ELECTION CAMPAIGN AND PARTIES
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The supermarket election
Gemma Rasmussen (Consumer NZ): How the main parties plan to improve the grocery sector]
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): National battles its own voters with this high-risk strategy (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Sunday Star Times): National faces a clean-out but the upheaval may not end there (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Labour’s fiscal plan has many questions to answer – pay equity, public service cuts, future fund, spending and taxing promises (paywalled)
Andrew Ketels (Herald): Why bad policy feels as good in 2026 as it ever did (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Has the Opportunity Party blown it?
Anna Thomas (RNZ): An ‘awesome’ upbringing and parenting in politics: A road trip with Qiulae Wong
Brent Edwards (NBR): Election campaigning, the pre-election update, confused voters (paywalled)
Herald: National Party launches campaign bus, parties hold standups and walkabouts
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour leader Chris Hipkins goes on spending spree during walkabout at Upper Hutt outdoor show
Grace Symmans (Herald): What is on older Kiwis’ minds this election?
Lisa Davies (1News): Community grills political panel over surge in youth online gambling
Michael Reddell (Sunday Star Times): If I was PM: Hard choices for renewed prosperity (paywalled)
The Standard: To overhang or not to overhang, that’s the question
AI, MEDIA AND ELECTION INTEGRITY
John Hartevelt (RNZ): AI has finally entered the election campaign arena
Tim Niven (Sunday Star Times): An election result was overturned - social media was to blame (paywalled)
Matthew Hooton (Sunday Star Times): Introducing ‘cognitive warfare’ (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Sunday Star Times): Peeping pixels: How political parties collect information about us (paywalled)
Mike White (Sunday Star Times): Plausible poison: The threat of foreign interference in this year’s election (paywalled)
Michael Daubs (Newsroom): What political parties should consider for their AI election policies
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Whistleblowers offer to aid Education Ministry probe
Cecilia Robinson (Herald): Education reform: How schools can show parents children’s progress (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): New legal action filed on whether two-dose Covid requirements for under-18s was justified (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Police cyber crime capabilities weak, official reports show
Nevil Gibson (NBR): Above the law: Citizens against the system
Kiri Allan (Herald): There is an $11 billion benefit that belies the Government’s flawed conservation reforms (paywalled)
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): There must be a way to keep public servants accountable
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