SOCIAL HOUSING REFORMS
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Major social housing shake-up announced
Anneke Smith (Post): Social housing reforms ‘a body blow’ for the poorest - Labour (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts and Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Minister seeking tougher accommodation supplement criteria claims $1000 a week housing allowance
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Government announces plans to overhaul social housing system
Lauren Crimp & Giles Dexter (RNZ): Support services blindsided by government social housing shake up
Lillian Hanly & Russell Palmer (RNZ): Labour and Greens say social housing shake-up will see public housing tenants evicted
1News: Government announces social housing shakeup
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Chris Bishop announces social housing overhaul with potential duration limits, changes to how need is assessed
Anneke Smith (Post): Social housing overhaul will require tenants to pay more, do more (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Bishop partially privatises social housing (paywalled)
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): ‘There is nothing lucky about living in public housing’: Tenant says Willis is out of touch over Lotto comments
1News: Willis regrets saying those in social housing had ‘won the lotto’
No Right Turn: A vicious, corrupt and insane policy from a vicious, corrupt and insane regime
Brent Edwards (NBR): Government takes ‘hard choices’ on reforming social housing (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Nicola Willis issues statement expressing ‘regret’ about social housing comment
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Social housing tenants face rent hike as part of Govt shakeup
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): The government tightens another link in the housing safety net
PUBLIC SECTOR AND AI
Audrey Young (Herald): Union’s bias on display over public sector cuts; Nicola Willis walks into MFAT scrap with Winston Peters (paywalled)
Stuff: The government wants to use AI to improve the public service. We asked AI what it would do
Joel Kulasingham (Herald): Expert warns Government’s public sector cuts and AI plans could create ‘economic shock’, ‘biased’ policy
Alexandra Andhov (Newsroom): Before we let AI run the public service, we need to know the full impactIan Taylor (Stuff): An open letter to Nicola Willis: AI should create jobs, not cut them
Herald: Editorial – public service reform: AI push will be painful for battered sector (paywalled)
Chris Trotter (ODT): Cutting the state’s cloth to fit the state’s alleged means (paywalled)
Herald: Most under-stress public service agencies not exempt from Government cuts
Veronica Schmidt (Spinoff): Thanks to Nicola Willis and Brian Roche, I now get that I’m just human capital
Miriam Bell (Post): Minister on possible public sector tourism cuts: ‘They make dollars stretch’ (paywalled)
The Standard: National Is Destroying Wellington
Matthew Tukaki (Waatea News): Restructure Fears Grow Across Māori-Focused Government Agencies
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Julia Gabel & Chris Knox (Herald): Monster truck tickets, sport matches & a Mongolian horse: What did your MP declare? (paywalled)
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Labour flounders as Luxon and Willis set serious reform agenda (paywalled)
Peter Dunne: Labour’s policy vacuum
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): So yes, Chris Hipkins does think you’re stupid
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Politicians have no idea what’s important to us
Stephen Minto (Daily Blog): Can Labour centrism win the election? No. But why?
Russell Palmer (RNZ): No evidence to back Luxon’s claim Peters mischaracterised view of Iran, PM’s office says
Tini Molyneux (Te Ao Māori News): National targets Māori seats Tāmaki Makaurau, Te Tai Hauāuru
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): ‘I’ve never seen a more disgusting piece of legislation’: Paid family carers decry law change
Ani O’Brien: Open Letter to Minister for Women Nicola Grigg
David Farrar: Media missed the big story on donations
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Willis and Peters’ foreign affairs feud the latest sign of coalition discord
Phil Smith (RNZ): Chamber blowback: The third law of political motion
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Te reo Māori advocate Vincent Olsen-Reeder criticises govt branding changes
Russell Baillie (Listener): Crunching the numbers on the Robbie Williams shows in NZ (paywalled)
Michael Swanson: Citizens Juries, Assemblies, and the Case for a Citizens Parliament
BUDGET 2026
Jo Moir (RNZ): Minor parties steal spotlight from Nicola Willis’ Budget
Natalia Albert (Substack): Dear Nicola: Where’s my $5,000?
Henry Cooke (Post): David Seymour pushes for more cuts while Shane Jones has it out with the PM on industry support (paywalled)
Levi Gibbs (Post): With an economy in trouble, Nicola Willis needs to deliver a conviction Budget (paywalled)
MOVE-ON ORDERS
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Move-on orders bill passes first reading following heated debate
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): MPs clash over ‘move on orders’ targeting beggars as young as 14
Sophie Bradwell-Pollak (Listener): By pushing on with ‘move-on orders’ for the homeless, Govt continues to promote a false and harmful narrative (paywalled)
Martin van Beynen (Post): ‘Move-on’ orders good idea with right mitigation (paywalled)
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