ELECTION 2026: CAMPAIGN, PARTIES AND POLLING
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Labour’s better hasn’t started
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Chris Hipkins is batting for a draw
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): An evening with the not-yet-Honourable Paul Henry
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Three’s a crowd: Danyl McLauchlan on the coalition’s latest spats (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Post): The ties that bind (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman’s election role at Whakaata Māori (Māori Television) revealed
Harriet Laughton (Post): Parliament’s final sprint before the election (paywalled)
Mark Lister (Herald): What Opportunity Party polling means for markets (paywalled)
Marcus Ganley (Newsroom): Restoring FPP won’t give Luxon the power he wants
MĀORI POLITICS AND TE TIRITI
1News: Labour’s Willie Jackson not in favour of Māori Health Authority revival
Herald: Willie Jackson more restrained talking Te Pāti Māori’s strategy after Hipkins described it as a ‘rort’
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): As Labour eyes the Māori seats, Te Tiriti fades from the vision
Matthew Tukaki (Waatea News): Te Tiriti as the Bottom Line: John Tamihere on Te Pāti Māori’s Push to Reshape the Crown–Māori Relationship
Kelly Makiha (Herald): Waiariki candidates at debate unite on better outcomes for Māori
Richard Harman: What matters more than the Treaty (paywalled)
TAX, FISCAL POLICY AND THE ECONOMY
Chris Trotter (Interest): The New Zealand state’s meagre fiscal diet is killing it
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Both political parties underestimate how broke we are
Simon Bridges (Herald): I know from grilling Jacinda Ardern that tax is a potent topic. Corporate tax cuts should be next (paywalled)
Francesca Rudkin (Newstalk ZB): We need politicians willing to have honest conversations about taxes
Brent Edwards (NBR): Making sense of the conflicting claims about fiscal policy (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Another OCR rise appears certain on Wednesday, but how far will the Reserve Bank go? (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Nation of Debt: How the economic downturn healed NZ’s borrowing addiction (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): KiwiSaver: Do you get what you pay for?
Rory Diver (Post): The investor view: Five key questions Kiwi investors should be asking this election (paywalled)
Eden Bradfield (BusinessDesk): What next for Winton? (paywalled)
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): Mandated payment times – a death knell for SMEs? (paywalled)
Will Mace (NBR): The cherry on top of New Zealand’s data centre story (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Aluminium industry warns of collapse as cheap imports flood in (paywalled)
1News: Cruise season underway as operator plans to double NZ port visits
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZ halves time to launch rockets in space goldrush
HEALTH
RNZ: Some patients face 24-hour wait at Wellington Hospital emergency department
Herald: Wellington hospital called a ‘s*show’ as patients forced to wait 24 hours
Fiona Ellis (Waikato Times): ‘Spiralling out of control’: Health workers on short-staffing impact (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Health minister pulls out of senior doctors’ conference (paywalled)
RNZ: Seven things GP owners say will fix primary healthcare
Brad Porter (Newsroom): NZ’s health system needs more than money, it needs to work as one
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): The geriatric giant growing by the hour
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