The People's Select Committee media round-up

‍Launch media + Committee Members and Advisers

Stuff:

Former MPs release scathing review into the Government’s pay equity law changes | Stuff

Law News

Report slams government’s pay equity reforms as ‘secretive, ‘mischievous’ and negotiated in bad faith - Law News

Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/calls-for-political-parties-to-make-repealing-pay-equity-changes-a-bottom-line/5HUT2AVO2NHKBJCFSXASX6NGC4/

The Spinoff feb 24  Alice Neville

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/24-02-2026/pay-equity-select-committee-finds-flagrant-and-significant-abuse-of-power

Nanaia Mahuta

https://waateanews.com/2026/02/26/equity-mahuta-highlights-maori-impact-in-peoples-select-committee-pay-equity-findings/

Lynne Pillay

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-01-2026/the-pay-equity-changes-push-rural-services-closer-to-the-brink

https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/27/nzers-with-disabilities-expedient-collateral-in-cancelling-pay-equity-deals/

Lianne Dalziel

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/28/why-ive-joined-ex-mps-on-a-peoples-select-committee/

https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/25/parties-need-to-spell-out-pay-equity-intentions-in-election-year/

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/this-helps-make-the-struggle-for-pay-equity-real/

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/15/a-ramraid-no-one-was-expecting-outrage-over-pay-equity-changes/

Steve Chadwick

Pay equity change a 'real slap in the face' to women - Newsroom

Ria Bond

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360953302/what-pay-equity-means-when-youve-lived-without-it

Sue Bradbury

'The battle for pay equity' with Kera Sherwood-O'Regan (DPA) & Amy Ross (TEU)a recording of this session will be made available eventually on the Te Tiriti-Based Futures website -   https://www.tiritibasedfutures.info/

4,000 word article The People's Select Committee on Pay Equity: A project in participatory democracy for publication in Foreign Control Watchdog.  https://www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/  (Yet to be posted)

Marilyn Waring

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/07-10-2025/a-matter-of-social-justice-the-old-men-of-1972-who-got-pay-equity-right

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/04-02-2026/marilyn-waring-librarians-work-is-essential-and-still-treated-as-expendable

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/12-06-2025/marilyn-waring-why-i-convened-the-peoples-select-committee-on-pay-equity

Karanina Sumeo

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-01-2026/how-the-pay-equity-reset-erased-years-of-progress-for-pacific-communities

Len Cook on Substack

https://open.substack.com/pub/statschap/p/the-day-that-challenged-governments?r=3s7zau&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Radio NZ

Nine to Noon Marilyn Waring

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019017469/marilyn-waring-on-take-her-pay-equity-fight-to-the-people

Summer Weekends – Karanina Sumeo

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-weekend/audio/2019020257/saunoamaali-i-dr-karanina-sumeo-on-the-pay-equity-committee

Nine to Noon RNZ

Jackie Blue, Marilyn Waring

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019024318/people-s-select-committee-releases-report-into-pay-equity

RNZ Checkpoint

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019024374/formers-mps-say-pay-equity-changes-should-be-repealed

The Platform – Sue Bradford with Michael Laws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAtrV7wco38

NewstalkZB

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/dame-marilyn-waring-former-national-mp-on-the-final-report-into-the-governments-pay-equity-law-changes/

Mikes Minute 

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/opinion/mikes-minute-whats-not-being-said-about-pay-equity/

Opinion Pieces

ODT Editorial Opinion

Fronting up on pay equity | Otago Daily Times Online News (paywall)

David Burton: The Troubling Legacy of Overturning Pay Equity Agreements. March 4, 2026.

https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/360958827/troubling-legacy-overturning-pay-equity-agreements  (paywall)

Ian Taylor:  

Rushed legislation, forgotten women, and the triumphant return of the word 'pillock'

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360683636/sir-ian-taylor-rushed-legislation-forgotten-women-and-triumphant-return-word-pillock

Martyn Bradbury

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/the-report-on-act-kneecapping-pay-parity-is-grim-reading/

Rob Campbell

https://ww.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360951511/sensible-strategic-non-political-case-pay-equity--

Dexter Tilo – Human Resources Director  (paywall)

https://www.hcamag.com/nz/specialisation/diversity-inclusion/government-urged-to-repeal-equal-pay-bill-amendments/566553

Human Rights Commission

https://waateanews.com/2026/02/25/national-pay-equity-law-changes-undermine-human-rights-committee-told/

https://tikatagata.org.nz//news/peoples-select-committee-on-pay-equity-report-confirms-law-changes-undermine-human-rights

Political Parties

Greens

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2602/S00150/greens-welcome-launch-of-peoples-select-committee-report-on-pay-equity.htm

Act and Labour

Brooke van Velden suggests new report on pay equity ‘a waste of time’, Labour cautiously endorses repeal | The Post  (paywall)

Interest.co.nz feb 25

https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/137349/labour-vows-repeal-pay-equity-changes-stops-short-full-blueprint

Morning Report, wed 25

Weekly Political Panel for 25 February 2026 Nicola Willis https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/587875/pay-equity-backlash-is-hyperbole-finance-minister-says

Union Responses

PSA

https://community.scoop.co.nz/2026/02/pay-equity-peoples-committee-does-what-govt-refused-to-and-exposes-its-betrayal-of-women/

TEU

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2602/S00144/report-shows-national-act-and-nz-first-betrayed-nz-women.htm

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED2603/S00008/teu-calls-on-tertiary-leaders-to-back-pay-equity-this-international-working-womens-day.htm

E Tu

https://waateanews.com/2026/02/25/national-e-tu-backs-peoples-select-committee-call-to-repeal-equal-pay-amendment-act/

LIANZ  Library Association

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2602/S00591/the-library-association-welcomes-the-report-of-the-peoples-select-committee-on-pay-equity.htm

NZNO

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE2506/S00008/nzno-backs-peoples-pay-equity-select-committee.htm

National Union of Public  Employees

https://www.nupe.org.nz/post/pay-equity-in-crisis-what-the-people-s-select-committee-revealed-about-the-2025-law-change

Health Care Workers

https://kaitiaki.org.nz/article/business-lobbyists-code-names-and-treaty-breaches-peoples-voice-damning-on-pay-equity/

https://kaitiaki.org.nz/article/dont-be-defeated-thats-what-they-want-government-blasted-at-pay-equity-report-launch/

https://kaitiaki.org.nz/article/purple-passion-a-week-of-health-care-workers-showing-their-true-colours/

Employers

Aged Care Sector

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2602/S00145/aged-care-sector-reiterates-commitment-to-equitable-pay-for-care-workforce.htm

NGOs

BPW

https://waateanews.com/2026/03/13/national-bpw-nz-welcomes-peoples-select-committee-report-on-pay-equity/

Rural Women NZ

Pay Equity Crucial for Rural Communities - RWNZ

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