CHRIS HIPKINS’ STATE OF THE NATION SPEECH
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Hipkins plays it safe while the clock ticks
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): A cold facecloth on the fevered forehead of election year
Luke Malpass (Post): Labour’s quiet strategy is a gamble on Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Ani O’Brien: Labour’s State of the Nation: Softer, smaller, safer
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Hipkins speech like ‘lump of jelly’ filled with sentiment, says Willis
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Labour’s Chris Hipkins to put ‘affordability’ at the heart of election year decisions
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): “A future made in New Zealand”: Labour promises to put affordability at the centre of every decision
Justin Hu (1News): Hipkins slams Luxon’s record: ‘Costs are up – job losses are up’
Amelia Wade (The Post): Chris Hipkins’ 2026 State of the Nation: No new promises as Labour focuses on delivery and discipline (paywalled)
Newstalk ZB: Chris Hipkins delivers State of the Nation speech
Herald: National’s Nicola Willis responds to Chris Hipkins’ State of the Nation speech
Anna Whyte (Interest): Labour’s Chris Hipkins rejects LNG plan, rules out tolling current Auckland harbour crossing in State of the Nation address
NBR: Chris Hipkins says NZ deserves a government with ambition (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): You know what’s ironic about Hipkins’ State of the Nation speech?
POLICE MOVE-ON ORDERS FOR HOMELESS; CRIME
Amy Williams (RNZ): ‘We still have nowhere else to go’: Rough sleepers question police’s new move on powers
RNZ: ‘No doubt’ new move-on orders for homeless will drain police resources
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Government move-on orders for homeless spark warnings over policy risk
Dave Armstrong (Post): The confessions of a compassionate Nimby (paywalled)
Liam Rātana and Emma Gleason (Spinoff): Move-on orders: ‘I’d move on if I had somewhere to go’
Poppy Clark (Stuff): ‘It’s very similar to how we did the gang patch ban’, Luxon on ‘move-on’ order
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Move-on will take issue ‘out of sight’
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): It’s about time we had move-on orders
Nicholas Dynon (Newsroom): Why NZ’s retail crime statistics rose so sharply… and then declined
PUBLIC SECTOR
Lane Nichols (Herald): Teaching Council chief executive Lesley Hoskin resigns after release of two critical reports
Stuff: Teaching Council CEO Lesley Hoskin resigns after investigation
Stuff: Teaching Council appoints new board member a day after CEO resignation
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): How two damning reports brought down the head of the Teaching Council
Emma Ricketts and Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Parliament’s eXit caused a stir, but most Government departments have already left
David Fisher (Herald): Winston Peters and David Seymour upset over Army’s bicultural plan – and how Judith Collins responded (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (NBR): ComCom hit by wave of top-level resignations (paywalled)
ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Big costs, big profits: the state of the electricity sector in 2026
Ian Taylor (Stuff): Forget LNG - New Zealand should be fast-tracking something else
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Government mulls insuring electricity investors against fossil fuel political U-turn (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): Genesis Energy posts record $307 million profit, eyes $2 billion renewable shift amid LNG terminal debate (paywalled)
Jamie Gray (BusinessDesk): Genesis Energy launches $400m share offer for renewables investment (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Labour leader Chris Hipkins hits Genesis over profits and capital raise timing after State of the Nation speech (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Genesis positions Huntly as Methanex, Māui closures loom (paywalled)
Tim Hunter (NBR): LNG ‘a pathway to extend life’ of Huntly Unit 5 (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION
Chris Trotter (Interest): The radical solution
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Time to stop this sterile status quo on superannuation
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Fisheries emerges as unlikely election battleground
Jim O’Sullivan (ODT): Every voter has a price — it’s just a matter of how high (paywalled)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE BILL
Henry Cooke (Post): Officials say English Language Bill solves non-existent problem (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Stare decisis (paywalled)
Geoff Fischer: Still Daddy’s girl – The English Language Bill
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Ernie Newman (Post): Time is running out to fulfil promises on supermarket reform (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Why childcare costs could be set to rise
Anne Gibson (Herald): Biggest iwi grow assets to $8.5b as Waikato Tainui stays on top – TBD Advisory report (paywalled)
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Ngāti Toa snaps up majority of Wellington infrastructure firm (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Inland Revenue consults on narrow bank tax tweaks; Nicola Willis tight-lipped on whether a more widespread tax grab is in the works (paywalled)
Cécile Meier (BusinessDesk): ‘I can’t be managed’: Matthew Horncastle’s online crusade and the 2027 IPO (paywalled)
Duncan Bridgeman (Herald): Denis O’Brien emerges as major shareholder in Whakatāne Mill recapitalisation (paywalled)
Martien Lubberink: The Bank Levy Fallacy
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Union hits back at NZ First over Employment Relations Amendment Bill
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Brent Edwards (NBR): Local government reform ‘deeply flawed’, Simon Upton says (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press): Christchurch’s Civic Building now considered ‘earthquake prone’, but still safe to occupy, council says (paywalled)
Ayla Yeoman (Local Democracy Reporting): Western Bay of Plenty councillors get average 57% pay rise to $80,000
Nikki Macdonald (Post): What’s the magic visitor number? Queenstown searches for optimal tourism (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Bus lane tickets net Wellington council $5.8 million-plus in a year (paywalled)
POLICE
Michael Morrah (Herald): Jevon McSkimming saga: Emails to ex-Deputy Commissioner demanded ‘$600 for every sexual act’ (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): McSkimming claims Andrew Coster ‘advised’ him to file harassment complaint against woman
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Police staff leave jobs after investigations into inappropriate content
PAY EQUITY
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Pay equity law changes ‘flagrant and significant abuse of power’, former MPs say
Dita De Boni (Post): Changes to pay equity laws ‘flagrant and significant abuse of power’, say former MPs (paywalled)
Ria Bond (Sunday Star Times): What pay equity means when you’ve lived without it (paywalled)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Richard Harman: New Zealand’s new foreign policy option (paywalled)
1News: NZ must build coalitions to defend human rights: visiting expert
Phil Vine (RNZ): The democratisation of space?
SELWYN CUSHING DIES
Rob Stock (Post): Sir Selwyn Cushing: The corporate strategist who thrived in New Zealand’s era of deregulation (paywalled)
Doug Laing (Herald): Sir Selwyn Cushing: The life and times of a Hastings business and commerce legend (paywalled)
NBR: Businessman Sir Selwyn Cushing dies, aged 89 (paywalled)
MINING
Glenn Banks and Sefton Darby (Spinoff): The critical minerals debate is mired in confusion, duplicity and agendas
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): What Trump’s America wants from NZ’s mines
Tim Scott (ODT): Clark hits out at proposed Bendigo gold mine (paywalled)
Azaria Howell (Herald): Pike River mine disaster: Govt agency targets memorial anniversary completion after talks with families
CARTOONS