ELECTION 2026
1News: Election hoardings hit the streets as parties ramp up campaigns
Stuff: Election campaign officially begins as hoardings go up
Glenn McConnell and David White (Stuff): Armed with a sledgehammer, David Seymour marks election milestone with midnight mission
Adam Pearse (Herald): Should Act voters give their candidate vote to National? Paul Henry weighs in (paywalled)
Herald: Editorial – MMP is finally showing its true self as parties accept strategic voting (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): If the economy could vote, the outcome should be clear (paywalled)
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): National keeps trapping Labour on tax, but the strategy could stall
Chris Trotter: Everybody wants to go to heaven (but nobody wants to die). (paywalled)
Matthew Tukaki (Waatea News): Te Pāti Māori Draws a Line in the Sand — But What Are the Real Coalition Bottom Lines?
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): NZ First to campaign for conservation land to be open for economic development
Savage (Herald): NZ First’s call for exclusive citizen voting rights ignores that our Head of State isn’t one (paywalled)
Jessie Wong (Sunday Star Times): If I were PM (paywalled)
Nikki Macdonald (Sunday Star Times): Immigration nation - the changing face of NZ (paywalled)
Matthew Hooton (Sunday Star Times): Let’s debate immigration seriously and sensibly (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret game plan of .. the third All Blacks vs Springboks test
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Liam Dann (Herald): Economists say the recovery has resumed... do you believe them? (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Sunday Star Times): The biggest KiwiSaver question of all: Won’t an ageing population wreck investment returns? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): More than half of KiwiSaver hardship applicants directed to other options
Nick Collins (Sunday Star Times): The Govt saved one ‘critical industry’ - why not also protect NZ’s aluminium shapers? (paywalled)
Glenn Dwight (Herald): New Zealand should Think Small to get big ideas moving
Kevin Norquay (Sunday Star Times): Why losing your grey matter matters (paywalled)
Monique Steele (RNZ): Grain sector ‘disappointed’ farmers are choosing cheap palm kernel feed over local grain
Mark Lister (Newsroom): How the ’87 crash shaped a generation
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Moa Point shows we live in a world where inadequacy is accepted, what happened to accountability? (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): There’s nothing more permanent – or disastrous – than a Kiwi temporary fix (paywalled)
Sunday Star Times: Locking in public land (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Sunday Star Times): Entrust dividend debate: Time to tackle the ‘cushiest pork barrel’ in NZ politics? (paywalled)
HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING
Ruben Miller (Spinoff): When a homeless person becomes the news
Chris Egan (World Socialist Website): Homeless man dies outside New Zealand government minister’s office
Ben Leahy (Herald): Developer DDL Estates’ debt nears $100m; collapse opens door to ‘below cost’ Ellerslie apartments (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star Times): ‘It just seems mad’: Waiheke locals question ex-All Black Marc Ellis’ $480m fast-track spa (paywalled)
Sapeer Mayron (BusinessDesk): ‘You tell me’: new Building and Construction Minister’s answer to most questions (paywalled)
Deborah Morris (Post): Wellington consents slump signals trouble ahead for housing supply (paywalled)
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