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New Zealand: what was counted on 22 September 2026
Every article that passed the risk gate for New Zealand on this day, by category — the outlet, its leaning where known, and the link. These counts are what the pressure table adds up.
Signals counted
38 articles
Regulation
- Jetstar staff to stop charging baggage and seat fees in union protest ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- Shane Jones limits tarakihi catch, but fishing fans aren’t happy ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
Disruption
- Planned closure of ward 10A closer; union critical over loss of services ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Roads reopen following reports of gas leak at Dunedin hotel ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Power to the people as residents strike back at solar farm plans ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Auckland motorway off-ramp closed after two vehicles crash ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- Another day, another gas leak impacts Dunedin’s CBD ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
Internal tension
- Video shows cruise ship passengers in mass brawl in Mediterranean ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
Safety & health
- Manage My Health and HNZ on notice after data breach ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Lisette Reymer is one of the few to take this arduous journey into the disaster zone. Here’s what she sees ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- Whooping cough case confirmed at Christchurch college ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Emails lift lid on shock, horror and praise for South D flood options ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
Companies
- Construction company selected for $4.6m Dunedin dino park upgrades ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Quiz: The Hard Word ... steep usually small fall of water ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- Company collapsed owing more than $1m. Manager’s $450,000 claim against director fails ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
Markets
- Reserve Bank kept interest rates low too long, Covid-19 review finds ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
Politics
- Environment Southland rejects request for data centre review ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- ‘Had a gutsful’: Education Ministry whistleblower says OIA subversion not an isolated incident ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- MBIE confirms botched biometric projects costs blown out to $50.7 million ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- 'Oh, I'm out too': Six Marlborough councillors declare conflicts of interest in funding round ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Dirty Work: What Nicky Hager claims in his book targeting Taxpayers' Union ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- Trump returns to UN at a moment of anxiety about Iran, AI and the future of world body itself ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- Jacinda Ardern snaps up $6.5m home in Sydney ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- Concern over curriculum rewrite following leaked video of education official ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Greens seek to cap political donations, register lobbyists ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Burnham wants to show ‘connection’ with Trump ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Growers warn shake-up could backfire on vege prices ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Minister ‘must have been aware’ of staff being told to evade law, Labour says ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- Govt to launch cancer screening pilot, saving 60 lives a year. But only in two regions ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- Brooke van Velden signs off from ‘Wellington’s dark bureaucracy’ ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- False Advertising: Albanese, Digital Safety And Australia’s Security Council Bid ↗ Scoopindependent
- Canterbury councils expect verdict on local government reform soon ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Ring-road roundabout plan picks up speed ↗ Otago Daily Timesindependent
- Australia books homeless Kiwi $2239 flight to Auckland instead of housing him ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- ‘It’s past time to act’: Greens pledge to cap political donations, introduce lobbyist register ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- NZ First’s health policy copy-pasted from advocacy group’s website ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- Legislation introduced to Parliament to axe Broadcasting Standards Authority ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent
- RBNZ’s Covid response sparked ‘costly boom-bust cycle’, Willis says ↗ Stuff.co.nzindependent