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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