PARLIAMENT, POLLS, GOVERNMENT
Chris Knox (Herald): Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer failed to declare two properties under Parliament’s rules (paywalled)
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Ready to govern? On what Te Pāti Māori really wants from politics (paywalled)
Laura Walters (Newsroom): The real chokehold on MPs’ conduct isn’t what they wear around their necks
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Labour teases economic plan to keep jobs and wealth in New Zealand
Brent Edwards (NBR): Te Pāti Māori, wear a tie, local democracy, industrial action (paywalled)
Elliot Crossnan: The Return of Rogernomics? Gary Payinda interview on the Frontline Podcast
PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES, ENVIRONMENT
David Williams (Newsroom): Behind NZ Pork’s campaign to keep farrowing crates – Part 1
Christine Rose: Pigs and the slaughterhouse state
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Govt questioned over its plans to deal with gene tech bill concerns
Aziz Al Saafin (1News): Farmers frustrated by ‘slow, laborious’ EPA product approval process
Jazlyn Whales (Herald): Shane Jones to promote New Zealand mining and geothermal growth at global conferences
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Global powers scramble for rare earth minerals: Jones signals NZ wants in (paywalled)
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Winston Peters urges farmers to reject Fonterra’s ‘short-term sugar hit’ sale
Benn Bathgate (Waikato Times): New $8m Waikato ‘methane barn’ to give farmers’ emissions options, Minister says (paywalled)
MEGA-STRIKE, EMPLOYMENT, WELFARE
1News: Mega-strike incoming: Govt on offensive, union leader fires back
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Public will back workers on ‘mega strike’ - Labour Party
RNZ: Public Service Minister Judith Collins lashes out at unions for ‘politically motivated’ strikes
Stuff: Palestine not teachers was top of union’s agenda for meeting with government, Judith Collins says
Rob Campbell (Post): Kia ora Christopher: what the PM needs to hear about striking public servants (paywalled)
Anna McCallum (Post): $30k pay rise and smaller classes drive teacher to Australia (paywalled)
RNZ: Is the South Island really ‘crying out’ for young workers?
RNZ: New benefit sanctions will help beneficiaries find jobs, says Social Development Minister Louise Upston
1News: New sanctions take effect under benefit traffic light system
Herald: Job seekers face new weekly reporting and training rules from today
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Has employment law become the Wild West? (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
1News: Election day surge boosts turnout, renews calls for voting reform
Tom Hunt (Post): Secrecy already at Metro Water with four anonymous figures pulling strings (paywalled)
Simon Wilson & Michael Morrah (Herald): Local board member files complaint about ‘fake Facebook accounts’ (paywalled)
Aaron Bhatnagar (Herald): Why Auckland’s democracy is broken ... and how to start fixing it (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Wellington’s new mayor aims to rein in costs (paywalled)
Gwynn Compton: Wellington’s endless amalgamation debate: here we go again...
Matthew Martin (Waikato Times): Tight election races decided by special votes (paywalled)
ENERGY
Justin Hu (1News): Q+A: Minister won’t say how much cheaper power will be under reforms
Earl Bardsley (Newsroom): The Lake Onslow hydro is dead – long live the Lake Onslow hydro!
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Contact Energy to increase gas prices to 40,000 homes by 17% (paywalled)
Charlie Mitchell (Press/Post): The solar wars heating up rural New Zealand (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Meridian racked up $260m operating profit in three months, broker estimates (paywalled)
Katie Todd (RNZ): Contact Energy scales back controversial Lake Hāwea plan
Jamie Gray (Herald): Genesis Energy reviews capital options after Government funding signal
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): New rules with legal teeth proposed for gentailers
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Fact check: How much cover could LNG provide for a ‘dry year’? (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): War of words breaks out over study on costs of switching off gas
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): ‘Absolutely screwed’: SolarZero customers stop paying bills as disputes mount
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, ASSET SALES
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Inflation expected to hit 15-month high after September rise
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Power, insurance, rates could push inflation above 3% again (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Inflation expected to hit top end of Reserve Bank target band (paywalled)
Avina Vidyadharan (Waikato Times): Family’s old grocery bill exposes extent of food inflation (paywalled)
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Languishing - NZ’s word of the year for 2025
Barrie Saunders: Why is NZ stuck in the slow lane?
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Asset recycling debate: The great privatisation, or better housekeeping (paywalled)
HOUSING
Ryan Ward: NZ Initiative’s public housing report is a misleading hit piece
Harriet Laughton (Post): More than 2000 Kāinga Ora homes vacant nationwide (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Inner-city homelessness has become an economic emergency
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): A brush with Auckland’s unseemly side (paywalled)
Greg Ninness (Interest): Mortgagee sales surge
Miriam Bell (Post): New housing investment fund will benefit more than 250 households (paywalled)
Kaitlyn Morrell (Bay of Plenty Times): Government to deliver 300 more social homes in Tauranga, Te Puke and Rotorua
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How much is a house in a desirable school zone worth?
Mike McRoberts (NBR): It takes a village to own a home (paywalled)
KIWISAVER, RETIREMENT
Justin Hu (1News): Q+A: Ageing crisis? NZ ‘not ready’ as over-65s set to double
RNZ: Challenges loom as parts of NZ start ‘hyper-ageing’ - report
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Elderly at risk amid looming care and housing crisis - report
Sharon Stephenson (Herald): Raising retirement age to 70 ‘cruel’ for manual workers, advocates say
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Consider tax breaks for KiwiSaver, international report says
Azaria Howell (Newstalk ZB): Government to save nearly $2.5 billion in KiwiSaver changes over four years
James Fuller (Post): Latest KiwiSaver changes penalise and punish sole traders (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): KiwiSaver: ‘We have shown our hand at this recent budget’ - Finance Minister
Diana Clement (Listener): Dirty money: Why your KiwiSaver fund may not be as ethical as you think (paywalled)
David Chaplin (BusinessDesk): In the KiwiSaver departure lounge (paywalled)
MEDIA, INTERNET
Barrie Saunders: The BSA power grab: Post 1
Gary Judd: Are we experiencing another watershed event?
Anna Thomson (Listener): Half a century later, families still seek truth on 1975 killings of the Balibo five (paywalled)
Shannon Brincat (The Conversation): It’s been 50 years since the Balibo 5 were killed in Timor-Leste. No one’s been held accountable
Amelia Wade (Sunday Star Times): How a law to stop cyberbullying can be used as a tool to silence (paywalled)
David Harvey: The Holy Grail of Internet Content Control
Sophie Trigger (1News): Project to preserve 400,000 audio-visual files nears completion
CROWN-MĀORI RELATIONS, TREATY, PROTEST
Julia Gabel (Herald): Whenua: Ngāti Toa Rangatira regains control over land at Whitireia 177 years after ‘serious injustice
Callum Kātene (Post): Partnership is not about who controls the pen but who holds the promise (paywalled)
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Ngāti Toa Rangatira has bought back 53 hectares of land at Whitireia in Porirua from RNZ
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): After ‘70 fucking bloody years’, Tāme Iti is ready to tell his story
RNZ: Tāme Iti: ‘I was a quiet person’
Hirini Kaa Kaa (Spinoff): Unity isn’t the destination – it’s the journey
CRIME, JUSTICE, POLICE
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): How New Zealand can fight back on organised crime
Henry Cooke (Post): Government could ban cash payments for lawyers in fight against organised crime (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Businesses are not immune from the risks posed by organised crime (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Police need bodycams due to increase in violence, union says
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Body cams for police: Privacy Commissioner urges caution in considering equipping cops
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Govt to make it harder for some abuse survivors to get redress
Neill Sands (Law News): Proposed anti-protest law ‘risks criminalising the very essence of civic participation’, TLANZ committee warns
1News: Solicitor-General stepping down after 10 years
Adam Pearse (Herald): Outgoing police union boss Chris Cahill delivers grave mental health warning in final speech
Herald: New Zealand Police Association elects new leader as Chris Cahill stands down
Katie Ham (Post): Police union sees first leadership change in decade as Chris Cahill calls time (paywalled)
Gill Higgins (1News): NZ makes first deepfake porn prosecution, but are we equipped for AI onslaught?
Kathy Spencer (Post): What will it take to stop jailhouse snitches?
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): ‘Slave master’ to have some convictions quashed after solicitor-general bungle
INFRASTRUCTURE
Henry Cooke (Sunday Star Times): Kiwis want more infrastructure, but do they want to pay? (paywalled)
Phil O’Reilly (Herald): Infrastructure politics: why consensus needs more than cross‑party calls (paywalled)
Jason Howden (Post): A smarter contract: How one change could fix New Zealand’s construction woes (paywalled)
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Auckland Harbour Bridge maintenance costs nearly double because of paint job
BusinessDesk: New directors appointed to NZ infrastructure boards (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Port expansion set to spur big rail rollout across Northland, Auckland
TRANSPORT
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Why are NZ spy agencies involved in buying China-made Cook Strait ferries?
Ethan Manera (Herald); Chinese military-linked yard to build new Cook Strait ferries
RNZ: Transport Minister Chris Bishop backs calls for harsher driving fines
RNZ: AA calls for traffic offence fines to be adjusted for inflation
Wendy Robertson (Stuff): Why the alleged VTNZ bribery scandal exposes deeper failures in NZ’s licensing system
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Please god, when is the CRL going to open?
John Weekes (Herald): Airports group says NZ had world’s highest domestic airfare increase since 2019 (paywalled)
David Williams (Herald): NZTA mobile speed cameras in SUVs earn more than $900k in four months
Tara Ward (Spinoff): Dunedin has a new regional council but still no public transport to the airport
Grant Miller and Ruby Shaw (ODT): Call to halt cycleway before legal bid (paywalled)
Imran Muhammad and Fawad Ahmad (Post): Auckland Transport has delivered, but politics have derailed it (paywalled)
Darren Davis (Greater Auckland): Electrifying the Golden Triangle
Connor Sharp (Greater Auckland): What this local election means for transport in Auckland