POLICE
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Jevon McSkimming accuser faces charges of harassing another police officer
Jared Savage (Herald): Jevon McSkimming case: Police apologise for ‘badly letting down’ woman but continue prosecution over alleged abusive emails to detective
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Jevon McSkimming emails: What happened after Mark Mitchell, Christopher Luxon received anonymous allegations? (paywalled)
David Fisher (Herald): Spy chief Andrew Hampton stands by security vetting of Jevon McSkimming for his ‘Top Secret Special’ clearance (paywalled)
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Following orders not a defence against police misconduct - employment lawyer
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Further inquiries possible after IPCA report, Police Minister Mark Mitchell says
Herald: IPCA report prompts cross-party call for police accountability reforms
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Andrew Coster’s fall from champion of progressive policing
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Coster’s last stand
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Andrew Coster is on borrowed time as CEO of Social Investment Agency (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Former Police Commissioner Andrew Coster refuses to comment on damning McSkimming report
Kelly Dennett (Post): ‘Jevon would be happy to have a go legally’: Andrew Coster’s worries if McSkimming’s road to top job was muddied
Henry Cooke (Post): Jevon McSkimming scandal: Nicola Willis acted on Andrew Coster after reading report (paywalled)
Imogene Bedford (Herald): Police Commissioner Richard Chambers scathing of predecessor Andrew Coster’s McSkimming secrecy
Michael Daly (Stuff): ‘He enabled this’: Louise Nicholas says Andy Coster has a lot to answer for in the Jevon McSkimming scandal
Herald: Louise Nicholas calls for Andrew Coster to front after IPCA police report
Amelia Wade (Post): ‘An explanation, Andy’: Survivors call on Coster to speak out over McSkimming scandal (paywalled)
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Louise Nicholas on McSkimming scandal: ‘This time, they’re doing something about it’
Jan Jordan (Post): Another ‘rotten apple’ falls from the police tree - why are we here again?
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Revealed: The senior cops who exposed the Jevon McSkimming police ‘cover-up
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Revealed: The key figures in the IPCA report which found serious misconduct at the highest levels
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Revealed: The five senior officers at the heart of the McSkimming ‘cover-up’
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Buried in the IPCA report: the cops who showed moral courage
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Jevon McSkimming and police’s ‘serious misconduct’: A timeline of who knew what about the allegations, and when they knew it
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): How did police stop ministers from hearing about their disgraced deputy?
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Top lawyer to lead employment probe into three serving police leaders
RNZ: Police officer who labelled allegations against McSkimming as ‘false’ still active
RNZ: Mark Mitchell says 36 emails about Jevon McSkimming were kept from him by police
Thomas Manch (Post): Police minister’s staff redirected 36 emails from McSkimming complainant (paywalled)
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): A portrait of Jevon McSkimming as a senior police colleague
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): How a disgraced deputy police commissioner might well have walked away with $1.5 million
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): The infamous McSkimming LinkedIn post, explained
1News: ‘Sad and dark day’: Top cop on IPCA report into handling of McSkimming
Samuel Sherry (Herald): Legal experts say woman prosecuted over Jevon McSkimming case may get payout
Eva Corlett (Guardian): ‘Atrocious on every level’: sex case findings shame New Zealand’s senior police culture
Michael Macaulay (The Conversation): ‘Leadership is morality magnified’ – what police must learn from the McSkimming scandal
ODT Editorial: Police report shattering (paywalled)
David Farrar: Police Commissioners should be like Caesar’s Wife
No Right Turn: Nothing has changed II
Ani O’Brien: Rot: corrupt top cops destroy trust in NZ Police
Simon O’Connor: Policing the police
PARLIAMENT, POLLS
Bryce Edwards (Integrity Institute): Will Labour fix broken New Zealand?
RNZ: 30 with Guyon Espiner: Labour leader Chris Hipkins comfortable being labelled a socialist
Grant Duncan: Chris Hipkins: is he, or is he not, a democratic socialist?
Aaron Smale (Listener): Labour needs to show some political courage (paywalled)
Steven Cowan: Chris Hipkins: Faux socialist
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Why 1997 is a good year for Christopher Luxon
Janet Wilson (Post): A time for the tried and true, or to make way for the radical? (paywalled)
Richard Prebble (Herald): Cost of living will still matter for voters heading into 2026 election (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour gains support after capital gains tax announcement, but not enough to form Government
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Coalition would hold power but Labour gains points after capital gains tax - poll
Stuff: Labour the most popular party in latest poll, but coalition holds power
Henry Cooke (Post): Labour gains in poll after capital gains tax - but coalition back on top
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Does the Te Pāti Māori schism hurt or help Labour?
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Just two to party at Te Pāti Māori as questions swirl about last remaining MPs
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Te Pati Māori MPs meet without party co-leaders, one day after expulsion decision
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): MP’s meet without their co-leaders, Te Pāti Māori due to head North and Ikaroa-Rāwhiti vote contested
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): One MP, One Pint: Steve Abel on writing a new album and the joy of a sub-$10 beer
ASSET SALES
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Why New Zealand may be headed for another fight over asset sales
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Going, going … the 10 state-owned assets atop ministers’ sales block
Greg Presland (The Standard): The tawdry silly argument in favour of selling assets
Richard Harman: Peters ducks and gives Luxon a win (paywalled)
ABUSE IN CARE
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Survivors say Crown apology proves ‘hollow’ 12 months on
Tim Brown (RNZ): Calls for promises to be kept, one year after abuse in care apology
Lineni Tuitupou (Te Ao Māori News): A year since the apology, state abuse survivors say real change is still to come
HEALTH
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Private cancer patients to get access to Pharmac-funded medicine
Emma Shields, Jude Ball, Calvin Cochran, Melissa J Gregan and Janet Hoek (Public Health Communications Centre): Aotearoa plummets from 2nd to 53rd in Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index ranking
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Law ensuring approval of new medicines allowed in other countries passes in Parliament
RNZ: Mike King steps down as chief executive of mental health charity I Am Hope Foundation
Sam Smith (Stuff): Mike King steps down as head of I Am Hope Foundation
EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Charter School Agency signed sports school contract with non-existent trust
Ian Taylor (Stuff): Prime Minister, I’m beginning to wonder who’s actually running the country
Julia Gabel (Herald): Ellen MacGregor-Reid confirmed as Ministry of Education secretary and chief executive
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Ministry of Education finally gets new chief
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Thousands of indigenous educators to meet in Tāmaki Makaurau for event
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): A new curriculum and the politics of knowledge (paywalled)
TRANSPORT, DRUG-DRIVING LEGISLATION
Jack McDonald (Post): Testing approach will lead to innocent people being charged (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): Green MP warns public transport not ready for congestion charging (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Am I the only person in Christchurch who’s excited about the new bus payment system?
JUSTICE
David Harvey (Listener): Protests like those outside Winston Peters’ home test the appetite for law change (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Retail crime group chair accused Labour of ‘misinformation’ over costs (paywalled)
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Amendments to proposed anti-stalking law a good start, advocacy group says
EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS, CONSUMER AFFAIRS
ODT Editorial: Lifelines for hospitality, film
Simon Wilson (Herald): The Michelin Guide dispute: In praise of elbows on the table (paywalled)
Bryan Bruce: The Big Answer - $6.3 million to Michelin. A good idea or not?
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Inland Revenue increases audits and liquidations as NZ’s tax debt hits $9 billion and continues growing (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): The dangers of digital deception by dark patterns
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): ‘Dark patterns’ in online shopping costing Kiwis millions: Consumer NZ (paywalled)
RNZ: Black Friday sales: ‘Avoid the hype’ warns Consumer NZ
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Open, agreeable New Zealanders less likely to be employed, study shows
Cameron Smith (Herald): Gen Z job crunch: Record numbers of applicants as unemployment increases (paywalled)
Cameron Smith (Herald): NZ workers reveal the pay rise they would leave their job for
David Burton (Post): When industrial disputes are felt far and wide (paywalled)
CLIMATE CHANGE
Kate Newton (RNZ): Climate change minister defends weakened methane emissions target ahead of COP30
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Changes to emissions targets raise more questions over NZ’s real climate ambition (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Climate Change Minister will advocate for the Pacific at COP30 (paywalled)
Olivia Yates (Herald): Our warming world is leaving children hungry. NZ can help change that (paywalled)
Michael Neilson (BusinessDesk): Carbon Catch-Up: Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions of NZ’s largest companies under microscope (paywalled)
Sue Teodoro (Local Democracy Reporting): Discussion around climate-related damage puts vulnerable coastal roads in spotlight
MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS, TREATY
RNZ: National Iwi Chairs Forum files court proceedings over RMA reforms
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Human rights complaint filed to United Nations over treatment of Māori
Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn (Spinoff): Redacting the Crown’s lies: Why I defaced an exhibition in our national museum
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Pākehā Te Tiriti leader reflects on Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti one year on
CARTOONS