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Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage.

New Zealand Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand.

Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards.

Climate change
Audrey Young (Herald): Zero Carbon Bill passes with almost unanimous support in Parliament
Anna Whyte (1News): Ardern hails ‘historic moment’ for NZ as Zero Carbon Bill passes – ‘We are on the right side of history’
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Zero Carbon Bill passes with near-unanimous support, setting climate change targets into law
Henry Cooke (Stuff): ACT misses climate vote, allowing bill through unanimously
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Breakthrough on climate change policy as Nats support Zero Carbon Bill
Richard Harman (Politik): Bipartisan agreement on climate change — except for NZ First
Lana Andelane (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern praises Government’s united front in passionate speech after Zero Carbon Bill passes
Zane Small (Newshub): ‘Historic moment’: MPs erupt in applause as Zero Carbon Bill passes final reading
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Ardern says New Zealand on ‘right side of history’ as MPs pass zero-carbon bill
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Unanimous support for landmark Zero Carbon Bill
RNZ: Zero Carbon Bill passes final reading
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Zero Carbon Bill passes but poll show most Kiwis don’t want climate emergency declared
Zane Small (Newshub): National Party supports Zero Carbon Bill in its final reading
Spinoff: 119 of 120 MPs just voted to pass NZ’s historic Zero Carbon Bill into law. Here’s the best of what they said
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Zero Carbon Bill passes with near-unanimous support, however National commits to making tweaks if elected into government 
Tema Hemi (Māori TV): Zero Carbon Bill – Māori concerns addressed
No Right Turn: Climate Change: Passed
Jane Matthews (Stuff): New Zealand could be a ‘major player’ in transition to zero carbon
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): More of that ideological claptrap from those snowflake scientists

Significant shortfalls in the Environmental Reporting Act
Harry Lock (RNZ): Policymakers ‘flying blind’ with huge data gaps – environment commissioner
Eloise Gibson (Newsroom): Holey data leaves us ‘flying blind’ on environment
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): New Zealand’s lack of data risks ‘irreversible damage’ to the environment
Jamie Morton (Herald): Why ‘huge gaps’ in NZ enviro reporting could be hurting us
1News: New Zealand ‘flying blind’ when it comes to info about the environment, new report says
Brent Edwards (NBR): Big gaps in data on the environment (paywalled)
Alex Braae (Spinoff): Cheat sheet: NZ’s environmental reporting is falling short

Winston Peters’ privacy lawsuit
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): When those in media become part of the story
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Winston Peters Puts dirty politics on trial (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Herald): Politics – a sunny and glorious calling (paywalled)
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Two ministers and a drunken conspiracy
Kim Baker Wilson (1News): Crown lawyer says Winston Peters’ case against SSC head is ‘scandalous and improper’
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Court told Winston Peters’ allegations over superannuantion should never have been made
Isaac Davison (Herald): Winston Peters’ pension overpayment: Anne Tolley admits telling staff, family members
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Winston Peters case: Anne Tolley regrets ‘outburst’ to sister about confidential pension overpayment
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Anne Tolley admits ‘outburst’ in Winston Peters superannuation case
Kim Baker Wilson (1News): Anne Tolley ‘regrets’ outburst where she told sister about Winston Peters’ pension overpayment – ‘I was tired and I was cross’
Zac Fleming (Newshub): Anne Tolley told husband, sister about Winston Peters’ superannuation overpayments

National Party
Simon Wilson (Herald): What’s Chris Luxon really going to do in Parliament? (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On National’s anointing of Christopher Luxon
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Chosen To Rule? What Sort Of Christian Is Chris Luxon?
Brent Edwards (NBR): Chris Luxon’s selection dilemma for National’s election campaign (paywalled)
Jason Walls (Herald): KiwiBuild, light rail and taxes: Fact-checking National’s attack ad on the Government (paywalled)
Alan Kenyon (1News): Winston Peters takes cheeky dig at Simon Bridges over potential leadership challenge from Christopher Luxon

Government
Bryce Edwards (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern has a major problem with minor parties, and it could seal her fate
Joanne Carroll (Stuff): Ministers hit back at West Coasters planning rally against Government policies

Immigration
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Coalition attempts to dispel discord over partnership visa policy
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Coalition partners stand their ground on partnership visas
Listener Editorial: The disturbing takeaway from Shane Jones’ comments on the Indian community
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Finally, Labour has stood up to NZ First

Terrorism bill
Anna Whyte (1News): Counter-terrorism bill quick timeframe ‘outrageous’ – Amnesty NZ
RNZ: Terrorism bill’s submissions period too short – Amnesty International
OASIS: The Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill

Inquiry into abuse in state and church care 
RNZ: The Detail: Abuse inquiry just scratches the surface
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Royal Commission hearings: Children’s Commissioner says state care has failed
Andrew McRae (RNZ): State care institutions central to early gang formation – academic
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Woman recalls years of ill-treatment in state care

Oranga Tamariki
Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Controversial attempted Oranga Tamariki uplift highlights ‘deeper structural issues’ – Children’s Commissioner
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): One small step for OT, one giant leap for human rights
Derek Cheng (Herald): Comment: Oranga Tamariki boss pledges openness and honesty, then undercuts herself (paywalled)
Aaron Smale (Newsroom): A big fat boomerang
Mandy Te, Marty Sharpe and Felix Desmarais (Stuff): Oranga Tamariki changes practices after attempted uplift of baby in Hastings
Derek Cheng (Herald): Damning Oranga Tamariki review: Gaps in the work, poor consultation and relationships
Sam Sachdeva and Melanie Reid (Newsroom): Oranga Tamariki overhaul after damning uplift report
Māori TV: Oranga Tamariki owns up to their mistakes
Māni Dunlop (RNZ): Oranga Tamariki inquiry acknowledges systems failed Hawke’s Bay whānau
Mark Quinlivan and Laura Macdonald (Newshub): ‘I am truly sorry’: Oranga Tamariki apologises for trauma caused after uplift of Hastings baby boy
Alice Webb-Liddall (Spinoff): Huge changes to be made at Oranga Tamariki following review into child uplift process

Police
Zane Small (Newshub): Police Commissioner Mike Bush ‘wrong’ on 1800 new police target – Winston Peters
Jordan Bond (RNZ): Police officer suggested he would plant evidence to boost arrests
1News: Auckland cop quit during investigation into planting evidence to search cars
Brittany Keogh (Stuff): No evidence of police planting evidence, but some willing to cross lines, says police watchdog
Nick Forrester (Herald): Officer made comments about planting evidence, Police confirms
No Right Turn: Justice for Bomber
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Police to work closely with Māori to decrease crime

Local government
RNZ: Law change may be needed after councillors’ tied vote – minister
Sahiban Hyde (Hawkes Bay Today): News Hastings Sikh temple: Community of ‘close to 2000’ elated as council gives green light (paywalled)
RNZ: Sikhs overjoyed new temple can be built in Hawke’s Bay
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Justin Lester doesn’t have the numbers he was counting on
Damian George (Stuff): Ousted Wellington mayor Justin Lester’s vote recount hopes take a hit
Felix Desmarais (Stuff): Wellington Mayor Andy Foster announces councillor portfolios nearly a month after taking power
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Christchurch City Council drops investigation into former councillor Deon Swiggs
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Former Christchurch City councillor Deon Swiggs says investigation against him has been dropped

Welfare
1News: Benefits need to increase, but ‘it’s not happening right now’ – Green Party co-leader
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Work obligations don’t help unemployed find jobs – study
1News: Getting unemployed into work ‘totally doable’ says National, as Government hands out millions in hardship grants

Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Tutoring firm Crimson hires Sir John Key, starts global online high school
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Moves to address teacher shortage just the beginning
Thomas Mead (1News): Exclusive: Canterbury Uni pulls plug on Antarctic study, cancels well-known scientist’s contract
Lee Kenny (Stuff): Call to investigate former medical students after Otago work placement scam
1News:‘A very small minority’ of students accessing porn at school, despite high interception numbers
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Private school helping 70 students battle vaping addictions
Dominion Post Editorial: Early childhood teachers deserve more cash – and kudos

Parliament, OK boomer
Rob Stock (Stuff): Thank Chlöe Swarbrick for reminding us about Parliament’s ‘anti-manners’
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Ok Boomer – a weary insult from a gathering generational war
Molly Roberts (Washington Post): Chloe Swarbrick’s ‘OK, boomer’ shows how Gen-Z is fighting back
Dan Satherley (Newshub): ‘OK Boomer’: World reacts to NZ politician Chloe Swarbrick’s use of meme in Parliament
Anna Whyte (1News): Quickfire: Jan Logie and Louise Upston speak out on fireworks ban, no jab-no pay and odd experiences on the job
Phil Smith (RNZ): Meaty week at Parliament: Climate, Organs, and Criminals

Social media, fake news
Brigitte Morten (Pundit): Regulating Social Media Or Limiting Political Debate?
Miriam Ross (Stuff): What Jojo Rabbit, fake news and Facebook’s political advertising have in common

Stephen Colbert’s visit to NZ
Jason Walls (Herald): Stephen Colbert’s NZ trip: Tourism New Zealand spent $100,000 but expects $5m return
RNZ: Stephen Colbert’s visit to NZ cost Tourism NZ more than $100k
Siobhan Downes (Stuff): Stephen Colbert’s New Zealand visit cost Kiwi taxpayers $100k
Newstalk ZB: Tourism NZ CEO defends Stephen Colbert investment

Firearms
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Police talk with gangs to encourage gun laws compliance
Katie Bradford (1News): More than 100 gang leaders contacted by police after reluctance to hand over guns
Zane Small (Newshub): Labour MPs yell ‘out of order’ as National probes Police Commissioner on gun buyback

Health and disability
Brittany Keogh (Stuff): Use of antidepressants among teenagers rises 83 per cent in nine years
George Block (Stuff): E-scooter injury risk: Auckland surgeons call for zero alcohol limit
James Fyfe (Newshub): Auckland doctors call for more regulation for e-scooters
Nick Truebridge (RNZ): More funding on way to tackle Auckland measles outbreak
RNZ: Samoa measles epidemic: Cases continue to rise
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Medicinal cannabis supplier Rose Renton calls quits on being ‘green fairy’
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Capital & Coast DHB can’t provide keto-trained dietitian for boy with epilepsy
Hannah Bartlett (Stuff): Disabled woman nearly out of time to find new home in Nelson

Justice, corrections
Katie Doyle (RNZ): Young offenders, families need long-term support – judge
Katy Jones (Stuff): Shouldn’t need death to find peace, victim of mental patient says
Daisy Hudson (ODT): Law not consistent in drug sentences – New Zealand Drug Foundation report

Insurance
Rob Stock (Stuff): Finance minister warns insurers not to leave New Zealanders without cover
Rob Stock (Stuff): Why insurance claims are ‘withdrawn’ – dishonesty, bullying insurers, say Kiwis
Rob Stock (Stuff): Insurer accepted claim, but payout left policyholder feeling ripped off
Rob Stock (Stuff): AA Insurance: Tower wrong to say 20 per cent of claims ‘withdrawn’

Foreign affairs and trade
Herald Editorial: NZ needs to speak with one voice on trade (paywalled)
Bonnie Flaws (Stuff): Seafood wins from China trade deal upgrade, but dairy will have to wait
Bryan Gould: A New Zealand voice in international affairs
1News: New High Commissioner to UK announced, replacing Sir Jerry Mateparae

Primary and extractive industries
Brent Melville (ODT): Mineral plan meets motley criticism
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Fonterra’s farmers need a watchdog they can trust
RNZ: ‘Some mud needs to be thrown’ – farmer at Fonterra AGM
Sally Rae (ODT): Chairman called on to resign
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Fonterra farmers ‘should be pleased with progress’ after record loss, says chair (paywalled)
RNZ: Fonterra not ‘broken but needs to change’ – chairperson
Mitchell Alexander (Newshub): People should be refused border entry if caught bringing in biosecurity risks – National MP Hamish Walker

FMA privacy breach
Andrew Bevin (NBR): FMA accidentally uploaded 445 private documents (paywalled)
Madison Reidy (RNZ): FMA admits privacy breach after documents ‘inadvertently uploaded

Erebus
RNZ/Stuff: White Silence: The tragic story of the Air Zealand jet that flew into Mt Erebus, killing all 257 people onboard
Michael Wright (Stuff): White Silence: The bizarre Erebus burglary – ‘hardly anything was missing’

Transport
ODT Editorial: Driver licensing review timely
Nicholas Pointon (RNZ): Slip blocking state highway leads to loss of profits and businesses ‘suffering’

Other
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): The perverse outcomes of the OIA
Chris Trotter: Too Late To Change Capitalism’s Flightpath?
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Act leader carries the flag for freedom (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Data shows there are 185,000 New Zealanders who’ve hit international ‘millionaire’ status
No Right Turn: More crime from the spies
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Lack of economic crash confuses economist
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Religious leaders’ anti-euthanasia letter sparks fiery David Seymour response
RNZ: RNZ wins two categories at international broadcasting awards
Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): Shane Jones And Da Mystery Of Chessboxin’
Michael Reddell: Threadbare analysis and ideological causes
Leonie Hayden (Spinoff): ‘The Māori trouble’ at Waitara: Revisiting the Taranaki wars and myths set in stone
RNZ: The Aotearoa History Show: Episode 13: Decades of Change
Brent Edwards (NBR): Infrastructure bonds on Coalition agenda soon (paywalled)
Rob O’Neill (NBR): Is the taxman coming for Microsoft NZ? (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): ‘The obvious question is why such a business would want to have a physical presence in New Zealand at all’
Anne Gibson (Herald): The most powerful people in NZ property: who really runs the sector? (paywalled)
Brian Fallow (Herald): Don’t reach for the knife, RBNZ  (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Gloriavale-linked company misses out on Provincial Growth Fund funding
Evan Harding (Stuff): Petition launched to save smelter
Mandy Te (Stuff): Antelope from Wellington Zoo dies from ‘high levels of stress’ due to fireworks
Felix Desmarais (Stuff): Cook Island human rights advocates call on NZ to help decriminalise homosexuality
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Tapu te Ranga marae cleanup slow going
1News: Northern Ireland man sentenced for making online death threats to Jacinda Ardern
Newstalk ZB: Jacinda Ardern death threat: Northern Irish man gets community service
Damien Venuto (Herald): TVNZ boss: Expect more free-to-air sports on Kiwi TV (paywalled)
Emily Brookes (Stuff): TVNZ fights streaming competition with local content

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