Growing unrest among St John ambulance workers and the broader fight for fair funding, as well as political tensions over Māori rights. Economic pressures and calls for stronger consumer protections.
Union coverage
- CTU: The numbers show the OCR celebrations are overdone
- FIRST:‘So united, so angry’: St John ambulance workers strike
- FIRST: St John workers on strike: The funding fight around the ambulance service
- PPTA, NZEI: Teachers need to give more warning over strike action – Cabinet paper
Employment
Politics
- Government was warned emergency housing crackdown could increase homelessness
- Smokefree providers and minister keen to address downturn in referrals
- Transport officials look overseas for road tolling models amid calls for more user-pays
- New human rights chief says comments on ‘trans agenda’ and Israel-Gaza war won’t be an issue
- Police set to revoke formal warnings after 70,000 issued
- Calls for carbon subsidy reform as polluters make bank
- Poll: Voters warming to Luxon as PM, party votes hold firm
- ‘Don’t know, don’t care’: Luxon on latest poll results
Te Ao Māori
- Koroneihana 2024: PM called out on policies targeting Māori
- No lifeline for Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill after Koroneihana
- ‘Māori can never be united people’ – National Party Facebook page comments on Koroneihana livestream
Economics
- Live: Government agrees to beef up Kiwibank
- Polytechnics face losses under plan to dissolve Te Pūkenga
- Commerce Commission calls for beefed up Kiwibank and open banking in final report
- Power companies withdraw deals due to price squeeze
- Electricity Authority puts spotlight on power profits
Opinion