PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Claire Robinson: To Breakfast or not breakfast
Henry Cooke (Post): How are MPs using AI? The party using it the most, the MP with his own AI server and the one using Grok in Question Time (paywalled)
Francesca Rudkin (Newstalk ZB): Is Luxon cracking under the pressure?
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): Brooke van Velden poised to leave in a blaze of literary glory
David Williams (Newsroom): Slow chargers underpin Govt’s slow-track investment in public EV chargers
Peter Williams: Luxon lacks courage
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Our PMs are overexposed in the media (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Why has the Government pulled SailGP’s funding?
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Open mic night at Parliament
Mariameno Kapa-Kīngi (Herald): Weakening Treaty clauses risks more years of division
Barry Soper (1News): How Muldoon’s rampant homophobia boosted the career of his future victor David Lange
INDIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Indian free trade agreement due for formal signing in New Delhi
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Butter chicken tsunami? Don’t threaten me with a good time
Deepak Nair (Post): Racist New Zealand: I’m not ‘butter chicken’, but I’ve heard it all before (paywalled)
K Gurunathan (Post): The signs of a community under siege, as anti-Indian slurs hit home (paywalled)
Bryan Bruce: Butter chicken politics (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Liam Dann (Herald): How a National-Labour pact could fix New Zealand’s economy (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): NZ bottom of world’s savings rate - or is it?
Mark Lister (Herald): Stagflation risk: Could 1970s-style inflation and low growth return? (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): Cloudy with a chance of job losses (paywalled)
Christoph Schumacher (NBR): The era of cheap money is over (paywalled)
Hamish McNicol (NBR): NZX CEO’s departing message to policymakers: care (paywalled)
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