PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): A study in corporate coalition collusion (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour fumes as Government ‘secretly’ spends $1b from next year’s Budget (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Green Party accuses the government of secret cuts
Farah Hancock (RNZ): $44,630 fee for ‘yo-yo’ KiwiRail director Scott O’Donnell who had 10 conflicts of interest
Henry Cooke (Post): Agenda: Labour to announce candidate list – and a policy (paywalled)
Penny Smith (RNZ): Maritime Union affiliates with Alliance Party, keeps door open to Labour
David Farrar: Not a well crafted bill
Barry Soper (Newsroom): Trevor Mallard’s last two words to Barry Soper (you can guess)
MPS: PAY, CONDUCT AND THE PUBLIC MOOD
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Austerity is for poor people, not politicians
Nigel Haworth (The Standard): In defence of the MP’s lot
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Off the transplant list and too sick to go on: ACT MP with kidney disease to step out of politics
Stuff: Green Party co-leader apologises for speeding on SH1
FARMING
Rob Stock (Post): Federated Farmers releases election manifesto calling for cuts to farming ‘red tape’ to bring down food prices (paywalled)
1News: Fed Farmers want farm plans to replace costly resource consents
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): Fieldays 2026: Sunshine, spending and an election (paywalled)
Mary Williams (ODT): Dairy industry gets early access to council report (paywalled)
David Kennedy: The myth of New Zealand’s economic backbone
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Don Brash: We must stop sub-contracting our foreign policy to Washington
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Luxon in happy place hanging with Australian PM Anthony Albanese
RNZ: New Solomon Islands PM to visit NZ
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Phillip Mills (Herald): Why business and philanthropy must merge to tackle climate and inequality
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): The forgotten Telecom playbook that could shake up banking (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Supermarket tinkering (paywalled)
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Businesses blame ‘policy uncertainty’ for reluctance to embrace Investment Boost
Herald: South Island business leaders unite for major pre-election conference
Aimee Shaw (Post): How NZ became Taiwan’s second-largest food import source (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): NZ economy needs more than ‘small incremental steps’ (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): How Auckland’s big construction slump hits the whole economy – Liam Dann (paywalled)
Catherine Knight: Deconstructing Nicola: How public finance myths and moral language shape us
Rob Stock (Post): The KiwiSaver gender gap is widening, but an Australia-inspired idea could close it (paywalled)
Hillmarè Schulze (NBR): The KiwiSaver IPO illusion: value created, then quietly lost (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): NZ launches rare dumping probe into aluminium imports (paywalled)
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