PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): From decent society to dog-eat-dog (paywalled)
Max Rashbrooke (Good Ideas): ‘Ourselves by another name’
Andrew Gunn (Press/Post): What this Government needs is a good heist (paywalled)
Ben Thomas (Post): The piece of legislation that National kept very quiet about (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Peddling Of Bad News As Good News and Labours Investment Fund
James Nokise (Post): A nation on strike while the weather turns political (paywalled)
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Parliament delivers heralds of the 2026 election
Brent Edwards (NBR): Policy cock-up, mega strike, Te Pāti Māori, climate backtrack (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. Labour Weekend
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): After weeks of turbulence, Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke focuses on progress and policy
Te Ao Māori News: Waitangi Tribunal finds Crown breached Te Tiriti principles over te reo Māori cuts
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): Seven long‑term agreements to secure New Zealand’s future (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Winston Peters debates at renowned UK debating society, losing argument that ‘courts now undermine democracy’
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Foreign Minister Winston Peters delivers speech in the Oxford Union Debate
Shayne Currie (Herald): Jacinda: The Untold Stories; author David Cohen opens up on unauthorised Ardern biography and what he discovered (paywalled)
Marilynn McLachlan (Woman’s Weekly): Jacinda Ardern on life after politics and her new book Mum’s Busy Work
LABOUR
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): ‘D’oh’, what Labour’s first policy has in common with Homer Simpson’s car (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Labour stumbles back into the sunshine of policy land (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Sunday Star Times): Labour leans in to economic nationalism in bid to stem brain drain (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Labour’s Future Fund is politically strategic, however… (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Labour’s policy comeback begins
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Labour’s Future Fund has KiwiBuild vibes (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): New Zealand must get better at creating wealth, could a Future Fund do it? (paywalled)
Sam Stubbs (Post): Labour’s Future Fund signals ‘no asset sales’ but not much else - yet (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE
Benedict Collins (1News): Minister warned about possible Israeli use of NZ-launched satellites
David Fisher (Herald): Govt faces $3.2 billion bill as court slams Veterans’ Affairs for rejecting Agent Orange link to brain tumour (paywalled)
Peter Griffin (Listener): Peter Beck interview: On his optimism for NZ economy and why defence contracts are vital to Rocket Lab’s future (paywalled)
1News: New Zealand woos European investment amid global trade tension
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon to push rules-based global trade at Apec, East Asia Summit meetings as Donald Trump causes economic uncertainty (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Sunday Star Times): As Christopher Luxon jets to Asia, could a Donald Trump meet finally be on the cards? (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Superpowers loom large in PM’s Asia visit
Thomas Manch (Post): New Zealand and the European Union are having a moment (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): New Zealand’s bid to bring EU and CPTPP together pays off (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Police asked to probe Labour’s church campaigning amid concerns of ‘spiritual influence’ (paywalled)
David Farrar: How to lift local election turnout by 10% or more
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Local elections deliver New Zealand’s oldest mayoral line-up in recent history (paywalled)
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Far North District Council ordered to intervene in Kāeo’s private water supply
Jonathan Killick (Post): Neighbours at war: Aucklanders at loggerheads over tree protections (paywalled)
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Deputy CEO departs after being on leave for more than a year
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Elected and rejected: Hawke’s Bay Māori ward councillors on their ambitions
Susan Botting (Local Democracy Reporting): Kaipara Mayor Jonathan Larsen survives recount challenge from councillor Snow Tane
STATE CARE OF CHILDREN, ABUSE IN CARE
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Hard work being sorry (paywalled)
Paula Penfold (Stuff): ‘He begged for pain relief’: The story of a boy failed by his carers before he died
Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori (RNZ): Mum of teen who died of cancer says Oranga Tamariki contributed to ‘suffering’
EMPLOYMENT
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Employment authority called in as Govt, unions try to break impasse
Anna Whyte (Post): Mega strike over, but the real battle begins at the bargaining table (paywalled)
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Ministers meddling in public sector pay negotiations is dumb politics (paywalled)
BUSINESS, CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): How Crony capitalism is ruining New Zealand
Rob Stock (Sunday Star Times): The factory workers suffering long hours to clothe Kiwis (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Competition advocates aren’t buying Australia’s supermarket price-gouging crackdown
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Telcos told to cut the jargon when it comes to broadband, mobile contracts
Mandy Te (Interest): Could the surcharge ban lead to the end of EFTPOS?
ODT: Civis: Long and short of skimping (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): Uber v Uber: Creating ‘wrong-way’ confusion (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): On the Money: The EU, Todd McClay, Christopher Luxon, Nikhil Ravishankar, Greg Foran, and more (paywalled)
NBR: Luxon games, Sacred Hill secrets, Spark split, ANZ inflates
MEDIA, INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Talley’s vs TVNZ in defamation confrontation
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Old rules, new media: BSA move triggers calls for reform (paywalled)
Damien Grant (Stuff): Our self-important broadcasting censors need to be reined in
Roger Partridge: The Broadcasting Standards Authority Awakens (in Time to be Put to Sleep)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Last remaining Māori news show has funding slashed
RNZ: Te Karere Māori news bulletin has funding slashed
Whatitiri Te Wake (Te Ao Māori News): Te Karere funding slashed, no pūtea for The Hui in latest funding round
CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER EVENTS
Rob Stock (Post): Labour and Green MPs lament after Government counterparts shelve seabed mining inquiry (paywalled)
Kelly Bennett (Sunday Star Times): When disaster strikes, who pays? (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): A time of greater extremes (paywalled)
Hamish McNicol and Calida Stuart-Menteath (NBR): Common sense prevails on climate reporting (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Post): Take starfish ‘off the menu’, says iwi asking MPI for ban (paywalled)
Graham Adams (Centrist): Tikanga inserted into cutting-edge gene bill
ENERGY
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Smallest company looks to build biggest dammed hydro lake NZ has seen
Anan Zaki (RNZ): Group to lodge fast track consent bid for axed Lake Onslow hydro project
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: Parliament finds energy to debate power costs
TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Associate Transport Minister hoses down calls for Air NZ subsidies
RNZ: Whakatāne mayor backs Air NZ’s call for state subsidies on regional flights
Greg Presland (The Standard): More RONS!
Adam Neiman (NBR): Growing with intent: Why NZ needs scale to unlock its future (paywalled)
RNZ: NZ company deploys undersea drones to guard cables from sabotage
HEALTH
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): The gift that saved Craig’s life once – and why it hasn’t come again
Ivor Popovich (Sunday Star Times): What an intensive care specialist has to say about the Government’s health targets (paywalled)
Ian Powell: Health minister unethical over medical ethics
Amy Williams (RNZ): Hospitals, clinics not equipped for measles outbreak - general practitioner (paywalled)
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): World Health Organisation warned New Zealand of measles immunisation gap
Amy Ridout (Stuff): Measles parties are a very bad idea, doctors warn
HOUSING
David Long (Stuff): Behind these tidy streets, a homelessness crisis is unfolding
Tom Hunt (Post): Begging in the suburbs: The spread of Wellington’s ‘homeless’ (paywalled)
Michael Cugley (Te Ao Māori News): Housing crisis forces Te Tai Tokerau residents to live in cars
BANKS
RNZ: Commerce Commission takes action against ASB
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Kiwibank eyes Aussie capital advantages amid $500m capital raise (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): ‘We don’t make decisions based on wokeness’
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Customers missing out in savings accounts, former bank boss warns
Rob Stock (Sunday Star Times): Grieving parents say banks must block alcohol purchases by under 18s (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): Changes proposed to legislation governing how NZ insurers operate
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, ASSET SALES, TAX
Brian Easton (Pundit): Underlying Economic Growth
Kevin Norquay (Sunday Star Times): It’s an illusion: politicians can’t necessarily fix your groceries or mortgage spend (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Handful of tech companies could drive NZ’s future prosperity – Suse Reynolds (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Inland Revenue probes 150 crypto investors over ‘tens of millions’ in unpaid tax
POLICE, CRIME
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Government advised to broaden the legal definition of money laundering as part of ‘significant shift in NZ’s approach to financial crime’
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Police appeal judges’ decisions to return confiscated gang patches
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): IPCA finishes investigation into former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming
Jared Savage (Herald): Former constable Summer Smith pleads guilty to charges of leaking police intelligence to Killer Beez gang boyfriend (paywalled)
Ariel Bogle (Guardian): More than 1,000 guns and parts seized in illicit weapon crackdown in Australia and New Zealand