PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Janet Wilson (Post): Voters may want hope, but politics is offering something else (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Sunday Star Times): Business leaders sour on Luxon government, but fear lack of clear successor (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): National and Labour’s caucuses should only roll their unpopular leaders if they want to lose the next election
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Globalists, ‘clot shots’ and the ‘evil witch’: How a conspiracy poster landed a job at the heart of government (paywalled)
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Another Cabinet minister caught up in United Nations letter-writing saga
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori accuses Electoral Commission of 'voter supression' over enrolments
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. Christopher in accounts
Shane Te Pou (Herald): 6 ways Christopher Luxon can save his Prime Ministership (paywalled)
Ganesh Ahirao: Government on track to dismember the public sector
Kelly Dennett (Sunday Star Times): Grant Robertson: ‘A lot of the history of my time was being written around me’ (paywalled)
Good Ideas: Can the Greens stick to a less polarising approach?
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Spine and Punishment: A review of Swarbrick v Brownlee
James Nokise (Post): Swarbrick puts her neck on the line calling MPs spineless (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Gaza debate, polls, pay equity, the Covid-19 inquiry no-show (paywalled)
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: The House chips away at lawmaking, amid distractions
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Parliament's sprinklers at risk of failing, Treasury report says
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): The leaderless political party that’s turned to SEEK
Giles Dexter (RNZ): TOP goes public in hunt for new leader
Imogene Bedford (Herald): The Opportunities Party advertises for new leader, eyes 2026 election
Anna Whyte (Post): The Opportunity Party looks for new leader, posts job ad (paywalled)
Charlie Mitchell (Sunday Star Times): The ‘ghost party’ at the centre of a bitter political feud (paywalled)
COVID
1News: Q+A: 'Show trial': Robertson on turning down Covid inquiry public hearing
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Covid-19 pandemic handling returns to headlines, with Labour under scrutiny (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): Avoiding the Covid questions (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Covid-19 inquiry: Kiwis disagree with Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins not fronting public hearing, poll results show
Herald Editorial: Kiwis demand public answers from former ministers in Covid-19 inquiry (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Ardern and Hipkins are afraid of being honest with us about their Covid decisions (paywalled)
FAST-TRACK
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Protesters confront Resources Minister Shane Jones in Whangārei over fast-track projects
Craig Ashworth (Local Democracy Reporting): Seabed miner slows fast track with ‘cynical’ response
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Independent reviewer deals blow to economic case for fast-tracked Ōrewa housing development (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Mandy Te (Interest): Inflation could 'rise even higher' than 3% before end of year, Westpac economist says
RNZ: Food prices rising fastest since 2023
David Hargreaves (Interest): Households still think inflation's higher than it is - but future expectations have settled
David Hargreaves (Interest): The return of the OCR cuts - will it be one and done, or more in store?
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): RBNZ to take data-dependent, cautious bias about futher cuts (paywalled)
EMPLOYMENT
Amanda Reilly and Annick Masselot (The Conversation): Contractor or employee? How a proposed law change will favour Uber over its drivers
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): The Government v the unions (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Future of strikes: Bargaining reaches boiling point, what’s next? (paywalled)
Herald: Where New Zealand ranks for paid work leave – and how many days we get off
HOUSING
Liam Dann (Herald): This isn’t a housing market meltdown, it’s a full-blown crash (paywalled)
Ben Thomas (Post): Getting serious with the crazy talk on house prices
Michael Daly (Stuff): Kāinga Ora sells rundown 11-storey Wellington apartment building for just over $1 million
Ethan Manera (Herald): Kāinga Ora sells off ‘landmark’ Wellington Dixon Street Flats
Daniel Alves (Star News): Poll: Data reveals developers exploited contributions loophole
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Investors worry about political flipflopping as rents fall
Stuff: Rental market continues to cool with year-on-year drops across the country
RMA, ENVIRONMENT
Shay Schlaepfer (Sunday Star Times): Government’s promise to protect the environment in tatters
RNZ: Resource Management Act changes will allow power plants to be built faster - energy producers
Monique Steele (RNZ): Concerns the battle against wilding conifer pines is being lost, amid funding uncertainty
FORESHORE AND SEABED
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Māori coastal rights Supreme Court decision could set precedent - lawyer
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Supreme Court gives green light to riverbeds' inclusion in Māori customary marine title orders
Julia Gabel (Herald): Foreshore and seabed: Supreme Court issues new ruling on customary marine rights to rivers
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Supreme Court’s MACA ruling clarifies rights to rivers, reefs (paywalled)
FERRIES, TRANSPORT
RNZ: Minister for Rail Winston Peters on the $671m scrapped ferry fiasco
1News: How much it cost to cancel iRex ferry contract
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): $222 million paid to shipyard for canned Interislander replacements
Herald: KiwiRail settles with Hyundai over cancelled ferries with $144 million payment
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Final cost of breaking South Korean ferry contract revealed
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Cancelling Interislander iRex ferries to cost $144 million (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Infrastructure minister insists new Mt Victoria tunnel to start this term (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): Road user charges for all: Eroad pushes $40 solution, Privacy Commissioner highlights potential pain points (paywalled)
Max Frethey (Local Democracy Reporting): Rural Tasman highways drop to 80km/h
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): How do we pay for new roads without tolls? (paywalled)
Carly Gooch (Press): Taxpayers to help fund ‘crucial’ $75m Pages Rd bridge
RNZ: New cycleway opens up Auckland central city before rail link opens
JUSTICE
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Ban on protesting outside homes rebalances freedom of expression and privacy rights - professor
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Justice Minister plans to criminalise protesting outside homes
Anna Whyte (Post): Govt to crack down on ‘targeted and disruptive’ protests outside people’s homes (paywalled)
Simon Shepherd (NBR): Member of wealth family jailed today keeps name secret (paywalled)
Robin Martin (RNZ): 'Your family could be next', warns coward punch victim's brother
Neil Sands (Law News): Outsourcing our reasoning: a peek at how our justice system will handle AI
James Ball (1News): Online accusations of crime could breach privacy laws
Mark Knoff-Thomas (Post): The urgent need for stronger laws on covert intimate recordings (paywalled)
Jaz Fuller (Newsroom): What trauma has to do with rehabilitation
Hamish McNicol and Calida Stuart-Menteath (NBR): Law firms and burning platforms (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Thomas Manch (Post): Surging cost of water services begins to become clear across New Zealand (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): From hot pools to hot mess: Are councils out of their depth? (paywalled)
David Fisher (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s ‘vulgar’ orgasm comment and ‘boys’ club’ claims at council (paywalled)
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Auckland Council to go ahead with plans to cut Takapuna Golf Course to nine-holes
Mike Thorpe (Herald): NZ’s highest paid council CEOs revealed: Christchurch chief’s salary tops $1m
Susan Botting (Local Democracy Reporting): Kaipara council’s $52,000 Māori report slammed as 'anti-Māori’
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Frustrated locals’ lash out: Tauranga parking meters vandalised
RNZ: Landowners back plans to block Cape Palliser access due to 'shocking' vandalism
RNZ: Dunedin councillor Jim O'Malley quits as committee chair over hostile work environment
Tim Scott (ODT): Jim O'Malley claims he's been targeted by council boss
Peter Newport (Crux): $250,000 QLDC Wānaka airport survey produces six email responses
Max Frethey (Local Democracy Reporting): The man running for mayor in five districts, again
EDUCATION, TRAINING
Eva de Jong (Herald): What will private schools be spending extra Budget money on? David Seymour says he’s ‘open’ to giving more funding (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): Taking the joy out of reading, one culture war at a time (paywalled)
Vincent Olsen-Reeder and Corinne Seals (E-Tangata): Hiding behind jargon
Hanna McCallum (Post): Māori words cut from early reading a ‘monolingual mindset’, expert says (paywalled)
Aotearoa Educators Collective: My teachers are too busy for my stories
Duoya Lu (RNZ): The shifting sands of second language options in NZ schools
DISABILITY
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Supreme Court finds wrong legal test used to lock up autistic man for nearly 20 years
Gill Higgins (1News): Frustrated parents, struggling kids: Why does NZ keep failing Deaf children?
RNZ: Man with disability moves into own home after four years waiting in a motel
Amelia Wade (Sunday Star Times): Disabled Kiwis fear cuts to taxi service as govt review drags on(paywalled)
RNZ: Blind woman hits out at accessibility of MSD for disabled people
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Soaring demand sparks change at Invercargill's Total Mobility
Tara Shaskey (Open Justice Reporting): Mobility parking permit holder Derek Cossey was incorrectly issued fines, revealing a bigger issue
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Wheelchair user sent back to unfinished house ‘due to All Blacks test’
GREYHOUND RACING
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Political prerogative or unlawful process? Greyhound racing faces off against Crown
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Greyhound racing industry takes court action to stop impending ban
Catherine Hutton (Herald): Greyhound Racing seeks court’s help to halt work on ban’s progress
RNZ: Greyhound season ends with 17 deaths, more than 800 dogs injured