PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Irra Lee (RNZ): More laws rushed through Parliament under urgency than any term since 2008
The Post: Editorial: National has one last chance to re-consider leadership before election (paywalled)
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Whatever happened to govt promises of localism? (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): ‘Things are screwed anyway, why try?’ Youth voter enrolment rate plummets
Amanda Gillies (RNZ): Helen Clark: NZ can’t afford another three years of short-term policies
Kevin Norquay (Sunday Star Times): Baiting the hook: the digital election machine messing with your mind (paywalled)
Gareth Morgan (Newsroom): What a waste of capital
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): A tale of two leaders
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): The risk behind TOP’s rapid rise in the polls (paywalled)
George Heagney (Post): Call to check enrolment details after change to voting rules (paywalled)
Nick James (Post): RMA bills, unemployment statistics to take centre stage in politics this week (paywalled)
Mildred Armah (Stuff): Winston Peters effigy ‘executed’ in mock guillotine protest
Jonathan Killick (Post): Chris Hipkins ‘deeply disappointed’ by treatment of MP at union-backed event (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s ‘parent-child mentality’ description of NZ businesses ‘valid’ in some cases - Seymour
Amelia Wade (Post): Doomed MBIE IT project: Advice blamed on ‘junior staffer’ was approved by four senior managers (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): Kiri, always crashing in the same car
NZ FIRST: RON MARK AND THE KIWI KIDS GRANT
RNZ: Ron Mark returns to NZ First for election
Adam Pearse (Herald): Election 2026: Ron Mark returns to NZ First, Winston Peters unveils $45,000 grant for parents with three kids
Stuff: Return of the Mark: Former Defence Minister Ron Mark to contest Wairarapa for NZ First
Adam Pearse (Herald): Ron Mark fills the Stuart Nash-shaped hole in NZ First (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): NZ First announces Ron Mark’s return, unveils policy to tackle country’s ‘massively declining birthrate’
1News: NZ First’s proposed grant to encourage ‘more Kiwis having more children’
Stuff: Peters pitches $45,000 incentive for families to have three children
Giles Dexter (RNZ): New Zealand First Kiwi Kids Grant plans to pay parents for having children
Nick James (Post): NZ First’s baby policy expensive, complex and may not achieve its goals: National (paywalled)
Rodney Hide: Demography is destiny — and New Zealand is choosing decline
ACT, SCHOOL DISCIPLINE AND ‘REASONABLE FORCE’
Adam Pearse (Herald): Act to allow teachers to use ‘reasonable force’ to remove ‘disruptive students’, fine parents up to $3000
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use ‘reasonable force’ on students
Stuff: ‘There are a lot of little s..ts in classrooms’: Henry unveils ACT’s school discipline plan
Stuff: ACT’s plan to restore school order: ‘We let our children down’
Zeb Tupa’i (Herald): Act’s ‘reasonable force’ plan for disruptive students sparks safety fears
Nick James (Post): ACT promises legal protection for teachers using physical restraint on disruptive students (paywalled)
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