SUPERMARKETS AND GROCERY COMPETITION
Adam Pearse (Herald): National to campaign on splitting up Foodstuffs but only with Commerce Commission approval
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): National vows to ‘pursue’ break up supermarket giant Foodstuffs
Justin Hu (1News): National to ‘pursue’ Pak’nSave and New World break-up
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): National joins NZ First as it says it could split New World and Pak’n Save
Anneke Smith (Post): National promises to ‘pursue’ breaking up Foodstuffs (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): National proposes separating Foodstuffs into two competing grocery chains
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): National will pursue Foodstuffs breakup if re-elected (paywalled)
Neil Sands (LawNews): National will split Foodstuffs into two competing grocery chains
Hamish McNicol and Brent Edwards (NBR): Foodstuffs says it is thoroughly reviewing National breakup plan (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): National proposes structural separation of Foodstuffs (paywalled)
Tom Raynel (Herald): National’s Foodstuffs split plan criticised over costs, scale and competition (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (Post): ACT leader David Seymour pours cold water on National’s proposal to break up Foodstuffs (paywalled)
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Winston Peters mocks National as ‘great pretender’ over supermarket policy
Stuff: Winston plays The Great Pretender after National’s latest policy
RNZ: ‘Chilling’: Business groups speak out against National’s supermarket break-up plan
RNZ: Shoppers split over Foodstuffs break-up plan
Stuff: Supermarket showdown: Parties target prices ahead of election
Sam Smith (Stuff): Where do the political parties align and where do they differ in the great supermarket debate?
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Splitting up Foodstuffs: Would it actually drive down grocery prices?
Dita De Boni (Post): Report finds benefits in splitting Foodstuffs as National pledges to ‘pursue’ breakup (paywalled)
Anne Gibson (Herald): Foodstuffs break-up: National Party’s plan could force supermarket property ownership changes (paywalled)
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Foodstuffs combines Gilmours and Trents wholesale businesses despite Commerce Commission blocking merger of parents (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Supermarket break-up: Will National’s plan work? The Bottom Line checks it out (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Supermarket policy competition shows National hungry (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): BusinessNZ warns National Foodstuffs split sends chilling signal (paywalled)
Richard Harman: Willis’s supermarket plan “bonkers” (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): The National Party should know better when it comes to business
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Supermarkets have become an election battleground
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Political momentum is building for bringing back Big Fresh
No Right Turn: The Overton window shifts...
Carolyne Meng-Yee (Herald): KiwiMart name dispute: Kāpiti entrepreneurs say they came up with it before the Green Party (paywalled)
Emma Hildesley (1News): Greens’ KiwiMart could end up in name dispute as company files claim
PRICE GOUGING AND THE COST OF LIVING
Ethan Manera (Herald): Chris Hipkins announces Labour plan to outlaw price gouging if elected
RNZ: Labour pledges to ban big companies from charging excessive prices
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Labour proposes to ban price gouging
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Labour proposes broad ban on excessive pricing for ‘essential services’ (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Interest): Labour promises to crack down on ‘excessive prices’ of basics such as food and power
1News: Labour says it will ‘crack down’ on price gouging for essentials if elected
Rodney Hide: Empty fridge, full press conference
TOM PHILLIPS INQUIRY
Jo Moir (RNZ): Tom Phillips inquiry exposes multiple mistakes by police and Oranga Tamariki
Jo Moir (RNZ): Prime Minister apologises to Tom Phillips’ children and their mother following inquiry
Herald: Marokopa children inquiry: Agencies feared sharing information, Upston says
Juliet Speedy (Stuff): ‘How many missed opportunities before it’s a failing?’ The ignored warnings before Phillips abducted his children
Robin Martin (RNZ): Tom Phillips case: ‘Circuit breaker’ moment was missed, says mayor
Hannah Brown (Herald): Homeschool saga: ERO warned Education Minister Erica Stanford months before Tom Phillips revelation (paywalled)
Anya Fielding (RNZ): ‘Simply not good enough’ - Barnardos demands more work to protect children
ODT: Editorial – Damning reports need actions (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Why the Tom Phillips report doesn’t surprise me
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): The report shows us just how badly the Phillips kids were failed
ELECTION 2026
Thomas Coughlan and Chris Knox (Herald): Labour Party support slides in latest poll of polls, National hold steady (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Voters don’t love Hipkins. They really don’t like Luxon (paywalled)
Te Ao Māori News: Whakaata Māori poll: Labour leads party vote as Te Pāti Māori dominates Māori roll
Justin Hu (1News): Cost of living dominates as 72% of Māori rate Govt poorly in poll
Māni Dunlop (Post): Māori verdict on government clear, preferred alternative is not (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): ‘Nine New Taxes’: What to make of National’s claims about Labour
Ethan Griffiths (Herald): Labour candidate says he’ll only return to New Zealand if elected to Parliament
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): ACT candidate Ash Parmar pauses then recommits to campaign
David Williams (Newsroom): In a Christchurch electorate that flips, a Green tilt changes the race
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Uncosted MMP referendum: Could Māori seats be on the chopping block?
Nik Dirga (RNZ): What is an overhang and how could it change NZ’s election result?
Poppy Clark (Stuff): National election billboard burnt in ‘suspicious’ fire
Herald Reporters (Herald): National hoarding targeted in Mt Albert arson attack, police investigating
RNZ: ‘Nowhere near enough to live on’ - ACT’s minimum wage plan slammed by union
Brent Edwards (NBR): Is this the year of the minor parties? (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Everyone is in opposition now - except ACT (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Are voters as angry about Covid as politicians think they are? (paywalled)
Richard Prebble (Herald): Labour’s Waitangi Tribunal pledge lets radical constitutional review proceed (paywalled)
Richard Prebble: MMP and Tāmaki
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): Rhetoric is no substitute for substance, no matter who we vote for (paywalled)
Verity Johnson: We’re offered small change - but there’s never been more of a hunger for big change
Mike Grimshaw: Are we experiencing Affective Polarization in New Zealand?
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Wellington’s $600k Te Matapihi library website
Ayla Yeoman (Herald): Tauranga could receive $866,000 under National’s international visitor levy plan
Katie Todd (RNZ): ‘It’s hell’: Queenstown workers, mayor, firefighter fed up with traffic congestion
Luka Forman (RNZ): Heart of the City to elect new board after tumultuous year
Tom Hunt (Post): Protesters warn of ‘quays‑gridlock’ if bus-lane plan proceeds (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Post): G’day Welly, where the bloody hell are ya? (paywalled)
RNZ: Watercare to spend $95 million on Ōtara wastewater
Teuila Fuatai (RNZ): Tairāwhiti flood recovery: ‘We’re a long way off yet’
Lane Nichols (Herald): Auckland Council could quit Auckland Deal over Houkura voting rights ban, Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown warns
Jonathan Killick (Post): ‘Butt out’: Auckland mayor blasts minister for nixing Māori board voting rights (paywalled)
RNZ: Auckland mayor tells local government minister to ‘butt out’ of his council’s democratic processes
Sam Smith (Stuff): Wayne Brown calls on Government to ‘butt out of our business’, threatens to pull out of Auckland Deal
Herald: Editorial – Visitor levy sharing is a good start but more needed (paywalled)
Neil Reid (Herald): Councils around NZ warned of deadly landslides, tsunamis, floods, ‘loss of life’ (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Water affordability and capital spending plans questioned (paywalled)
Ross McNaughton (RNZ): Auckland Council shuts Piha campground with reopening date uncertain
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