WELLINGTON SEWAGE FAILURES
Lochlan Lineham (Herald): Wellington Water chair Nick Leggett quits after Moa Point sewage failure
Andrea Vance (Post): “Someone had to be accountable”: Nick Leggett resigns over Moa Point failure (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): The inside story of Wellington’s $511m wastewater blowout (paywalled)
Sean Rush: In defence of Tamatha Paul
Ethan Manera (Herald): Commerce Commission considering stronger powers over Wellington Water after Moa Point failure
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington sewage spill: Hutt Valley, Porirua residents could pay for Moa Point failure (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION, GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Are Labour and the Greens ready for a coalition with NZ First?
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Hipkins should defy Te Pāti Māori boast and ditch it
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Act prepares for state of the nation, but what’s the state of Act? (paywalled)
1News: Labour demands unredacted advice on Govt’s India deal before backing it
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): The Coalition of Bros (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Inside Te Pāti Māori’s vote to expel MPs Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris (paywalled)
David Farrar: Is it a party or a family?
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): Christopher Luxon v Chris Hipkins: What voters should expect from a PM (paywalled)
Duncan Garner (Listener): Forget the cost of living and power prices. The Greens want whales to be become human (paywalled)
Bryan Bruce: The Peters paradox (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Tax or levy, RMA reform, India FTA, monetary policy (paywalled)
ENERGY AND LNG TERMINAL
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Why the Govt’s LNG terminal gamble should alarm you
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Sunday Star Times): Inside Cabinet’s case for importing LNG — and the puzzles that remain (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Pure Muldoonism
Greg Presland (The Standard): Think Big 2.0
NZ Energy: New Zealand’s 2026 Energy Stock-Take – Part 4 - Emerging Technologies
Geoff Fischer: Out of the blue: Taranaki’s LNG terminal
RETIREMENT ISSUES
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): The silver tsunami: decades of treading water (paywalled)
Henry Cooke and Luke Malpass (Post): Treasury Secretary Iain Rennie warns NZ Super incentivises graduates to leave (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Treasury CEO Iain Rennie warns NZ is losing too many of its best and brightest, as the country’s top firms aren’t attracting talent (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Ditch NZ Super entirely, minor party says
Damien Venuto (Stuff): NZ is ageing into a financial mess. Here are five bold ideas to fix KiwiSaver before it’s too late
Jane Wrightson (Newsroom): Comparing KiwiSaver and Aussie Super is the $6 trillion dollar question
Aaron Smale (Listener): The major issue politicians will avoid in election year (paywalled)
Brian Peat (Post): Thousands of retirement village residents still facing financial limbo (paywalled)
ECONOMIC POLICY
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): The messy business of throwing together an election plan (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Why Budget repair will be part of this election - for everyone (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): New Zealand’s economy is set to outpace Australia’s ... now what? (paywalled)
MĀORI SEATS REFERENDUM POLICY
Post: Editorial – Should the Māori seats stay or go? (paywalled)
Ben Thomas (Post): Exit, stage right, for Treaty sideshows - or is an encore in the wings? (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): New Zealand First campaigning for referendum on Māori seats
AI
Anna Whyte (Post): ‘AI is here now’: Public servants readying for a permanent shift (paywalled)
Herald: Editorial – The online world is more dangerous and unethical with ‘AI slop’ (paywalled)
Blayne Slabbert (Post): Robots, AI and your teenager’s career choices: There’s no such thing as a ‘safe’ job any more (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): ‘Peking duck in the barnacle pool’: Shane Jones orders two-year harvesting ban (paywalled)
Amber Allott (Press): ‘They’re ours to save’: the debate over the vulnerable Hector’s Dolphin (paywalled)
Nikki Macdonald (Post): Kākāpō, Canterbury mudfish, or pest control: what gets priority? (paywalled)
LAW
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. the Judge Aitken hearing
Lane Nichols (Herald): Judge Ema Aitken judicial conduct hearing: NZ First minister Casey Costello claims celebrity doctor was ‘intoxicated’
Lane Nichols (Herald): Judicial conduct hearing: Judge Ema Aitken denies lying, felt pressured to write apology letters after NZ First incident
Catrin Owen (Post): Judge called Winston Peters’ speech ‘disgusting’ during disruption at club event, minister recalls (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Lane Nichols (Herald): Teaching Council child safety failures: Education Minister Erica Stanford orders KC probe (paywalled)
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): The Warehouse founder calls for universities to work together (paywalled)
Catherine Hill (Newsroom): Not much logic in draft curriculum’s sheer amount of ‘knowledge’
WAITANGI AND TREATY
Hirini Kaa (Spinoff): The tension at Waitangi showed the Crown isn’t always at the centre
Carwyn Jones (E-tangata): What the PM said at Waitangi was wrong
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Growing numbers of Pākehā seeking to understand Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Paula Toko King (E-tangata): Our prisons cause more harm
Dominic O’Sullivan (E-Tangata): An Indigenous diplomacy is possible
MEDIA
Sam Smith (Stuff): Talley’s appeals decision in defamation case with TVNZ, parties to return to court
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Taxpayer-funded Chlöe Swarbrick documentary delayed again
Shayne Currie (Herald): Taxpayer-funded Chlöe Swarbrick documentary delayed again; LA production firm distances itself from Alex Breingan, says film claims ‘unauthorised’ (paywalled)
CARTOONS