WEATHER, DISASTER, CLIMATE
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): A Nation with no plan
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): The market won’t save us from climate disaster (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Hipkins can’t be blamed for trying to seize the moment at Mount Maunganui (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Sunday Star Times): What’s behind New Zealand’s deadly summer landslides (paywalled)
Nikki Macdonald (Sunday Star Times): Limbo Land - what a world without flood buyouts looks like (paywalled)
Bijou Johnson (Herald): Mount Maunganui landslide: Other tragedies and disasters revisited
Miriam Bell, Deborah Morris and Liz McDonald (Post): Here’s what flood risks mean for the housing market (paywalled)
Reid Basher (Post): The lessons we haven’t yet learned from our most common natural hazard (paywalled)
Herald: Editorial – We are at a crossroad; if we don’t make the difficult decisions then our insurers will (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): A reality check for the Government on climate hit areas
Neil Reid (Herald): How Mount Maunganui tragedy could change land use across New Zealand - including campsite locations (paywalled)
Michael Morrah (Herald): Mount Maunganui landslide: Waterpipe network to be investigated
Angus James: The Fires aren’t outliers
ELECTION, PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT
Nik Dirga (RNZ): Election 2026: How does campaign advertising work, and what are the rules?
Alexia Russell (RNZ): Election 2026 - the policies, the politics, the peculiarities
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Chris Hipkins and Nicola Willis go to war over who broke the economy (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Winston Peters might be story of the year
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Could Winston change his mind about Chris Hipkins? (paywalled)
Duncan Garner (Listener): Christopher Luxon continues to sound like he’s managing risk, not leading a country (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Eru Kapa-Kingi interview: on Monday’s Te Pāti Māori court clash and Toitū te Tiriti (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of ... Judith Collins
Ben Thomas (Post): The handbrake is off and Peters is putting the pedal to the metal (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Christopher Luxon playing for time ahead of reshuffle (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): MPs respond to prime minister’s vision for the year ahead (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Trump, polls, the NZ-India FTA, Board of Peace, goodbye Judith (paywalled)
WAITANGI AND TREATY
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): PM Christopher Luxon to spend Waitangi Day in Auckland, will head north in the lead up week
Rawiri Waititi (Herald): Te Pāti Māori plans to entrench Te Tiriti in to all legislation
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): Waitangi: A choice between unity and a sideshow (paywalled)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
RNZ: Christopher Luxon confirms he won’t join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza
Herald: Editorial – New Zealand has nothing to gain by publicly demonising the US (paywalled)
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Why Christopher Luxon is betting on the Indo-Pacific over Trump’s Gaza offer (paywalled)
Martin Van Beynen (Post): How New Zealand fits into the brave new world (paywalled)
John Braddock (World socialist website): New Zealand politicians express outrage over Trump’s Afghanistan accusations
Virginia Fallon and Kevin Norquay (Sunday Star Times): American Dream, to dilemma: Kiwis navigate Trump’s US (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Watchdog taking a closer look at declining choice in supermarkets (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Gentailer earnings set to rebound (paywalled)
Benjamin Liu (The Conversation): NZ’s finance industry is required by law to treat customers fairly – but how do we define ‘fair’?
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Treasury rejects claim gentailers were starved of capital (paywalled)
Hamish McNicol (NBR): Commerce Minister, FMA, delay Stobo answers (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): NZX’s wish list of tax changes to boost capital markets (paywalled)
HOUSING
Sam Stubbs (Sunday Star Times): NZ will have a pretty flat housing market over the long-term - and it’ll be good for us (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Biggest bank downgrades house price forecast
Deborah Morris (Post): NZ house price forecast 2026: 75% of Kiwis say prices are sure to rise (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): NZ near bottom of global house price growth ranks (paywalled)
Deborah Morris (Post): Nearly three quarters of us expect house prices to rise in 2026 – slowly (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): ANZ slashes house price forecast for 2026 (paywalled)
HEALTH
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Cybersecurity group identifies person behind Manage My Health hack
Paula Penfold (Stuff): ‘Chaos’ after seizure: Patient describes hours-long delay during hospital IT outage
John Braddock (World socialist website): New Zealand public health system in deepening crisis
RNZ: 12-month prescriptions now available
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Build makes list of over-budget projects (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Andrea Vance (Post): Auckland mayor Wayne threatened to ‘rearrange’ lobbyist’s face (paywalled)
Wayne Brown (Sunday Star Times): Better, cheaper, faster - the rules guiding Auckland’s next chapter (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press): Christchurch council warns regional governance shake-up may favour local interests over evidence (paywalled)
Ben Sheehan (Inside Government): What to expect from local government in 2026
CARTOONS