GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, 2024 IN REVIEW, 2025 PREDICTIONS
Dave Armstrong (Post): The sweet, the exotic, the fragrant and the bruised: the 2024 Basil Awards (paywalled)
Harriette Boucher (Post): A brief history of 2024’s political brouhaha (paywalled)
David Farrar: Kiwiblog’s 2025 predictions
Post political reporters: How our 2024 political predictions fared (paywalled)
Newsroom: The cultural Cabinet’s top picks
Thomas Manch (Post): Summer off politics: Chris Bishop will be doing ‘nothing' (paywalled)
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): What 2025 has in store for your wallet
David Chaston (Interest): Time to make 2025 predictions
NEW YEAR 2025 HONOURS
Herald Editorial: New Year 2025 Honours: The exceptional Kiwis who stepped up (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Recognising the great and their teams (paywalled)
Cherie Howie (Herald): Lydia Ko a dame; former All Blacks coaches and My Food Bag founders recognised
BusinessDesk: Business leaders recognised for decades of service (paywalled)
Karyn Scherer (NBR): Two new knights in New Year Honours for business (paywalled)
Anne Gibson (Herald): Billionaire philanthropist Ted Manson knighted (paywalled)
Alka Prasad (Post): Sir Ted Manson on helping build the dream for young Kiwis (paywalled)
Andrea Fox (Herald): Waikato’s John Gallagher earns a knighthood for a lifetime of community leadership and giving (paywalled)
Matthew Martin (Post): Arise, Sir John Gallagher (paywalled)
Sandra Conchie (Bay of Plenty Times): New Year 2025 Honours: Transpower chairman Keith Turner of Bay of Plenty receives high honour
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Keith Turner: Gong a nod to whole sector's work (paywalled)
Herald: Nadia Lim and Carlos Bagrie appointed officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Anne Gibson (Herald): New Year 2025 Honours: Olly Newland rewarded for work in real estate, Jewish community, music (paywalled)
Will Harvie (Press/Post): Canterbury’s newest knight: Environment lawyer Peter Skelton (paywalled)
Natasha Hill (Te Ao Māori News): Tama Potaka praises Māori on the New Year Honours list 2025
Natasha Hill (Te Ao Māori News): 35 Māori celebrated in New Year’s Honours list 2025
Mildred Armah (Post): New Year Honours: 50 years of service to Māori (paywalled)
Mike McRoberts (NBR): He Toa Rangatira (paywalled)
RNZ: KidsCan founder Julie Chapman becomes a Dame
Kevin Norquay (Post): Mixed feelings for Dame Julie, as child poverty work remains (paywalled)
Press/Post: Decades of dedication: Defence leaders honoured for service (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Post): ‘Incredibly humbling’ survivor Keith Wiffin honoured with KSO (paywalled)
RNZ: Lydia Ko believed to be youngest Dame of Commonwealth
Will Toogood (Herald): New Year Honours 2025: Lydia Ko youngest ever dame, for services to golf
Jordan Oppoert (1News): Lydia Ko on her 'fairytale' year, becoming a Dame
Kelly Dennett (Post): Another title for Ko: NZ’s newest, youngest, Dame (paywalled)
Matthew Martin (Waikato Times/Post): Fozzie gets his gong (paywalled)
Gaurav Sharma (RNZ): New Year Honours 2025: Asians recognised for service to community
Maxine Jacobs (Press/Post): Antarctic pioneers honoured for decades of preservation and conservation (paywalled)
Natasha Hill (Te Ao Māori News): Contemporary art pioneer Fred Graham recieves New Year Honour
Sharon Fergusson (1News): Honours recognise contributions to design, film, food, and entertainment
1News: Full list: New Year Honours 2025
Herald: New Year Honours 2025: The full list
RNZ: New Year Honours 2025: The full list
CORRECTIONS, POLICE
Jared Savage (Herald): Auckland bail facilities under scrutiny after raid finds drugs, AK-47 and ammo — again
1News: Youths climb onto roof of Auckland youth justice facility
Shilpy Arora (Stuff): Video shows young people shouting and waving sticks on roof at Auckland state care facility
RNZ: Youths climb onto roof at South Auckland justice facility
Jared Savage (Herald): Auckland Prison inmates start three fires over the weekend
Steven Cowan: What’s in a clenched fist?
EMPLOYMENT
Lynn Prentice (Standard): Wage theft – now that is a real crime
Dita De Boni (Post): Tales from the employment court: Constructive dismissal cases no picnic for employees (paywalled)
RNZ: Immigration border staff to strike on New Year's Eve
Kevin Norquay (Post): Immigration strike action will cause ‘minimal’ airport delays (paywalled)
BOB MCNEIL HAS DIED
Caron Copek (Stuff): TV journalist Bob McNeil has died
Anna Leask (Herald): Daughter, former colleagues pay tribute to legendary Kiwi journalist Bob McNeil
Herald: A class act: Veteran Kiwi journalist Bob McNeil has died
RNZ: Obituary: veteran TV3 news journalist Bob McNeil dies
Whatitiri Te Wake (Te Ao Māori News): “E tangi hotuhotu ana”– tributes flow for veteran broadcaster Bob McNeil
ASB CLASSIC ANTI-ISRAEL PROTEST
David Long (Stuff): Anti-Israel protesters halt play at ASB Classic
Jamie Wall (RNZ): ASB Classic: Match stalled by protesters in wild first day
Asia Pacific Report: Palestine protest group condemns NZ’s ‘normalisation of apartheid’ over Israeli tennis player
OTHER
Tom Hunt (Post): Labour on the hunt for a Wellington mayor ... and a new contender from National? (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Waikato could host second steel mill under fast-track law (paywalled)
Mike Yardley (Press/Post): Tougher enforcement to keep road toll in check (paywalled)
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Justin Tipa and the future of Ngāi Tahu (paywalled)
Te Ururoa Flavell (Newsroom): ‘My grandmother lived to 112; despite cancer I’m good for a few more years’
Herald: NZ and Auckland house prices 2025: What can we expect from the market?
Cartoons
Nice sunset photo of Parliament to end the year thanks