PARTY LEADERS
Matthew Hooton (Sunday Star Times): Chippy or Big Ted: Who do you most trust with your children’s lives? (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Chris Hipkins: The boy who wanted to fix things (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Sunday Star Times): Christopher Luxon: The boy who knew where he was going (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): The truth Luxon let slip during the leaders’ debate (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): On the road with Chris Hipkins: Palestine, food and a healthy blood pressure (paywalled)
Nick James (Sunday Star Times): The surprising medical result Chris Hipkins got on the campaign trail (paywalled)
ELECTION CAMPAIGN AND PARTIES
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): How the Greens rebuilt their machine (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Sunday Star Times): Your definitive guide to the overhang (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): Can election debates turn the worm? (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): More than a third of young people eligible to vote are not enrolled (paywalled)
Ethan Griffiths (Herald): Rakesh Naidoo says Labour approach not linked to end of texts with Mark Mitchell
Richard Prebble: Bad news and more bad news for National
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Still too clever by half (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Mark brushes off NZ First ‘friendly fire’ after low list ranking
Wayne Brown (Sunday Star Times): If Wayne Brown was PM (paywalled)
RNZ: As it happened: Election campaign, 10 October
ELECTORATE RACES
Māni Dunlop (Sunday Star Times): Four candidates, one sprawling rohe and a Māori seat that could go anywhere (paywalled)
Mike Thorpe (Herald): Selwyn electorate – National’s 88-year hold on NZ’s fastest-growing district (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): National’s Carlos Cheung caused an upset in Mt Roskill in 2023 - now he has ministerial ambitions and isn’t afraid to raise different views (paywalled)
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Labour outflanks NZ First with a promise for a minerals future
NATIONAL’S FISHING AND MARINE POLICY
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Opponents label National’s fishing policy ‘desperate’ and a ‘flip-flop’
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): National winks to Opportunity promising to review bottom trawling and create new Waiheke reserve
Jonathan Killick (Sunday Star Times): Potaka, PM reveal support for contentious marine reserve, say ‘coalition approvals’ held it back (paywalled)
Nick James (Sunday Star Times): Qiulae Wong says National’s fishing policies don’t go far enough (paywalled)
RNZ: National proposes new marine reserves, complete ban on ring-net fishing in Hauraki Gulf
1News: National says it will create new marine reserve in Hauraki Gulf
NZ FIRST, THE MINIMUM WAGE AND WORKING FOR FAMILIES
Derek Cheng (Herald): Winston Peters mounts fierce defence of all races that come here legally (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): Winston Peters campaigns on minimum wage growth of at least inflation rate (paywalled)
Nick James (Sunday Star Times): NZ First to campaign on raising the minimum wage and a working for families boost (paywalled)
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): NZ First confirms it will increase minimum wage, Working for Families payments
RNZ: New Zealand First pledges to increase minimum wage by at least inflation levels if in government
1News: NZ First vows to permanently raise Working for Families payments
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