Teachers’ unions are cautiously optimistic changes to the country’s secondary school qualifications framework will work, provided they are implemented and resourced well. The country’s big four power companies have signed an agreement to set up a coal stockpile at Huntly Power Station to support security of electricity supplies. A new Infometrics report has highlighted how New Zealand has an unbalanced tax system.
Union coverage
- PPTA: NCEA overhaul sparks optimism and concern
- CTU: How New Zealand’s tax system compares with other countries
Employment
- Neurodiverse man overwhelmed by Jobseeker admin comes off weekly support
- Closing National Library for memorial service would not have been appropriate – minister
Politics
- Luxon welcomed to Papua New Guinea for celebration of diplomatic ties
- NCEA changes: Some aspects like ‘a step backwards in time’ – principal
- Radical NCEA overhaul risks turning students into ‘guinea pigs’ – Labour
- The ‘postcode lottery’ for hip and knee replacements is still strongly in force
- IT glitch plunges Palmerston North hospital back into using paper and pen (paywall)
- Former National Party MP Anthony ‘Aussie’ Malcolm likely sexually abused children – police review
- Fishing industry ‘let off the hook’ as conservation funding falls short (paywall)
- Hush and rush of Govt lawmaking undermines trust and quality (paywall)
Te Ao Māori
Economics
- Gentailers agree to stockpile coal at Huntly Power Station
- Infrastructure leaders push Govt to deliver ‘the great privatisation’ (paywall)
- Trump trade tariff decision came ‘blunt and late’, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says
- NZ is looking for a deal over Trump’s new tariffs – that could come with a high political price
- Mediawatch: The politics of PayWave
Opinion
- The hard bite of a deep construction downturn (paywall)
- Why axing credit card surcharges in shops should increase official inflation (paywall)
- The good, the bad and the odd of Minister van Velden’s week of H&S announcements (paywall)
- Means-test wealthy retirees with their helipads and health insurance