NZ FIRST
Adam Pearse (Herald): NZ First’s Shane Jones takes aim at coalition Govt’s ‘managerialism’ (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Shane Jones talks up plan to power Kinleith paper mill, talks down coalition partners
Thomas Manch (Post): Shane Jones: NZ First ‘can’t wait for the Reserve Bank to save our electoral prospects’ (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Former Labour Minister Stuart Nash makes his pitch to become NZ First MP
RNZ: Former Labour MP Stuart Nash not closing door on campaigning for NZ First
Thomas Manch (Post): NZ First and Stuart Nash want to make Labour's life harder (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Former Labour minister Stuart Nash declares allegiance to NZ First (paywalled)
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): NZ First to block gene tech bill unless National makes changes
Russell Palmer (RNZ): NZ First AGM: Winston Peters predicts 'massive political victory' next year
Thomas Manch (Post): Winston Peters says fixing NZ will ‘take time’ (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Winston Peters kicks off New Zealand First's annual gathering in Palmerston North
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Former National Party MP Harete Hipango joins New Zealand First
Adam Pearse (Herald): Former National MP Harete Hipango joins NZ First
Adam Pearse (Herald): How will NZ First members swallow the foreign buyers dead rat? (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Peters has a lovely house to sell (paywalled)
TĀMAKI MAKAURAU BY-ELECTION
Lillian Hanly and Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori co-leader says Tāmaki Makaurau voted for 'unapologetic representation'
Julia Gabel (Herald): ‘Over the moon’: Oriini Kaipara wins Auckland byelection for Te Pāti Māori against Labour’s Peeni Henare
RNZ: Labour's Peeni Henare concedes Tāmaki Makaurau by-election to Te Pāti Māori rival Oriini Kaipara
1News: Oriini Kaipara decisively wins Tāmaki Makaurau by-election
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Peeni Henare fails to woo back Tamaki Makaurau electorate (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Polls close in Tāmaki Makaurau by-election
Lynn Prentice (The Standard): Local and by-election turnouts
Whatitiri Te Wake, Tini Molyneux, Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori News): “E pūrena ana tōku ngākau” Oriini Kaipara set to enter Parliament
Sam Smith (Stuff): Remembering the eventful and influential by-elections under MMP
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Luxon finds the perfect job opportunity
Damien Grant (Stuff): Why premiership of Luxon is floundering while Wayne Brown’s sailing back into office
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. Luxon’s last days
Liam Dann (Herald): Runway for pre-election economic turnaround looks dangerously short for Luxon (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Inside the attack campaign testing Nicola Willis’ standing (paywalled)
Post: ‘Ridiculous’: Chris Bishop rules out leadership bid (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): A by-election, a conference and a cost-of-living reset (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): The pointless exercise which might actually mean something (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): Restraining Dictator-Inclined Politicians
Bryan Bruce: Deny, Denounce,Delay - How Coalition Ministers Are Getting Around The Official Information Act.
Steven Cowan: Labour has to offer more than just rebranded neoliberalism
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Ministry breaks up international labour specialists
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Greens promise to reinstate axed national war memorial jobs, Labour won't go so far
Anna Whyte (Post): Does the public service need reform? How - and why - it could be done (paywalled)
Ryan Ward: In the room where it happened
NBR: Amazon hype, foreign buyer ban, a trip to China (paywalled)
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: Parliament's local MP and electorate
Samuel Sherry & Cherie Howie (Herald): David Seymour defends driving after Reddit video, won’t make police complaint
Samuel Sherry (Herald): Video shows David Seymour speeding, undertaking on Auckland motorway
GREENS
1News: Next person on Greens' list to replace Doyle unsure if he wants it
Sinead Gill (Press): Is Christchurch about to gain a new MP? (paywalled)
1News: Green MP Benjamin Doyle resigns from Parliament
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Green MP Benjamin Doyle resigns suddenly as MP, police confirm probes into threats
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Green MP Benjamin Doyle resigns, citing safety concerns
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Benjamin Doyle resigns amid ongoing harassment and wellbeing issues
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Green MP Benjamin Doyle resigns from Parliament
Kelly Dennett and Harriet Laughton (Post): Green MP Benjamin Doyle resigns (paywalled)
BUDGET, ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Treasury warns of years of cuts to come, what’s in it for voters? (paywalled)
Max Rashbrooke (Post): How this Government is adding fuel to the inflationary fire (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Christopher Luxon 'quite relaxed' about $8.5b hole forecast in funding
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Reading the economic tea leaves (paywalled)
RNZ: How $100,000 can make you more than $1 million better off down the track
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Rising costs continue to outpace incomes as Kiwis strive to keep up financially
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Next RBNZ Governor should consider setting inflation target at 2.5% - Westpac Chief Economist
Dave Heatley: When I'm sixty-four
Morgan Edwards: Discussing the Role of Private Debt is Outside the Scope of the Briefing. Yeah Right
Calida Stuart-Menteath and Hamish McNicol (NBR): Retailers struggle while we search for growth (paywalled)
HOUSING, INSURANCE
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Epsom MP David Seymour leads Parnell meeting against high-rise zoning plan
Jonathan Killick (Sunday Star Times): My backyard or yours? The housing war splitting Auckland (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): Old wealth, young renters, and the fight for a city’s soul (paywalled)
Deborah Morris (Post): How the Hutt handled housing: The city’s bold intensification push (paywalled)
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): New social housing plan falls far short of need - city missioners
1News: Govt outlines plan to help rough sleepers into social housing
RNZ: 'Broken housing system': More support coming for rough sleepers, government announces
Raphael Franks (Herald): Homeless plans: Housing Minister Chris Bishop outlines ‘actions to support’ rough sleepers
Amelia Wade (Post): More than 500 living in cars as Govt refuses to change emergency housing rules (paywalled)
RNZ: Social housing agency gets A+ credit rating
Miriam Bell (Sunday Star Times): What’s really going on with the housing market? (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): Temporary restriction on new AA Insurance home insurance policies in some areas of 'very high seismic risk’
TRANSPORT
Simon Wilson (Herald): Ten things you might not know about Auckland Transport (paywalled)
Simon Wilson (Herald): Five big questions about Auckland’s new transport setup (paywalled)
RNZ: Auckland Transport to be stripped of most powers
1News: Major shake-up of Auckland Transport confirmed
David Long (Stuff): Simeon Brown hopes Auckland hits the brakes on speed bumps with law change
Amelia Wade (Post): Auckland Transport KO: Wayne Brown secures council control
Brent Melville (NBR): Auckland Transport wings clipped, back under committee rule (paywalled)
Elsie Williams (Press): Mayor Phil Mauger admits phoning minister to say the city didn’t need government money for roads (paywalled)
Rod Carr (Post): No subsidies for vehicles or fuel, no general tax used on roads (paywalled)
Roeland van den Bergh (Sunday Star Times): At the departure gate: Air NZ CEO Greg Foran’s parting reckons (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Charlie Mitchell (Press/Post): The great water divide: Winners, losers, and the price households will pay (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): Does the rates cap fit? (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Nothing is getting better any time soon (paywalled)
Amanda Wood (Post): Charting Wellington’s path to renewal (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Property ‘giants’ offer Wellington cut-price City to Sea bridge deal (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Rubber hits the road on Wellington elections (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Ray Chung backs ‘rainbow plan’ despite ‘BS’ tweet from backers (paywalled)
Post: Election countdown: The campaign goes to the dogs (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Two Courtenay Place bus stops saved after regional council back down (paywalled)
David Williams (Newsroom): Concern and confusion in hotly contested Queenstown race
Jonathan Leask (Local Democracy Reporting): Nicola Willis shoots down Ashburton candidate's roading promise
Linda Hall (Local Democracy Reporting): Contentious dam hangs over Central Hawke’s Bay elections
RNZ: Surge in Asian candidates contesting local boards in Auckland
RNZ: Auckland Museum could cut up to 30 roles amid significant financial pressures
Samantha Gee (RNZ): Council again votes to spend $3 million on Nelson Provincial Museum storage facility
Erin Johnson (Stuff): Backyard battle: Homeowner in ‘fight’ over manhole access after CCTV captured workers in his garden
HEALTH
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Doctors' rejection of binding arbitration not surprising, employment law expert says
RNZ: Senior doctors' union refuses arbitration, accuses Health Minister of illegally interfering in bargaining process
Anna Whyte (Post): Union labels minister’s bid to settle senior doctors’ dispute ‘misinformed’, ‘disingenuous’ (paywalled)
Mariné Lourens (Press): Strain of winter illnesses leaves Christchurch Hospital ED like a ‘mass casualty situation’ (paywalled)
Ian Powell: ‘For the love of god’; why say so much when saying so little?
Rob Stock (Post): Government cancels ‘genetic discrimination’ insurance ban plan (paywalled)
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Data blindspot: Hundreds of booze sellers missing in national figures
RNZ: Cost deterring people from getting vital flu vaccine - pharmacist
RNZ: NZ study finds higher rates of brain disorders in top-level male rugby players
KORONEIHANA
Julia Gabel (Herald): Māori Queen Nga wai hono i te po lauded for first public address since taking over monarchy
John Campbell (1News): The Māori Queen speaks and it's a new, vital voice for NZ
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Māori Queen launches two economic initiatives during her first national address
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Koroneihana: Māori ready to do business with other nations directly