Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Tuesday, April 30

Scoops of the day; Deep-dives of the day; Cartoons of the day; Op-Ed, Thread, substack and columns of the day

TL;DR: Here’s my top 10 ‘pick ‘n’ mix of links to news, analysis and opinion articles as of 10:30am on Tuesday, May 30:

1. Scoop: NZ 'close to the tipping point' of measles epidemic, health experts warn NZ Herald Benjamin Plummer

2. Health: 'Absurd and totally unacceptable': Man has to wait a year for surgery RNZ Phil Pennington

3. Scoop: 'Not fit for purpose': Disability ministry’s problems revealed in confidential memo NZ Herald Isaac Davison

4. Analysis: Waitangi Tribunal releases scathing interim report on Govt proposal. The Government is proposing to to scrap a section of the Oranga Tamariki Act that requires the agency to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi 1News Te Aniwa Hurihanganui

5. Column by Simon Wilson in NZ Herald-$$$ Wayne Brown’s massive Auckland budget problems

6. Breaking: Banks on track to start confirmation of payee roll out NZBA statement

7. Analysis: The cost of returning GST from rates to local councils would be $1.1b Infometrics note Brad Olsen

8. Substack:

   Gregor Macdonald
   via his Cold Eye Earth substack on why we shouldn’t worry too much about data centre electricity demand.

9. Analysis: The incumbency curse doomed governments all over the world as inflation spiked. A new poll suggests National might have caught it already Stuff Henry Cooke

10. Op-Ed: Dropping the ball on measles? Aotearoa must close an ‘immunity gap’ to avoid a measles epidemic PHCC

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