GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Luxon under fire: majority of voters want National leader out (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): How a blue-chip corporate-world leader fell below investment grade (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Could Winston Peters actually run the country as a job-share PM? (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): ‘I want to sounds smart and inspirational’: How ministers use AI
Graham Adams (The Platform): Making English official is a sly winner
Brian Easton: The Return of the policy that shall not be named
Joseph Los’e (Herald): New faces circle Tāmaki Makaurau as Labour weighs contenders for key Māori seat (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Winston Peters is promising an election like no other (paywalled)
Chris Scott (Kiwiblog): Two years in, the Government is out of excuses
Nikki Preston (One Roof): Kāinga Ora loses $2m on scrapped social housing site
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Sunday Star Times): Dual mandate duel: Nicola Willis and Barbara Edmond clash over inflation vs jobs focus for RBNZ (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Politically Correct: The minister who may have grunted (paywalled)
IRAN WAR; IMPACT ON NZ ECONOMY
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): Catching the tailwinds: a small nation in a chaotic world (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Iran conflict could sink the economic recovery ... and Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Damien Grant (Stuff): To Helen Clark: Sorry, but international law won’t stop an Iranian nuke
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Iran crisis and Trump’s tariffs leave little room for NZ to breathe (paywalled)
1News: ‘Week after week’ petrol hikes as Iran war sends oil price soaring
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): What global power do we want to police the world? Russia, China or the US (paywalled)
1News: Hercules takes off as NZ readies for possible Mideast evacuation
Nicholas Khoo (Newsroom): NZ can’t let Mideast war divert attention from our own security
Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): The underappreciated components of the war in the Middle East
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEFENCE
Herald: Editorial – Our Defence Force has been grossly neglected for decades (paywalled)
John Howard & Tim Ewing-Jarvie (Herald): We can’t wait another three years to talk about national security (paywalled)
Matthew O’Meagher (Newsroom): Argentina’s president shows Peters how he takes a chainsaw to public spending
David Fisher (Herald): Deficient training and oversight: Why NZ’s Navy spent 139 days without its largest ship (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND WATER
Penny Smith (RNZ): Moa Point disaster exposes deeper problems, public health experts warn
Sam Stubbs (Sunday Star Times): A dam good opportunity: Let’s not waste this water crisis (paywalled)
Marnie Prickett, Nicci Wood and Michael Baker (Public Health Communications Centre): Moa Point inquiry must seize opportunity to improve wastewater nationally
Connor Sharp (Sunday Star Times): Government claims to be listening to Aucklanders, but which ones? (paywalled)
Robin Martin (RNZ): Chief executive appointment ‘strong’ signal Taranaki councils headed for amalgamation - mayor
RMA AND LANDUSE
Liam Ratana (Spinoff): ‘I can polish poo – but I can’t polish diarrhoea’: Māori blast RMA overhaul
Mandy Te (Interest): RMA reforms: IAG NZ says consequences of getting Act wrong is development can’t be insured
RNZ: Laser mapping and CT scans reveal North Island’s hidden quake risk
Andrea Vance (Post): ‘You can’t move a marae’: Most Kiwis worry about climate risk, but few will pay to relocate (paywalled)
Rohan Havelock (Newsroom): Japan’s quake insurance exposes deep fault lines in ours
SOCIAL MEDIA BAN FOR YOUTH
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Amnesty International calls for corporations to take responsibility for social media harm
No Right Turn: “Papers, please” for the internet
Julia Gabel (Herald): Social media ban for under-16s? MP who initiated inquiry disappointed with ‘predetermined’ outcome
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Parliamentary committee calls for under 16s social media ban
Cecilia Robinson (Herald): Meta’s NZ charm offensive should worry every parent (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION
Mary Argue (RNZ): Plan to release parasitic worm on invasive millipede horde
Amy Ridout (Stuff): ‘What are these little critters?’ Invasive millipedes are back, and they’re spreading
Nikki Macdonald (Sunday Star Times): Red alert - rampant red deer risk irreversible damage to Fiordland (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Getting down and dirty with the govt (paywalled)
POLICE
Isaac Davison (Stuff): Inside the police breach that exposed 1000 sensitive criminal case files
Lane Nichols & Jared Savage (Herald): Former constable Summer Smith jailed for leaking police intelligence to Killer Beez gang boyfriend (paywalled)
Mike White (Sunday Star Times): ‘Get on and solve a murder’: Police slammed for not reinvestigating controversial ‘Gone Fishing’ killing (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Nikki Preston (One Roof): Money, politics and real estate: Who is Matthew Horncastle and why is he in the headlines?
Mina Martin (NZ Advisor): New Zealand anger at inequality grows as young investors abandon property
Martien Lubberink: We have a right to rely on them
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Too much, Temu: New Customs levy ends taxpayer subsidy for cheap parcels
Duncan Morrison (Sunday Star Times): New Zealand’s cyber wake up call - but are we listening (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Ben Tomsett (Herald): University of Otago in Queenstown: Campus plan raises student housing questions (paywalled)
Jaime Cunningham (Herald): PPTA warns booming rolls and immigration fuelling teacher shortage
Kelly Garton (Newsroom): Why can’t we provide a free school meal scheme as good as Brazil’s?
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Helen Sedcole (BusinessDesk): Why gender pay gaps should see sunlight (paywalled)
Jackie Lloyd (Herald): Construction can’t afford to leave half its talent on the sidelines (paywalled)
Eleanor Cater (Sunday Star Times): Women’s philanthropy: The quiet revolution (paywalled)
CARTOONS