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INCOMING GOVERNMENT
Luke Malpass (Post): Kiwis voted for a right-wing Government – now they will get it (paywalled)
John Campbell (1News): I hoped to be surprised - actually I'm amazed
Richard Shaw (The Conversation): Three parties, two deals, one government: the stress points within New Zealand’s ‘coalition of many colours’
Andrew Geddis (Spinoff): The coalition deals leave a lot to be fought over in the next three years
Tracy Watkins (Post): After the deal-making, a flurry of change, a honeymoon, then reality (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Post): The results are in and it’s Winston by a length (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): How the culture will change in the Beehive (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): The give, take and trust of the coalition - will the circle of trust between Chris Luxon, David Seymour and Winston Peters hold? (paywalled)
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Policy wins for Act, NZ First but Nats hold the reins of power
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Seymour and Peters bet on certainty over influence in new govt
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Which policies survived the negotiations – and which didn’t
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): There’s enough in coalition agreements to make every party happy (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): How Christopher Luxon made room for Act, NZ First without giving up much at all (paywalled)
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Who triumphs within the triumvirate?
Jenna Lynch (Newsroom): Winston Peters getting deputy PM first serves coalition better - but teething issues sign of things to come
Felix Desmarais (1News): Coalition will live or die on relationships
Grant Duncan: Is it a coalition of chaos?
Mike Munro (Herald): Coalition deal is done - let the drama begin (paywalled)
Duncan Garner (Listener): A Huey, Dewey and Louie situation with a high-powered committee of three running the country (paywalled)
Matthew Slaughter (Stuff): Newsable: Is this the most right wing government since the 90s?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The New Government – Winners, Losers & Predictions
No Right Turn: A cruel, vicious, nasty government
Rob Campbell (Herald): The unsurprising surprises of the coalition deal make for interesting times
Janet Wilson (Post): A coalition that has moved from out of the long shadow of First Past the Post (paywalled)
Georgina Stylianou (Post): How reality TV can help make sense of the new Government (paywalled)
Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): It's A Done Deal
Jason Walls (Newstalk ZB): A New Zealand first – why Luxon’s coalition deal’s a radical success (paywalled)
Philip Crump: Team of Rivals: A CEO Approach to Government Leadership
Lamia Imam (Guardian): New Zealand’s slapdash new government has no vision – only a plan to take us backwards
Herald Editorial: Our new Government - a three-headed hybrid? (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: The ‘strong, stable’ label fable (paywalled)
Oliver Hartwich (NZ Initiative): Initiative applauds new coalition’s clarity and reforms
Tom Peters (WSWS): Judith Collins Given 7 Government Roles Including Attorney General
Steve Braunias (Herald): The Secret Diary of ... The Prime Minister (paywalled)
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode for .. the Deputy Prime Ministers
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Herald: New Government sworn-in today live updates: Christopher Luxon becomes Prime Minister, Cabinet ministers assume roles
Anna Whyte (1News): The deals are signed, what’s next for the new government?
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Claire Trevett (Herald): Incoming PM Christopher Luxon on Nats’ tax sacrifice and stopping the coalition falling apart
RNZ: Checkpoint: Done deal: Incoming PM Chris Luxon on coalition completion
Luke Malpass (Post): The Luxon government readies for take-off (paywalled)
Newstalk ZB: Giving Up On Lifting Foreign Buyer Ban "Concession" We Needed To Make Says Luxon
Seven Sharp: Luxon won't say who 'middle child' is in three-way coalition
The Project: Christopher Luxon talks through first day after revealing coalition agreement
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1News: Left bloc says new government will 'take New Zealand backwards'
RNZ: Labour leader Chris Hipkins: 'This is going to be a government that drives people apart’
Newshub: New Zealand will 'ultimately' go backwards under new Government - Chris Hipkins
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Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Focus on Politics: Coalition deals signed and sealed, now it's time to deliver
Peter Wilson (RNZ): Week in Politics: Winston Peters now second most important person in the government
Herald: Beehive Diaries: Christopher Luxon’s Hamilton humblebrag song choice after closing his deal; will Weet-Bix’s starring role in talks save it from being taxed? (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Luxon had no choice but to split Deputy PM role between Winston Peters, David Seymour (paywalled)
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The week in politics: The problem with conventions is that they only work if all sides bother to observe them (paywalled)
CABINET
Audrey Young (Herald): Is Luxon’s Cabinet selection fair? (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): Peters As Minister
1News: Who gets what? List of New Zealand’s new ministers
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Who's who in the cabinet (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Luxon's surprisingly bicultural cabinet
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Shock, horror – dog wags tail in new cabinet (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): New faces and old hands in ministerial line-up (paywalled)
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): When the music stopped: A new-look Cabinet
RNZ: Judith Collins picks up raft of ministerial positions in new government
Ben Moore (BusinessDesk): Collins crushes new govt role, reflects big dreams for tech (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Cabinet’s shelves not stocked from South (paywalled)
David Farrar: Demographics of the new Ministry
COALITION ANNOUNCEMENT
John Hartevelt (RNZ): The coalition announcement was a three-ringed circus to rival reality TV
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): ‘We don’t answer stupid questions’: Inside the strong and stable coalition announcement
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): The weird and wonderful first moments of our new government
Kate Pereyra Garcia, (RNZ): New government speeches coloured by Winston Peters' off the cuff remarks
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Unmissable and dynamite dynamics between the country's three leaders
Jim Tucker (Taranaki Daily News): Winnie the insulter: Is that our Winston?
COALITION AGREEMENTS
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Coalition deals: What happens if things go wrong
Bridie Witton (Stuff): The National-led government coalition agreements at a glance
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Coalition details at a glance: What you need to know
Anna Murray (1News): National's coalition deals: which policies made the cut?
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): The coalition’s policy patchwork (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): 5 surprising policies buried in the National, ACT, NZF coalition agreements
Stuff: Coalition deals uncut: What ACT and NZ First each agreed with National
Thomas Manch (Post): Coalition deal promises ‘change that makes our great country even better’ (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): National gets its tax cut plan but with modifications (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Newshub): ACT's David Seymour secures coalition bounty
Molly Swift (Newshub): From Treaty of Waitangi Bill to gun law reform: What major policies did ACT get across the line
Brent Edwards (NBR): Act confident better regulations will improve lives (paywalled)
Newstalk ZB: Red Tape "Holding New Zealand Back" Says Seymour
David Farrar: Coalition Details
ECONOMY, BUSINESS
1News: Q+A: New govt mini-budget to be released before Christmas - Willis
Liam Dann (Herald): The big divide that will drive conflict in the new Government (paywalled)
Herald: On the Tiles: This fiscal challenge will keep Nicola Willis up at night
Michael Reddell: Breathtaking
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Radical or conservative? New coalition is both at the same time (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): What the coalition deal means for the economy (paywalled)
Katie Bradford (1News): What the new government means for economy, business
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Spending cuts likely to fill gap left by the foreign homebuyer ban
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): What would change to Reserve Bank remit mean in practice?
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): New government's economic policies expected to have little impact on inflation, interest rates - economists
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): RBNZ to focus on price stability, employment gone under new Govt (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): National campaigned on fixing the economy - so what’s top of its to-do list? (paywalled)
Terry Baucher (Interest): The Coalition’s tax policies revealed, along with a surprise as the new Minister of Revenue
Gaurav Sharma (RNZ): Coalition government confirms pledge to prioritise free trade deal with India
Christoph Schumacher (NBR): Relative quiet on NZ home front still at risk from world events (paywalled)
BusinessDesk: BusinessNZ enthusiastic on coalition agreement (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): Now is the Reserve Bank's summer of 'some' content (but still more than a few worries)
Liam Dann (Herald): OCR announcement: Will the RBNZ change its interest rate plans? (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Possibility of RBNZ setting off a fireworks rate hike (paywalled)
TREATY, CO-GOVERNANCE
Chris Trotter (Interest): If Bill Rowling was run over by a bus, the contemporary Labour Party was run over by a million buses
1News: Some Kiwis don’t understand Māori agency names - Luxon
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Whose Treaty is it anyway? National-led government takes two-stage approach to changing Treaty politics (paywalled)
Newshub Nation: David Seymour says ACT's Bill on Treaty of Waitangi will 'increase mana'
Michael Neilson (RNZ): Act’s Treaty bill, referendum: David Seymour happy with ‘compromise’ with National and NZ First
Raphael Franks (Herald): Incoming Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters blasts te reo Māori names for government departments
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Incoming government to change branding to English and repeal Treaty clauses
The Standard: The Left Do Not Own Maori
Ruwani Perera (Newshub): Commentators fear new Government will set race relations back by decades
Waatea News: Colonisation good for Māori says newly appointed Treaty Negotiations Minister
1News: What the new government may mean for Māori, Te Tiriti
Pokere Paewai and Ella Stewart (RNZ): What does the new government mean for Māori?
Deborah LaHatte (Whakaata Māori): Treaty issues among policy compromises for new government
RNZ: New government plans to review Treaty of Waitangi principles
K Gurunathan (Post): How will this Treaty debate overcome the language barrier? (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT
Danielle Clent (RNZ): National on promise to introduce legislation on extending parliamentary term to four years: 'It will save money'
Anna Whyte (Post): Four-year Parliamentary terms may be on the cards under new Government (paywalled)
David Fisher (Herald): How much does Prime Minister Christopher Luxon get paid? Cabinet ministers’ salaries and perks revealed
Newshub: Christopher Luxon gets big pay rise as Chris Hipkins' salary slashed
Anna Whyte (Post): The pay cheque of Parliament - who gets paid what to work in the Beehive (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Disgraced former MP bemoans ministers lacking competence (paywalled)
Chris Trotter: Cans of Worms
John Campbell (1News): The politics of keeping Tairāwhiti on the map
Gray Gibson and Finn Hogan (Newshub Nation): Backstory: New Green MP Efeso Collins shares faith journey, family's struggles with political profile
Gray Gibson (Newshub Nation): The Green Parrot - a peek into Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters' Wellington sanctum
PORT WAIKATO BY-ELECTION
Herald Editorial: Pointless byelection held in Port Waikato shows law’s failings - it could swing an election unfairly (paywalled)
Emma Stanford (RNZ): Port Waikato by-election: National’s Andrew Bayly wins by landslide - 'I feel pretty humbled'
Herald: Port Waikato byelection: National’s Andrew Bayly wins by landslide
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Next on the list: Nancy Lu’s political future hangs on Port Waikato
HEALTH
ODT Editorial: Smokers to the rescue (paywalled)
Mark Quinlivan (Neshub Nation): Nicola Willis admits scrapping smokefree laws will help fund tax cuts in Newshub Nation interview
RNZ: Smokefree law changes a 'completely backwards step' - health experts
Cherie Howie (Herald): Planned coalition changes to smoking, vaping laws under fire
Newstalk ZB: Scrapping Smokefree Laws To Fund Tax Cuts "Disappointing"
William Hewett (Newshub): Incoming PM Christopher Luxon defends removing smokefree legislation, hits out Labour's policies
RNZ: Smokefree legislation would have driven cigarette black market - Christopher Luxon
Ruth HIll (RNZ): Coalition government inquiry into pandemic response could undermine Royal Commission - expert
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Incoming Government promises 'full scale, wide-ranging' probe into New Zealand's COVID-19 handling
Raphael Franks (Herald): Pseudoephedrine back on shelves: Act leader David Seymour’s win in new coalition Government
1News: New govt: Pseudoephedrine to go back on shelves after ban
Herald: Mike King’s Gumboot Friday mental health charity to receive $6 million per year in coalition agreement
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Ruth Hill (RNZ): Te Whatu Ora paid four consultancy firms $82m in first 16 months
Keiller MacDuff (Post): The ‘slow-moving public health crisis’ captured in new water quality map (paywalled)
RNZ: Nitrate contamination map of New Zealand launched by Greenpeace
NIcholas Jones (Herald): Man waited five weeks in Waikato Hospital for triple-bypass; more than 60 per cent of cardiac patients overdue (paywalled)
Alex Spence (Herald): Officials admit Labour’s $100 million boost for specialist mental health services is behind schedule
Rachel Thomas (Post): Is the Wellington charity hospital a pipe dream? (paywalled)
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): 'Forty drives a week’: Chemo unit will save cancer patients hundreds of trips
Karen Rutherford (Newshub): Successful advanced breast cancer pilot could be rolled out for other cancers, chronic conditions
Jessica Young, Aida Dehkhoda and Jeanne Snelling (Post): Is assisted dying available equally to all? (paywalled)
PUBLIC SERVICE
1News: Q+A: Thousands of government jobs to be cut, new minister suggests
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington braces for 'massive impact' as public service cuts loom (paywalled)
HOUSING
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): New proposed tenancy policies put renters against landlords
Anna Whyte (1News): Changes in store for renters and landlords (paywalled)
1News: Renters wary of new Government's housing policies
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): What will coalition's policies mean for housing market?
Rob Stock (Post): Tens of thousands of households on ‘verge of financial stress’ as home loan arrears spike (paywalled)
Liz Wylie (Whanganui Chronicle): Ōhakune lobbyists call on new Government to stall housing project (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): How come the Education Ministry employs 1704 more staff than seven years ago? (paywalled)
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Charter or ‘partnership’ school revival under National-Act coalition agreement ‘destructive and weird’, NZEI union says
Maia Hart (Local Democracy Reporting): Schools already teaching one hour of reading, writing and maths, says principal
Herald: The initial financial hit students are taking to accommodate Winston Peters
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Te Pūkenga, red tape in sights (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): All the jobs likely going and already gone from New Zealand's universities in 2023
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Students call review ‘racist’ (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Teacher shortage set to worsen as few students sign up
Damien Grant (Stuff): Our education system is constantly failing our students
Gabrielle McCulloch (Stuff): 'Schools are stretched': Mum says disabled student funding doesn't cut it
Shaneel Lal (Herald): Forcing students to attend lectures in person creates barriers
CLIMATE CHANGE
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): From fossil-free to fossil-favouring: how New Zealand could pivot on world stage
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Steel yourself for new govt’s climate agreement
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt must act in line with 1.5C, court told
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): How Fonterra's new climate plan could have got farmers to their first green goal
RNZ: Green Party launches petition to keep ban on offshore oil and gas exploration
Emma Ricketts (Spinoff): Annoying or illegal? The restrictive future of climate activism
PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES, ENERGY
Andrea Vance (Post): Helter smelter: The Tiwai Point dance begins again (paywalled)
Monique Steele (RNZ): The new Parliamentary ministers for the primary industry sectors
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): All three coalition parties get rural ministers
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Energy policy: largely status quo with sprinkling of investigations (paywalled)
POVERTY, INEQUALITY, COST OF LIVING
Susan St John (Daily Blog): The coalition agreement for Working for Families is very weak but tweaks could improve it
RNZ: Young Māori experience higher levels of 'structural disadvantage' - study
Louisa Steyl (Stuff): Salvation Army forced to quit Christmas meal hampers
Kevin Norquay (Post): ‘Tis the season of financial folly, so just how do you avoid sinking? (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland mayor Wayne Brown took trip to India despite council's advice not to
Tom Dillane (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s 10-year cost cutting council budget preview: Rates rises, job losses, axed cycles lanes
Tim Hunter (NBR): Precinct announces ‘conditional agreement’ on Downtown Carpark (paywalled)
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Fuel contamination takes wind out of Auckland’s sails
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Public policy expert critical of 'sad farce' at Gore council
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Woman seeks legal advice after blast from Gore deputy mayor at council meeting
Tina Law (Press): $2.3b of debt: Christchurch’s ‘unsustainable’ asset problem (paywalled)
Niva Chittock (RNZ): Christchurch City Council has plan to fix internal shortcomings
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Who's really to blame for ChCh council fiasco
Susan Botting (Local Democracy Reporting): Seismic power shift sees deputy chair facing chop at Northland Regional Council
TRANSPORT
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Waka Kotahi gives Govt ultimatum on future funding plans
Tom Hunt (Post): Golden Mile dream dying as immediate stop-work notice looms (paywalled)
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland Transport boss Dean Kimpton on carpark delays and the future of bus lanes, cycleways (paywalled)
Tom Dillane (Herald): Why City Rail Link (CRL) boss Sean Sweeney and AT’s Mark Lambert say there’s ‘no way’ they’ll guarantee completion date (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: We can’t just park the congestion problem (paywalled)
Tim Hazledine (Herald): The true costs of road congestion (paywalled)
1News: MetLink’s 'cheeky' idea to encourage MPs to use public transport
INFRASTRUCTURE, RMA, THREE WATERS
Anneke Smith (RNZ): New government eyes RMA, Three Waters reforms for pre-Christmas scrap heap
Eye of the Fish: Ministers for Relevance
Eric Crampton (Post): Time to restructure Wellington Water to fix the region’s creaking pipes (paywalled)
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Caulfield Cup stallion and National Party donor on track for liquidation finish
Susan Edmunds (Post): Is it unreasonable to expect to start work on the living wage?
Ella Somers and Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): NZ First wants grocery commissioner to eat more Weet-Bix (paywalled)
Tina Morrison (Post): The Warehouse says it can’t break up the supermarket duopoly (paywalled)
Kate McVicar (NBR): Warehouse ‘can’t obviously break up the duopoly,’ boss says (paywalled)
Lachlan Colquhoun (NBR): Is the party over for Big Four bank profits? (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): NZ Post wants to buy PBT’s courier business (paywalled)
Calida Stuart-Menteath and Hamish McNicol (NBR): Focus on the long game, business, and Govt (paywalled)
1News: Consumer NZ investigation finds misleading Black Friday deals
RNZ: Black Friday sales slump by 10 percent - Retail NZ
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): Too much working from home isn’t working (paywalled)
CHILD WELFARE
Waatea News: Karen Chhour from CYPS survivor to Minister for Children
Dianna Vezich (Newshub): Starship doctor speaks out about child abuse in New Zealand, plea to new government
Tom Hunt (Post): The grim call Christopher Luxon will get on day one (paywalled)
Virginia Fallon (Post): ‘We can’t force people to talk’: Silence is handbraking the Baby Ru homicide investigation (paywalled)
LAW AND ORDER, GUN CONTROL
Herald: Police minister says ‘clear conversation’ with commissioner Coster is coming
Jarrod Gilbert (Herald): Police focus on evidence-based policing a game-changer for crime statistics (paywalled)
Adam Hollingworth (Newshub): Anti-gun lobbyists fear new Government will erode firearms safeguards gained after Christchurch massacre
Troels Sommerville (Stuff): Ram raids are on the decline but shop owners wary of declaring victory
EARTHQUAKE STRENGTHENING
Piers Fuller (Post): Earthquake strengthening: human cost versus monetary cost (paywalled)
Erin Gourley (Post): ‘Gutted my savings’: Quake strengthening cost nightmare for residents (paywalled)
MEDIA
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Watchdog warns media laws need urgent upgrade
Nikki Macdonald (Post): How to keep the lights on at TVNZ (paywalled)
ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT
Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): BDS: The connection between yesterday’s port picket and the 1981 Springbok tour
Shaneel Lal (Herald): I can’t believe we are still begging our Government to call for a ceasefire in Gaza
OTHER
Sasha Borissenko (Herald): The apocalyptic Twenties: Hate speech, fake news, and disinformation (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): 10 pressing issues for new Technology Minister Judith Collins (paywalled)