TE PĀTI MĀORI
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Insistute): Is Te Pāti Māori in a death spiral?
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Once a rising political star, Te Pāti Māori collapses in on itself
Giles Dexter and Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori MPs’ expulsions questioned by law expert, former co-leader
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Does anyone really know what the two MPs did to get booted from Te Pāti Māori?
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori purge fails to end the party war
Henry Cooke (Post): Te Pāti Māori’s attempt to end the drama may just make it worse (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: A plague on both your houses (paywalled)
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Will Te Pāti Māori’s brutal MP purge succeed in ending its turmoil?
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Calls for unity from 88 iwi ignored as Te Pāti Māori leaders end peace talks and expel MPs
Julia Gabel (Herald): Two Te Pāti Māori MPs ousted as party scrambles to reset course ahead of 2026 general election
Thomas Coughlan & Julia Gabel (Herald): Tākuta Ferris and Mariameno Kapa-Kingi react after expulsion from Te Pāti Māori
1News: Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, Tākuta Ferris to be ousted from Te Pāti Māori
Russell Palmer (RNZ): What happens next for Te Pāti Māori and expelled MPs Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, Tākuta Ferris
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): What now: Te Pāti Māori expulsion – what it means, and what could happen next
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Te Pāti Māori has expelled two of its six MPs. What happens now?
Henry Cooke (Post): Chris Hipkins says Te Pāti Māori still not ready for Government (paywalled)
RNZ: Te Pāti Māori expels Tākuta Ferris and Mariameno Kapa-Kingi
Glenn McConnell and Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori expels Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris
Henry Cooke and Thomas Manch (Post): Te Pāti Māori kick out ‘rogue’ MPs Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris (paywalled)
Mandy Te and Dan Brunskill (Interest): Te Pāti Māori: Party’s national council votes to expel two MPs
Sam Smith (Stuff): A history of expulsion: Six time MPs got given the boot by their own party
ASSET SALES
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Christopher Luxon calls for ‘mature’ conversation on asset recycling, as Chris Hipkins pledges to hold onto all state assets
RNZ: National to mull asset sales as part of next election, Christopher Luxon says
Michael Daly (Stuff): Luxon indicates asset sales could be included in National’s 2026 manifesto
Dan Brunskill (Interest): ‘Don’t want lazy balance sheet’: Luxon floats asset sales next term
Brent Edwards (NBR): Underperforming government assets might be recycled (paywalled)
Steven Cowan: Privatisation: Enriching the few, impoverishing the many
PARLIAMENT, PARTIES, PUBLIC SECTOR
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Palmer asks Parliament: What’s the rush?
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Auditor-General considering investigation over PSC’s anti-mega strike Facebook ads
Vincent Olsen-Reeder (Spinoff): Te reo Māori isn’t a political problem – it’s the public service’s greatest opportunity
Rachel Maher & Tom Rose (Herald): Christopher Luxon says drug cartels driving meth surge, confirms India trade talks are progressing
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): The essential elements of what makes a good politician
Anna Whyte (Post): ACC attempt to tighten working from home hits road block (paywalled)
Spinoff: Out now: Juggernaut 2 – the story of the fourth National government
Gill South (BusinessDesk): The visionary entrusted to run the Crown’s huge farming assets (paywalled)
Herald: Roger McClay: Former National minister and Commissioner for Children dies, aged 80
RNZ: Former ACT Party president Tim Jago pleads not guilty to indecent assault
HOUSING, HOMELESSNESS
RNZ: Government ‘got to sort out’ homeless in Auckland CBD, PM Christopher Luxon says
Mike Yardley (Press): Balancing compassion, care with crackdown on anti-social behaviour (paywalled)
Rachel Moore (Stuff): Waikato mayor hits back at Wayne Brown over comments to send homeless there
RNZ: Christchurch council gets green light to withdraw from part of housing plan
Tina Law (Press/Post): ‘Over the moon’: Delight as Govt spares Christchurch from intensification mandate (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press/Post): Government spares Christchurch from city-wide housing intensification
Anne Gibson (Herald): Mortgagee sales rise as Barfoot & Thompson agent lists 37 distressed homes (paywalled)
Tobias Newton (NBR): Should you care about aged care? (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Andrea Vance (Post): Secret party bill for Wellington mayor’s portrait unveiling (paywalled)
Charlie Mitchell (Press): Who owns Christchurch: A city divided by land and value (paywalled)
Sue Teodoro (Local Democracy Reporting): Maintaining water quality and service emerging risk for reform
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Global gold for Hastings water project
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Councillor salaries jump by up nearly a third in Whanganui, Ruapehu and Rangitīkei
Justin Wong (Post): Porirua mayor calls for electoral rule change amid recount limbo (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): Disgruntled councillor reluctant to accept olive branch (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): Albany St tenders above council’s budget (paywalled)
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Mistaken for a secretary: Life as a lone female councillor
Ayla Yeoman (SunLive): Tauranga residents report higher satisfaction in new council survey
SOCIAL MEDIA
Gavin Ellis: What do our early teens do in the digital shadows?
RNZ: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ‘deeply supportive’ of social media ban for under 16s
Harriet Laughton (Post): National looking to ban social media for under-16s on two tracks at once
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): This year’s racist trick-or-treat jokes show how radically the culture has changed
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Country’s biggest property investor group evicted from Facebook
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Bryce Edwards (Integrity Institute): Measuring New Zealand’s misery
Matthew Hooton: Misery in Helen Clark’s First Term (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): Fiscal Policy Should Focus More On Net Worth
Andrew Patterson (Newsroom): Growing labour market cracks to dominate next year’s election
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): NZ’s employment prospects more chipper in 2026? (paywalled)
Dave Armstrong (Post): A star-filled culinary tour around NZ (paywalled)
TAX
Greg Ninness (Interest): Taxing capital gains on investment properties may not be the pot of gold Labour is hoping for
Mark Lister (Herald): Labour’s capital gains tax plan: Could a targeted CGT boost investment? (paywalled)
Terry Baucher (Internet): Te wiki o te tāke: Remediation a capital cost, not R&M
FAST-TRACK, ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE
Rob Stock (Post): Climate minister flags end of post-disaster property buyouts at homes’ full value (paywalled)
Matt Hal (Post): Business calls to fast-track chemical approvals need challenging (paywalled)
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): State Highway 2 to be raised 1.8 metres as flood project gets under way
Craig Ashworth (Local Democracy Reporting): Farmers rep loses seat on Taranaki environment committee
Eva Gallot (Stuff): Hauraki Protection bill ‘not perfect,’ but a start, professor says
RNZ: Tongariro fire: Threatened species in area ‘so unique, sacred and spectacular’
Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: Hopes a vast fire at Tongariro won’t turn the tourists away
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Five-year consent granted: OceanaGold Macraes extension (paywalled)
TRANSPORT
1News: More than four hundred fraudulent commercial driver licences revoked
Samuel Sherry (Herald): NZTA revokes 440 truck licenses after audit finds fraudulent documents
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Contactless payments on public transport rolls out in Christchurch
BusinessDesk: Fletcher Building exits Pūhoi toll road PPP with $20.2m sale to local investor
RNZ: NZTA discovers 440 fake commercial driver licences
David Mackenzie (BusinessDesk): Air NZ’s new boss is making the right start (paywalled)
ANIMAL WELFARE
Rob Stock (Sunday Star Times): The truth about where our pork comes from (paywalled)
RNZ: Greyhound racing industry withdraws judicial review of ban
Herald Editorial: The era of animal parks has passed (paywalled)
Sam Smith (Stuff): Quest to save five lions in Whangārei ‘looking very promising’, but time is ticking
Karina Cooper (Northern Advocate): Huha NZ races to save last lions at Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Animal welfare group HUHA tries to save five lions at Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE
Teuila Fuatai (RNZ): Luxon should step in over worsening Cook Islands spat, expert says
Thomas Manch (Post): Grounded without pay: US shutdown stretches from Washington to Wellington (paywalled)
David Fisher (Herald): Revealed: Tom Phillips was hunted in Marokopa bush by elite NZSAS trackers (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Rachael Comer (Timaru Herald/Press): ‘Huge shock’: Proposal puts courses at Ara’s Timaru campus at risk (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Proposal on table for uni to raise fees by 6% (paywalled)
Liam White (Spinoff): We’ve forgotten what universities are for
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Rubbish, broken glass and couches litter notorious party street
Laine Priestley (ODT): Mass dumping in student quarter ‘disappointing’
POLICE, CRIME, JUSTICE
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Segregated high-security inmates moved to privately run Wiri prison
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Mark Mitchell on police trust, protests, and protecting minorities
Paula Penfold (Stuff): He was 15 when he died in a car crash.The rules said police could chase. Should they?
David Farrar: The tobacco black market is growing super-fast
MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS, TREATY
Layla Bailey-McDowell, (RNZ): Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti: A year on from one of Aotearoa’s largest protest movement
Daniela Maoate-Cox (RZ): The House: Redress, apologies, and pardons as MPs work on three Treaty settlement bills
David Farrar: Waitangi Tribunal is now officially racist
EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS
Rebecca Macfie (Listener): 29 deaths at Pike River sparked workplace safety reforms – why are they now being dismantled? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): List of products, businesses on Consumer NZ’s anti-awards
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Employers forking out more for employees in ‘talent-short’ market
BANKS, FINANCE
Anan Zaki (RNZ): ANZ posts record $2.53 billion profit
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Record annual profit for ANZ NZ; CEO says ‘stage set’ for economic recovery
1News: ANZ reports record $2.53 billion profit
Herald: ANZ NZ CEO Antonia Watson gets bonus while Australian executives docked for regulatory breaches
Former ANZ CEO Shayne Elliot’s A$13.5m bonus scratched (paywalled)
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Banks’ disconnect with women a missed business opportunity – report
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): Simpson backs Council of Financial Regulators refresh (paywalled)
CARTOONS