PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Alice Neville (Spinoff): Who’s funding who in election year?
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): ‘They’re not ready for me’: high-profile Green candidate flips to independent
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Palestinian candidate says her people’s values are peace and dignity
Chris Trotter (Interest): John Key proved that National did not need a global pandemic to win half the voting public
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Inside the push to fix Luxon’s media image
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): How the prime minister took ex-prince Andrew’s NZ titles off him
Joanne Naish (Press): Battle contenders announced in fight for West Coast-Tasman electorate (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Brendan Boyle appointed Social Investment Agency chief executive
FUEL CRISIS
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Luxon needs to do some elbowing for fuel supplies too
Nathan Surendran: No fuel, still fed
Henry Cooke (Post): Iran war: Christopher Luxon promises news on commercial fuel deals within a week (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): NZ fuel stocks tick down, as tensions over Hormuz ratchet up (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Interest): How Treasury is modelling the oil crisis as conflict rapidly changes
Mildred Armah (Stuff): Petrol spike hits rural relief teachers paid only 37c/km travel allowance
Kim Griggs (Post): The 10 fuel ships we know are on their way. Here’s when they’ll arrive (paywalled)
WEATHER
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Hawke’s Bay mayor says he refused state of emergency for Cyclone Vaianu, calls it ‘woke’
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Christopher Luxon hits back at Wairoa mayor Craig Little over woke comment
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Rebuilding amid climate volatility: a new blueprint for business recovery
1News: Worsening ocean heat waves ‘supercharging’ cyclone damage – study
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Cyclone Vaianu was the third major weather event this year, and experts say we aren’t taking it seriously enough
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Huge forecasting fail: Cyclone Vaianu didn’t even kill or maim me
MEDIA
Greg Bruce (Herald): John Campbell’s first morning on Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report, reviewed
Tara Ward (Spinoff): John Campbell is back doing what he does best – interrupting prime ministers
Shayne Currie (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon v Chris Chang, Mike Hosking and John Campbell – rating the exchanges (paywalled)
Listener: Exclusive interview: Jacinda Ardern on her book, crises & regrets (paywalled)
Gavin Ellis: Goldsmith’s expectations and return of a fighter ace
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Does our news just have the wrong priorities?
Spinoff: The Fold: How Mike Minogue partnered with TVNZ+ on podcasting
SOCIAL MEDIA AND CYBER SECURITY
Amelia Wade (Post): Christopher Luxon raises prospect of crackdown on children’s access to porn (paywalled)
Jade Varney (Herald): A message to adults from someone who grew up in the social media age (paywalled)
Lyal Collins (Post): What can NZ learn from Australia about shirt-fronting cyber security threats? (paywalled)
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