RNZ AND MEDIA
RNZ: RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson to leave organisation after 13 years
RNZ: Deputy PM says he did not know RNZ chief executive planned to resign
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): What does the exit of RNZ’s boss mean for the organisation? (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): David Seymour denies role in RNZ boss Paul Thompson’s exit after ‘unhelpful’ commentary (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): ‘This was his decision alone’: Paul Thompson resigns as RNZ boss
Leah McFall (Listener): Public radio is meant for older people. Why fight it? (paywalled)
Stuff: ‘I am a darn good journalist’: Maiki Sherman wins major media award after controversy
Shayne Currie (Herald): Former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman wins political journalist of the year at NZ Media Awards (paywalled)
Herald: NZME celebrates multiple top honours at 2026 NZ Media Awards
RNZ: RNZ’s national crime correspondent Sam Sherwood wins three top Media Awards
Stuff: Stuff wins top media award for third year running
1News: ‘World class’: TVNZ current affairs, news honoured at NZ Media Awards
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Melanie Reid’s Diagnosis of a Crime named best NZ podcast
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret memoir of .. Barry Soper
Philip Matthews (Post): As The Press turns 165 we consider: Do newspapers have a future? (paywalled)
Alexia Russell (RNZ): Facebook’s recurring premature death announcement

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Landlord Parliament
Luke Malpass (Post): For the first time in months, the coalition looks in control (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): The road to good intentions is paved with hell (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Introducing Democrasee, the political board game tested by MPs
Sam Crawley: New Zealand’s immigration attitudes: an international outlier
James Nokise (Post): The cold and the cruel: A stocktake of a week in politics (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): The week’s biggest losers were probably adult human biological public servants
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Battle of the Lloyds: Budd v Burr
Brent Edwards (NBR): Buy back BNZ, Public Service, social housing cuts (paywalled)
Penny Smith (RNZ): Parliamentary Services to strengthen security after threats on MPs

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
Andrea Vance (Post): Lollies, furniture and monthly car grooming: More spending questions raised over mega roading contracts (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): NZTA launches review amid six roading contract investigations and SFO probe (paywalled)
Ben Thomas (Post): Will cuts finally spark the public sector’s tech revolution? (paywalled)
Post: Editorial – Cutting the public service (paywalled)
Michael Swanson: The Human cost of public service reforms

SOCIAL HOUSING
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): The social housing overhaul creates both winners and losers
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): What’s cruel versus fair in the social housing debate
1News: Social housing: Advocates say NZ needs more to fix ‘broken’ system
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Helping Nicola Willis: How to tell a social housing tenant apart from a Lotto winner
ODT: Editorial – Glib comment on housing revealing (paywalled)

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SOCIAL HOUSING REFORMS
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Major social housing shake-up announced
Anneke Smith (Post): Social housing reforms ‘a body blow’ for the poorest - Labour (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts and Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Minister seeking tougher accommodation supplement criteria claims $1000 a week housing allowance
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Government announces plans to overhaul social housing system
Lauren Crimp & Giles Dexter (RNZ): Support services blindsided by government social housing shake up
Lillian Hanly & Russell Palmer (RNZ): Labour and Greens say social housing shake-up will see public housing tenants evicted
1News: Government announces social housing shakeup
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Chris Bishop announces social housing overhaul with potential duration limits, changes to how need is assessed
Anneke Smith (Post): Social housing overhaul will require tenants to pay more, do more (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Bishop partially privatises social housing (paywalled)
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): ‘There is nothing lucky about living in public housing’: Tenant says Willis is out of touch over Lotto comments
1News: Willis regrets saying those in social housing had ‘won the lotto’
No Right Turn: A vicious, corrupt and insane policy from a vicious, corrupt and insane regime
Brent Edwards (NBR): Government takes ‘hard choices’ on reforming social housing (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Nicola Willis issues statement expressing ‘regret’ about social housing comment
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Social housing tenants face rent hike as part of Govt shakeup
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): The government tightens another link in the housing safety net

PUBLIC SECTOR AND AI
Audrey Young (Herald): Union’s bias on display over public sector cuts; Nicola Willis walks into MFAT scrap with Winston Peters (paywalled)
Stuff: The government wants to use AI to improve the public service. We asked AI what it would do
Joel Kulasingham (Herald): Expert warns Government’s public sector cuts and AI plans could create ‘economic shock’, ‘biased’ policy
Alexandra Andhov (Newsroom): Before we let AI run the public service, we need to know the full impactIan Taylor (Stuff): An open letter to Nicola Willis: AI should create jobs, not cut them
Herald: Editorial – public service reform: AI push will be painful for battered sector (paywalled)
Chris Trotter (ODT): Cutting the state’s cloth to fit the state’s alleged means (paywalled)
Herald: Most under-stress public service agencies not exempt from Government cuts
Veronica Schmidt (Spinoff): Thanks to Nicola Willis and Brian Roche, I now get that I’m just human capital
Miriam Bell (Post): Minister on possible public sector tourism cuts: ‘They make dollars stretch’ (paywalled)
The Standard: National Is Destroying Wellington
Matthew Tukaki (Waatea News): Restructure Fears Grow Across Māori-Focused Government Agencies

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Julia Gabel & Chris Knox (Herald): Monster truck tickets, sport matches & a Mongolian horse: What did your MP declare? (paywalled)
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Labour flounders as Luxon and Willis set serious reform agenda (paywalled)
Peter Dunne: Labour’s policy vacuum
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): So yes, Chris Hipkins does think you’re stupid
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Politicians have no idea what’s important to us
Stephen Minto (Daily Blog): Can Labour centrism win the election? No. But why?
Russell Palmer (RNZ): No evidence to back Luxon’s claim Peters mischaracterised view of Iran, PM’s office says
Tini Molyneux (Te Ao Māori News): National targets Māori seats Tāmaki Makaurau, Te Tai Hauāuru
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): ‘I’ve never seen a more disgusting piece of legislation’: Paid family carers decry law change
Ani O’Brien: Open Letter to Minister for Women Nicola Grigg
David Farrar: Media missed the big story on donations
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Willis and Peters’ foreign affairs feud the latest sign of coalition discord
Phil Smith (RNZ): Chamber blowback: The third law of political motion
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Te reo Māori advocate Vincent Olsen-Reeder criticises govt branding changes
Russell Baillie (Listener): Crunching the numbers on the Robbie Williams shows in NZ (paywalled)
Michael Swanson: Citizens Juries, Assemblies, and the Case for a Citizens Parliament

BUDGET 2026
Jo Moir (RNZ): Minor parties steal spotlight from Nicola Willis’ Budget
Natalia Albert (Substack): Dear Nicola: Where’s my $5,000?
Henry Cooke (Post): David Seymour pushes for more cuts while Shane Jones has it out with the PM on industry support (paywalled)
Levi Gibbs (Post): With an economy in trouble, Nicola Willis needs to deliver a conviction Budget (paywalled)

MOVE-ON ORDERS
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Move-on orders bill passes first reading following heated debate
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): MPs clash over ‘move on orders’ targeting beggars as young as 14
Sophie Bradwell-Pollak (Listener): By pushing on with ‘move-on orders’ for the homeless, Govt continues to promote a false and harmful narrative (paywalled)
Martin van Beynen (Post): ‘Move-on’ orders good idea with right mitigation (paywalled)

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BUDGET 2026 AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Janet Wilson (Post): Nicola Willis has unveiled her audacious plan for the public service, but the real test is to come (paywalled)
Amanda Gillies (RNZ): Public sector cuts ignite election fight
Henry Cooke (Post): Budget 2026: Where might the public service cuts fall? The big and small ministries facing the knife (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Willis sharpens her once-dull scythe for job cuts
Giles Dexter (RNZ): How the government’s savings exercise will work
Henry Cooke (Post): Nicola Willis accuses ‘hysterical’ PSA of ‘misleading’ members over job cuts (paywalled)
Lochlan Lineham (Herald): Finance Minister says HR departments duplicated 39 times across ministries; fears cuts will hurt families
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Willis open to idea of new ministry centralising HR, IT, and other admin work from across the public sector
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On The Public Service Chainsaw Massacre
Andrew Gunn: Your Questions On Public Service Cuts Answered
Michael Swanson: Govt won’t be splashing the cash but it needs a story
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Barbara Edmonds says Treasury ‘just doing its job’ building cuts into forecast (paywalled)
Sandra Grey (Herald): Public service cuts don’t help, they just hurt people (paywalled)
Cecilia Robinson (Herald): The real opportunity behind public sector reform (paywalled)
Rebecca Jayde (Spinoff): The human cost of governing by spreadsheet
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Minister tells Crown companies to ‘get on the bus’ with cost-cutting
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao News): Public sector overhaul sparks fears for remaining Māori and Treaty-focused roles
Corin Dann (RNZ): Tech companies hopeful about Wellington’s future as public sector cuts loom
Brent Edwards (NBR): A Budget aimed at not losing the election (paywalled)
Ellen O’Dwyer and Sammy Carter (RNZ): ‘Heartless’: Fears Wellington will be ‘ghost town’ after public service cuts
RNZ: Public Services Minister Paul Goldsmith says job cuts needed because previous government hired so many people
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Ministry uncovers 267 different regulators, Seymour urges consolidation
Stuff: NZ’s ‘twisted spaghetti’ of regulation exposed in huge mapping project, Seymour says
Herald: Peter Chrisp departs New Zealand Trade and Enterprise for Department of Conservation
Nick James (Post): NZTE head Peter Chrisp appointed to lead Department of Conservation (paywalled)
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Is the Government counting its chickens before they hatch?
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): What you don’t hear about Singapore’s public service

AI AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE
Richard Prebble: AI Could Make Big Government Even Bigger
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Replacing public servants with AI could come with hidden costs, critics warn
Emily Broadmore (Post): The Government wants AI to cut 8700 jobs, but doesn’t know how to use AI (paywalled)
Gamaliel Ramos (Post): If the robots are coming for the public service, why not the cabinet? (paywalled)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUDGET CUTS AND DEFENCE
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Winston Peters denies MFAT bid for more business class flights ever made it to the finance minister
1News: Winston Peters wins again – no cuts for MFAT in new Budget
Jo Moir (RNZ): Winston Peters wins again - no cuts for MFAT in new Budget
Anneke Smith (Post): Foreign Affairs not tightening its belt just yet - Finance Minister (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (Post): Peters slams ‘scrooge-like approach’ to foreign affairs, claims ‘highly active diplomacy’ is making up for budget shortfalls (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): ‘Our voice is not strong’ - Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters on NZ’s place on the global stage
Adam Pearse (Herald): Winston Peters on New Zealand’s response to the ‘Asian century’, declares foreign affairs funding an ‘absolute necessity’
RNZ: Government urged to prioritise retention of trained defence personnel
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): The Government’s billion-dollar frigate question (paywalled)
Eugene Doyle (Scoop): New Zealand And Palantir

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Labour leader Chris Hipkins says New Zealanders don’t ‘really care’ about key detail of party’s NZ Future Fund policy
Caron Copek (Stuff): How much are our MPs paid and who decides how much they get?
Richard Prebble (Herald): Why buying BNZ would be a $24b gamble for taxpayers (paywalled)
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): New Zealand has a better immigration story to tell (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): Officials warn accommodation supplement changes threaten housing security, ability for families to pay for food, clothing
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Labour’s lack of detail show they’ve learned nothing
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: Welfare debate shifts from policy to process
Andrew Dickson: The ACT Party’s Daddy Issues
Crux: OIA documents show Government and NZTA worked with MP Mooney to stage manage new bridge information
David Harvey: The Culture of Complaint – An Institutional Problem
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Deepfake bill passes first reading in Parliament
Cassandra Mudgway (The Conversation): NZ is criminalising sexualised deepfakes – banning apps that make them should be next
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): All the ways politicians want to mess with your KiwiSaver
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Jane Wrightson on superannuation, KiwiSaver, and retiring as retirement commissioner
Sam Smith (Stuff): Parliament’s restaurant Bellamys to close to the public after eight years

GENDER BILL
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Bill seeking to legally define the terms ‘man’ and ‘woman’ passes first reading
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): NZ First’s gender bill to be supported by National, ACT
Harriet Laughton (Post): National and ACT to vote through NZ First’s gender bill (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Will a legal definition of gender change how people talk about breastfeeding? David Seymour hopes so

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PUBLIC SERVICE AND BUDGET 2026
Luke Malpass (Post): Budget 2026: Nicola Willis’ public service overhaul goes well beyond headcount (paywalled)
RNZ: Public sector job cuts: ‘Nobody is above scrutiny’
Jo Moir (RNZ): Christopher Luxon says public service cuts will be on ‘case-by-case basis’
RNZ: Slashing public sector jobs the right move, New Zealand Initiative says
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Nicola Willis cuts jobs, loves AI, hates NZ First
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Let’s make a start on unwinding years of public sector bloat
Luke Malpass (Post): Nicola Willis to plot leaner public service; union says up to 10,000 jobs could go (paywalled)
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): ‘Heartless’: Fears Wellington will be ‘ghost town’ after public service cuts
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): ‘Like closing a timber mill’: Why Wellington’s economy needs to rely less on public sector
RNZ: More public service job cuts may be coming - how many have gone already?
Jo Moir (RNZ): Nearly 9000 public sector jobs to go, government agencies to merge, Nicola Willis announces
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): The Government wants to replace thousands of public servants with AI – here’s what ministers think the robots do
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): These are the Government departments on the chopping block
Anneke Smith (Post): Peters laughs off questions about job cuts for diplomats amid cull of public service jobs (paywalled)
Ani O’Brien: The Public Service isn’t a six-figure welfare scheme
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Government to trim 8,700 public servants
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Willis targets agency mergers, 8,700 fewer public service jobs (paywalled)
Hannah Filmer (Herald): Public Service Association calls Government plan to cut more public sector roles ‘reckless’
Luke Malpass (Post): 267 regulators and counting: New map to show sprawl of NZ’s regulatory state (paywalled)
Rachel Pannett (BusinessDesk): Seymour’s red tape ministry now four times bigger than agency it replaced (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Public service Budget blues, rethinking the OIA and more (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Public servant ‘terrified’ job on the line again after government announces more cuts
Richard Harman: Doubts about public sector job cuts (paywalled)
Angus James: You Can’t Modernise a Public Service You’ve Just Hollowed Out
Duane Leo (Post): The price New Zealanders will pay for the decimation of the public service (paywalled)
Michael Swanson (Newsroom): Govt won’t be splashing the cash but it needs a story
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): The public service cuts didn’t come out of nowhere
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Senior public servant misses out on top job after anonymous tipster reveals prior cocaine use
Nick James (Post): Labour says women paid for last Budget, public servants will pay for this one (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): Election-year clash over job cuts: Union calls losses ‘cruel and deep’
Simon Shepherd (NBR): Govt to cut 8700 public service jobs (paywalled)
Nick James (Post): ‘Bad news on top of bad news’: Public service job cut plan hits home in capital (paywalled)
Steven Cowan: Austerity is a choice
Nick Mills (Newstalk ZB): Even if it hurts Wellington - public service cuts have to be done
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Wellington prepares for another public sector shock

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour admits it will not release ‘cornerstone’ policy costing and job modelling until after the election, citing Treaty of Waitangi concerns
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Labour holds off on Future Fund details until after election
Herald: Editorial – Money’s tight, keep the election promises focused on it (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Climate law changes have ‘clearly struck a nerve’ - experts
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): David Seymour booted from the House after clash with Speaker
Harriet Laughton (Post): Fate of social media ban in Labour’s hands, ACT hints (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Opportunity should consider starting a bit smaller (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Distasteful, unnecessary, offensive: RNZ board member on David Seymour attacks
Myra Williamson (The Conversation): Compulsory voting has boosted turnout in Australia – is it time NZ tried it?
Zane Small (Stuff): The looming ‘deal’ behind depiction of Luxon riding missile with Trump
Phil Smith (RNZ): Parliament’s week: Longer than usual, as usual
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao News): The Prime Minister rejects scathing Waitangi Tribunal Report, presses on with Treaty reforms
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Parmjeet Parmar on Cliff Richard and the joy of McDonald’s coffee
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Here’s what the 2026 Election is about
Amokura Panoho: The Architecture of Discrediting
Yvonne Van Dongen: This is your year – For those tired of the Uniparty

NZ FIRST BNZ BUYBACK
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): I tried to buy the BNZ. It wasn’t as easy as Winston Peters made it sound
Tom Rose (Herald): Winston Peters doubles down on NZ First’s BNZ buyback proposal as coalition parties rule it out
Rod Bolivar (NZ Adviser): BNZ buyback proposal revives debate over New Zealand banking competition
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Winston Peters signals new way to bridge BNZ buyback $5b gap (paywalled)
Andy Higgs (BusinessDesk): Why buying back BNZ misses where real financial power lies (paywalled)
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): ‘Preposterous. Crazy. Off the planet loopy’: Peters’ BNZ plan meets its critics

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PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Finance minister hints at government department amalgamation plans
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Thousands of public servants to lose jobs potentially saving government over a billion dollars
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Nicola Willis to announce major public service reforms, further cuts to roles
Luke Malpass (Post): Willis to plot leaner public service in pre-Budget speech (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): ‘End of an era’ as vote to disestablish Ministry for the Environment nears, but is NZ making a novel mistake? (paywalled)
Claire Robinson: New Zealand’s public governance problem

EDUCATION
Chris Trotter (Interest): To identify educational winners requires creating educational losers. Can we afford them?
Bali Haque (AEC NZ): Back to the future with our national qualification: a disaster in the making
David Cooke (AEC NZ): School for Trades
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Mike’s Minute: Do the unions have anything positive to say about education?
Dave Armstrong (Post): One thing school certificate taught me: Exams don’t work for everyone (paywalled)
Amy Ridout (Post): The NCEA is going on the scrapheap. What’s replacing it, and what will it mean for learners? (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): New English, maths primary curriculums had little effect on achievement, first results show
John Gerritsen (RNZ): After a full year of schooling, less than half of 5 year olds pass new phonics test
RNZ: Teachers raise concerns as NCEA replacement confirmed
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon, Education Minister Erica Stanford announce $131m for maths and literacy in primary, intermediate schools
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Erica Stanford announces $131m Budget spend on reading, writing and maths initiatives
Nick James and Henry Cooke (Post): Government sets aside $131m for literacy and numeracy programme (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): ‘Our best resource’: Teachers a better investment than workbooks, school leaders say
RNZ: Primary Principals’ Association backs government funding announcement

NZ FIRST AND BNZ BUYBACK
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Would buying BNZ actually help New Zealanders?
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): NZ First’s BNZ buy-up plan dubbed an unrealistic headline-grabber; big bucks needed to get Aussie parent to sell (paywalled)
Herald: Prime Minister, David Seymour laugh off NZ First policy to nationalise BNZ
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Luxon shuts down Winston Peters’ ‘Labour-style’ BNZ buyback proposal
Anna Whyte (Interest): Inside the Capital: Buying back the bank, babies, budgets and what you need to know
Caron Copek (Stuff): ‘He’s dreaming’ ... ‘Not serious’ ... ‘Extremely reckless’: This is some of the reaction to Winston Peters’ BNZ buyback idea
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): What problems will buying back BNZ solve?
ODT: Editorial: Back to the future with NZ First (paywalled)
RNZ: Bank nationalisation threat a ‘bad signal’ for investors - analyst
Greg Presland (Standard): Should we renationalise the BNZ?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Is this the proof Winston is planning to go with Labour
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Buying back BNZ a ‘complex, clickbait’ idea, experts say (paywalled)

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Big spenders reveal why they give tens of thousands to political parties
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Poll shows NZ First voters want to keep National in government
Sam Smith and Rebecca Wright (Stuff): Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke’s supporters explored her joining Labour, Willie Jackson says
Graham Adams: Hipkins drags out Phoney War with Coalition
Richard Prebble: At last, a serious speech from the Prime Minister
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): From super to baby KiwiSaver: How NZ First is courting every age group
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): NZ First’s West Coast contender wants banks to pay for climate resilience
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Candidates jostle for position as electoral strategies take shape
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): A clean up of cabinet is overdue
Andrew Dickson: The Opportunity Party Isn’t Incoherent – the Left-Right Frame Is

LAW AND ORDER, JUSTICE
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Move-on orders law breach Bill of Rights in part – Chris Bishop (paywalled)
AJ Hendry: Move-On orders: Cruel & Dangerous
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Huge relief or ‘pretending there’s a problem’? National’s sexual offenders sentencing policy
Anna Leask (Herald): Cops told Christchurch Nazi ‘fanatic’ and mosque attack supporter was ‘planning a mass casualty’ - Coroner probing police response
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Third Corrections deputy chief executive under scrutiny
Stuff: Royal Commission into abuse in care exceeded remit in criticism of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Angus James: The Broken Footpath: How an unpopular Government can turn fears into votes
Michael Andrew (Law News): Junior lawyers struggling as entry-level jobs dry up

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NZ FIRST
RNZ: NZ First plan to buy BNZ back ‘headline-grabbing’ rather than serious policy - economist
Paul McBeth: You can bank on Winston Peters to shake things up
Julia Gabel (Herald): NZ First will campaign on buying back the BNZ bank and making KiwiSaver enrolment compulsory at birth
Julia Gabel (Herald): NZ First leader Winston Peters takes aim at National, Act over immigration
RNZ: Winston Peters unveils KiwiSaver-from-birth NZ First policy, bank takeover plan
Nick James (Post): Winston Peters announces NZ First policy to buy back BNZ (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Winston Peters targets banks, coalition allies and media at Auckland rally (paywalled)
Peter Allan Williams: A BoNkerZ idea

ELECTION 2026
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Importing the immigration wars for election year
Amanda Gillies (Newsroom): The fight for the Māori vote
Dan Brunskill (Spinoff): Why National should try to lose some electorates this election
Karina Cooper (Northern Advocate): National Whangārei candidate Lloyd Budd outlines top priorities
1News: Hipkins on why Labour hasn’t made more major policy announcements
1News: ‘Both very happy’: ACT’s Brooke van Velden announces pregnancy
Phil Smith (RNZ): Judith Collins: The farewell as rebranding job interview

BUDGET 2026
Verity Johnson (Stuff): NZ does not have a maxed out credit card
Anneke Smith (Post): The who’s who of Budget 2026: The key decision makers behind the big day (paywalled)
Nick James (Post): Parliament sits as politicians gear up for the Budget (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Major investment coming for primary schools as new maths results show ‘encouraging’ signs

ECONOMY, BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
Rob Stock (Post): 10 takeaways on the state of competition in NZ (paywalled)
Keith Woodford (Interest): What is New Zealand’s ideal population?
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Inflation data may let the RBNZ off the hook in May, but rate hikes loom (paywalled)
Ralph Norris (Herald): Air New Zealand can’t be judged like any other airline (paywalled)
Angus McCullough (Post): Building the capacity to adapt and respond to an ever-disrupted world (paywalled)

POLICE, JUSTICE AND CRIME
Amy Ridout (Sunday Star Times): ‘He died holding my boots’: police tell tales of blood and trauma in push for better pay (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Sunday Star Times): New Zealand’s growth problem wears a blue uniform (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): National’s sexual offenders sentencing policy: ‘It’s pretending that there’s a problem’
1News: National pledges to scrap ‘good character’ sentencing discounts for sex offenders
Michael Morrah (Herald): Jevon McSkimming scandal: Former Firearms Safety Authority boss Angela Brazier says exit from police ‘worst experience’ of her life (paywalled)
Deborah Chambers (Herald): Sticking their oar in: When anyone can drag a lawyer before a standards committee (paywalled)
RNZ: Author on NZ’s soaring prison population: ‘These guys aren’t falling through cracks, it’s absolute chasms’

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PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Christopher Luxon delivered one of his best speeches yet - but contradictions remain (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): If The Opportunity Party wants to be elected, it needs to be honest about what it is (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Immigration politics: Why National and Act’s populist turn misreads data (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Brooke’s baby: Act deputy leader Brooke van Velden announces pregnancy (paywalled)
Damien Grant (Stuff): The Estonia trip, the ‘Mean Girls’ parody and the fall of an FMA chair
Louis Collins (RNZ): The constitutional shift you may have missed this week
Steven Cowan: Vote Labour for a Labour-National alliance

EDUCATION
RNZ: Government confirms NCEA replacement details
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): NCEA replacement ‘not going to suit our young people’ says teachers’ union
Ben Leahy (Herald): New NZCE qualification unveiled for Years 12-13 to include compulsory exams in every subject
1News: Government reveals structure for post-NCEA school qualifications
The Post: NCEA replacement: Senior high schoolers will need an A+ to C in at least three subjects to obtain qualification (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Education Minister Erica Stanford promises update on social media ban in June
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Fees Free was a mistake - let’s not repeat it
Hanna McCallum (Newsroom): What about the 7 in 10 students who don’t go to uni?
Luka Forman (RNZ): Global student network more vulnerable after successful system hack - experts

CLIMATE, WEATHER, INSURANCE
Kevin Norquay and Joanne Naish (Sunday Star Times): Can’t sell, can’t insure, can’t leave: That’s property purgatory (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Sunday Star Times): Location, location, liquidation: How insurers set your premiums (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Treading Water: Wild weather the new ‘meth crisis’ for home buyers (paywalled)
Nick James (Post): Treading Water: Flood maps, managed retreat and cost-sharing for storm-damaged homes (paywalled)

SUPERANNUATION AND RETIREMENT
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Sunday Star Times): Who might be the winners and losers from changing the way we pay for old age (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Luxon plants a stake on super — Peters pulls it up again (paywalled)
Vanessa Pratley (Consumer): It’s time to fix the retirement village problem that hasn’t gone away

HEALTH
Ben Tomsett (Herald): Missed Southland stomach cancer prompts call for Awanui Labs inquiry
Rafaella Melo (Herald): Hawke’s Bay nutritionist Gina Urlich pushes for New Zealand food reform after cancer battle (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): Health and Disability Commissioner apologises, reopens complaint after woman’s case receives public attention
Taiha Molyneux (RNZ): Māori-led meth recovery model in Gisborne drawing global attention
1News: Hospices turning away dying patients as funding shortfall bites
Ben Tomsett (Herald): Professor Michael Ardagh reflects on a career shaped by crises, reform and Christchurch’s darkest days (paywalled)
Ian Powell: Hidden waiting list exposed; unmet health need unreported
RNZ: Nurses union votes to accept Te Whatu Ora offer after nearly two years of bargaining

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Council staff delusion at heart of capital’s problems
Wayne Brown (Sunday Star Times): Aucklanders were warned. So why the outrage now? (paywalled)
Mathew Nash (Herald): Rotorua spent $8.5m on storm-damaged roading over the past four years
Mary Afemata (RNZ): Auckland Council backs free arts event as debate grows over spending priorities
Matthew Rosenberg (RNZ): Council spends $12,000 sending mayor to Scandinavia
Sammy Carter (RNZ): Wellington council removes artists’ bus stop murals

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GOVERNMENT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Christopher Luxon parties as Budget nears (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Budget 2026: A speech from the prime minister National thought it elected (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Post): Christopher Luxon asks, why risk it? Chris Hipkins asks, why trust it? (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): A Budget beyond the fuel crisis starts to take shape (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): NZTA probe reveals $5m in disputed costs and invoice concerns on roading project (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Minister trying to halt National MP’s social media ban bill - but it’s not her call
Henry Cooke (Post): How David Seymour’s Regulatory Standards Act will change what public servants write and what public sees (paywalled)
NBR: Government issues advice to its agencies over good regulation (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): ‘Where the bloody hell are you - come over’, Nicola Willis tells Aussies angry about CGT (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Haere rā to Crusher, hello to old scandals
Brent Edwards (NBR): Budget restraint, the immigration debate, climate change (paywalled)
Rachael Judge (BusinessDesk): Are information requests getting out of control? (paywalled)
André Chumko (Post): Twenty more jobs to go at Te Papa as restructuring continues (paywalled)
Kate Rickard (Herald): ‘Unaffordable’ network: DoC faces 2300 closures and $37m annual shortfall
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Briefing says defence chief executives doing more to educate public
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZDF still drafting AI directive months after rolling out tech

DEMOCRACY AND ELECTIONS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Regulator has confirmed the NZ economy is rigged
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): Democracy for sale
Max Rashbrooke (Post): A shift in voting power and how to give young voters hope (paywalled)
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Hone Harawira set to pursue return to Parliament
Ricardo Simich (Herald): Whangārei National candidate Lloyd Budd has the backing of Sir John Key and Paula Bennett (paywalled)
Josie Pagani (Post): What’s the big idea? Getting to the point in Māori politics (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. opinion polls
Kiah Radcliffe (Post): How AI ‘slop’ is threatening the integrity of the upcoming general election (paywalled)
IDEA: A trip that got decision-makers thinking about deeper democracy (paywalled)
Peter Williams: STV time is up
Nigel Haworth (The Standard): Reformism or bust?: Making the best of a bleak future
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Chris Hipkins is deluded
Ellen Curnow (Newsroom): The West Coast pub where politics is messy, argumentative and stubbornly alive

TREATY OF WAITANGI
Julia Gabel (Herald): Ngāi Tahu preparing to renegotiate parts of Treaty settlement amid major conservation law reforms
Adam Pearse (Herald): Govt agrees to change or scrap Treaty of Waitangi references in 19 laws
Stuff: Government confirms changes to Treaty clauses as Waitangi Tribunal finds ‘reckless’ breach
Hanna McCallum (Newsroom): Waitangi Tribunal urges halt on Treaty clause changes
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao News): ‘Major breach’: Tribunal says education Treaty overhaul ‘may be worse’ than Treaty Principles Bill
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira and Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Government targets 19 pieces of legislation for Waitangi Treaty amendments
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira and Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Waitangi Tribunal calls for immediate halt to changes to education legislation affecting Treaty

MĀORI POLITICS
Whatitiri Te Wake (Te Ao News): “Shocking display of arrogance by Minister Shane Jones” — Ngāti Ruanui lodge complaint with Speaker
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Ngāti Ruanui demands apology for ‘shameful’ Shane Jones comments
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): ‘Kei hea te tika?’: Hūhana Lyndon accuses Waitangi Tribunal of silencing wāhine Māori

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PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Christopher Luxon drops slogans for hard truths on security, debt and immigration (paywalled)
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Hipkins dangles possibility of post-election outreach to National, Auckland
Adam Pearse (Herald): New poll keeps National in the 20s, Winston Peters closing in on Christopher Luxon in preferred PM
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Labour’s Chris Hipkins claims Aucklanders mostly moved on from Covid-19 lockdowns, ministers say he’s in ‘denial’
NBR: Labour’s plan to lift Auckland’s performance (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): All or nothing: Michael Wood pins comeback on winning Mount Roskill (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Bill banning under-16s from social media put on hold, Erica Stanford confirms
Natalia Albert: Can Qiulae Wong become the new Queenmaker?
Michael Swanson: Do the ‘major parties’ actually have long-term plans?
Nick James (Post): New poll shows National still under 30% support, with Labour leading the pack (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Why Christopher Luxon has a new spring in his step; the curious case of Chris Hipkins and the office toaster (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): One MP, One Pint: Tom Rutherford on the coward punch that changed his life
Lochlan Lineham (Herald): Judith Collins calls 2020 ‘talofa’ comment backlash hysteria from ‘wet wipes’
Alicia McKay: Why citizens’ assemblies won’t fix political distrust
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Wellington’s endless spending on pen-pushers and reviews
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Reality vs ideology re: asset sales
Liam Hehir: All the lines are fighting each other (paywalled)

BUDGET 2026
Rob Campbell (Post): The hollowness and the cruelty of the savings illusion (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Business groups back fiscal discipline as Budget 2026 takes shape (paywalled)
Herald: Editorial – Govt needs to do more to get young people into work (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Our place in the world (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton and Nikki Macdonald (Post): Budget 2026: $15.5m palliative care fund for children (paywalled)
Susan St John: We are not broke: it is time to talk about the bogeyman of government’s debt

ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Damien Venuto (Stuff): Fewer than half of Kiwis under 45 usually feel life is worthwhile
Rob Stock (Post): ‘Reduce the profitability of banks’: OECD NZ desk head has blunt message on economy (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Bank lobbyist Roger Beaumont to be nominated for Australian of the Year by banking reform activist (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): ComCom says less competition can be necessary in a crisis (paywalled)
Aimee Shaw (Post): Price rises yet to flow through to the consumer, retailers say (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Govt wants Super Fund to widen its NZ investment (paywalled)
Rebecca Stevenson (BusinessDesk): Xero to learn from past, CEO says, as Drury review unfolds (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): Icehouse Ventures’ $150m Growth Fund III hits first close as KiwiSaver provider Generate invests (paywalled)

CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAW CHANGE
Bjørn-Oliver Magsig and Graeme Austin (The Conversation): Changing climate law to prevent civil cases removes a key protection for NZ citizens
Ihsan Badshah, Prasad Hegde and Sara Ali (The Conversation): Climate risk is changing where investors put their money – even as NZ relaxes disclosure rules
Roger Partridge (Herald): Parliament right to correct Supreme Court on climate change case
Ashley Parker (BusinessDesk): Govt climate tort move draws rule-of-law criticism (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Why this AI data centre might be New Zealand’s most important climate project

IMMIGRATION
Sam Crawley: Immigration has rarely driven NZ elections. Could 2026 buck the trend?
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): ‘We’re not having enough babies’: Immigration minister triggers raucous response during question time
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): PM tests waters of immigration debate after coalition partners dive in headfirst
Liam Dann (Herald): Net migration: Small rise as Kiwi departures drop in March, arrivals steady (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Foreign masters degree enrolments soar as August rule change looms

MINING
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Digging for influence
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Americans in town to hear first critical minerals pitches
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Land approval given (paywalled)

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BUDGET 2026
Jo Moir (RNZ): Finance Minister puts money where her mouth is by reducing Budget’s operating allowance
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): No room for sugar hits in the Budget - Government cuts its spending allowance
Henry Cooke (Post): Nicola Willis says ‘job-rich’ projects will feature in $2.2b boost to capital allowance (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): PM Christopher Luxon says he will pick ‘social stability’ over high migration (paywalled)
Simon Shepherd (NBR): Govt cuts $300m from Budget operating allowance (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Willis blames fuel crisis for reduced Budget savings, Seymour takes credit for lower operational spending
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Saavy or splurge? Ministers coy about where $2.2b extra Budget capital to be spent (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Prime Minister Luxon doubles down on 2029 surplus goal (paywalled)
RNZ: Christopher Luxon signals immigration policy, more capital spending in Budget 2026

IMMIGRATION
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): PM tests waters of immigration debate after coalition partners dive headfirst
Richard Prebble (Herald): Act’s proposed immigration crackdown misses root cause of NZ work and welfare woes (paywalled)
Ganesh Nana: Immigrants, foreigners, racism, and economics
RNZ: PM promising solution to immigration problem that doesn’t exist, demographer says
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Winston Peters takes crack at Christopher Luxon over immigration comments
Justin Hu (1News): National eyes KiwiSaver changes as Luxon hardens on immigration
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Immigration NZ could ‘demand identification papers from everyone’ says civil liberties group
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Claims immigration changes will see US-style crackdown ‘completely wrong’ - Erica Stanford
Harriet Laughton (Post): Lawyer argues removing appeal rights in deportation cases fails migrants (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (Post): NZer held by ICE would have to be facing death penalty for ministerial intervention - Winston Peters (paywalled)
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Everlee Wihongi case: Government officials confirm contact with US immigration over Kiwi’s detention
Richard Shaw (The Conversation): Kiwi or not to be: can a citizenship test really measure what it means to be a New Zealander?

MĀORI POLITICS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Māori political class is failing its people
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Oriini Kaipara dodges questions about her future with Te Pāti Māori
Justin Hu (1News): Hone Harawira awaits wife’s approval to stand for Te Pāti Māori
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Has the Māori Party been a success?

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Derek Cheng (Herald): Revealed: How the Government pivoted its alcohol policies from reducing violent crime to boosting the economy (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Shane Jones entertains critical minerals heavyweights at Parliament, ponders minimum prices (paywalled)
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Luxon shines his little light through global storms and political gloom
Richard Harman: PM’s significant speech (paywalled)
Rachel Maher (Herald): Police spend $100k to block Brian Tamaki Auckland Harbour Bridge protest march
Stuff: Shane Jones given the haere rā from question time
Anneke Smith (Post): National MP Tim Costley questions why FENZ hired consultants to respond to his inquiry (paywalled)
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): The Opportunity Party is having a moment

CONSERVATION REFORMS
Louis Collins (RNZ): ‘Practical change’ or ‘paradigm shift’? MPs debate conservation reform
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Opposition warns reforms open up conservation estate to sale as government pushes on
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): Ngāi Tahu warns conservation reforms undermine Treaty settlements, Minister defends it
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt takes one step forward, three steps back on environment policies
No Right Turn: The regime is out of time

CLIMATE
Martha Jeffries (Spinoff): Is the climate law change this government’s jump the shark moment?
Shay Schlaepfer (Post): The Government’s erosion of environmental justice is undermining our democracy (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Greens/Labour Government could use ‘urgency’ to repeal climate bill (paywalled)

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CLIMATE LAW CHANGE
Kate Newton (RNZ): Government changes climate law to prevent lawsuits
Science Media Centre: Govt changes law to halt climate lawsuits – Expert Reaction
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Torts and tautology: Govt to change law to override the courts … again
RNZ: Climate legislation changes an attack on the rule of law - Environmental Defence Society
Brent Edwards (NBR): Greens condemn climate law change while Act claims victory (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Government moves to restrict climate change lawsuits before landmark trial
Mandy Te (Interest): Justice Minister says Parliament, not the courts, is the place to resolve claims of climate change harm
No Right Turn: Climate Change: Putting polluters above the law
Greg Presland (Standard): Constitutional outrage
Matthew Tukaki (Waatea News): Climate Laws ‘Being Rewritten To Protect Polluters’ – Mike Smith
Matthew Tukaki (Waatea News): Govt Accused Of Protecting Big Polluters From Climate Accountability
Ellen Rykers (Spinoff): New Zealand’s latest climate change risk assessment, explained
Brent Edwards (NBR): Climate law change will limit individual rights, academic warns (paywalled)

TE PĀTI MĀORI AND MĀORI POLITICS
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): Māori politics just got even more interesting
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour senses chances as Kapa-Kingi’s new party deepens Māori seats turmoil (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): New Te Tai Tokerau Party may not be able to contest election under that name, Bishop says
Te Ao Māori News: Te Tai Tokerau race heats up as Hone Harawira emerges as a potential Te Pāti Māori candidate
Maxine Jacobs (Post): Te Tai Tonga MP Tākuta Ferris to announce pathway back to Parliament as election looms (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): Kapa-Kingi talks plan for new party after Te Pāti Māori split
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Two statements from Oriini Kaipara give conflicting accounts about whether she’ll stay with Te Pāti Māori
Anneke Smith (Post): Labour’s Māori campaign chair slams Te Pāti Māori over candidate confusion: ‘We don’t need those sort of games’ (paywalled)
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): The further unravelling of Te Pāti Māori
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Oriini Kaipara confirms loyalty to Te Pāti Māori after conflicting reports
RNZ: Mariameno Kapa-Kingi putting aside Te Pāti Māori split to focus on new Te Tai Tokerau Party
Stuff: Māori Queen continues family tradition meeting Prince William at Windsor Castle
1News: ‘Delicate situation’: Plans for Ihumātao unresolved five years on

OPPORTUNITY PARTY
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Opportunity Party’s anti-Winston wager
Hanna McCallum (Newsroom): Major left-wing donor tops up Opportunity Party donation to $100k
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): The Opportunity Party is having a moment

POLLS
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): New poll: Coalition partners tumble, but could still form government
Glenn McConnell and Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Latest poll shows neither side of Parliament has strong support
Roy Morgan: Support for National-led Government and Labour-led Opposition remains tied in April
Herald: New Poll of Polls predictions revealed – how have new results affected election chances?
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Coalition hanging on despite Luxon favourability reaching new low (paywalled)
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): National crashes to 25.5% in Roy Morgan poll; just 16% among voters under 50 (paywalled)

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Matt Nippert (Herald): Inside John Tamihere’s six-figure Waipareira Trust bonus and his long war with Charities Services (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): A Property developers’ government?
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Trevor Mallard on where Labour went wrong
David Burton (Post): The workplace standard politicians refuse to meet (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Is Chlöe Swarbrick a bit useless?
Simon Wilson (Listener): PM’s unpopularity makes headlines, but there’s a deeper battle between Bishop and Brown (paywalled)
Richard Harman: Can Willis keep the smile on the PM’s face? (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): All the kōrero about the English Language Bill
Luke Malpass (Post): Christopher Luxon to cast economic discipline as national security issue (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Don’t confuse party politics with running a government, PM says (paywalled)
Simon O’Connor: Where has the far-left gone?
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Media attacks: Seymour ‘explained his comments well’, says PM
Sam Smith (Stuff): Putting a spanner in the works: Six times breakaway parties emerged in NZ politics
Mike Grimshaw: It’s the (social adhesion) economy, Stupid!

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TE PĀTI MĀORI SPLIT
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori splits as MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi announces new Te Tai Tokerau Party
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): Mariameno Kapa-Kingi leaves Te Pāti Māori, announces new political party
Anneke Smith (Post): Mariameno Kapa-Kingi launches her own party (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): Kapa-Kingi splits from Te Pāti Māori, launches new party
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Another Te Pāti Māori MP confirms she’s considering leaving the party
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Oriini Kaipara confirms loyalty to Te Pāti Māori after comms advisor issues incorrect statement
Dale Husband (Waatea News): Te Pāti Māori Pushes Ahead With Candidate Selections Amid Cost of Living Battle

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Chris Trotter (Interest): You can’t take the politics out of politics
Andrew Geddis (Spinoff): The ‘grand coalition’ idea is gaining traction. Here’s why it wouldn’t work
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): ‘That would be insanity’: Luxon rules out forming grand coalition with Labour
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): How Winston Peters could be recrowned kingmaker this election – The Front Page
Herald: Editorial – Main parties face a tricky dynamic holding their top spot amid fragmentation (paywalled)
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Is the National-led coalition Government the laziest we’ve ever seen?
Ani O’Brien: The importance of a unifying story
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Vale Judith
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Poll of Polls no comfort for National
Henry Cooke (Post): ‘This will not change’: Winston Peters confirms no Government NZ First is part of will touch superannuation (paywalled)
Herald: Prime Minister Chris Luxon pans NZ First, Labour for ‘dishonest’ stance on raising age for NZ Super
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The superannuation debate has become boring
Karl du Fresne: Mallard in Fantasyland?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): No no no
Dale Husband (Waatea News): Fast-Track Fears: Coalition Accused of Undermining NZ’s Clean Green Reputation
Roger Partridge (LawNews): From legal realism to legal radicalism: breaking faith with the constitutional order
Michael Swanson: Populism vs Pragmatism: Navigating Policy in New Zealand’s 2026 Election
Monique Steele (RNZ): Political parties negotiate controversial Gene Technology Bill, as progress stalls

MEDIA
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Coalition parties ramp up criticism of media
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Opposition MPs say former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman ‘hounded’ into resigning
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Maiki Sherman’s resignation sparks questions over Māori representation at TVNZ
Shayne Currie (Herald): Ex-TVNZ Sunday host Miriama Kamo questions broadcaster’s support of former political editor Maiki Sherman (paywalled)
Catrin Owen (Stuff): ‘Outrageous’: Hipkins calls out David Seymour’s comments about RNZ and Maiki Sherman
David Harvey: The Demise of the Broadcasting Standards Authority?
Nick Agar (Post): Big Tech isn’t slowing down: The time to act on social media harm is now (paywalled)
Yvonne Van Dongen: Human Remains

FEES-FREE SCHEME SCRAPPED
Henry Cooke (Post): Farewell fees-free: Labour won’t commit to reinstating policy yet (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): Fees-free is being scrapped: Here’s why the last Govt’s tertiary programme failed (paywalled)
RNZ: ‘It will be very disruptive’: Grant Robertson on scrapping of fees-free policy
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): Students question university affordability after government scraps fees-free scheme
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): The troubled life and death of the fees-free tertiary scheme
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): I’d like to take some credit for the end of fees-free
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): PM Christopher Luxon ‘very relaxed’ about Winston Peters’ fees-free Budget ‘leak’
Ruby Shaw (ODT): Students face ‘uncertain’ future (paywalled)
ODT Editorial (ODT): If not fees free, then what? (paywalled)

FUEL CRISIS
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government announces who gets prioritised in event of major fuel crisis (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Retailers, truckers back government’s simplified fuel rationing, Labour unconvinced
RNZ: Significant fuel rationing only to be considered in severe crisis
Nick James (Post): Government would use ‘transaction limits’ at petrol pumps at level 4 of fuel plan (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): US Energy Secretary welcomed Government’s commitment to fossil fuels, document reveals (paywalled)
RNZ: Fuel stocks for diesel, jet fuel down, petrol stocks show slight increase
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Government sticks with LNG despite Iran war price surge (paywalled)

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PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Has the Opportunity party gone from Zombie to Lazarus?
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The brutal political attack Winston Peters is unlikely to forgive (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan & Chris Knox (Herald): Poll of Polls predicts who will win election and suggests margin of victory is growing (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): Parliament back for three-week Budget block (paywalled)
1News: Why Green candidate Tania Waikato believes she can beat Rawiri Waititi
Northern Advocate: Election 2026: What Northland voters need to know about new rules
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Learning on the (ministerial) job

PUBLIC SECTOR
Andrea Vance (Post): Transport Minister blindsided as SFO investigates Auckland motorway alliance (paywalled)
Penny Smith (RNZ): Committee recommends disestablishing Environment Ministry despite public opposition
Azaria Howell (Newstalk ZB): Mega-ministry MBIE told allowing more staff to work from home would not ease fuel supply, costs
Cécile Meier and Murray Jones (BusinessDesk): Public sector job cuts boost EAP spend by 41% (paywalled)
Paul McBeth: Craig Stobo and the silence of the lambs
Ian Dunn: Neutrality glitch and the hollowing of the citadel – FMA resignation of Craig Stobo

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
David Williams (Newsroom): How Akaroa’s wastewater battle was won
Peter Williams: A new look for local government
Lobby for Good and Erika Harvey: Local government reform: who wins, who loses, and who needs to be paying attention
Nick Leggett (Post): Local government reform could show us how to work smarter, not harder (paywalled)
Tom Hunt and Julie Jacobson (Post): Wellington council staff object to mayor’s ‘under control’ spending line (paywalled)
Russell Lund, Andrew Simms and Lee Vandervis (ODT): A unitary ‘Coastal Otago’ should replace city, Waitaki (paywalled)
Mike Thorpe (Herald): Rolleston growth: From ‘town of the future’ to city size (paywalled)
RNZ: Auditor-general decides not to prosecute Nelson councillor over financial interests
Stuff: Nelson councillor avoids prosecution over business conflict, mayor blasts ‘outdated’ law
Ruby Shaw and Grant Miller (ODT): Councils square off over port (paywalled)

JUSTICE AND POLICE
Harriet Laughton (Post): New powers for police to take photos of public widely criticised (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Letter reveals ex-Police Commissioner’s concerns over investigation into McSkimming
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Illegal tobacco crackdown group could make difference, criminology professor says
David Harvey (Herald): Sentencing Act 2002: Why ‘least restrictive’ law frustrates victims (paywalled)
Catherine Hutton (Herald): Wellington lawyer Stephen Franks wins review over puberty blockers letter

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PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Anneke Smith (Sunday Star Times): Labour’s road to redemption in the Māori seats: Can it win back the voters who so decisively ditched it? (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Can Labour put an end to Te Pāti Māori – and does it want to?
The Standard: Does the centre left need Te Pāti Māori to win the election?
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Tips for TOP: I’ll say goodbye even though I’m blue-green
Damien Grant (Stuff): The grand solution Wayne Brown believes has New Zealand’s best interests at heart
Duncan Garner (Listener): The questions I want Chris Hipkins to answer (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Interest): A week of politicians pumping out policy: Retirement age, overstayer units and container return schemes, plus fuel security
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Hey Mr Luxon, it’s Auckland calling (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of … David Seymour
Penny Smith (RNZ): Little engagement with security efforts despite threats against MPs rising – Parliamentary Service
Roger Partridge: The Roots of the Left-Right Divide: Whose Suffering? And Who Knows Enough to Act?
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Christopher Luxon looks to Singapore model to fix New Zealand economy (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): The PM’s Singapore deal and local government reform (paywalled)

MEDIA
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Maiki Sherman and the media that ate itself
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): The easiest way to kill a media sideshow? Front up (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Sunday Star Times): The BSA belonged to a different media age (paywalled)
Russell Baillie (Listener): It’s business time for Mei Heron: The former European correspondent on her new Breakfast gig (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Should we tax big tech for our news?
Rachel Maher (Herald): Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara says Maiki Sherman treatment ‘deeply upsetting’

ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Invest NZ golden visa events under fire for favouring managed funds (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Sunday Star Times): National’s excuses for lone stance on banking bill lack currency (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Sunday Star Times): For four in 10, the ‘New Zealand Dream’ is out of reach (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Tougher than the 90s? Why work reality for young people is much worse than it looks (paywalled)
Sam Stubbs (Sunday Star Times): Let’s stop the sordid political polka – and list Kiwibank on the NZX to give it muscle (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): Blast off: Rocket Lab shares jump 34%, adding $28 billion to its market value

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): The price of water reform is coming due (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): You can cut all the town bins you like, it won’t reduce your rates (paywalled)
1News: Smaller councils fear forced mergers under Govt reform push
Sue Teodoro (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘No final decisions were made’: Wellington’s mayors discuss bombshell announcement
Bronson Perich (Local Democracy Reporting): Taupō councillors see future without their council
Craig Ashworth (Local Democracy Reporting): Local government reforms: Iwi favour two councils for Taranaki
Local Democracy Reporting: Rotorua Lakes Council no longer opposing parolee rehab site but Environment Court remains doubtful

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MAIKI SHERMAN RESIGNATION AND MEDIA
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): After Maiki Sherman’s resignation, TVNZ has a succession challenge (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): ‘Untenable’: Maiki Sherman quits as TVNZ political editor (paywalled)
Natasha Gordon (Herald): TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman parts ways with broadcaster following scrutiny
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): The media is under scrutiny and we’ve had it coming
Catrin Owen (Stuff): TVNZ’s political editor Maiki Sherman resigns
RNZ: TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman resigns
1News: ‘Untenable’ position: TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman resigns
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Maiki Sherman leaves TVNZ
Shayne Currie (Herald): RNZ board shake-up – David Seymour expects changes, outgoing chair hits back; Maiki Sherman steps down as TVNZ political editor; ANZ announces new ad agency (paywalled)
Mohan Dutta: The Substack and the Slur: How a Manufactured Crisis Toppled a Wahine Māori Political Editor
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): All the times Jack Tame has shamed out politicians for not going on Q+A, ranked
Richard Prebble: Broadcasters should be careful what they wish for
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): Freedom for whom?

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Following the money in 2026
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori in crisis, MPs could walk out ahead of election
Rawiri Taonui: Te Pāti Māori | Delay Reinstating Kapa Kingi linked to new Political Party
Julia Gabel (Herald): Court issues rare recall of Mariameno Kapa-Kingi judgment after request from Speaker Gerry Brownlee
Luke Malpass (Post): Bare coffers, big stakes: The Budget battle ahead (paywalled)
Bryce Wilkinson (Herald): Budget 2026 challenge grows as oil shock and weak polling hit fiscal plan (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): National remembers it is in Government and can do things (paywalled)
Diane McCarthy (Local Democracy Reporting): Labour selects Whakatāne councillor as Waiariki candidate
Michael Cugley and Te Aniwaniwa Paterson (Te Ao Māori News): Why should Māori care about the United Nations Indigenous Forum
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): On the Money: Linda Clark, Albert Cho, Sean Sweeney, Barry Soper, and more (paywalled)
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Lawyers tip ‘woke’ banking bill to die without major party support (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Why commission-earners are set to receive the ‘lowest hourly rate’ of pay
IDEA: How does the Opportunity Party’s big tax-and-welfare rethink stack up? (paywalled)

IMMIGRATION
Ben Thomas (Post): Migrants and the media provide this week’s grist to coalition parties’ mill (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): The coalition’s immigration scrap risks distracting from the election’s key issue
James Nokise (Post): What Pacific communities hear in New Zealand’s immigration rhetoric (paywalled)

SUPERANNUATION
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): National will run on raising super age ‘as soon as we get back in’ – Christopher Luxon
Herald: NZ Super reforms: Nicola Willis says change can be less ‘dramatic’ than OECD report
Herald: Editorial – New Zealand’s Superannuation problem raises its head again (paywalled)
Emi O’Connor (NBR): Two workers, one retiree: the crisis coming for New Zealand (paywalled)
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): The super situation - what poison are you willing to swallow?
IDEA: How does the Opportunity Party’s big tax-and-welfare rethink stack up? (paywalled)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Andrea Vance (Post): Leaked poll shows cautious backing for Wellington super-council (paywalled)
Post Editorial: Why the rush to amalgamate? (paywalled)
Rhys Hurley (Post): Never mind the view from Wellington, bigger may not mean better for local government (paywalled)
Isabella Cawthorn (Post): Cutting cycleways won’t fix Wellington’s pipes crisis (paywalled)
Bronson Perich (Herald): Local government reform: King Country councils already preparing for ‘forced amalgamation’
Bronson Perich (Herald): Taupō councillors see future without their council
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Rates cap commitment remains: Watts (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Minister bullish about reform (paywalled)
RNZ: Rotorua mayor warns 90-day reform deadline is too short
Will Johnston (Post): New Plymouth water entity decision delayed after lobby group raise legal concerns (paywalled)
Te Ao News: Whangārei District Council has taken a step closer to strengthening how it embeds the principles of Te Tiriti
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): ‘Revoked’ controversial councillor loses more privileges, immediately leaks email
Herald Editorial: Tauranga City Council must communicate better over Mauao (paywalled)

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POLITICAL DONATIONS
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): National Party sitting on huge $11 million election year war chest
Giles Dexter (RNZ): National tops party donations list, ACT overtakes Labour
Julia Gabel (Herald): Political donations: National reports more than $6 million, Act overtakes Labour
Alice Neville (Spinoff): Three-and-a-bit years and $50m+ of political donations, visualised
Henry Cooke (Post): National outraises every other party in 2025, Labour most reliant on small donors (paywalled)

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Matthew Hooton (Herald): National–Labour grand coalition: Could it break MMP stalemate and minor party vetoes? (paywalled)
Ani O’Brien: Who really wants a Grand Coalition between Labour and National?
Michael Swanson: Labour and The Opportunity Party — Could an electorate “deal” with TOP change the game?
Julia Gabel (Herald): Labour draws battle lines in ‘all out’ fight for Māori seats
Claire Robinson: The common thread: what Luxon’s media strategy and Toi Māori have to do with each other
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Are there any heights Simeon Brown can’t reach? (other than the top shelf at the supermarket)
Chris Trotter (ODT): Governments should be very wary of provoking the sheep (paywalled)
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): The party that would be everyone’s coalition friend
Brent Edwards (NBR): Opportunity’s tax policy aimed at getting rid of poverty trap (paywalled)
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Peters’ last play for power
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): The Nats stand a chance this election
Sue Teodoro (Local Democracy Reporting): Green Party candidate inspired by world’s first openly transgender MP
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): ‘I rang Luxon’: James Christmas on his jump from National to ACT (paywalled)
Nick James (Post): Opportunity Party reveals policies on land tax, universal basic income and KiwiSaver reform (paywalled)

MEDIA & BSA
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The BSA is dead. Now what?
Peter Thompson (The Conversation): Does abolishing the BSA mean the end of enforceable media standards in general?
Steven Price: BSA PS
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Good riddance to the BSA
Peter Williams: RIP BSA — An unlamented loss
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Victorious complainant says watchdog must be retained to combat ‘fake news’
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): David vs the Media: Has Seymour gone too far?
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): David Seymour says changes are coming for RNZ leadership, RNZ disagrees
Peter Thompson (Newsroom): Hold my beer… Seymour takes a wild swing at public media
Shayne Currie (Herald): RNZ board shake-up - David Seymour expects changes, outgoing chair hits back; Where is Maiki Sherman?; ANZ announces new chief (paywalled)
Isaac Davison (Stuff): ‘No collusion’: Author of Maiki Sherman alleged slur article rejects political ‘hit’
Henry Oliver (Spinoff): Three former TV political editors on the whole Maiki Sherman saga
Sam Smith (Stuff): Senior journalist ‘no longer employed’ by Herald after report about story pitch
Shayne Currie (Herald): TVNZ breached accuracy standards in coverage of Donald Trump comments – Broadcasting Standards Authority (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): PR ‘conflict’ claim – NZ Herald journalist Joe Los’e resigns (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): The Chase NZ host Paul Henry outruns Broadcasting Standards Authority over Indian food comments (paywalled)
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Voyager boss reposted Hitler passage before media awards fallout
RNZ: TVNZ found in breach of broadcasting standards over Trump report

ECONOMY & OECD
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): OECD’s policy broadside exposes NZ Parliamentarians’ frequent timidity (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): New Zealand faces ‘massive negative energy shock’, OECD warns
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): OECD report suggests raft of reforms to help New Zealand economy
Richard Harman: Once again Willis says “no” to the OECD (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Nicola Willis agrees NZ superannuation settings must change after OECD warning (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): OECD urges urgent reform of NZ’s energy sector (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): OECD suggests linking NZ Super eligibility to life expectancy and hiking KiwiSaver contributions
Mandy Te (Interest): New Zealand’s economy is recovering gradually but global turbulence, unemployment
Mike Jones (Newsroom): Hard labour – a look under the hood of the New Zealand job market (in charts)
Federico Magrin (Post): ‘Citizen-run’ movement plans 43 protests as families struggle with fuel prices (paywalled)

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BROADCASTING STANDARDS AUTHORITY AND MEDIA
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): The Platform’s Sean Plunket claims ‘common sense’ victory as Government looks to scrap BSA (paywalled)
RNZ: Scrapping Broadcasting Standards Authority will hit standards, experts say
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): The BSA sealed its own fate
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): The government’s scrapping of the Broadcasting Standards Authority, explained
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Without BSA, ‘people will be able to say anything about anything’ – complainant
Steven Price: BSA to go
Henry Cooke (Post): Government to abolish Broadcasting Standards Authority (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Hipkins says ‘anti media’ Government scrapping BSA without a plan to replace it (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): Broadcasting Standards Authority to be axed, self-regulation signalled
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Government to axe Broadcasting Standards Authority in media shake-up
Sam Smith (Stuff): Racism, rudeness and nudity: What Kiwis took offence at, and complained to the BSA about
Gavin Ellis: Copy of a letter sent to Prime Minister and leaders of political parties one week before the decision to abolish the Broadcasting Standards Authority
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): Govt must ask tough questions before rushing in to help (paywalled)
RNZ: Media awards dump Voyager as sponsor after founder’s social media posts
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): News Publishers’ Association drops major media awards sponsor (paywalled)
Rachel Moore (Stuff): NZ Media Awards drops naming rights sponsor after social media posts
John Bowie (LawFuel): Doing the Mahi on Maiki: How TVNZ Tried to Bury Its Own Scandal

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Luke Malpass (Post): Two Luxons: confident abroad, constrained at home (paywalled)
Janet Wilson (Post): Coalition moves into a more combative phase ahead of the election (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): The National Party’s five-point comms plan to seize back the agenda
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): All the dust-ups in the Luxon-led coalition, ranked from least to most seismic
Katie Bradford (Herald): NZ First’s Shane Jones on homelessness, fuel crisis, electricity reform … and Sam Neill
Rob Stock (Post): Shane Jones on US ignorance, Winston Peters’ order to end the spat with Sam Neill, and SME tax rates (paywalled)
Moana Maniapoto (Te Ao Māori News): Winston Peters defends coalition record amid tensions at home and abroad
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Gentailer split would be NZ First’s big coalition ask, Jones says Japanese interested in offshore gas (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Fisheries Minister Shane Jones overrode official advice for fines related to leaking fishing boat footage
Azaria Howell (Herald): James Christmas’ appointment to regulatory board withdrawn after Act Party candidacy announcement
Brent Edwards (NBR): CER should be a launchpad for cooperation in other markets (paywalled)
Mahvash Ikram (LawNews): Stand for Parliament and become lawmakers, former Attorney-General tells NZ Asian Lawyers Association

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Central Government’s heavy and hasty reform of local government
Harriet Laughton (Post): Politician behind mega council amalgamation in the 80s backs reforms (paywalled)
Campbell Barry (Post): Local government reform needs certainty, not guesswork (paywalled)
RNZ: The Three Waters shadow hanging over council amalgamations
Peter McKinlay (LinkedIn): Councils invited to fast track reform: a critique
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Is there a case for amalgamation?
ODT: Editorial – Big stick approach questionable (paywalled)
Bernard Hickey: The hunt for magical merger efficiencies goes on (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Christchurch’s only amalgamation option
Bronson Perich (Herald): Local government reform: South Waikato Mayor Gary Petley unsurprised by ultimatum to councils
Linda Hall (Herald): Local government reforms: Hawke’s Bay mayors welcome deadline to design simpler council model
Bronson Perich (Herald): Local government reform: Taupō Mayor John Funnell says more time needed
Mike Tweed (Herald): Local Government reforms: Whanganui, Rangitīkei and Ruapehu councils respond to fast-tracked shake-up
Piripi Taylor (Te Ao News): Caution urged in Te Moana a Toi as Government fast-tracks local government reform
Tom Hunt (Post): Will Wellington City Council have to hike rates on its own Airbnb? (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): Ong leaks report about leaking confidential council information
Ruby Shaw (ODT): Bids to host AC/DC, ABs test missed

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PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Craig Stobo and the rot in NZ’s conflict-of-interest culture
Herald Editorial (Herald): Craig Stobo’s tenure as FMA chair did nothing but damage the public sector - Editorial (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Audrey Young’s grand coalition: How a National-Labour power share could work (paywalled)
Stuff: Feud between mayor and minister escalates with Dancing with the Stars jab
Hannah Filmer (Herald): Labour leader says coalition Government ‘attacking each other’ not good sign for things to come
Herald: Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown and Deputy PM David Seymour in tit-for-tat over Q+A comments
Anneke Smith (Post): Election 2026: Labour’s final contender in push to take back Māori seats (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Labour Party announces Te Pūoho Katene as final candidate for Māori seats
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: The end of MfE, police déjà vu and more (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Burnout fears and record urgency drive $19m funding bid for Parliament’s clerk
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): New Zealand’s immigration debate is like something out of the 1870s
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Governments should control spending and stability
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): One MP, One Pint: Tangi Utikere is looking to be a sure thing for Palmy this election
RNZ: Lottery board committees to be slashed, Department of Internal Affairs confirms
Nicholas Kerr: Alienation and the Failure of MMP

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REFORM
Harriet Laughton (Post): Government gives three-month deadline for amalgamation proposals (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): ‘Extremely tight timeframe’: Concerns over Government push for amalgamation (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Government’s case for local amalgamation undercut by its sheer gall (paywalled)
Gwynn Compton: The clock is ticking on local government reform
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Northland, Taranaki first movers as Govt tries to cool political heat of council mergers
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Government tells councils: Give us a plan within three months, or we will make one for you
RNZ: Southland councils call for united response to govt’s amalgamation plans
No Right Turn: The opposite of localism
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Mayors receptive to reform
Matthew Rosenberg (ODT): Southland poised for local govt reform
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Council amalgamation ultimatum receives mixed reception (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Change is coming: 2028 deadline for local govt consolidation (paywalled)
Newstalk ZB: ‘Not mucking around’: Minister Simon Watts on the Govt’s plan to fast-track regional council reform
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Mayors consider government’s amalgamation ultimatum
Mandy Te (Interest): ‘Lead your own reform or we’ll do it for you,’ central govt tells local govt
Jordan Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Mayor clashes with Local Government Minister over expenditure
Tom Hunt (Post): ‘A contractor is not a charity’: Wellington campaign launches to reduce council outsourcing (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Post): ‘More parky’: Cornwall Park trust considering closing off car traffic (paywalled)
Garry Moore (Tuesday Club): If CCHL is considering selling Enable - is it missing a few steps?
Tom Hunt (Post): Sixty-plus Wellington properties ask for removal of heritage protection (paywalled)

ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Growth in sensitive claims ‘significant risk’ to ACC, Treasury warns (paywalled)
Tom Raynel (Herald): Majority of small businesses say Government is not addressing key issues - MYOB survey (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How can foreign butter (and veges) be cheaper than New Zealand-made?
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Westpac NZ lifts profit as Iran conflict risk hits provisions (paywalled)
Tim Hunter (NBR): Imported ARA powder the culprit in IMF recall (paywalled)
Peter Griffin (BusinessDesk): Betting on quantum (paywalled)
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): NZ firms warned overseas businesses aren’t getting a return on AI - MPs’ report
1News: Westpac posts $545 million half-year profit
Neil Sands (LawNews): Bill designed to curb ‘woke’ banking reaches the end of the road
Rob Stock (Post): Westpac becomes latest bank to reveal impact of Middle East war on hard-pressed customers (paywalled)
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Unemployment set to stay at near-decade high, economists say
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): MTA ponders fix to Clean Car Standard (paywalled)
Elliot Royce (Herald): The quiet tax setting shaping who owns New Zealand (paywalled)
Michael Reddell: A central banker’s fiction

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PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Chris Trotter (Interest): Is Treasury suggesting we change everything - so nothing changes
Liam Hehir (Spinoff): Can National win back Tāmaki now that Brooke van Velden is gone?
Henry Cooke (Post): National Party spending thousands more advertising Nicola Willis than Christopher Luxon on Facebook and Instagram (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Is being a ‘strong woman’ really such a problem?
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): For many, elections are done to them not by them
Dave Armstrong (Post): Dear Aunty Dave, I write seeking your wisdom and advice (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): Business and unions unite to seek change to parts of health and safety amendment bill (paywalled)
Neil Sands (LawNews): Minister takes aim at employment advocates, launches major consultation on dispute resolution
Chris Trotter: Don’t go there (paywalled)
Steven Cowan: The Economic crisis is a political crisis

FMA RESIGNATION
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Financial Markets Authority chair Craig Stobo resigns after investigation finds he made too much political commentary
Rob Stock (Post): FMA chair Craig Stobo resigns over comments which breached political neutrality rules, report finds (paywalled)
Hamish McNicol (NBR): The political comments which cost Stobo his FMA chairmanship (paywalled)
Stuff: FMA chair resigns after review finds political impartiality breach
Hamish McNicol (NBR): FMA chair Craig Stobo resigns following investigation (paywalled)
Jeffrey Halley (RNZ): Chair of Financial Markets Authority resigns after conduct review
Justin Hu (1News): Markets regulator chair quits after probe finds neutrality rules broken
Victoria Young (BusinessDesk): Stobo resigns after FMA probe (paywalled)

PM IN SINGAPORE
Jo Moir (RNZ): With New Zealand signing a free trade with Singapore, what are the fuel concerns?
Luke Malpass (Post): Singapore’s warning: the fuel disruption is far from over (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): ‘We have each other’s backs’: Luxon on NZ-Singapore fuel deal
Jo Moir (RNZ): NZ, Singapore prime ministers speak of importance of trade in increasingly volatile world
RNZ: New Zealand signs deal with Singapore to ensure trade of essential goods
Julia Gabel and Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Christopher Luxon thinks other countries may join landmark Singapore food for fuel deal
Luke Malpass (Post): NZ, Singapore ink trade deal ‘keeping fuel flowing to NZ’ (paywalled)

ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Who’s getting pay rises at the moment?
1News: Only half of Kiwis got a pay rise last year - here’s who did best
Brian Easton (Interest): In too many areas we are avoiding thinking about or preparing for oncoming changes
Andrew Patterson (Newsroom): BNZ lifts unemployment rate forecast as hiring intentions soften
Rob Stock (Post): Iran war impacts will make coming months ‘a bit of a grind’ for Kiwis, says ANZ boss (paywalled)
RNZ: Amazon takes $45m hit, abandons planned West Auckland data centre
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): BNZ’s books take $352m hit as bank accounts for fact AI is seeing software age increasingly quickly (paywalled)
Stuff: Kiwi exporters eye $1b windfall after US Supreme Court overrules tariffs
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): War on Iran clouds BNZ outlook as profit drops (paywalled)
Mike McRoberts (NBR): KiwiSaver’s proposed next chapter (paywalled)
Oliver Mander (Post): Upcoming FNZ law case will put NZ’s Companies Act through an acid test (paywalled)

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Luxon wanted in on Trump’s war
Ani O’Brien: Who is right about the India Free Trade Agreement?
Rahul Sen (The Conversation): NZ-India free trade deal: were early fears about immigration and investment justified?
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Do we have any choice but to help out the US?

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PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Farah Hancock (RNZ): Big NZ First donors argue for tax breaks to save ‘unsustainable’ racing industry
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): National and NZ First are now feasting on each other
Verity Johnson (Stuff): I know I should vote Labour - I just don’t want to
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Why Inland Revenue looks like the grown-up in the room (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Fear, loathing and respect: Judith Collins bows out after 24 years in politics, says people ‘don’t like a strong woman’ (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Oh crap: it really looks like India thinks we’re gonna invest $33 billion in their economy
Scott Sheeran (Post): Better ideas for raising New Zealand’s living standards (paywalled)
Richard Harman: Unfriendly fire; NZ First’s preferred target (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): ‘Buck stops with ministers’: OIO overruled in dairy farms’ sale (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. a bull in a china shop
Francesca Rudkin (Newstalk ZB): We need more civility in this election season
Julia Gabel (Herald): Act reveals immigration campaign policies
Phil Smith (RNZ): Anti-slavery law uses new rules to bypass ballot
AJ Hendry: Changing the Government will mean nothing if we do not also Transform it!

PM IN SINGAPORE
Jo Moir (RNZ): Christopher Luxon heads to Singapore to formalise crucial trade relationship
Jo Moir (RNZ): Luxon’s Singapore visit to formalise crucial trade relationship
Luke Malpass (Post): Luxon in Singapore: Fuel fix and a bigger strategic play (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (Post): Prime Minister signing food-for-fuel deal overseas as coalition cools off after weeks of bust ups (paywalled)

ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Treasury’s hope for rapid return to normality hard to reconcile with the current outlook (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Washington to Wellington: You’re on your own (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): ANZ NZ’s Chief Risk Officer says ‘we’re definitely heading’ towards stagflation
Mandy Te (Interest): March quarter labour market data expected to largely reflect economic conditions pre-dating oil shock
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Jobless rate to remain close to 5.4% but economists see darker days ahead (paywalled)
Aimee Shaw (Post): Iran war: Rod Duke on Briscoe Group navigating Middle East conflict pressures, and why he’s optimistic it will end soon (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): Amazon’s NZ revenue surges, but it takes a $45m impairment on its abandoned data centre build (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Penalties mount while KiwiSaver members wait for hardship withdrawal approval
Liam Dann (Herald): Unemployment preview: Economists predict jobs holding steady for now (paywalled)
Michael Sergel (Herald): Small businesses running low on cash reserves as fuel and KiwiSaver costs surge
Stuff: Kiwi exporters eye $1b windfall after US Supreme Court overrules tariffs
Oliver Mander (Post): Upcoming FNZ law case will put NZ’s Companies Act through an acid test (paywalled)
Mark Lister (Herald): S&P 500 rally: Strong corporate earnings drive better-than-expected results (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Ikea changing pattern of Auckland shopping

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Wellingtonians divided over paying higher water bills for improved infrastructure - survey
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington water meters rollout cost balloons from $144m to $590m (paywalled)
1News: Auckland mayor says his city deal ‘quite underwhelming’
Mark Thomas (Newsroom): Will Auckland’s city deal run out of power?
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Here’s the real issue impacting local councils
Katie Todd (RNZ): Queenstown gondola and housing plan raises ‘more questions than solutions’ -councillor
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Warning of wave of quake work (paywalled)
ODT: ORC $2m fund model confirmed (paywalled)
Tracey Roxburgh (ODT): Proposed reforms trigger council review (paywalled)
Claire Robinson (Post): Why Toi Māori in civic buildings is essential, not indulgent (paywalled)

TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Andrea Vance (Post): Cook Strait ferry project hit with Treasury warning over delays and cost increase risk (paywalled)
1News: Auckland mayor says his city deal ‘quite underwhelming’
Justin Hu (1News): CRL opening update expected in weeks as fuel crisis adds pressure
Justin Hu (1News): Fears of ‘backlash and mockery’ played into new Auckland rail line names
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): ‘Reliable’ City Rail Link timetable firms up with network changes (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Northland corporates call on Government to provide expressway certainty (paywalled)
Samantha Gee (RNZ): Standoff as Vega crew await repatriation to India
Tim Cronshaw (ODT): $3b Otago inland port project ‘shovel-ready’ (paywalled)
Felix Walton (RNZ): Fatal crashes declining, but not fast enough - Brake NZ
Jack Horsnell (1News): Drivers on notice as major change to restricted licences kicks in

HEALTH
Amanda Gillies (Newsroom): Questions grow over personal health data safety
Danica MacLean (Newstalk ZB): Health New Zealand locum doctor costs hit $216m amid staff gaps
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): Medical migration only option for many blood cancer sufferers
Mildred Armah (Stuff): ‘Sitting duck’ cancer patient warns cost of rural care cutbacks could be deadly
Joanne Naish (Post): A son’s mission for his father: a prostate cancer screening programme (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Health issues not solved (paywalled)
RNZ: Pharmac rationing of menopause drugs ‘fair’ - women’s health expert
RNZ: Medicinal cannabis stigmatised ‘even within the medical community’, doctor says

ELECTRICITY
Rebekah White (Newsroom): If solar is the cheapest form of energy, why don’t we make more?
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Transpower electricity security outlook says good winter, tough decade (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): More power needed, grid operator says (paywalled)

MEDIA
Post: Media Council upholds ferry project ‘over budget’ claim complaint
Shayne Currie (Herald): The new TVNZ+ app - broadcaster’s digital boss Rob Hutchinson on when final bugs will be ironed out (paywalled)
Critic: Editorial: Stop being mean to the BSA
Simon O’Connor: Hamlet and the NZ media
David Farrar (Patreon): Why Audrey and Richard are wrong (paywalled)
1News: ‘Defining moment’: TVNZ reveals FIFA World Cup event pass pricing

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Anna Fifield (Listener): On China’s soft-power flex (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Should New Zealand help reopen the Strait of Hormuz? What do you think?
RNZ: Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ government to intervene after Israeli interception

CARTOONS

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