POLICE
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Police commissioner and minister say no culture problems, despite IPCA report
Derek Cheng (Herald): McSkimming scandal: Andrew Coster on $1500 a day as investigation to wind up in ‘not too distant future’
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Inside Police Commissioner Richard Chambers’ first year and how he plans to rebuild trust
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Police to audit internet use of every senior officer after Jevon McSkimming scandal
Katie Harris (Herald): Ex-cop who used intelligence system to get info on mate’s Comancheros gang associate brother sentenced (paywalled)
Katie Ham (Post): Scandal and scrutiny: The year that tested New Zealand’s top cop (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Police minister’s double U-Turn on 500 cops promise
GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Farah Hancock (RNZ): How many of the government’s 9 key targets has it achieved?
Herald: Editorial – NZ’s trust deficit deepens as institutions falter (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Public Service Commission ‘likely’ to run social media ads on public sector negotiations again
Richard Harman: The Peversities of the bureaucracy (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Health boss Diana Sarfati paid $350k after quitting halfway through term (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Labour finance MPs risk looking more crack-pot than crack-team
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Lies, conspiracy theories and Debora Russell’s scone – tempers flare in parliamentary clash (paywalled)
Simon Shepherd (NBR): Invest NZ to target foreign deals worth up to $1 billion (paywalled)
RESERVE BANK
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): New Reserve Bank Governor Dr Anna Breman keen on transparency and cautious on money printing
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Breman’s Reserve Bank wants to improve transparency
Neil Sands (Law News): New Reserve Bank Governor pledges a ‘laser-focus’ on low and stable inflation and no group-think
PARLIAMENT AND DEMOCRACY
Ani O’Brien: Dirty Politics 2.0: Labour’s covert influencer says what Chris Hipkins can’t
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): The Ladder – Built for One, Coveted by Many
Roy Morgan: In November, National-led Government extends lead to largest since June 2025
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The global rise of radical conservatism (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Earthquake changes halted $30m Parliamentary Library upgrade (paywalled)
Peter Bradshaw (Guardian): Prime Minister review – portrait of Jacinda Ardern shows a fully human being in charge for once
Erika Harvey: When influence moves with people: what the Andrew Kirton story tells us about power in New Zealand
Michael Daly (Stuff): Peeni Henare and Winston Peters just a couple of Northland boys in the foreign affairs space, Hipkins says
CLIMATE
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt accused of breaching Paris climate deal after Willis rules out buying credits
Kate Newton (RNZ): Government needs to get carbon credit story straight, faces trade risks - climate lawyer
Kate Newton (RNZ): Govt needs to buy carbon credits or come clean on emissions commitment – opposition
No Right Turn: Climate Change: National reneges on Paris
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Government not ‘sending billions overseas’ if climate target not met, Finance Minister says
Henry Cooke (Post): Government near incoherence on 2030 climate target (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Tina Law (Press): Christchurch council advisers slam ‘weak’ Government reforms, call for super city instead (paywalled)
Simon Wilson (Herald): Democracy and the Takapuna Golf Club: Decision-making without the shouting (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington City Council admits ratepayer money is wasted in badly managed contracts, but doesn’t know how much (paywalled)
Bernard Orsman & Tom Rose (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown clashes with Government over rates cap and impact on City Rail Link (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Every Wellington council on rates cap crash course, mulling what to cut (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On The Rates Cap Gambit, And Chile’s Dire Future
Alan Somerville (ODT): How best to improve local government? (paywalled)
SCHOOL LUNCHES
RNZ: ‘No political agenda’: Principal says CCTV proves mouldy meals weren’t last week’s leftovers
RNZ: Principal says Food Safety officers saw video proof mouldy meals weren’t last week’s leftovers
1News: ‘Mouldy’ lunches were likely left out at school for days – NZ Food Safety
RNZ: Rotten lunches remained at school without refrigeration for three days - NZ Food Safety
ECONOMY AND EMPLOYMENT
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Only two sectors have not experienced a real terms pay cut in the past year, data shows
Liam Dann (Herald): The unavoidable reason New Zealand will need to tax capital (paywalled)
John Farrow (ODT): Court’s Uber decision likely to have significant effect (paywalled)
Ewan McDonald (Herald): Top 10% but doing it tough: How the cost of living is hitting Kiwi households (paywalled)
RNZ: Consumer and business credit demand improves again in October
Rob Stock (Post): Centrix delivers some pre-Christmas cheer with data showing loan arrears are easing
BUSINESS
Tom Raynel (Herald): Top 10 biggest company liquidations revealed as business failures soar (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Poor governance leads to lower sustainability rankings for NZX companies (paywalled)
Will Mace (NBR): ESG market ‘reshaping’ after backlash, but leaders charge ahead (paywalled)
Hamish McNicol (NBR): Strong response to FMA insider trading note was unusual, CEO says (paywalled)
Eric Crampton (Newsroom): The taxing problem of zombie and phoenix companies
HEALTH
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Health NZ devolving decision-making receives positive feedback - Health Minister
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Law change advances to strip powers from Māori health boards
Duncan Garner (Listener): Why do we train our nurses – then not hire them? (paywalled)
OTHER
Russell Palmer (RNZ): New Interislander ferries to be diesel hybrids, more manoeuvrable - ferry company tells MPs
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Ministry signals another boot camp could be around the corner for young offenders
RNZ: 30 with Guyon Espiner: How New Zealand can combat the rise of kleptocracy
Emma Gleason (Spinoff): New Zealand’s Australian exodus, by the numbers
Karl du Fresne: What privilege looks like in 2025
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Calls for government to stump up $359 million for forestry response
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): DairyNZ proves its worth to levy-paying farmers with sevenfold ROI (paywalled)
Michael Webster (Post): Privacy Commissioner: Time to toughen up our privacy controls (paywalled)
RNZ: Government trialling new drone tech in push to eradicate bovine TB
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): ‘Independent inflation-targeting has done more for the world than instant coffee’
1News: Q+A: ACT MP challenges liquor licensing trusts - but is there demand?
RNZ: Puberty blocker regulation ‘based on politics’, legal injunction filed
Vaimoana Mase (Herald): Auckland woman fights to bring her son, who has cerebral palsy, to live with her in New Zealand
Camilla Highfield (Newsroom): Creative industries are not ‘nice-to-haves’
David Long (Stuff): NZ’s biggest convention centre sets opening date – six years after disastrous fire
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Auckland’s new convention centre to bring million-dollar boost to economy
Mihingarangi Forbes and Annabelle Lee-Mather (RNZ): A ‘miscommunication’ led to the $138,000 shock removal of two ex-police houses
CARTOONS