The PPTA has changed its constitution to allow teachers at charter schools to join their union, which David Seymour is claiming as a victory for charter schools. The union has pushed back on that claim and reiterate their opposition to the forced imposition of charter schools. Workers at Winstone Pulp reflect on the company’s last day of operation. Paul Goldsmith has met with Ngāpuhi to progress their treaty settlement, while David Seymour has agreed to debate Ngāti Toa CEO Helmut Modlick on Te Tiriti. In economic news, house prices continue to fall in all regions, except Porirua. Concerns are being raised about petrol stations allowing buy now pay later schemes like Afterpay.
Union coverage
- CTU: Pay equity progress stalls
- PPTA: PPTA membership to extend to teachers at charter schools
- PPTA: Teachers’ vehemently opposed to ‘forced conversions’ of charter schools
Employment
- ‘End of an era’ – Winstone Pulp International closes after 45 years
- Proposed closure of Timaru meatworks ‘pretty foreboding’ – minister
- Oranga Tamariki staff investigated for ‘excessive’ force kept jobs
Politics
- New Zealand condemns Iranian attack on Israel, urging both to ‘step down’
- Are we finally about to see the state of Health NZ’s finances?
- Flood victims who have fair warning may have less case for compensation, MPs warn
- Casey Costello will release ‘independent advice’ about benefits of heated tobacco products
- Smoked out: Banned heated tobacco devices still being sold
- Rushed minerals changes ‘bad lawmaking and they know it’
Te Ao Māori
- Goldsmith meets with Ngāpuhi to hear Treaty settlement aspirations
- Is kaupapa Māori Health the future for preserving doctors?
- David Seymour to debate Ngāti Toa chief executive over Te Tiriti
Economics
- House prices will stop falling soon – Corelogic
- House prices fall for seventh month – but not in Porirua
- Late payments a bane to more and more small businesses
- Fuel ‘not something that should be funded by debt’
- Buy now pay later loans ‘snowballing’ into multiple loans – financial mentors