LUXON AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Will Labour’s poll plunge save Christopher Luxon after his worst week? (paywalled)
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Helen Clark’s ‘restraint’ lesson for Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Duncan Garner (Listener): Prime Minister, if you truly can’t see how bad things are, then stand aside for the good of NZ (paywalled)
Josie Pagani (Post): Make a change National, or the country will (paywalled)
Stuff: Luxon says average Irish person ‘is now twice as wealthy as average Kiwi’
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. Sheriff Luxon
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. King Lux
Jacqui Van Der Kaay: Addressing the issues that matter
OPINION POLL
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Labour plummets, Opportunity breaches 6% in new poll
1News: Labour slides as coalition clings to power, Opportunity breaks 5% - poll
Jamie Ensor (Herald): New poll should shake Labour from fantasy it can gain power off back of unpopular Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Coalition still in position to form government in new Taxpayers’ Union Curia poll
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour tumbles into the 20s in new poll, Opportunity hits 5% to enter Parliament
Henry Cooke (Post): New poll has Opportunity above 5%, Labour dipping well below 30% (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): The Opportunity Party wave is real, new poll confirms
MMP REFERENDUM POLICY
1News: Luxon holds firm on MMP referendum call despite cross-party criticism
Adam Pearse (Herald): National MP Paul Goldsmith says MMP referendum ‘of course’ party policy, other MPs say just Luxon’s view
Richard Shaw (The Conversation): Coalition leadership is hard. Luxon’s ‘nuclear option’ of electoral reform is not the answer
Michael Swanson (Newsroom): Campaign Cut-through: MMP needs fixing, not ditching
Brent Edwards (NBR): Apology, MMP referendum, small businesses and ignoring retailers (paywalled)
Peter Collins: How can we make MMP work better?
ELECTION
Jo Moir (RNZ): Bad week? Try being a Chris
Harriet Laughton (Post): National’s declared campaign coffers grow $440,000, but still behind ACT (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): The election we were expecting is over - for now (paywalled)
No Right Turn: A state-assisted corruption scheme
Julia Gabel (Herald): Another Labour candidate backs out of election
Nick James (Post): Another Labour candidate drops out of election race (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): National Party to reveal its list for November 7 vote
Will Johnston (Post): Independent party’s ‘rigorous search’ ends with familiar face (paywalled)
George Heagney (Post): Luxon hypes up National candidate Bansal for upset in Palmerston North (paywalled)
Paul K. Gunson (LinkedIn): Testing the Pollsters
WINSTON PETERS
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Pressure on PM to sack Peters: ‘You make a mistake, the boss will fire you’
Stuff: Majority of voters want Winston Peters sacked as foreign minister
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Stuff’s Pulse of the Nation: Voters want Christopher Luxon to sack Winston Peters
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): The Winston Peters double standard
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE
Anna Fifield: New Zealand’s Winston Peters falls flat
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Winston Peters says Pacific missed chance to issue statement after Chinese missile test
Anneke Smith (Post): Unified South Pacific response to China missile ‘not totally lost’ - Peters (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (Post): The cost of consensus: Pacific bloc silent on China missile (paywalled)
Susana Suisuiki (RNZ): Pacific Islands Forum fails to reach consensus on anti-missile statement against China
RNZ: In China-US rivalry, NZ remains isolated but not insulated
Anna Fifield (Newsroom): As Trump creates global chaos, China sees a chance to influence NZ
Simon O’Connor: Foreign interference is very real in New Zealand
Andrea Vance (Post): Anger in the ranks over NZDF pay package as top brass get $20k boosts (paywalled)
GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Air Force should not be a political party resource
Jo Moir (RNZ): New evidence immigration minister was kept in dark about major budget blowout
Alex Barker (IDEA): New data: Maybe public servants aren’t overpaid after all (paywalled)
Kiri Allan (Spinoff): The call that changed my life
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