PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Audrey Young (Herald): Who could replace Christopher Luxon as Prime Minister and National Party leader? (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Are Luxon’s struggles special, or is he a victim of a global incumbency curse?
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): On National’s latest poor polling results (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): NZ proposal to weaken deep-sea coral protections rejected at Pacific fisheries meeting (paywalled)
Kate Newton (RNZ): Government’s climate change plans go to the High Court
Andrea Vance (Post): Climate plan faces High Court challenge over reliance on pine forests (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Christopher Luxon heads to Pacific as fuel questions looms (paywalled)
Louis Collins (RNZ): Peeni Henare asks MPs to rebuild trust in Parliament
Rob Stock (Post): Plan to expand citizen’s arrest law looks doomed after backlash from Police, retailers and Children’s Commissioner (paywalled)
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Labour shouldn’t automatically back the Unions
Eric Crampton (Newsroom): Tobacco excise income has plunged - is the illicit trade to blame?
ENERGY CRISIS
1News: Willis outlines ‘worst-case scenario’ for NZ if Middle East war drags on
Chris Knox (Herald): Nicola Willis urges motorists not to panic-buy fuel as oil prices spike
Verity Johnson (Stuff): This would be the week to drive an EV. Thanks for nothing, coalition
Ed Harvey (Post): The Government turned its back on EVs and now we’re paying the price
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): How this coastal nation of 5m people insulated itself from the Iran oil shock
Richard Harman: The worst case scenario — for National (paywalled)
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Nicola and Jack’s Outstanding Interview (paywalled)
Pretoria Gordon and Kaye Albyt (RNZ): Gull stations run out of fuel as petrol hits the $3 a litre mark
Rachel Maher (Herald): Auckland fuel can sell out: Motorists stock up as petrol prices surge
Hanna McCallum (Post): Iran war: Petrol prices top $3 in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch (paywalled)
Sinead Gill (Press): Average petrol price above $3 in Christchurch (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Freightways chief cautious about ‘hysteria’ over fuel prices (paywalled)
PM IN THE PACIFIC
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Oil, transnational crime, and visas on PM’s Pacific agenda
Julia Gabel (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon visiting Samoa, Tonga for first official engagements with new leaders
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Prime Minister’s office denies Christopher Luxon requested Samoan matai title
Julia Gabel (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s office denies he asked for matai title ahead of first engagement with Samoa’s new leader
AI
Samantha Gee (RNZ): ‘AI illiterate’: NZ at risk of being left behind as data centre plans move forward
Miriam Bell (Post): Hollowed out: AI, offshoring, and the brain drain thin the ranks of NZ’s professional workforce (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): NZ risks losing control over how AI is used in critical sectors: expert (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Southland data centre to draw 220m litres of water a year, consents show (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Liam Dann (Herald): GDP preview: Did the economy keep growing through the end of 2025? (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Preview: Economists cut growth forecasts and the outlook is getting worse (paywalled)
Lachlan Rennie (Herald): Medicinal cannabis industry under strain - facing shortages and closures
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Former lawyer in billboard battle with accounting firm BDO (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Councils say they can’t afford to enforce new land protections
Tom Hunt (Post): Andrew Little clears major hurdle as Wellington mayor (paywalled)
Stuff: Planned rates rise could nearly be halved as Wellington council finds $20m in savings
K Gurunathan (Post): Before local government reform, show us the numbers (paywalled)
Wei Shao (Press): ‘The wrong kind of heritage’: Council rejection of developer’s ‘neo-classical’ building near Arts Centre forces costly redesign (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): No budget secrecy: mayor (paywalled)
TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Winston Peters orders Ferry Holdings to pull six-figure job ads
Penny Smith (RNZ): Green Party warns of ‘perfect storm’ as ferry breakdowns disrupt travel and freight
Brent Edwards (NBR): Government to make money from port infrastructure for new ferries (paywalled)
HEALTH
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): ACC spied on man with traumatic brain injury
Grant Duncan: Ideological struggle in your local medical practice
Riria Dalton-Reedy (Te Ao Māori News): Harakeke can heal ‘forever chemicals’, research shows (paywalled)
THE PRESS POWER LIST 2026
Philip Matthews (Press): The Press Power List 2026: Whose power has increased, who has lost their way? (paywalled)
Philip Matthews (Press): The unveiling of The Press Power List begins: Numbers 50-41 (paywalled)
CARTOONS