. The details of the rallies and marches around the country are on this facebook page here.
PALESTINE
John Minto: A “tea break” in Israel’s genocidal slaughter is not enough – New Zealanders demand CEASEFIRE NOW!
Stuff: Six arrested at Pro-Palestinian protests blocking entry, exit to Auckland’s port
Spinoff: BDS: The connection between yesterday’s port picket and the 1981 Springbok tour
Spinoff: What this UN expert told the NZ movement demanding a ceasefire in Gaza
Herald: Protesters descend on Wellington and Auckland streets to decry Gaza conflict
Troels Sommerville (Stuff): Where New Zealand political parties stand on Gaza conflict
Stuff: Chris Hipkins says Labour ‘cannot stand by any longer’, calls for ceasefire in Gaza
William Hewett (Newshub): David Seymour, Greens’ Chlöe Swarbrick clash over Israel-Hamas conflict in fiery AM interview
Israel-Hamas war: How international humanitarian law applies to the conflict – Sasha Borissenko
Anna Harcourt (1News): New poll shows 60% of Kiwis want Israel-Gaza ceasefire
1News: NZ sending more humanitarian support for Gaza, West Bank, Israel
Donna Miles (Post): The West’s failures in Gaza have shattered faith in its morality (payalled)
Sophie Barclay (Spinoff): In 2013, I commissioned an article about Palestine. It didn’t end well
Mick Hall: New Zealand’s national broadcaster removes references to genocide made in Gaza podcast
ODT Opinion: Calling the Gaza conflict what it is
WORKERS
Mike Treen: Migrant labour exploitation as an essential feature of late capitalism
Dennis Maga: Woolworths’ new security measures are a "short term" solution – First Union General Secretary
HRD: Second pay equity claim filed for ‘underpaid’ care, support workers
Scoop: Government Must Act To Provide Fair Pay For Care And Support Workers
The Post: The $3.5 billion problem of debt to the Government that’s grinding down low-income earners
RNZ: Gisborne mill workers ‘devastated’ over sudden job losses
Wiliam Hewett (Newshub): Woolworths staff to wear body cameras amid 131 percent rise in physical assault
RNZ: Hospitality owner arrested after alleged exploitation of migrant workers
Cécile Meier (BusinessDesk): High risk, low pay: rubbish and recycling workers ‘undervalued’ (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Garment workers are striking in Bangladesh. How are NZ brands responding?
Losing Labour MPs reflect on the business laws they failed to change
NZ wants more seasonal workers – but Pacific nations won’t be ‘outposts’ that ‘grow’ them
COST OF LIVING
Virginia Fallon (Post):‘Welcome to the foodbank’: Charities do the heavy lifting in the fight against hunger
MBIE ignoring energy poverty report
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): My failed quest to find something that’s cheaper in NZ
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Economists predict drop in retail spending as household budgets squeezed
Virginia Fallon (Post): ‘Welcome to the foodbank’: Charities do the heavy lifting in the fight against hunger (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): How banks are making bank on higher interest rates
Waatea News: Benefit bashing wrong track for poverty plan
MAORI
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): NZ Māori Council warns MFAT it’s ready for ‘fight’ over te reo Māori scrubbing
Waatea News: PSA slams reo silence
RNZ: Petone to Pito-one name change gets backing from Hutt City Council
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Kīngi Tūheitia visits Parihaka Pā to strengthen bond between Kiingitanga and Taranaki
Spinoff: I’m not sure how to feel about the new Māori court exhibit at Auckland Museum
HEALTH
RNZ: Moves to cut surgery waiting times: Three down, 98 recommendations to go
Pauline Norris (Newsroom): In defence of free prescriptions
Anna Murray (1News): The cost of measles: Why NZers should care about vaccination rates
Safiya Mehta-Woledge (Newshub): Former chair Rob Campbell slams Te Whatu Ora’s lack of action on wait time recommendations
Zane Small (Newshub): Emergency department crisis: Doctors fear death likely amid surge in violent attacks
PACIFIC
Marco de Jong & Talei Mangioni (E-Tangata): Where to now for a nuclear free and independent Pacific?
Steven Ratuva (E-Tangata): Good faith lacking in Australia-Tuvalu agreement
RNZ: Small island nations most at risk from climate change events
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
RNZ: Porirua council votes to ban new pokie machines
Matthew Ronsenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Gisborne council withholds minutes from secret workshops
Andrea Vance (Post): Councillors got asset sales report two days before meeting (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): International credit rating agency S&P says repealing the Affordable Water Reforms could result in local government downgrades
TAX
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Gaming the system? Teens among highest earning beneficiaries of trusts – IRD (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): IR research into trusts uncovers 2200 possible frauds (paywalled)
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
Newsroom: Global climate action still not enough – new report
Radio NZ: Lawyers’ latest climate case against government underway in Court of Appeal
Craig Ashworth (Local Democracy Reporting): Taranaki rivers all fail E coli long-term water monitoring tests
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Richest 1% generate twice the emissions of two million Pacific Islanders
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Toitū Envirocare to stop accepting carbon credits from NZ forests as proof of carbon neutrality
TRANSPORT
Simon Wilson (Herald): The good and bad in Wayne Brown’s plan to fix Auckland congestion (paywalled)
Timothy F. Welch, Mark Stevenson and Ferdinand Balfoort (Newsroom): E-scooters have never been ‘Devil Wagons’
JUSTICE, CORRECTIONS
Tara Oakley and Rebecca Cupples (ODT): Removing s27 ‘cultural reports’ has implications
EDUCATION
Tommy de Silva (Spinoff): Taonga tuku iho: How a new curriculum brings Māori history to the fore
RNZ: ‘There’s nowhere else for them to go’ – Rotorua principals warn new housing will lead to bulging classrooms
The Conversatiuon: Health and education are closely linked – NZ needs to integrate them more in primary schools
SPORT
OTHER
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): 12 graphs that show New Zealand isn’t doing as badly as you think
Jamie Morton (Herald): Climate change: Where NZ risks getting adaptation badly wrong
Mare Haimona-Riki (Whakaata Māori): $1 a year lease to foreign mine company to build on conservation land
Grace Thomas (Newshub): Hauraki Gulf report offers hope for future – but warns failure to act will create ‘zombie apocalypse-type scenario’
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