COVID INQUIRY REPORT
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Covid-19 inquiry: Politicians on all sides find what they need in report
Anna Whyte (Interest): Covid inquiry credits early response for saving lives but questions parts of $60b pandemic spending
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): False positives and shots in the dark
Luke Malpass (Post): Covid-19 Royal Commission: The Covid report arrives long after the country has moved on (paywalled)
Alice Neville (Spinoff): Covid-19 inquiry makes final findings on spending, mandates and lockdowns
Harriet Laughton (Post): Advice on Covid-19 vaccines for children not shown to ministers: Royal Commission (paywalled)
Chris Lynch: Peters says Covid inquiry vindicates critics of mandates and lockdowns
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Covid Inquiry Phase 2 report released: The key points, and a bot to answer your questions
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Lessons from the Covid-19 response inquiry
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Covid-19 response inquiry finds students’ reading scores never bounced back
RNZ: Covid-19 response inquiry finds government’s response effective but late, poorly communicated
Anneke Smith (Post): Auckland locked down longer than advised, Royal Commission on Covid finds (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): Covid-19 inquiry: Commission criticises length of Auckland lockdown and Government spending; Jacinda Ardern responds
Herald: Covid inquiry report slams cost of long lockdowns, urges future changes
1News: Final Covid verdict: ‘Scars’ remain despite NZ responding ‘well’ to pandemic
Brent Edwards (NBR): Covid-19 inquiry: mistakes made under time pressure (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): This Covid inquiry still matters for accountability
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Lockdown, vaccine decisions ‘considered and appropriate’ – Royal Commission
Ani O’Brien: Covid Inquiry should raise serious questions about Chris Hipkins’ leadership
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Here’s who knew what and when about the risk that two Covid vaccines posed to teenagers
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): ‘Wellington doesn’t understand Auckland’: City leaders react to Covid inquiry (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Covid-19 not going away (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Warning for employers skimping on sick leave as Covid wave hits
TE PATI MĀORI
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): High Court rules Mariameno Kapa-Kingi expulsion from Te Pāti Māori unlawful
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): Kapa-Kingi reinstated: Where to now for Te Pāti Māori?
Henry Cooke (Post): Te Pāti Māori must reinstate Mariameno Kapa-Kingi as MP, High Court rules (paywalled)
NATIONAL PARTY AND LUXON
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon survives gruelling days at Parliament (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Sir John Key spoke with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon over weekend amid leadership speculation
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): National Party politicians rule out leadership bid
Andrew Dickson: Luxon’s Signifier Has Stopped Working, He Needs Peach Teats
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Erica Stanford dodges question about leadership, says National ‘must do better’
Andrew Gunn: PM: I’ll Do Anything To Govern, But I Won’t Do Jack
SHANE RETI TO RETIRE
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Doctor Who? How Shane Reti went from National’s deputy to Ciga-reti
Jamie Ensor (Herald): National MP Dr Shane Reti announces retirement from politics, will leave at 2026 election
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Shane Reti to retire from politics
1News: National’s Shane Reti to quit politics at election
GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Five voter tribes that will decide who governs New Zealand
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The five tribes Kiwi voters fall into: Which one are you – and how will politicians battle for your vote? (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Auditor-general ‘considering’ looking into Chris Bishop’s decision to fund a bridge in his electorate (paywalled)
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Government backtracks on live animal export plans
Benedict Collins (1News): ‘Will be disappointment’: Live export ban won’t be overturned this term
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): NZ First and Act shoot down Inland Revenue proposal to tax company loans to shareholders (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Tentative support for reviving Parliament’s upper house, poll finds (paywalled)
Stuff: ‘I get on with David Seymour’ - Peeni Henare on relationships, regrets, Ardern and next steps
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: The week in Parliament: Money, grog, gambling and satire
Hamish McNicol (NBR): Appeal Court ruling a warning to Govt on AI use, lawyer says (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Integrity, Achilles’ heel, cunning plans and more (paywalled)
Richard Harman: The risk Bishop is taking (paywalled)
IRAN WAR; IMPACT ON NZ ECONOMY
Henry Cooke (Post): Iran war shows us how hard it would be to quit fossil fuels – and how useful (paywalled)
John Braddock and Tom Peters (World Socialist Website): New Zealand Labour Party, Greens falsely posture as opponents of Iran war
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Fuel supplies in NZ: ‘Unless things change there’ll be big challenges’
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Petrol still expected to climb well above $3 a litre despite easing oil price (paywalled)
Jamie Gray (Herald): Iran war oil shock has markets betting on two Reserve Bank of NZ interest rate hikes (paywalled)
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Air New Zealand’s regional routes could be in for a shake-up (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington’s Moa Point nears grim milestone of 2.5 billion litres of raw sewage (paywalled)
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Auckland mayor Wayne Brown sees no issue with low voter turnout
Katie Todd (RNZ): Public criticism of staff by Dunedin City councillor serious breach of code of conduct
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland councillors back plan to cut townhouse zoning in poor transport areas
Jonathan Killick (Post): PC120 debate gets Auckland councillors fired up (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown asks developers to ‘drop your weapons’ (paywalled)
Deborah Morris (Post): Home sellers and buyers in limbo as council LIM reports delayed (paywalled)
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Move-on orders ‘not welcome here’, Wellington leaders say
HEALTH
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): Why some of New Zealand’s best doctors won’t work here anymore - and it’s not about pay
RNZ: Christchurch Hospital staffing ‘like moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic’, worker says
Tina Morrison (Newsroom): Treasury warns of ‘risky’, ‘untested’ Dunedin hospital contract
HOUSING
Miriam Bell (Post): Housing affordability in Auckland, Wellington sees ‘significant’ improvement (paywalled)
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): ‘Firm but fair:’ Number of Kāinga Ora tenants getting kicked out for disruptive behaviour plummets
Herald: Cotality NZ’s Housing Affordability report shows decade-best levels
POLICE
Katie Ham (Post): Top cop calls for ‘swift reimbursement’ from Jevon McSkimming for hotel stays (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Disgraced former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming’s expenses revealed
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Jevon McSkimming asked to pay back taxpayer-funded hotel nights with Ms Z
TREATY
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry into government’s removal of schools’ Treaty obligations
Local Democracy Reporting: Duncan Garner’s claims of ‘co-governance creep’ shot down
Post: Charges against Treaty protester dropped (paywalled)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEFENCE
Andy Brew (Post): NZDF still using Chinese drones banned by Five Eyes’ allies over spying fears (paywalled)
Nicholas Ross Smith and Anna Christoforou (The Conversation): In Trump’s precarious world, NZ will need all the middle‑sized friends it can get
Rahul Sen (The Conversation): Labour‑National standoff aside, the India‑NZ trade deal is a blueprint for real growth
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Labour still waiting for Government to respond about the India FTA
JACINDA ARDERN
Imogene Bedford (Herald): Jacinda Ardern update: Former PM on life across the Ditch and work on safer AI
Stuff: Dame Jacinda Ardern shares rare life update on Instagram after moving to Australia
Sanda Arambepola (Stuff): Global headlines highlight NZ ‘brain drain’ as Ardern heads across the ditch
1News: Jacinda Ardern fund targets cervical cancer in Pacific
CARTOONS