LABOUR PARTY, ANDREW LITTLE RETIRES FROM POLITICS
Derek Cheng (Herald): Anatomy of Labour’s collapse, from unprecedented support to devastating loss in three years (paywalled)
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: The Labour Party picks up the pieces after election defeat
William Hewett (Newsroom): Peter Dunne expects Hipkins not to remain leader long term, thinks senior MPs Robertson, Jackson will retire
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Labour MPs stray from script as questions swirl Chris Hipkins' leadership
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): How the Labour leadership process could unfold
RNZ: Labour's caucus meeting 'pretty rough', party transitioning into 'formidable opposition' - Hipkins
Michael Neilson (Herad): Chris Hipkins to battle on as Labour leader as victorious National has celebratory caucus meeting
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Amid high emotions and another goodbye, Labour leader Chris Hipkins says he'll fight on
RNZ: Chris Hipkins retains Labour Party leadership
RNZ: Chris Hipkins to remain an MP for full three years in 'whatever role necessary'
ODT Editorial: A tough game for Chippy (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Labour doesn't need the next Prime Minister- it needs Hipkins
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The Labour Party need to do some soul searching in opposition
Thomas Manch (Post): Retirements begin as dejected Labour reels from election rout (paywalled)
Michael Neilson (Herald): Labour’s Willie Jackson won’t commit to serving full term and warns of ‘attack on our people’
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Pissed off and possibly delusional: Labour MPs return in testy day at parliament
Raphael Franks (Herald): Labour MP Helen White’s terse media interview after knife-edge win in Mt Albert
Felix Desmarais (1News): Helen White says 106 vote margin in Mt Albert 'pretty damn good'
Newshub: Labour Minister Damien O'Connor tells Newshub to 'f*** off' on camera
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): What not to say when you lose your job
Shanti Mathias and Tommy de Silva (Spinoff): Which Labour MPs have been washed away by the outgoing red tide?
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): What a Labour Opposition and leadership will look like
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Stuff): Chris Hipkins sets the record straight - it's Toni with an 'i' not a 'y'
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Who is Toni? Chris Hipkins says meeting his new partner ‘the highlight of my year’
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): More ex-Labour ministers move into lobbying
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Luke Malpass (Post): The under-rated operator (paywalled)
1News: Andrew Little reveals why he's quitting politics
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): The highs, the lows and the holy-shits of Andrew Little, MP
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Looking back on former Labour leader Andrew Little's legacy
RNZ: Senior Labour MP Andrew Little announces he will retire from politics
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): Andrew Little resigns from politics; issues challenge to Maori on health authority
No Right Turn: Good riddance to authoritarian rubbish
COALITION NEGOTIATIONS, INCOMING GOVERNMENT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Victorious Christopher Luxon wants to do things ‘differently’ but is doing things the same
Richard Harman (Politik): Luxon trying to hush potential coalition discord (paywalled)
Moana Maniapoto (Whakaata Māori): David Seymour to Chris Luxon on Treaty Referendum: ‘You rule it out, we rule it in’ that’s how the negotiations are done
Brent Edwards (NBR): David Seymour lays out Act’s coalition preferences (paywalled)
Richard Prebble (Herald): Why Christopher Luxon should let Act take the tough jobs - and catch the flak (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Sir John Key’s bright coalition idea is likely to annoy Winston Peters (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Christopher Luxon commits to being transparent Prime Minister despite locking media out from interviewing MPs
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Bill English’s advice to Christopher Luxon ‘It’s not a business, okay’
RNZ: 'Making sure there's good glue': National leader Christopher Luxon's strategy for forming coalition
Chris Eichbaum (Newsroom): Induction 101: The first things new ministers need to learn (but won’t be told)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Business of Government, caretaker edition, starring Winston Peters, and more … (paywalled)
Eva Corlett (Guardian): New Zealand in political limbo as National considers shape of coalition
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