TE PĀTI MĀORI
Bryce Edwards (The Integrity Institute): The Emptiness of the Te Pāti Māori turmoil
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Iwi leaders step in as Te Pāti Māori tensions escalate
Adam Pearse (Herald): Te Pāti Māori: John Tamihere’s call for MPs to quit ‘unhelpful’ to reconciliation attempts: Iwi leaders’ forum
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): ‘White feeding frenzy’: John Tamihere launches attack against his Te Pāti Māori-supporting critics
Giles Dexter (RNZ): ‘Greed, avarice, and entitlement’ - Te Pāti Māori president urges MPs to quit
1News: Te Pāti Māori president fires back at MPs after calls to resign
Adam Pearse (Herald): Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere implies two MPs should resign after alleged leadership challenge
Thomas Manch (Post): John Tamihere challenges rogue MPs to split from Te Pāti Māori (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori electorate branch calls for party president John Tamihere’s resignation
Chris Trotter (Interest): Turning Te Pāti Māori towards the urban Māori working-class would be an exceedingly dangerous move
EDUCATION
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Treaty and schools: Government to remove requirement for boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Cate Macintosh (Press): ‘Irresponsible’: $3m spent on consultants to relocate mould-ridden Christchurch school, then plan axed (paywalled)
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Education Minister’s plans for Teaching Council a ‘power grab’, union says
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Are students suffering the side-effects of the bug infecting education policy?
Kim Baker Wilson (RNZ): New Zealand’s oldest school, Wesley College, shuts down hostels early amid more safety concerns
Darren Powell (Newsroom): Govt’s soulless food learning is not a recipe for wellbeing
PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES, FAST-TRACK, ENERGY
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Seabed mine hearing exposes fast-track cost check concerns
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Santana lodges mammoth fast-track application (paywalled)
Julie Asher (ODT): Santana application ‘a permit milestone’: More than $8m spent to date
Julie Asher (ODT): Santana Minerals fast-track application begin
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Santana lodges fast-track application for controversial Otago goldmine (paywalled)
RNZ: Genesis Energy nabs first fast-tracked renewable energy project
Andrea Graves (Listener): Out of gas and ideas? With gas supplies drying up, govt bets on chance instead of transition help (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): The land of milk and money (paywalled)
Matthew Martin (Waikato Times): Cockies cautious despite looming payday (paywalled)
Benn Bathgate (Waikato Times): Coromandel forestry death the catalyst for safer roads, WorkSafe says (paywalled)
Katherine Rich (Post): Let’s better speed the flow of science to our farmers (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
Michael Neilson (BusinessDesk): Less than 10% of Provincial Growth Fund loans repaid as long timelines stretch out (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): The Regulatory Standards Bill is back in parliament – here’s what you need to know
No Right Turn: Sometimes you win
TAX
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): You own one home and you’re currently living in it, how Labour’s CGT could still apply (paywalled)
Simon Shepherd (NBR): Podcast #81: Chris Hipkins talks tax (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Thin capitalisation rule changes likely to be put into Tax Bill (paywalled)
POLICE, CRIME, JUSTICE
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Police across NZ involved in falsifying alcohol breath tests
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Minister warned of crime advisory group chair’s ‘concerning behaviour
Harriet Laughton (Post): Push back against plans to criminalise protesting outside homes (paywalled)
HOUSING, BUILDING
Jonathan Killick (Post): Government axed public housing programme on ‘flawed’ research, claims study (paywalled)
Duncan Eddy (ODT): Build the housing that was promised
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Leaky buildings tribunal to wind up, the sagas roll on (paywalled)
RNZ: Stiffer buildings could save billions in earthquake damage, researchers say
RNZ: Housing building market shows signs of recovery
Greg Ninness (Interest): The building industry could be headed for an upturn with building consents up strongly in September
Anne Gibson (Herald): Residential building consents lift: Are Government moves working? (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, EMPLOYMENT
Jarrod Kerr (Post): Roaming economist finds business resilience high, but patience wearing thin (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): It’s grim up north as South Island leads the economic recovery: Centrix (paywalled)
Herald: Consumer confidence and lower interest rates driving mortgage activity
David Hargreaves (Interest): Credit bureau Centrix says there are ‘cautiously optimistic’ signs of a recovery, with improvement in credit demand, arrears, and business defaults
Andrew Patterson (Newsroom): Labour market tightens as young job seekers find the going tough
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Job ads are up - so where are they coming back first?
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Finance firms urged to use Govt tool to close 23% gender pay gap
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Todd Niall (Newsroom): Wayne Brown’s staff pinged for working on election campaign
Ethan Manera (Post): Wellington City Council’s $207m Jervois Quay lease deal revealed after Ombudsman investigation
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington mayor receives flurry of emails over Chung appointment (paywalled)
David Farrar: Postal voting is very insecure
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): 62% of special votes disallowed in Kaipara’s knife-edge council election
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Council to remove temporary fencing at Wellington waterfront
INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT
Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: Paying over the odds for NZ’s four-lane highways
Dave Armstrong (Post): Transmission Gully’s bumpy ride raises big questions (paywalled)
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Simplicity’s Sam Stubbs on InfraKiwi
Mike Yardley (Press): Bishop is tidying up road rules, but what about e-scooters? (paywalled)
HEALTH
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): ‘Putting lives at risk’ - mental health service facing closure after government funding dries up
Julia Gabel (Herald): Mental health crisis: Wait times for distressed callers more than double as urgent calls for help rise
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Mental health system ‘complex’, ‘patchy’ and ‘hard to navigate’ (paywalled)
RNZ: Mental health services fragmented, inaccessible - report
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): City misses out in hospital bed announcement (paywalled)
Benn Bathgate (Waikato Times): Health Minister reveals new beds, ‘rapid-build ward’ for Waikato Hospital (paywalled)
Ruby Shaw (ODT): Protesters put health to fore at hikoi (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): ACC slashes Water Safety NZ funding (paywalled)
RNZ: Pharmac could trim list of medicines awaiting funding
RNZ: Thousands of health workers to vote on possible industrial action
Samantha Gee (RNZ): Nelson Hospital’s long-awaited emergency department upgrade finally complete
Warren Gamble (Stuff): New emergency department wing boost for patients and staff
Jack Riddell (Hawkes Bay Today/Herald): Hawke’s Bay health staff receive $10m in overdue holiday pay (paywalled)
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Measles vaccination efforts ramp up in Auckland
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): China scolds Kiwi MPs in a brazen letter that few want to talk about
Herald: Christopher Luxon hopeful Trump will take up his NZ golf offer
David Fisher (Herald): Big changes to Navy after Manawanui sinking as court martial decision looms (paywalled)
1News: Children of Mururoa veterans want support extended to grandchildren
Bhav Dhillon (Post): India-NZ trade talks signal a new era of co-operation (paywalled)
CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL DISASTERS, INSURANCE
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Insurers seek more clout in planning decisions (paywalled)
Janice Lord, Christine Winter and Andrea Foley (ODT): Extreme weather plan must focus on local
Deborah Morris (Post): More home buyers look at disaster planning in their search (paywalled)
Kaeden Watts (Spinoff): Countries are starting to recognise ‘ecocide’ as a crime – should New Zealand do the same?
Conrad Pilditch and Simon Francis Thrush (Herald): NZ’s first marine reserve is turning 50 – the lessons from its recovery are invaluable
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Think a 1-in-100-year flood happens once a century? Think again
WATER
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Freshwater allocation system degrading water quality and shutting Māori out, court hears
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): ‘Kaitiaki are enduring’ Landmark freshwater rights case underway in the High Court
Julia Gabel (Herald): Māori group takes freshwater rights fight to court in landmark case against Crown
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Kāeo’s private water crisis continues to deepen
BANKS
Anan Zaki (RNZ): Major banks prepared for future severe economic downturns, Reserve Bank says
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): RBNZ stress test shows banks resilient to IT failure and global shocks (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): No change yet at Westpac despite lending to homes at risk of climate change, high-emissions businesses (paywalled)
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Westpac’s annual profit rises 13 percent
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Westpac’s profit jumps 13%, as it fattens its margins; CEO says average borrower is ahead on their mortgage repayments
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Westpac New Zealand annual profit falls as expenses rise. Net interest margin increases 15 basis points
Rob Stock (Post): Westpac profit up 13% to $1.2 billion, fewer households struggle to repay home loans (paywalled)
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Westpac NZ eyes improved full-year 2026 profit on GDP gains (paywalled)
MEDIA, INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA
Gavin Ellis: Solutions to declining trust are staring news media in the face
RNZ: Guyon Espiner announced as new Midday Report presenter
Tyson Beckett (Herald): RNZ confirms Guyon Espiner to host Midday Report from January 2026
1News: TVNZ reveals new 6pm news presenter as Simon Dallow steps down
Calida Stuart-Menteath and Hamish McNicol (NBR): Why is NBR cracking down on copyright? (paywalled)