Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes for Thursday, April 3

Overworked Nelson surgeon quits; Patient waits 19 mths for referral for endometriosis scarring that fused her ovaries & bowel; Christchurch defies densification again; Orr went after bank capital chat

In short this morning in our political economy:

• The Nelson Hospital waiting list crisis just gets worse, including compelling interviews with an over-worked surgeon who is leaving, and a patient who discovered after 19 months of waiting for a referral that her bowel and ovaries were fused together with scar tissue from endometriosis, and she found out only after going private.

• Christchurch has delayed approving housing densification rules for a third time.

• Adrian Orr resigned nine days after a meeting with Nicola Willis about her desire to loosen capital rules for banks.

• Donald Trump is about to impose ‘reciprocal tariffs’ on trading partners at 9am NZT, including New Zealand, Todd McClay admits. They could be 8-9% if Trump treats our GST as a ‘tariff’

Here’s my selection¹ below of scoops, breaking news, news, analyses, deep-dives, features, interviews, Op-Eds, editorials and cartoons from around Aotearoa’s political economy on housing, climate and poverty from RNZ, 1News, The Post-$², The Press−$, Newsroom/$³, NZ Herald/$, Stuff, BusinessDesk/$, Politik-$, NBR-$, Reuters, AP, FT/$, WSJ/$, Bloomberg/$, New York Times/$, Washington Post/$, The Guardian, Wired/$, The Atlantic/$ and The Economist-$, as of 7am on Thursday, April 3.

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My Top Pick n’ Mix Six at 7am on Thursday, April 3