PARLIAMENT, ELECTION, GOVERNMENT
Henry Cooke (Post): NZ calls for resumption of negotiations with Iran following US strikes (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Political U-turns – National’s big transport dilemma, and Labour’s pay equity conundrum (paywalled)
Damien Grant (Stuff): ACT is in a death match with NZ First, and the stakes couldn’t be higher
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): New Zealand is starting to look like a regulatory Wild West (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): The Post/Freshwater Strategy Poll: Voters brace for harder times (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Who does New Zealand trust with the pain? (paywalled)
Michael Turner (Sunday Star Times): Owning the cost of living is a fool’s errand. Sell the future instead (paywalled)
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): In election year forget about governing – it’s every coalition party for itself
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): A quarterly action plan for restoring Christopher Luxon’s quarterly action plans
Anna Whyte (Post): Should MPs have a travel spending limit? David Seymour thinks so
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Chris Hipkins needs more than charm to win over wary business leaders (paywalled)
Ben Thomas (Post): If MPs want longer terms, they should allow better scrutiny (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Government parties focus on comfort food after bruising backdown (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. Chris Hipkins being boring
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Tama Potaka’s rosy view of the Māori-Crown relationship
Alice Peacock (BusinessDesk): Parents’ heartbreak over Australian ‘vacuum cleaner’ is election flashpoint (paywalled)
ELECTRICITY
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Electricity rip-off that politicians won’t fix
Duncan Garner (Listener): Record electricity prices and profits should remind MPs people have the power (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Power companies hike prices despite profit jump (paywalled)
Consumer NZ: Power profits surge to $547 million while power bills rise
Ed Miller (Sunday Star Times): Grid intervention: The state returns to ensure the lights stay on. But can it do that better? (paywalled)
SUPERMARKETS
Tom Raynel (Herald): Nicola Willis’ planned Tesco meeting on breaking supermarket duopoly revealed (paywalled)
Lisa Asher & Catherine Sutton-Brady (Herald): Supermarket law changes: The need for tougher Commerce Act grocery reforms (paywalled)
AIR NZ
Anna Whyte (Interest): Air NZ’s loss sparks coalition clash over government stake
Herald: Editorial – Air NZ is an asset worth holding on to (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): A turbulent take: why David Seymour is so wrong in his calls to sell off Air New Zealand (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Air NZ has issues and the turnaround is a way off
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Damien Venuto (Stuff): Hard work won’t make you rich, warns the People’s Economist — and NZ must tax assets
Liam Dann (Herald): We dreamed of economic growth without housing bubbles ... is this it? (paywalled)
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): Cost of living: Why prices never really fall and $7 coffee is here to stay (paywalled)
Simon Robertson (BusinessDesk): Stop talking about it and start being productive (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Jonathan Killick (Sunday Star Times): Watch out Wellington: Wayne Brown for Prime Minister? (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): ‘Wrong solution for the wrong problem’: Hotel lobby’s war on bed taxes exposed (paywalled)
Tom Eley (Herald): Hamilton councillors back KPMG procurement reforms after $239m review
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington bus and train use drops as fares to rise again (paywalled)
INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT
Justin Hu (1News): Light rail revival? Scrapped Auckland corridor ‘a problem worth solving’
Henry Cooke (Post): Infrastructure boss: Tolls and charges needed before new projects (paywalled)
Brian Easton: Planning for the future
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Flood early warning systems - where are they in the Civil Defence Act overhaul?
Brent Edwards (NBR): Winston Peters takes credit for KiwiRail’s improved performance (paywalled)
HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Can New Zealand economy recover if house prices don’t?
David Seymour (Post): Zoning wars drag on while younger Kiwis lose hope in housing market (paywalled)
Jordan Dunn (Herald): Auckland City Mission seeks refuge status to shield rough sleepers from law
Zita Campbell (RNZ): Move-on orders for rough sleepers ‘won’t fix it’, warn Gisborne Māori Wardens
Brodie Fraser (The Conversation): New police powers to ‘move on’ rough sleepers only mask NZ’s deeper homelessness problem
HEALTH
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): AI scribe tool being used in emergency departments
Anna Whyte (Interest): Inside Vote Health: The multi-billion dollar balancing act
Rob Stock (Post): Selling liquor to minors is rife - and the potentially fatal consequences (paywalled)
Claire Turnbull (The Conversation): How meaningful are those health star ratings on food packaging?
DEFENCE
David Fisher (Herald): ‘High level of concern’ over sensitive military equipment missing from NZSAS base (paywalled)
RNZ: Rocket Lab blasts off on hypersonic mission for US Department of War
DOG CONTROL
Post: Editorial – When the dog bites (paywalled)
Herald: Editorial – Urgent action needed on dog attacks (paywalled)
CARTOONS