WEATHER, DISASTER, CLIMATE
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Shock turns to anger at Mount Maunganui
Garth Bray (Herald): Mount Maunganui landslide: Anger as camper attacks lack of warning to evacuate
Post: Editorial – The cost of climate change (paywalled)
Otago Daily Times: Editorial – It’s climate change, stupid (paywalled)
Mike White, Nikki Macdonald, Andrea Vance, Katie Hunter, Deena Coster and Henry Cooke (Post): Mt Maunganui landslide: Should the warnings have been seen? (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Mt Maunganui landslide: Council report warned slopes primed to fail (paywalled)
Alanah Eriksen (Herald): Mount Maunganui landslide: Local describes moment would-be hero raced into rubble to save trapped - before it caved in on him
Michael Morrah (Herald): Mount Maunganui landslide: Eyewitness says danger visible before campers buried
Tom Peters (World socialist website): Up to 9 people killed in New Zealand landslides, flooding
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): Nature’s brutal reminder; the tragedies we don’t see coming (paywalled)
Max Rashbrooke (Post): This week’s floods show why we need to talk about climate change - and keep talking (paywalled)
Herald: Mount Maunganui landslide: Photo shows walkers standing precariously above slip – nearly two hours after 111 call to report it
Nadine Roberts (Stuff): Mauao landslip raises questions about council warnings and evacuations
Martin Brook (The Conversation): The Mount Maunganui tragedy reminds us landslides are NZ’s deadliest natural hazard
Herald: Editorial – No more potent reminder of the importance of leadership than in times of disaster (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund, Sapeer Mayron, Mike White, Nikki Macdonald and Katie Ham (Sunday Star Times): ‘Rain anxiety’ and the war on weather: Why NZ’s mayors are permanently battle-ready (paywalled)
Kate Newton (RNZ): Extreme rainfall events a ‘peek into the future’, climate experts say
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): There’s a time and a place to protest
Paora Manuel, Mike White, Katie Hunter and Nikki Macdonald (Post): Mount Maunganui landslide: Who are the missing? (paywalled)
RNZ: What we know about the six unaccounted for victims of the Mt Maunganui slip
Virginia Fallon and Katie Hunter (Sunday Star Times): From rescue to recovery: Hope ends at Mount Maunganui (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Sunday Star Times): After the floods: Councillor Richard Hills reflects on what Auckland learned (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): It doesn’t matter who wins the election, New Zealand won’t hit its first Paris target (paywalled)
LABOUR
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): How the Labour Party will campaign in 2026
Nevil Gibson (NBR): What’s at stake in the economic debate – Craig Renney’s new book puts forward a socialist alternative
Tom Peters (World socialist website): New Zealand Labour Party offers no alternative to austerity and war
Fin Ocheduszko Brown (Herald): Labour MP Adrian Rurawhe reflects on career in politics ahead of impending retirement (paywalled)
NZ FIRST
Anna Whyte (Post): Reform UK builds ties with NZ First as polling lifts parties (paywalled)
RNZ: ‘Unelected globalist bureaucrats’ - Peters praises United States’ WHO withdrawal
The Standard: The rise of Winston follows the rise of Pauline Hansen and Nigel Farage
GREENS
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Green Party chief aims for no more sideshows this election year
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Greens put forward member’s bill to entrench Māori seats
Daniel Perese (Te Au News): Green Party announces member bill to entrench Māori electorate seats in law
ELECTION, PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT
Andrea Vance (Post): ‘A sigh of relief’: How export-heavy lobbying stalled the plastic packaging ban (paywalled)
Josie Pagani (Post): How populism comes to NZ, minus the identity politics (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): TPM co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: ‘I could work with Winston and NZ First’
Giles Dexter (RNZ): National MP Maureen Pugh to retire from Parliament
Henry Cooke (Post): National MP Maureen Pugh to retire at election after decade in Parliament (paywalled)
ACC
Giles Dexter (RNZ): ACC’s plan to avoid $26 billion deficit
RNZ: ACC’s plan to avoid $26 billion deficit may cost taxpayers more, lawyer claims
Paula Penfold (Stuff): The ‘damning’ feedback ACC bosses tried to keep secret
RATANA
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Shane Jones’ ‘gift’ welcomed at Rātana, as NZ First rules out Hipkins and Te Pāti Māori
Russell Palmer and Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Rātana: Māori willing to work with any political party, says Kiingitanga’s Rahui Papa
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Fiery Rātana rhetoric cools amid frosty Māori-Crown relations
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Shane Jones’ $10m Rātana surprise
HOUSING AND BUILDING
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Why Auckland’s housing angst is National’s dilemma (paywalled)
Damien Grant (Stuff): Kiwis have never abandoned the quarter-acre pavlova paradise
Deborah Morris (Sunday Star Times): The new granny flat nation: What are your options? (paywalled)
Roger Partridge (Sunday Star Times): Fixing a building liability problem made by judges (paywalled)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Samuel Hume (Arena): NZ follows Australia to bolster the US military-industrial complex
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): The tragedy of the horizon (paywalled)
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): How New Zealand can protect itself in a fracturing world (paywalled)
Rob Campbell: Aotearoa can and should lead
Brent Edwards (NBR): Dealing with the erratic behaviour of US President Donald Trump (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Liam Dann (Herald): Why the economic recovery might not be enough for National (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Consumer price index: Concern within Government about inflation threat, interest rate hike forecast brought forward
Herald: Editorial – Uncomfortable reading for the RBNZ, Luxon and everyday Kiwis (paywalled)
Aimee Shaw (Sunday Star Times): Why New Zealand’s shop hours feel outdated ‒ and what retailers say needs to change (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Jonathan Milne (Interest): Auditor-General raps procurement for Chathams CEO’s house
Ben Tomsett (Herald): The lonely fall of an ‘icon’: The blame and bitterness of Tim Shadbolt’s final years (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Obituary: Radich a passionate promoter of Dunedin (paywalled)
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland Council’s $3.9 billion splurge: Where buyouts, tunnels and a busway took the cash (paywalled)
Torika Tokalau (Local Democracy Reporting): Congestion charges could help Auckland — but only if alternatives exist
RNZ: ‘Vote on the go’ events nixed from new Auckland local body election
CARTOONS