ELECTION
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): A low-energy, small-vision campaign could spell a slump in voter turnout
Farah Hancock (RNZ): Property industry tops political donations
Tess McClure and Eva Corlett (Guardian): Mainstream malaise: how minor parties could decide outcome of New Zealand’s election
Grant Duncan: It's time to decide: advance polling opens
Adam Pearse and Michael Neilson (Herald): Advance voting begins as Labour’s Chris Hipkins is curtailed by Covid
Luke Malpass (Post): It worked for Albo, but ... (paywalled)
Seni Iasona (Newshub): Advance voting begins, Electoral Commission reveals about 3000 overseas votes have been cast so far
Seni Iasona (Newshub): Kiwis increasingly voting in advance, here's all you need to know before polling booths open
Jemima Huston (RNZ): Early voting opens
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): New survey finds ‘large divide’ between Māori and Pākehā voters over co-governance and treaty
1News: Election 2023: All of Jack Tame's political leader interviews
Peter Wilson (Herald): The Week in Politics: Luxon likely to get what he doesn't want
Amelia Wade (Newshub): NZ First, ACT candidates face scrutiny over Nuremberg trials, New World Order content
Claire Trevett (Herald): Beehive Diaries - a win for Winston Peters, Chris Hipkins and Chris Luxon square off for Chris of the Week and a gunfight at the Fiscal Plan Corral (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Treaty of Waitangi tops the agenda as Chris Hipkins fires up over ‘race-baiting’
RNZ: Focus on Politics: On the campaign trail, week four: The week of Winston Peters
Eric Frykberg (Interest): Labour and the Greens get inspiration from Broadway, National bites off more than it can chew, both main parties do financial sums and NZ First quarrels with everyone
Michele Hewitson (Listener): Winston Peters likes a party, but which one? (paywalled)
The Listener: Fast Five: See how the ’Power Players’ stack up (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Parties use Facebook less – and don’t always share accurate information
Alex Penk: How should you vote?
Charlotte Muru-Lanning (Spinoff): A taste of democracy: What political leaders eat (or don’t eat) on the campaign trail
Jack Remiel Cottrell (Newsroom): Short story of a NZ Loyal Party candidate
ALLEGATIONS OF RACISM, EXTREMISM, POLITICALLY MOTIVATED ATTACKS
Chris Trotter (Interest): The angry majority
Jo Moir (Newsroom): ‘It’s because I’m young, I’m female, and I’m Māori’
Derek Cheng (Herald): David Seymour attacks Te Pāti Māori for politicising attack on candidate; Te Pāti Māori retorts: ‘It was political’
RNZ: Green Party and Te Pāti Māori call out 'harmful emboldening of extremism' after incidents
Newshub: Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke: Police confirm investigation into burglary at Te Pāti Māori candidate's home
RNZ: Police investigate after invasion of Te Pāti Māori candidate's home
1News: 'Racial slurs shouted' during invasion of Te Pāti Māori candidate's home
RNZ: Candidate's home broken into, vandalised, threat left behind
David Williams (Herald): Te Pāti Māori candidate suffers alleged politically motivated home invasion
1News: Te Pāti Māori candidate's home invaded in 'politically motivated attack'
Newshub: Te Pāti Māori says candidate Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke's home invaded, vandalised in 'politically motivated attack'
Ryan Anderson (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori candidate's home invaded, threatening letter left, party says
RNZ: 'Completely unacceptable': Labour candidate Angela Roberts 'slapped' following political debate
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Campaign shifts gear - with some raising concerns about 'dog whistling' and 'racism'
Leighton Heikell (Newshub): Accusations of racism and race-baiting take centre-stage as campaign turns ugly
1News: Hipkins accuses opponents of 'race baiting', Luxon calls him 'desperate'
1News: ACT, NZ First using Māori as 'political football' - Māori leadership
RNZ: Māori leaders call on politicians to condemn racism
Trent Doyle and Simon Shepherd (Newshub): Panel says public office candidates should be 'careful about their language'
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Can we do politics without division? (paywalled)
Joanna Wane (Herald): The war on disinformation and how to tell fact from fiction (paywalled)
NZ FIRST
Andrea Vance (Post): Why Christopher Luxon should have seen Winston Peters coming (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): NZ First leader Winston Peters may be the price National leader Chris Luxon has to pay for fudging on tax policy (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Nicola Willis - ‘I don’t want to go into Government with NZ First’
Henry Cooke (Guardian): How a politician most people won’t vote for could shape the New Zealand government