ELECTION 2026
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Hipkins still getting warmed up as he faces the public for second time
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Hung up on the overhang (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Labour leader Chris Hipkins faces questions at Porirua public meeting on tax, Palestine and the FBI
Liam Dann (Herald): Big bold policies show political ground is shifting ... finally (paywalled)
Robin Martin (RNZ): ACT faithful line up for selfies as Paul Henry roadshow rolls through New Plymouth
Anna Thomas (RNZ): ‘I was a massive nerd’: A road trip with Chloe Swarbrick
Katherine Rich (Post): If I was PM: Productivity, education and ambition at the heart of government (paywalled)
SUPERMARKETS
Damien Grant (Stuff): Nicola Willis has betrayed the principles she once championed
Herald: Editorial – National’s state intervention policy on supermarkets is a significant lurch left (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): National has made a huge mistake by threatening a supermarket break-up (paywalled)
Duncan Garner (Listener): This is now the supermarket election – why everyone has a plan to get you cheaper groceries (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Māni Dunlop (Sunday Star Times): Government pushes contentious Treaty overhaul bills through first reading in weekend urgency (paywalled)
Will Dreyer (Sunday Star Times): Brainwaves: Behind the doors of select committees (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Leadership and proportionality speak to credibility
Andy Fenton (Post): Lest we forget to fund our nation’s memory (paywalled)
Judy McGregor (Post): What would Kate Sheppard say about women’s progress today? (paywalled)
André Chumko (Post): National Library music hire service faces shake-up amid proposed cuts (paywalled)
EARTHQUAKE-PRONE BUILDINGS AND NATURAL HAZARDS
Bijou Johnson (Herald): Mauao landslide: Why holiday parks are reviewing their natural hazard plans (paywalled)
Natasha Gordon (Herald): Parliament passes earthquake-prone building reforms with $8.2b savings forecast
RNZ: Thousands of NZ buildings no longer require earthquake strengthening
1News: Thousands of buildings to be deemed no longer earthquake-prone
Stuff: Thousands of buildings no longer deemed earthquake-prone after new law passes unanimously
Reid Basher: Bravo Auckland! City says no to floodplain development
CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): ‘Betrayal’: Government U-turn strips protections won in the wake of Rena (paywalled)
Stuff: Greens vow to scrap Government’s ‘corporate’ conservation push
Herald: Green Party vows to repeal DoC economic requirement in Conservation Amendment Bill
Natasha Gordon (Herald): March for Nature: Thousands protest Conservation Amendment Bill in Auckland
RNZ: Greenpeace protests Conservation Amendment Bill in downtown Auckland
Felix Walton (RNZ): Forest and Bird calls for fast-tracked coal mining application to be declined
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