Today NZNO healthcare workers are striking for safe staffing and fair pay. More job losses are on the line at NZDF due to budget deficits. In political news, Chris Hipkins is trying to build some momentum following the Labour Party conference.
Union coverage
- NZNO: 36,000 Health NZ nurses to strike for eight hours
- NZNO: Nurses go on strike across the nation today
- NZNO: Nurses’ strike: what you need to know
- PSA: NZDF battles $360m deficit after ‘austerity’ measures fail to make dent
- PSA: Te Whatu Ora uses wrong job titles in restructure plans
- MERAS: Midwives’ union outraged as graduates unable to sit exams
Employment
- Only 865 redundancies across public sector – Public Service Commission
- Community newspapers to learn their fate as NZME considers closures
Politics
- Hipkins pledges to ‘make this first one-term National government’
- Labour lays groundwork for election-year capital gains tax
- Treaty Principles Bill only one of the issues Labour’s focussed on – Chris Hipkins
- New poll delivers hung Parliament, bad news for Christopher Luxon as preferred PM
- ‘Self-serving’ methane change could mix science with political views – climate group
- Jobseeker beneficiaries to get more intensive support, as numbers rise
- Govt considers ‘options’ after request to underwrite fuel exploration
Te Ao Māori
- Supreme Court allows appeal of customary marine title judgment
- Free school lunches making a difference for Māori – report
Economics
- Debt pressures still a big issue across the economy – report
- Independent retail does ‘not make financial sense’ – power company
- The niggle that could trip up an India trade deal