PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Don’t underestimate NZ First and Michael Laws
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Are we about to elect our least popular prime minister for 33 years?
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Ministerial spend-ups are a symptom of a deeper sickness buried beneath the state (paywalled)
1News: Ardern tougher than public saw, sacked ministers with ‘steel’ - new book
Phil Smith (RNZ): The outcomes of a long week of lawmaking
David Harvey (Herald): Jefferson’s vision of individual liberty shows New Zealand’s constitutional gap (paywalled)
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Govt board members’ fees soar as private sector directors tighten their belts
Rachel Pannett (BusinessDesk): Why officials’ AI experiment is testing trust in policy work (paywalled)
1News: ACT announces policy to prevent abusers from ‘weaponising’ pets
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): ACT policy aims to stop abusers ‘weaponising’ pets to control victims
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Qiulae Wong
TRADE AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
RNZ: National promises to prioritise seven trade deals if elected
Stuff: National promises trade talks with seven new markets in bid for ‘next billion customers’
Herald: National pledges new trade deals with seven economies if re-elected
Anneke Smith (Post): National lifts trade stakes in direct challenge to NZ First (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (Post): National promises to chase seven new trade deals (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Dairy dash: National targets Bangladesh amid US tariff deal (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Todd McClay says no reason for concern about India migration changes
Anna Fifield: Modi comes to NZ, Penk goes to NATO
Phil Pennington (RNZ): New Zealand joins US project to accelerate AI warfighting
Kaya Selby (RNZ): New US ambassador to New Zealand says Cook Islands is a top priority
NZ FIRST AND VOTING RIGHTS
Tom Rose (Herald): Winston Peters announces citizens-only voting policy
RNZ: NZ First announces policy to restrict voting to citizens only
The Post: NZ First to campaign on voting rights for citizens only (paywalled)
Stuff: NZ First to campaign on ending voting rights for permanent residents
HEALTH
Jim Kayes (Stuff): Bad, but not the worst. Chris Bishop says other hospitals in worse shape than leaky Hutt
Kate Green (RNZ): More temporary beds added to hospitals around NZ to meet winter demand
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): The attention on the Waikato ED case could increase the odds of fixing the problem
ODT: Editorial: Horrors of ward 10a exposed (paywalled)
Bonnie Sumner (Newsroom): What is going on at Starship’s child protection unit?
Cass Mason (Newsroom): ‘If we think it’s abuse, it’s abuse’
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Health NZ’s silence on child abuse misdiagnoses
Amanda Gillies (RNZ): The ‘Trumpian’ Disability Support Services that critics say strips workers of help
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Health NZ apologises over paused bowel cancer procedures - but what next?
1News: Cancer specialists call for rehab to become standard part of treatment
Isaac Davison (Stuff): More Kiwis are too sick to work. What can be done?
Paula Penfold (Stuff): How one woman’s eight-year fight raises questions about ACC’s ‘abhorrent’ new approach to weekly compensation
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