PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT AND ELECTION
Andrea Vance (Post): Post-Budget blow: National stranded sub-30% in latest poll (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): The Post/Freshwater Strategy Poll: Is 30% now a ceiling for National, rather than a floor? (paywalled)
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The high risk move revealed by the Labour party’s list (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Who will sort out MP perks and pay?
Tim Hurdle (Post): The election battle will be fought in two places (paywalled)
Verity Johnson (Stuff): I’ll vote Labour again when Barb leads
Benn Bathgate (Post): Applause at Cambridge Town Hall as Peters takes aim at Paris accords, Labour and ‘flimflam’ (paywalled)
Stuff: Peters renews attack on India trade deal, confirms two more candidates
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): NZ First says overhaul of GMO laws unlikely before election
Greg Presland (The Standard): Which side is TOP on?
Azaria Howell (Newstalk ZB): Public Service Commission review cost far exceeds social media ad spend
Chris Knox (Herald): Public service job cuts: How many roles could go in your region (paywalled)
Anna Fifield (Listener): Could New Zealand ever be the ‘Singapore of the South Pacific’ - and what do public service cuts have to do with it? (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): How to win the election with pension reform (paywalled)
Reuben Steff (Post): Our children are growing up in a world controlled by technology, not democracy (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): High Court showdown over who pays for fisheries surveillance (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Band of brothers: one Penk lobbies another over defence policy
Paula Penfold (Stuff): The $24m ‘illusion’ of programmes to stop family violence
ELECTION: COSTINGS
Julia Gabel (Herald): National’s Nicola Willis claims $18.2 billion spending hole in Labour’s policy plan; Labour hits back at ‘desperate’ move
Jo Moir (RNZ): Nicola Willis shows she is ready to fight her way back into power in November
Harriet Laughton (Post): Nicola Willis launches early election attack on Labour with ‘hidden bill’ claim (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): National’s Nicola Willis attacks Labour’s economic plans
1News: Willis dares Hipkins ‘come clean’ with Labour spending gap claim
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): National, Labour spar over hyped-up $18b in ‘hidden’ policy costs
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Let the fiscal games begin: Nicola Willis tries to lure Labour into truth or dare, the policy edition
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Watchdog needed to quell election-year squabbles over spending - economist
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Labour’s Show Me The Money Problem
SCRUTINY WEEK AND THE BUDGET
Harriet Laughton (Post): Scrutiny week at Parliament to put Budget spending under the microscope (paywalled)
Russell Palmer and Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Scrutiny Week: How does it work and what are the drawbacks?
RNZ: Scrutinising government’s budget in an election year
Barbara Edmonds (Herald): Budget 2026 fails to tackle New Zealand’s productivity crisis
GENDER DEFINITIONS BILL
Sammy Carter (RNZ): Church billboard opposes Bill to define woman and man
RNZ: Demonstrators say they won’t rest until Bill to define woman and man is stopped
Ani O’Brien: The BSA’s parting gift: Showing why NZ needs the Definitions Bill
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