EXTREME WEATHER AND CLIMATE
Luke Malpass (Post): The climate fight we’ve avoided (paywalled)
Penny Smith (RNZ): Councils want government to pay for more for natural hazard protections
Oliver Wigmore (The Conversation): Climate change means more landslides in NZ – but new tech can help reduce the risk
Deborah Morris (Post): The property market’s most burning question: What disaster could affect my home (paywalled)
Marc Greenhill (Press): Why house-hunting just got harder for those with risk in mind (paywalled)
Joanna Wane (Herald): Climate analyst John Lang’s guide to net zero and how the Iran war has focused the world on energy sovereignty (paywalled)
Amy Ridout (Sunday Star Times): ‘We’ll start again’: The long journey after the flood (paywalled)
NATIONAL PARTY AND LUXON’S LEADERSHIP
Damien Grant (Stuff): Chris Bishop has emerged as the main pretender to a shaky crown. How shall we assess his performance?
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): The Nats finally found some fight in their caucus room (paywalled)
Herald (Herald): Luxon must now navigate a challenging route to the election (paywalled)
Rodney Hide: Hosking’s “Impeccable Sources”: Pure Prebble Theatre, Zero Substance
INDIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT AND RACISM
Deborah Manning and Tim Fadgen (Post): How the India FTA is expected to feed more asylum claims - and why NZ’s response is muddled (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Govt’s Indian summer ends trade’s golden weather
Perzen Patel (Sunday Star Times): NZ Indians have been silent on the butter chicken row. So I’m speaking up (paywalled)
RNZ: Anti-racism group stands by Indian communities in wake of haka
Tom Peters (World socialist website): New Zealand government minister stokes anti-Indian racism
Louisa Wall (Newsroom): In haka as in life, play the ball not the person
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Tina Ngata (E-Tangata): Election 2026 Survival Guide: Voting for Te Tiriti
Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown (E-Tangata): The government’s latest attack on Te Tiriti
Kylie Klein Nixon (Sunday Star Times): Attack on the Treaty? It’s as clear as the mud on my face (paywalled)
Sam Stubbs (Sunday Star Times): Neither left nor right: Blending political ideologies to fix NZ’s high cost of living (paywalled)
RNZ: Hutt South MP Chris Bishop ‘gutted’ to miss dawn service wreath laying
ODT: Farmer standing for NZ First
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