The Waitangi Tribunal has granted urgency to an inquiry into the decision to scrap school boards’ legal duty to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. NZNO is warning that the emergency department at Christchurch Hospital is bursting at the seams and understaffed. Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has officially been reinstated to Te Pāti Māori, following a High Court decision that ruled her expulsion was “unlawful”. The Government has warned the country’s oil deliveries are in doubt if the conflict in the Middle East rages on.
Union coverage
- NZEI: Urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry into government’s removal of schools’ Treaty obligations
- NZNO: Christchurch Hospital staffing ‘like moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic’, worker says
Employment
- Staff assaults drop at Southland Hospital following safety concerns (paywall)
- Warning for employers skimping on sick leave as Covid wave hits
Politics
- Mariameno Kapa-Kingi officially reinstated to Te Pāti Māori
- Government backtracks on live animal export plans
- Covid-19 inquiry: Politicians on all sides find what they need in report
- Auckland Mayor says inner-city suburbs are ripe for housing intensification
- Wellington’s Moa Point nears grim milestone of 2.5 billion litres of raw sewage (paywall)
- Queenstown-based tech entrepreneur Brian Cartmell donating hundreds of thousands to political parties
- Auditor-general ‘considering’ looking into Chris Bishop’s decision to fund a bridge in his electorate (paywall)
- NZ’s readiness for the next pandemic now Brown’s unpalatable responsibility (paywall)
Te Ao Māori
Economics
- Fuel supplies in NZ: ‘Unless things change there’ll be big challenges’
- Oil prices fall, NZ share market rises as Trump says Iran war ‘very complete’
- A $250m stalemate has stalled new wind farms – Transpower hopes to break it (paywall)
- ‘It’s quite deceptive’: Complaint laid about the rise of property flippers
- Airlines could soon be legally compelled to tell passengers they’re allowed compensation
- Kiwis spent 22 million hours on hold last year, but AI may be making inroads (paywall)