PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Matthew Hooton: Is Nicola confused about the difference between ‘deficit’ and ‘debt’?
Damien Grant (Stuff): John Key and Jacinda Ardern both turned to debt when disaster hit
Anna Whyte (Interest): Battle lines drawn on asset sales as parties set out starkly different views
Wayne Brown (Sunday Star Times): Join the movement for a Grand Coalition (paywalled)
RNZ: Anger over West Coast hydro scheme’s fast-track approval
RNZ: Greyhound Racing New Zealand calls for clarity ahead of ban
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): Disputed legal bill and cancer ‘karma’ claim in lengthy stoush involving Labour candidate (paywalled)
Dominic O’Sullivan (E-Tangata): When defence of free speech is racism in disguise
Sione Tekiteki (E-Tangata): Pacific possibilities under MMP
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Taking a gamble and the law of unintended consequences (paywalled)
COVID INQUIRY REPORT
Rob Stock (Sunday Star Times): New Zealand isn’t ready for the next pandemic, so the autopsy on the last must continue (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Do we owe our Covid conspiracy friends an apology? (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. the Covid inquiry
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Contra Matthew Hooton
ENERGY CRISIS, IRAN WAR, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Iran War: The Government’s Global Financial Crisis (paywalled)
Brad Olsen (Sunday Star Times): Iran War: Oil shocks are back - here’s why New Zealand should worry (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Never underestimate the political potency of petrol (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): The ghosts of Muldoon (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Carless days are no solution to an oil shock (paywalled)
Jesse Mulligan: Waiting for what? An alternative view of the current catastrophe
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Petrol costs bite for travelling care workers
PM IN THE PACIFIC
Barbara Dreaver (1News): PM Luxon’s office denies he asked for a Samoan matai title
Stuff: NZ government rejects Samoan PM’s claim
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Unlucky Luxo (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Luxon reaches for Pacific relief but faces tough questions on free movement
CLIMATE AND LANDUSE
Sam Crawley: After a summer of weather disasters, will Kiwis make climate an election issue?
Andrea Vance (Post): Mt Maunganui landslide: Engineers warned cabins should be before disaster (paywalled)
Erin Johnson (Stuiff): ‘Brushed off’: Their properties are marked ‘very high hazard’, so why did no one contact them?
HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS
Harriet Laughton (Post): Officials warn move on orders will make homelessness worse (paywalled)
RNZ: Auckland Mayor says inner-city suburbs are ripe for housing intensification
Isaac Davison (Stuff): The end of the Remuera state house: Who really wins in the Govt’s 900-home sell-off?
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): We have good news on housing
JUSTICE, LAW AND ORDER
Mike White (Sunday Star Times): Documents reveal inertia, indecision, backtracking at wrongful conviction body (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Troubles continue at youth justice facility as deadline for improvement looms
Jared Savage (Herald): Handguns and cocaine discovered in ‘unaccompanied luggage’ at Auckland Airport during investigation into corrupt Air NZ baggage handlers (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Local Democracy Reporting: Massive AI factory: Region weighing positives against negatives
Tom Raynel (Herald): Woolworths boss warns supermarket breakup could push grocery prices up (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Good Riddance
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington heading in wrong direction despite business confidence lift, CEOs tell Chamber of Commerce survey
TE AO MĀORI
Sacha McMeeking (E-Tangata): When will the Māori economy solve Māori disadvantage?
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): $130m and counting – but is it enough? The post-settlement reality facing iwi
Tureiti Moxon (Post): Time to recognise the part marae play in keeping communities safe (paywalled)
MINING
Mike White (Sunday Star Times): How Central Otago’s gold mine debate is being turned into a class war (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Voters think mining companies get the better deal (paywalled)
GOLDEN INVESTOR SCHEME
Nikki Macdonald (Sunday Star Times): Golden visa holders go house hunting (paywalled)
Jim Boult (Sunday Star Times): ‘Elitist’? Here are the facts about NZ’s investor visa scheme (paywalled)
JACINDA ARDERN AND GRANT ROBERTSON
Herald: Dame Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson to reunite on stage at Dunedin festival
ODT: Ardern, Robertson to share stage at Dunedin book event (paywalled)
CARTOONS