Palestine Solidarity Events this weekend

NEW GOVERNMENT POLICIES

Gordon Campbell: On Nicola Willis’ impersonation of a Finance Minister

Gordon Campbell: On the ferry follies of Nicola Willis

Craig Renney (Post): KiwiRail ferry costs – prioritise New Zealand, or prioritise landlords? (paywalled)

Max Rashbrooke (Post): Time to hold the Government to account for the social costs of its spending decisions

Simon Wilson (Herald): Knowing when to drive the Toyota Corolla or Ferrari in planning (paywalled)

Gordon Campbell: On the government’s politics of nostalgia

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The dismantling of NZs Independent Foreign Policy so we can join American Military Industrial Complex’s next military adventure profit margins

PALESTINE AOTEAROA
Mick Hall: New Zealand considers joining US-led Red Sea naval coalition

Joanna Kidman: Standing for peace in an angry world

Tatiana Gibbs (Post): Protesters at Lyttelton Port call for boycott of shipping and trade deals with Israel (paywalled)

Scoop: NZ Humanitarian Organisations Unanimously Urge Leaders To Intensify Efforts For Peace In Gaza At Christmas Time

MAORI
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Is this the biggest Treaty settlement for Ngāpuhi? (paywalled)
Ella Stewart (RNZ): Health minister Shane Reti is responsible for a review of the ‘affirmative action’ scheme he graduated from in the 1980s
Angus Watson (CNN): Weeks-old government dubbed ‘anti-Māori’ as culture wars rage in New Zealand
Janet Wilson (Post): As activism becomes more radical, polarisation risks becoming more entrenched (paywalled)
Jamie Tahana (E-Tangata): We won’t let progress slip without a fight

Natasha Frost (New York Times/Herald): In rightward shift, NZ reconsiders pro-Māori policies (paywalled)

Jamie Tahana: We won’t let progress slip without a fight

Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Spinoff): The government banned te reo in the past. It won’t succeed again

LABOUR PARTY

Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): What would it take for Labour to win?
Nigel Haworth (The Standard): Why Labour must change course

Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Chris Hipkins wants to reset the Labour Party (and himself)

IMMIGRATION

RNZ: Migrants advocate wants end to tying migrants to single employer

Steve Killagon Stuff: Exploited Uzbek migrants given new hope thanks to help from Stuff readers

New Zealand Marked Over 200,000 Arrivals on Work Visas in Last 12 Months

Radio NZ: Hundreds of migrant workers lose jobs after ELE group calls in receivers

HEALTH

Ian Powell: Message to Health Minister: get the foundations right beginning with being ‘relational

Ian Powell: Wealth accumulation – ‘Big Sugar’ and Little Barbados: a lesson in struggle and consciousness

COVID-19

Professor Michael Baker’s predictions as fifth COVID wave sweeps NZ

RNZ: Health outcomes for intellectually disabled barely improved in 20 years – report (paywalled)
Ian Powell (Newsroom): Ground-breaking polyclinic to deliver where govt won’t

Michael Baker, Julie Bennett, John Kerr, Amanda Kvalsvig (Public health communications centre): Covid-19 is finishing the year on a high: We need a vigorous coordinated response

JUSTICE
Kris Gledhill (The Conversation): NZ’s new government is getting tough on gangs – but all the necessary laws already exist
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Prosecutor Ben Vanderkolk to be investigated after failures in murder inquiry

WORKERS

Dennis Maga (Spinoff): Fair pay agreements may be dead, but the fight for fairer pay goes on

Peter Reynolds (ODT): The worry of wage expectations under a new government
Jean Edwards (RNZ): Court finds Gloriavale’s Overseeing Shepherd was employer of former members

Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Screen workers bargaining hamstrung by law loophole

Martin Van Beynen (Post): 800 staff lose jobs with receivership of labour hire firm ELE Holdings (paywalled)

ECONOMY

John Weekes (Herad): GDP shocker: How badly is NZ’s economy really doing? (paywalled)
RNZ: CTU wants Reserve Bank to rule out any more interest rate rises

RNZ: Production at ‘stubbornly low’ level as manufacturing woes continue

INEQUALITY, POVERTY
Jonathan Boston (Newshub): Opinion: Why reducing child poverty should be priority for new Government

ENVIRONMENT

Jamie Mortron (Herald): Government’s freshwater reform sparks backlash from 50 experts, leaders

EDUCATION
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Te Pūkenga: Leaked documents reveal horror financial position for polytechs, insiders spill beans on ‘s**tshow’ meeting with minister

Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Returning to regional model not enough to fix polytech funding — union (paywalled)

SPY AGENCIES
Derek Cheng (Herald): NZSIS use of class warrants for surveillance raises concerns
No Right Turn: The SIS is evading oversight again

DEFENCE
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZDF not part of US military’s plan to flood Asia-Pacific with drones
Mick Hall: AUKUS signalling a concern for sovereignty