THE OPPORTUNITY PARTY
Matthew Hooton (Post): Right and left are both right about TOP (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Fact-checking Farmer Kev and Landlord Larry: Do Opportunity’s tax tales stack up?
Anneke Smith (Post): Opportunity scrapping board’s veto power over caucus (paywalled)
David Farrar: The all powerful TOP Board
David Farrar: How much land tax will you pay?
ELECTION LEADERS’ DEBATES
1News: Luxon vs Hipkins: TVNZ confirms live election Leaders Debate
Stuff: Two Leaders’ debates; interactive multichannel election night special - Stuff Group launches ‘Aotearoa Decides’
Post: Luxon-Hipkins showdown set for October 20 in The Post and Stuff Leaders’ Debate (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Election debates – battle of leaders, hosts; TVNZ wants Breakfast case details kept secret; NZME, Sky, TVNZ results; Air NZ ad account (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Jack Riddell (Herald): Rod Drury accuser questions Prime Minister Christopher Luxon over National’s response to sexual harm
Stuff: Former Xero employee presses Luxon over workplace power and sexual harm
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Te Pāti Māori’s hidden path to major leverage
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Latest Election 2026 charts: Big-name donors come out for National
Stuff: Poll: More Kiwis support restricting voting to citizens than oppose it - across the political spectrum
Audrey Young (Herald): Chris Bishop up, Erica Stanford down after failed leadership coup (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): National enjoys a week of Opposition (paywalled)
Richard Harman: More power to Beehive (paywalled)
Ethan Griffiths (Herald): ‘I think it was an error’ – National MP says there is ‘zero’ logic behind Budget tax change
Giles Dexter (RNZ): National MP Greg Fleming breaks ranks, criticises Budget tax change
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour’s plan to boost productivity and the economy (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour sets target for small business government contracts (paywalled)
Nick James (Post): Labour lays out how it will amend the Government’s RMA reforms (paywalled)
Press: Christchurch Central MP Duncan Webb farewells Parliament with call to ‘find those people that need help’ (paywalled)
Martin Van Beynen (Press): The incredible difficulty of being likeable (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (Post): ‘Anything’s possible’: Winston Peters on Russian missile warning (paywalled)
David Farrar: The Attorney-General gets it in one
Stuff: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon heckled at Christchurch meeting
Sinead Gill (Press): ‘Seriously, don’t be rude’ Christchurch protesters told at raucous Luxon meeting (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): ‘Get your hands off me’ says Luxon protester (she was one of six!)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Why winning Māngere is the ‘worst-case scenario’ for the Greens’ Michel Mulipola
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Review: Election Meltdown is the joy we need in the end times
Vihan Dalal (Herald): West Coast-Tasman Greens candidate vague on harvesting of pest animals
Tom Peters (World Socialist Website): New Zealand Greens candidate fought in SAS during Afghanistan war
James Pocock (Herald): Freight industry group pitches Minister of Supply Chain idea in ‘election manifesto’ (paywalled)
Blayne Slabbert (Press): The South Island wants new infrastructure. Neither major party wants to promise it (paywalled)
Metiria Stanton Turei (ODT): Hypocrisy and racism abounds in Parliament (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial: A taxing time ahead on election trail (paywalled)
Mike Grimshaw: The National party and the logic of sacrifice
Bryce Wilkinson (Herald): When is equal unfair and when is it fair? (paywalled)
Murray Rae (ODT): Poverty and the common good (paywalled)
MT MAUNGANUI LANDSLIDE AND TAURANGA COUNCIL
1News: Tauranga chief executive backs himself in top job following scathing review
Stuff: ‘Huge question mark’ over Tauranga council CEO after damning landslide review, MP says
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Fatal Mt Maunganui landslide: Minister to keep tabs on council after damning report
Felix Walton (RNZ): Former Tauranga mayor says he wasn’t warned about landslide risk amid damning review
Bijou Johnson (Herald): Mount Maunganui landslide: Business owners respond to council’s external review
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): If the Mount Maunganui landslide risk was known, why was nothing done?
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): The damning report on the Mount Maunganui landslide
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Why can’t we finger point over six avoidable deaths?
Erika Harvey: When “Systemic Failure” Becomes a Place to Hide
Peter Williams: When a system fails
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