ELECTION CAMPAIGN AND PARTIES
Veronica Schmidt (Spinoff): Christopher Luxon: The Nat with nine lives, or a man on borrowed time?
Claire Robinson: The Great Dissonance: We don’t like small parties, so why do we keep voting for them?
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Election policies: The good, the bad & the unworkable pledges on the big issues (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Ipsos urges National to withdraw inaccurate claim about its polling on tax
Chris Trotter (Interest): Class Reps
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Seymour: ‘Affording a decent life is the number one political issue’
Richard Harman: Seymour takes on Willis (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Post): ACT needs stars to dance with as David Seymour searches for political rhythm (paywalled)
RNZ: ACT pledges ban on compulsory karakia in resource consents
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Goldie’s never needed a personal vote more – might he get it despite himself?
Jane Yee (Herald): Chris Hipkins on finding the balance between being a dad and leading Labour – Ask Me Anything with Paula Bennett
Henry Cooke (Post): Nicola Willis says she isn’t letting herself think about being booted from Parliament (paywalled)
Sam Smith (Stuff): ‘Oh, did they?’ NZ First candidate’s awkward backtrack at debate
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Toy guns and raw mussels: A day on the campaign trail with Winston Peters
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori announces ‘one-person’ party list for 2026 election
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori reinforces strategic voting call with sparse party list
Verity Johnson (Stuff): The Opportunity Party is our new rebound boyfriend
Steven Cowan: The Opportunities Party: Spreadsheet politics
Josh Van Veen: A postliberal critique of the Coalition
Harriet Laughton (Post): ACT’s $6000 question and flooding the zone with Winston Peters: How parties are getting your attention this election (paywalled)
Nick James (Post): Chasing votes and pressing the flesh on the campaign trail (paywalled)
David Barber (Post): Remembering times and people who showed that politics can still inspire (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Some rare missteps for Simeon Brown, National (paywalled)
John Hartevelt (RNZ): AI has finally entered the election campaign arena
Herald: National MP Carlos Cheung says election billboard in Three Kings deliberately set alight
RNZ: Election signage deliberately set on fire, National MP Carlos Cheung says
Herald: Julie Anne Genter says Rongotai electorate name could return after next review
Samantha Gee (RNZ): New faces in race for West Coast Tasman
Charlie Dreaver (1News): Disabled voters still hunting for accessible booths, private ballots
Aziz Al Sa’afin (1News): Vote Compass 2026: Compare your views with party policies
RNZ: As it happened: Election campaign 4 October
LABOUR’S FISCAL PLANS
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Labour’s fiscal plan: National’s claims and how Labour is defending it
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Labour’s fiscal plan leaves big questions on pay equity
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour promises to reinstate pay equity, but only costs one claim, leaving $8.5b out of plan
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour’s fiscal plan answers some questions, but leaves $10b hanging (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Labour’s fiscal plan near-identical to National’s; no ring-fenced fund for pay equity (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Why is Labour pretending it wants a big surplus? (paywalled)
Chris Hipkins (Post): A responsible plan for New Zealand’s future (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Labour releases its fiscal plan, promises pay rise for care and support workers
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Labour releases fiscal plan, promises immediate pay rise for care and support workers
Stuff: Labour reveals plan to give pay raise to care and support workers
1News: Labour reveals vaunted fiscal plan - here’s the key details
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Election 2026: Error page on Labour website as fiscal objective made ‘clearer’, National’s Nicola Willis says ‘not serious people’
TAX AND KIWISAVER
Hayden Wilson (BusinessDesk): The next Government faces a $3b choice over tax cuts and public spending (paywalled)
Louise Delany and Marnie Prickett (Newsroom): Tax reform not the province of the major parties
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): MPs dangle tax and transport promises over voters (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Act announces multibillion-dollar KiwiSaver tax cut, to remove Government contribution
RNZ: ACT pledges removing tax on KiwiSaver earnings
Anneke Smith (Post): ACT Party wants to cut tax on KiwiSaver earnings, scrap $260 government contribution (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): ACT promises to remove tax on KiwiSaver earnings
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Does KiwiSaver really make New Zealanders better off?
SUPERMARKETS AND COST OF LIVING
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The supermarket duopoly fights back
Justin Hu (1News): ‘Populist’ streak in supermarket break-up plans - Foodstuffs boss
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Cost of living’s become an election issue and supermarkets are getting the blame
Rachel Pannett (BusinessDesk): Supermarket shakeup and grocery prices a key election battleground (paywalled)
Tom Raynel (Herald): Analysts supportive of Labour’s Fair Go proposal but question specifics (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Labour’s planned consumer protection laws must be backed by a properly funded regulator, professor warns (paywalled)
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