PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Audrey Young (Herald): Co-governance, gaffes and a mystery judge: It’s been a shocker of a week for the centre-left (paywalled)
Azaria Howell (Herald): Green Party says Sir Brian Roche is ‘out of step’ over PSA election postcards
Peter Dunne: Hipkin’s dilemma
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): The case for voting National in 2026
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Is National’s tax strategy really working?
Stuff: How should we judge whether a government is performing well?
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Look further than the headline
Henry Cooke (Post): Nicola Willis unrepentant about incorrect claims in National Party clip (paywalled)
Herald: NZ First candidate Craig Stobo decides to enter politics just 75 days before election
Russell Palmer (RNZ): NZ First candidate Craig Stobo wants India free trade deal, despite his party opposing it
Sam Smith (Stuff): NZ First recruits former Bachelorette NZ personality for Auckland seat run
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): NZ First MP replies to questions about bill defining ‘man’ and ‘woman’ at select committee
Sam Smith (Stuff): ‘You don’t even know what you’re talking about,’ says Labour MP. Then she admits mistake
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): ‘Imagine if all of us showed up’: Young voters urged to enrol
Nick James (Post): Labour’s Greg O’Connor signs off from Parliament with speech completely in rhyme (paywalled)
RNZ: Greg O’Connor gives a bard’s farewell to the House
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): The weirdest rhymes from Greg O’Connor’s parting poem
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): MP defends knitting in Parliament: ‘I find it calming and makes it easier to concentrate’
David Farrar: Excellent constitutional ideas from ACT
Brent Edwards (NBR): The role of the minor parties in forming the next government (paywalled)
RNZ: Labour must explain how it will pay for fuel tax freeze, Upston says
MOVE-ON ORDERS AND HOMELESSNESS
Julia Gabel (Herald): MPs suggest Government weaken move-on orders in just-released select committee report
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Coalition clash as justice committee pushes to water down move-on orders
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Coalition at odds over move-on orders bill changes, but pushes ahead anyway
PUBLIC SERVICE
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Another failed and scrapped MBIE IT project. This one cost taxpayers $5m
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Immigration’s ill-fated IT project costs and errors in forecasts
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): No word on compensation for wrongly suspended benefits
SUPERANNUATION
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Super at 68? Departing National MP calls for pension age to start rising in 2029
Tony Burton: Superannuation 2: Ch - ch - ch - ch - changes
RNZ: Flexible NZ Super options could make it more affordable
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Aimee Shaw (Post): Cameron Brewer has grand plans for small business - but no specific policy yet (paywalled)
Zar Lilley (Stuff): NZ’s biggest business lobby wants politicians to do these things. What do you reckon?
Dita De Boni (Post): More women and Māori reach boardrooms, but executive leadership remains largely male (paywalled)
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Invest NZ head Robert Wall on data centres, growth visas and incentives for foreign investment (paywalled)
Will Johnston (Post): Concept illustrations show massive scale of proposed Stratford data centre (paywalled)
RNZ: Times remain tough for the building sector, but firms are adapting to the uncertainty, survey shows
Ian Taylor (ODT): Just what, and who, is Air NZ for? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Why renting retirees might be better to save nothing if they don’t have $200,000
RESERVE BANK AND THE ECONOMY
Damien Venuto (Stuff): Can the Government actually fix inflation? Five experts weigh in
Post: Editorial – Mr Luxon’s lucky interest rate run is over (paywalled)
Bernard Hickey: An unfair, unnecessary & counterproductive rate hike that exposes NZ’s broken economic model
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): RBNZ signals patient path on inflation as governor Anna Breman downplays October hike (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Savers keep waiting, as Reserve Bank’s OCR hike unlikely to push fixed interest rates much higher (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): More banks pass on OCR increase
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Why the economic downturn keeps dragging on - and the regions doing the worst
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): NZ political divide on fiscal policy small when looked at from overseas — says S&P (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Kiwibank chief executive asks MPs to make banks fess up on bonus saver accounts (paywalled)
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