PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Giles Dexter (RNZ): National election policy announcement expected as party gathers for AGM
Henry Cooke (Post): National gathers as sub-30 polling shadows party conference (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): What three years of polling data tells us about Election 2026 (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): New Zealand’s politics has a prosperity problem (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour offers hope while coalition counters with cold hard reality (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Revenue Minister Simon Watts clashes with Greens’ Chlöe Swarbrick on whether big tech companies are paying enough tax in NZ (paywalled)
Emily Simpson (1News): I’m generally a swing voter but I know which Chris I’d choose to be PM
Kate Newton (RNZ): Chris Bishop defends new Ministry under scrutiny
1News: Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke confirms party, decries ‘tribalism’
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Labour’s “splash the cash” mentality will solve nothing
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): I’m not sure about the Oprah-fication of Labour’s policies
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Winston Peters defends Shane Jones’ travel cost blowout, says cabinet approved cheaper ones
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Echo Chamber: The scores, scrapes and sparks of scrutiny week
Leah McFall (Listener): In an election year, hair matters (paywalled)
PUBLIC SERVICE, MBIE AND MP PERKS
Janet Wilson (Post): The big tech fail: Anger at MBIE is justified, but there are more risks for govt (paywalled)
Peter Dunne: Public Service and the sustenance of democracy
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Frantic scrutiny of MBIE (paywalled)
ODT: How to set MP perks while rest struggle (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Policy costings, immigration scandal, political consensus (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Can the Government digitise its way to a smaller public service? (paywalled)
CONSERVATION LAND AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Spat erupts in Parliament over proposal to sell off conservation land
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Labour asks for comfort, Potaka asks for trust in preserving public land
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Coromandel mining loophole an ‘unintended consequence’
Science Media Centre: Public land up for sale under the Conservation Amendment Bill – Expert Reaction
Science Media Centre: Should we worry about bottom trawling? – Expert Q&A
MĀORI, TE TIRITI AND CROWN LAND
Dominic O’Sullivan (Listener): Haere rā the crown, farewell ‘partnership’: Māori political scientist Dominic O’Sullivan on why te tiriti debate needs a change of language (paywalled)
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): New Zealand First’s campaign to scrap Independent Māori Statutory Board ‘just dumb racist stuff’ - mayor
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Major Treaty case over compulsory return of Crown land heads to top court
Sam Smith (Stuff): Future of disputed piece of Auckland land still undecided six years after Crown sale
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