COALITION NEGOTIATIONS, INCOMING GOVERNMENT
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Whatever happened to those Christopher Luxon negotiating skills? (paywalled)
Chris Trotter (Newstalk ZB): ’Twere Well It Were Done Quickly (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Coalition talks: Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon’s two weeks of negotiations (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): One of the most stunning and humiliating displays of political brinkmanship
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Public fed up with government negotiations, which have outlasted 2017 talks
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Election 2023 coalition negotiation length overtakes 2017 deal timespan
1News: Nats-ACT-NZ First 'closer than we've ever been' to deal – Seymour
Adam Pearse and Michael Neilson (Herald): National, Act, NZ First leaders finalising agreement details to form government
Adam Pearse (Herald): Act leader David Seymour says deputy PM being discussed with National, government deal possible by Sunday
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Coalition talks in 'final stages' - National leader Christopher Luxon
Thomas Manch (Post): Coalition negotiations near two week mark (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Auckland talks, goodbye San Francisco, Labour at peace
RNZ: Winston Peters says meeting with foreign minister disrupted flight to Wellington
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Winston Peters agrees coalition talks in 'final stages', denies snubbing National, ACT
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Christopher Luxon says he can assure coalition negotiations won't take five months
RNZ: Slow pace of coalition talks 'speaks volumes' - Sepuloni
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Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): A compromise on the Treaty principles referendum?
Roderick Mulgan (Post): What a referendum won’t solve about the Treaty debate (Paywall
ODT Editorial: Chasing the mini Budget prize (paywalled)
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): How to ride an e-scooter
Chris Marriner (Herald): Chris Bishop crashes scooter, spills coffee on way to National Party meeting
ELECTION, PARLIAMENT
Graeme Edgeler: MMP is over 30 years old, or Idiots to the right of me
Thomas Coughan (Herald): Government finances: How big is the hole? We’re not much closer to knowing (paywalled)
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Rifts, toxic criticism, and surviving politics
Zac Thomas (Newsroom): Why we could see a 127-seat Parliament at the next election
Newshub: Labour MP Ginny Andersen denies toxic work environment, refutes claim of body shaming
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Ginny Andersen: Two former staffers make fresh allegations against Labour MP
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Incoming MP Takutai Kemp opens up on the attempt to shame Manurewa Marae
Waatea: Marae manaaki not polling booth treat says Kemp
Alexander Tan and Alexander Tan (The Conversation): Lost voices: ethnic diversity in the New Zealand parliament will decline after the 2023 election
Russell Brown (Listener): The red wave within the sea of blue among the special votes (paywalled)
RNZ: Return of the writ marks election's completion
Waatea News: Costello puts Port Waikato on notice
PUBLIC SECTOR
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Job cuts by Xmas at Stats NZ, leaked document shows
RNZ: Stats NZ proposes to cut 39 jobs by Christmas, union says
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Statistics NZ plans to cut 39 jobs by Christmas (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Why is MFAT ramping down its use of Te Reo Māori?
1News: MFAT under fire for removing te reo from briefing papers
Newstalk ZB: Māori academic labels MFAT's removal of Te Reo from documents 'deeply disappointing'
Waatea News: Diplomat turns back on reo Māori
Liz MacPherson (IPANZ): With change comes opportunity – preparing to serve the government of the day
Maria Slade (NBR): Art vs design and the $5.3m Creative NZ contract (paywalled)
André Chumko (Post): Creative New Zealand ditches arts grants (paywalled)
Stephen Ward (Post): River authority CEO exiting role in unexplained circumstances (paywalled)
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