JIM BOLGER
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Jim Bolger in his own words
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): ‘An excellent PM and an even better person’: memories of working with Jim Bolger
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Jim Bolger showed what real leadership looks like (paywalled)
Tim Watkin (RNZ): How Jim Bolger became the master of the ‘smoke-filled room’
John Campbell (1News): Jim Bolger had a genuine impact on New Zealand
Stuff: Jim Bolger on turning 90, Winston Peters, and a message for everyone in one of his final interviews
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): ‘Even in the darkest times, he understood the need to build our nation’
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Jim Bolger remembered as a ‘really good bloke’ after death aged 90
Luke Malpass and Henry Cooke (Post): ‘A towering figure in NZ’s political life’: Vale Jim Bolger (paywalled)
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Jim Bolger was prepared to overrule colleagues on Ngāi Tahu Treaty settlement - Tā Tipene O’Regan
Russell Palmer (RNZ): ‘Humble, dedicated, passionate’ - MPs remember Jim Bolger in Parliament
RNZ: Jim Bolger, the Great Helmsman, remembered as unpretentious leader of conviction
1News: Jim Bolger’s ‘very significant legacy’ remembered
David Cohen (Post): Remembering Jim and his conversations about our country (paywalled)
Paul Keating (Post): Jim Bolger was a wise, open-minded leader (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Jim Bolger: The man who shepherded in modern NZ (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR: Jim Bolger was a man of conviction and principle, Luxon says (paywalled)
Eva Corlett (Guardian): Jim Bolger, former New Zealand prime minister who drove reconciliation with Māori, dies at 90
Post: Jim Bolger: his life in pictures (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): Politicians pay tribute to former PM Jim Bolger (paywalled)
David Farrar: Parliamentary tributes to Jim Bolger
Caron Copek (Stuff): What Jim Bolger saw that John Key didn’t - and wasn’t afraid to call up and tell him
Rachel Moore (Stuff): Ousting Jim Bolger was ‘hard in the moment’, Jenny Shipley says in tribute to the ‘professional’ PM
PARLIAMENT, POLLS, GOVERNMENT
Peter Dunne: When Politicians Become Self-Deluded
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Finance minister urges education and health to ‘recycle’ redundant properties
Andrea Vance (Post): Winston Peters eats into National’s vote as support rises again (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Parliament mourns Jim Bolger, a leader of substance; Gerry Brownlee reaches his limit (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): A controversial bill is overshadowed by Te Pāti Māori’s turmoil
Serena Solomon (RNZ): Would a stricter dress code bring political order?
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Sometimes Parliament needs plot summaries
Louise Collins (RNZ): The House: MPs hear submissions on Public Service Bill
David Williams (Herald): Green Party MP Tamatha Paul undergoes cardiac procedure in Wellington Hospital
Stuff: ‘Fun heart problem’: Green MP recovering after surgery
TE PĀTI MĀORI
Martin Van Beynen (Press/Post): Te Pāti Māori needs clean-out more than reset (paywalled)
Jack McDonald (Post): To survive, party must put kaupapa first (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Te Pāti Māori allegations: Eru Kapa-Kingi sends message to ‘my haters’, ‘those throwing dirt on my name’
Te Ao Māori News: Kapa-Kingi v Te Pāti Māori: Pita Tipene calls for focus on voters and kaupapa
CROWN-MĀORI RELATIONS, FORESHORE AND SEABED, WAITANGI TRIBUNAL
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori says governor general should block new seabed and foreshore bill
Henry Cooke (Post): Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris says governor-general should refuse to sign marine area law (paywalled)
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Marine and Coastal rights law change worse than Foreshore and Seabed, says Māori rights activist
The Hui: Veteran 1975 Land Marcher calls out Māori MPs for ‘selling us out’
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): The under-the-radar law change that critics say will ‘torch’ Māori–Crown relations
Areti Metuamate (Post): 50 years of the Waitangi Tribunal and why we should judge it fairly (paywalled)
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Whitirea returns to Ngāti Toa (paywalled)
CLIMATE CHANGE, GENETIC ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Long-awaited climate adaptation plan leaves ‘who pays’ unanswered
RNZ: National Flood Map will show areas likely to flood due to climate change
Rob Stock (Post): Will the Government’s all of country floodmap change anything for owners of homes? (paywalled)
Science Media Centre: NZ’s first Climate Adaptation Framework – Expert Reaction
Mandy Te (Interest): Govt to introduce climate adaptation legislation with work underway on a national flood map
Brent Edwards (NBR): New national flood map to be developed as part of climate plan (paywalled)
Guardian: New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets
RNZ: Pacific voices urge experts to ‘decolonise’ adaptation at New Zealand’s largest climate forum
Jamie Morton (Newsroom): Five reasons urban trees make sense
MEDIA
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): The Talley’s trial – A verdict on free speech in New Zealand
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Is the BSA going too far — or just doing its job? (paywalled)
Steven Price: The Broadcasting Standards Authority is right
David Harvey: The Broadcasting Standards Authority and Jurisdiction
David Harvey: Assuming Jurisdiction
Chris Lynch: BSA tries its luck as thought police but it will fail
Aaron Smale (Listener): NZ media’s ageing audience encourages a feedback loop of bias (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Simon Dallow preparing to step down as TVNZ 6pm newsreader; North & South magazine’s battle; Opinion: BSA goes rogue – is it a deliberate strategy? (paywalled)
Patrick Walsh (Herald): Students fuelled by social media and energy drinks are exhausted, disengaged, and withdrawn. They’re living in a parallel universe (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland Council elections: Electoral fraud complaint filed with police, claims vote papers stolen from letterboxes
RNZ: Electoral fraud complaint filed with police, relating to Auckland Council elections
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Mayor’s emergency meeting questioned by council lawyer, local electoral officer
RNZ: Eleventh hour Kaipara emergency council meeting delayed
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Outgoing Kaipara mayor calls emergency meeting into election conduct
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori News): Mayhem erupts at Kaipara emergency meeting, now adjourned until Friday morning
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Kaipara mayor seeks judicial inquiry into alleged voting irregularities
No Right Turn:Trumpism in Kaipara
Jonathan Killick (Post): ‘Unprecedented’: Final Auckland election result delayed (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington council election decision delayed due to special vote multitude (paywalled)
Michael Swanson: The Long List of Local Elections Problems
Avina Vidyadharan (Post): Developers to new mayor: Show us ‘proof’ Hamilton is open for business (paywalled)
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Committee halts new liquor store for Rotorua CBD after more than 700 objections
Nick James (RNZ): Fran Wilde leads South Wairarapa mayoralty election
Justin Wong (Post): Porirua’s Māori councillor re-elected with nail-biting majority (paywalled)
Waikato Herald: Local Elections 2025: Waikato councils receive shake-up
Eva Corlett (Guardian): Guaranteed Māori seats on New Zealand councils to be slashed by more than half
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): A zero rate rise – what would it look like?
RNZ: Helen Lash retains mayoralty over Jacquie Grant by tiny margin
Grant Miller (ODT): Police not pursuing ‘treating’ complaint against new councillor (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
RNZ: The Detail: ‘Never enough to go around’: Charities facing hard calls as in cost-of-living bites
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Falling interest rates expected to be shortlived - economist
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Mortgage rates may be back above 6% in under two years, forecaster suggests
Stuff: What’s costing more now? Bread up 50%, cheese up 30%, butter up 29%
David Hargreaves (Interest): Surprise large monthly drop in food prices may lead to lower September CPI figure than expected
RNZ: Consumer inflation set to break 3% level
Mandy Te (Interest): Inflation expectations keep RBNZ’s Paul Conway nervous
Mandy Te (Interest): QE would be considered in future scenario of extreme economic turbulence, RBNZ chief economist says
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): A brief inflation spike won’t spook the RBNZ (paywalled)
Mike Jones: Where’s the growth in the NZ economy? – in charts
HOUSING
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Why rising house prices are a bad thing
Raphael Franks (Herald): Renting v owning: Renters have lower life satisfaction than homeowners, study finds
Public Health Communications Centre: How many people can rent a house together? Why occupancy limits need reform
AJ Hendry: Trading public housing for rent vouchers will increase homelessness
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Government should sell state homes and give tenants rent vouchers instead - NZ Initiative
Bryce Wilkinson (Herald): You do not have to own someone’s house to help them (paywalled)
RNZ: New Zealand’s ‘most expensive state house’ sells for $3.4 million
Tom Day (1News): Night shelter calls for help for eight-month pregnant woman
Dan Brunskill (Interest): A capital gains tax would be almost ‘irrelevant’ with house price growth unlikely to continue at pre-pandemic pace - Bill English
David Hargreaves (Interest): The decision to ease loan-to-value ratio restrictions now is not necessarily a mistake, but the timing is odd and sends the wrong signals
Miriam Bell (Post): LVRs: What are they -and who cares? (paywalled)
RNZ: Building cost growth slows in third quarter
HEALTH
RNZ: Emergency doctor ‘shocked’ by Health Minister’s speech accusing clinicians of crossing ‘ethical line’
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Simeon Brown accuses doctors of crossing ‘ethical line’ with mega strike
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Boos and backlash as Health Minister says doctors cross an ‘ethical line’ by striking
Anna Whyte (Post): Senior doctors laugh, jeer during Health Minister’s speech (paywalled)
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Patients worry about rise of corporate-owned GP clinics, but they say judge us ‘on the outcomes’
Isaac Davison (Stuff): Mike King called Stuff’s reporting about his charity ‘completely false’. Here’s what actually happened
RNZ: Alternative treatment for tooth decay could soon be funded
Ellen O’Dwyer (Post): Hanmer Springs Forest Camp switches to bottled water after E.coli hospitalisations
ANIMAL WELFARE
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Govt’s independent animal welfare experts disagreed with pig welfare reforms
ODT Editorial: Pig welfare weasel words (paywalled)
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
RNZ: Government determined to press on with card surcharge ban
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Fears benefit changes will impact youth job programme
RNZ: Need to be easier ways to unsubscribe, Commerce Commission says
Aziz Al Saafin (1News): HelloFresh fined $845k for misleading customers in ‘subscription traps’
RNZ: HelloFresh fined $845,000 after cold calls said to mislead customers
Rob Stock (Post): HelloFresh fined $845,000 for reactivating subscriptions without permission (paywalled)
Phoebe Utteridge (Stuff): He was overlooked for almost 8000 jobs, now he’s got the one he really wanted
Bronwyn Heenan (BusinessDesk): The Employment Relations Act at 25: A midlife crisis? (paywalled)
NBR: Bolger, delayed Du Val, frosty Neals, Simpsonillionaire (paywalled)
SCIENCE
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Future of discovery research uncertain after science funding overhaul
Mary Argue (RNZ): Marsden Fund shake-up raises potential for political interference, Royal Society says
Mary Argue (RNZ): Science review doubles down on ‘particularly fragile’, underfunded system
Science Media Centre: Big shakeup for NZ’s research funding – Expert Reaction