Action on Palestine this weekend

National rallies and marches demanding our government call for a permanent ceasefire now! Stop ethnic cleansing and close the Israeli embassy!

Legalise cannabis action this Satuday in Auckland

New Zealand’s Biggest Cannabis Event Is On Saturday 2nd December

Abortion rights protest this Satuday in Wellington

Wellington Stands Up For Abortion Rights This Saturday, 2 December

Palestine solidarity

Te Rina Kowhai (Whakaata Māori): Helen Clark hopes Winston Peters ensures NZ stands on the right side of history on Israel-Palestine conflict

Tameem Shaltoni and Tina Ngata: Respectful Solidarity: Standing Together Against Colonialism, on Colonized Lands
Scott Hamilton (Spinoff): New Zealand’s shameful role in the 1917 destruction of Gaza

David Robie: Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression

Moana Maniapoto: Time to put your hands up

Shaneel Lal (Herald): I can’t believe we are still begging our Government to call for a ceasefire in Gaza

Spinoff: What is a war crime? Will Netanyahu be charged? Israel-Palestine terms, explained

Annemarie Quill (Stuff): Art gallery told to remove Palestinian art expo from window

Cost of Living

Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Low-income families lose up to $38 a week as Nats move to close billion dollar budget hole (paywalled)

Jarrod Kerr (Spinoff): It’s the end of cheap money

Simon Henderson (ODT): Foodbank demand soaring

Gyles Beckford (RNZ): NZ interest rates need to stay high, tax cuts may drive inflation – OECD

Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Almost 20,000 home loan borrowers falling behind: ‘Scary thing is it’s still going’

New Government

Etu: Journalists Reject Deputy PM’s Comments About The Media

Kerry Davies (Post): Stakes too high to plough on with public sector cuts (paywalled)

Simon Wilson (Herald): The good and the bad in the National-Act-NZ First Government’s ‘war on woke’ (paywalled)

Gordon Campbell: On the new government’s policies of yesteryear

Brian Easton (Pundit): Forward To 2017

Coromandel Watchdog: NZ First Coalition Gain a Threat to the Environment and Public Participation

Toby Manhire (Spinoff): The Ctrl-Z coalition: all the repeals and reversals planned by the new government

CTU: Coalition Agreements Threaten The Well-being Of New Zealanders

Hāpai Te Hauora: Warns of Catastrophic Impact on Māori Communities Following Incoming Government’s Recent Decisions

John Campbell: I hoped to be surprised – actually I’m amazed

No Right Turn: A cruel, vicious, nasty government

Rob Campbell (Herald): The unsurprising surprises of the coalition deal make for interesting times

1News: Left bloc says new government will ‘take New Zealand backwards’

Susan St John (Daily Blog): The coalition agreement for Working for Families is very weak but tweaks could improve it

RNZ: ’Christmas for landlords’: Landlord tax breaks will blow out by $1b – CTU

Rachel Pannett (Washington Post): Groundbreaking smoking ban abandoned in New Zealand’s swing to the right

Workers

Stuff: Is it unreasonable to expect to start work on the living wage?

Scoop: Unions To Hold Government To Account Over Persistent Pay Gap

1News: Q+A: Thousands of government jobs to be cut, new minister suggests

Scoop: "No New Ideas" – FIRST Union Verdict On Coalition Agreements

RNZ: Businesses want change from new government, but workers could pay

Conor Knell (Post): Agreement reached for bus driver pay rise

Jamie Morton (Herald): 71 jobs proposed to go as Massey University moves ahead with cost-cutting restructure

Adam Hollingworth (Newshub): Lawyer says Auckland University conducted ‘witch-hunt’ against Dr Siouxsie Wiles

Lucy Xia (RNZ): Auckland labour-hire firm investigated by Immigration NZ after exploitation allegations from migrants

Emma Stanford (RNZ): Govt called to close ‘unacceptable’ gender pay gap

Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): Employment lawyer says Government’s reintroduction of 90-day trials only benefits employers, not employees

Maori

Morgan Godfery (Post): When it comes to the Treaty principles, David Seymour is right about one thing

Aaron Smale (Newsroom): NZ’s yawning demographic divide
Aaron Smale (Newsroom): From dying race to urban segregation

Audrey Young (Herald): Foreshore and seabed – Govt set to overturn Court of Appeal judgment

Dominic O’Sullivan (The Conversation): Why redefining the Treaty principles would undermine real political equality in NZ

Post: Whose Treaty is it anyway? National-led government takes two-stage approach to changing Treaty politic

Newshub: Commentators fear new Government will set race relations back by decades

One News: Watch: Mata Reports looks at the Māori Carbon Collective

Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): Most vulnerable to pay price for tax cuts cushioning wealthiest, Māori health experts say

Emma Wehipeihana (Spinoff): We’re done with being asked to justify our ‘privilege’
Simone Watkins (Newsroom): Why Māori and Pacific quotas at medical school are essential

John Tamihere (Waatea News): What a new government means for Māori
Tema Hemi (Whakaata Māori): Turia, Mair call for Māori leaders’ national hui to fight new government’s Treaty dumping

Local government

Herald: Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s 10-year cost cutting council budget preview: Rates rises, job losses, axed cycles lanes

Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland’s 2030 climate goals may be at risk in council budget

Pacific

Herald Editorial: Recognised Seasonal Employee programme needs an immediate change of name and culture (paywalled)

Taukiei Kitara: Tuvaluans need action, not pity

Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Councillor says Wayne Brown’s plan for new fund would be based on an ‘asset strip’

RNZ: Seasonal employment schemes an ‘opportunity’ but concerns they ‘will empty villages’

RNZ: Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters praises US engagement in the Pacific

Health

Public Health Coalition: The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

RNZ: Nitrate contamination map of New Zealand launched by Greenpeace

Green Party: Greenpeace Nitrates Research Proves Need For Strong Freshwater Regulation

Eva Corlett (Guardian): New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts

RNZ: Covid-19 still NZ’s ‘biggest infectious disease problem’ – Michael Baker

Ian Powell: New Zealand’s tone-deaf health system leadership

Climate & Environment

Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Reviving oil and gas exploration will make NZ a ‘pariah’ state

Spinoff: Annoying or illegal? The restrictive future of climate activism

Scoop: Fridays For Future Protest First Day Of Government

Scoop: The Metals Company Threatens Greenpeace With Injunction But Activists Continue Pacific Protest

Green Party: The Time Is Now For Oceans Protection

Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Native forest plan cheaper than paying for carbon credits, group claims

Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): Consumer NZ takes Z Energy to High Court, accuses it of misleading New Zealanders with climate change comments

Jamie Morton (Herald): Polluted waterways: New Zealand’s huge clean-up challenge revealed in report

Greenpeace: More International Embarrassment Expected For New Zealand Over Oil And Gas Ban U-turn

JUSTICE
Jan Jordan (Post): The failings of the new Government’s tough-on-crime rhetoric (paywalled)

Molly Swift (Newshub): Top lawyer says mandatory minimum sentencing for murder in New Zealand would create miscarriages of justice