WEATHER, DISASTER, CLIMATE
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Tauranga officials told not to allow buildings in potential landslide zones more than 20 years ago, documents show
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Tauranga City Council staff drove past three Mt Maunganui slips hours before deadly landslide
Andrea Vance (Post): Mt Maunganui landslide: Why only a Government inquiry can get the truth (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Christopher Luxon stands by scrapping $6b resilience fund created after Cyclone Gabrielle (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Post): Trees wouldn’t have held off deadly Mt Maunganui landslide, specialist says (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Christopher Luxon in a crisis and the question he’s yet to answer (paywalled)
Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): Will the Mt Maunganui disaster become a watershed moment?
Amanda Gillies (RNZ): Storms make forestry slash inevitable, so who’s legally responsible?
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Why haven’t we learned from our landslide history?
Anna Whyte (Post): Recovery resumes at Mount Maunganui landslide amid calls for answers (paywalled)
Katie Hunter and Virginia Fallon (Post): Early morning landslide 111 call went to Fenz but firefighters didn’t attend (paywalled)
Shilpy Arora Gaikwad (Stuff): Four hours to disaster: The warnings before the deadly landslide
Stuff: PM decries spread of racist ‘misinformation’ after landslide
Adam Pearse (Herald): Mount Maunganui slip: Council CEO responds to claim 111 call was referred to council before landslide
Steven Cowan: Backsliding on tackling climate change
1News: WorkSafe eyes campground safety after Mount Maunganui landslide
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): FENZ warned of slip near Mt Maunganui camp almost 4 hours before landslide
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Prime Minister Luxon decries racist rhetoric over role of iwi after Mt Maunganui slip
Eva Corlett (Guardian): New Zealand landslide: six missing named as police confirm victims are unlikely to be found alive
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Emergency response law bolstered too late, as disaster hits
ELECTION, PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): New RNZ-Reid Research poll brings boost for NZ First, Labour
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Pessimistic voters look to Winston Peters to be the change candidate inside the coalition
Chris Trotter (Interest): While Te Pāti Māori and the Greens are seen as Labour’s only available coalition partners, it has no winning moves
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Election 2026 campaign teams: Who is running National, Labour, Greens, Act, and NZ First’s fight for votes (paywalled
Julia Gabel (Herald): Te Pāti Māori to campaign on abolishing prisons, Labour dead-set against it
Richard Harman: Here we go again (paywalled)
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Record numbers of offshore New Zealanders hold key to next govt
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Weight goals, polls and ditching sausage rolls: How Hipkins plans to make political history
Lee Scanlon (Westport News): Damien O’Connor not standing in West Coast-Tasman at next election
Cameron Slater (Good Oil): NZ First’s poll surge: Winston’s winning while the big boys flounder
Ashley Church: The Old National Party is gone
No Right Turn: The Electoral Commission refuses to play along
1News: Key dates and new voting rules as NZ’s election countdown begins
Waatea News: Why the Māori electorates matter in the 2026 election
Sinead Gill (Press): Green Party eyes central Christchurch seat at coming election (paywalled)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Steve Maharey (Herald): New Zealand is fiddling while the world ruptures. We need to listen to Mark Carney (paywalled)
Nicky Hagar (Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa): The Current Military & Intelligence Overview
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): A new world order: Will NZ be at the table or on the menu?
Matthew O’Meagher (Newsroom): Venezuelan decapitation risks unleashing a new wave of anti-US sentiment
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): No nation is an island: the danger of campaigning against ‘woke’ WHO
RNZ: Former Foreign Minister says NZ must stand up to Trump, defends WHO work
Angus James: Is Aotearoa becoming strategically relevant by accident?
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Mayor Tania Tapsell tops spending as Rotorua councillors election costs revealed
Guy C. Charlton (The Conversation): A major overhaul of NZ’s local government is underway – will it really fix what’s broken?
Deborah Morris (Post): Unlocking Wellington: 2026 is the year the city’s doors reopen (paywalled)
Andrew Barnes (Herald): Reviving Auckland’s CBD, too late or just wrong?
Dave Armstrong (Post): Living large in a post-Bustastrophe world (paywalled)
RATANA
Angus James: Two Calendars – Rātana, floods and governing in permanent response mode
Julia Gabel (Herald): Tainui leader gives scathing review of Govt and ‘fractured’ relationship with Māori
Julia Gabel (Herald): Tainui leader Tuku Morgan gives scathing review of Government and its ‘fractured’ relationship with Māori
Julia Gabel (Herald): Finance Minister praises Māori Queen’s economic vision as election year puts spotlight on Māori-Govt relationship
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Māori ‘pushed into a corner’ by Govt seek new way out
EDUCATION
RNZ: Ministry says schools will increase use of new curriculum over the year
Gamaliel Ramos Oliver (Post): After the war on gang patches, we need to tackle the school uniform shakedown (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Vice-chancellor takes aim at ‘unsustainable’ funding model (paywalled)
Hanna McCallum (Post): Victoria University breaks into global top 50 for artificial intelligence (paywalled)
GOVT RETAIL CRIME ADVISORY GROUP
Benedict Collins (1News): Exodus from Government’s retail crime advisory group
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Over half of government retail crime advisory group resigns
Newstalk ZB: Three out of five members of government retail crime advisory group resign
CARTOONS