MT MAUNGANUI LANDSLIDE AND TAURANGA ACCOUNTABILITY
Rachel Moore (RNZ): Report warning of high risk to life from Mount Maunganui landslide went unread by officials
Duncan Garner (Listener): Tauranga’s mayor and CED should have resigned already. Why? Because that’s what being accountable is all about (paywalled)
Michael Morrah (Herald): Mount Maunganui tragedy: Report warned of deadly risks – four councillors did not read it (paywalled)
RNZ: Report on Mt Maunganui landslide risk unread: Tauranga City Council
RNZ: Council, CEO will be under scrutiny in WorkSafe probe of Mt Maunganui landslide - lawyer
ELECTION 2026
Josie Pagani (Post): Culture war touchstones are displacing families’ everyday concerns (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Pay equity: Union says cost of reinstating old regime is $6b, but Treasury warns figure ‘misleading’ (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Is Jordan Williams New Zealand’s best union boss? (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): What has Chris Penk been up to since getting sacked?
Aimee Shaw (Post): Hnry survey: Labour has nearly double National’s support among sole traders (paywalled)
Michael Swanson: Have Opportunity missed a trick on tax reform?
Sinead Gill (Post): ‘Bunch of losers’ set off stink bomb at ACT Party campaign launch in Christchurch (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Attack of the taxes!
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): National MP says he ‘misspoke’ after breaking from party ranks
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret bond of .. Mike and Christopher
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour taxes, Chris Penk’s sacking, the harbour crossing (paywalled)
LABOUR
Henry Cooke (Post): Labour struggling to find campaign gear (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Learning lessons over breakfast with Chippie (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): We can work together, to a degree: Hipkins (paywalled)
TE PĀTI MĀORI
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Te Pāti Māori’s hidden path to major leverage
Whatitiri Te Wake (Te Ao News): Left-wing parties united on changing government, but not on how to get there
David Farrar: Te Pāti Māori tries to defeat the point of MMP
GOVERNMENT
ODT: Editorial – Omitting the emitters from scrutiny (paywalled)
Gary Judd: Judicial Power, Democratic Accountability, and the Smith Case\
Anneke Smith (Post): Police wanted six months to prepare for move-on orders, ministers gave them one (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Oranga Tamariki probing claims of force being used against youth
Cate Macintosh (Post): Minister rejects urgent Waitangi Tribunal request to pause curriculum roll-out (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Public Service vs Public Service in Māori language week row (paywalled)
Amber Allott (Press): What is an XL bully - and could they be targeted in Dog Control Act review? (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Aged-care crisis: Game-changing report signals way forward after years of inaction (paywalled)
Max Rashbrooke (Post): Why are we cutting programmes that get young people into work? (paywalled)
ACT’S CANCER CENTRE POLICY
Anna Whyte (Interest): ACT cements Paul Henry’s ‘world-class’ cancer centre pledge
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Paul Henry gets his cancer centre in new ACT policy
Julia Gabel (Herald): Act backs Paul Henry’s ‘on the fly’ promise to build world-class cancer hospital
Giles Dexter (RNZ): ACT to campaign on Paul Henry’s ‘Starship for cancer’ proposal
Sinead Gill (Post): ACT promises $2b for two cancer centres if re-elected (paywalled)
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