New Labour Government
Thomas Manch (Stuff): A Cabinet to fill: Who will take the top jobs in the new Labour Government?
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Jacinda Ardern’s line on the Greens – and the Cabinet Minister she must remove (paywalled)
Maori TV: Maori-Labour caucus will get top cabinet jobs – political analyst
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): Uncertainty around billions in Defence Force spending
Torika Tokalau (Stuff): Ihum?tao occupiers wait patiently for government intervention following election
Greens and coalition negotiations
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Crunch time as referendum results come in and Labour concludes talks with the Greens
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour-Green government talks will conclude on Friday, but result will not be known until Sunday
Jason Walls (Herald): The Green Party sets deadline for any decision on its inclusion in new Government
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Greens to decide on govt participation on Sunday (paywalled)
Neil Miller (Magic talk): Green MPs will be kicked out of government by Green Party members
RNZ: Green Party continues talks with Labour Party on possible deal
Referendum results
Derek Cheng (Herald): Euthanasia and cannabis referendum results at 2pm: Is Kiwi social fabric about to shift?
Derek Cheng (Herald): Cannabis law reform explainer: Preliminary results are out tomorrow – what happens next? (paywalled)
Hannah Kronast (Newshub): Majority of Kiwis voted ‘yes’ in euthanasia referendum- new poll
Joel MacManus (Stuff): Yes or no? What happens after results of the cannabis referendum come out
Georgia Forrester (Stuff): What sway might special votes have on the cannabis and euthanasia referendums?
Hannah Martin (Stuff): How will the End of Life Choice Act work if it passes?
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Has the End of Life Choice Act passed? We may know today
National Party
Richard Harman: Friendly fire; three views of the National Party
Newstalk ZB: National MPs bidding for party positions in Parliament
Julie Iles (NBR): Brownlee’s deputy leadership said to be on shaky ground (paywalled)
Housing
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Public housing waitlist cracks 20,000 with over 2000 new households in a single month
Brad Olsen (Infometrics): Too many houses are mouldy, damp, and cold
Brian Fallow (Herald): Is Adrian Orr about to pull the LVR trigger? (paywalled)
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): NZ’s financial stability under threat as lending skyrockets – economist
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): The Reserve Bank should do less (paywalled)
Tina Morrison (Stuff): ANZ heads for a record mortgage lending month, driven by first-home buyers
Greg Ninness (Interest): Housing affordability improves considerably for first home buyers in Auckland, not so much for those in the rest of NZ
David Hargreaves (Interest): First home buyers feeling the heat?
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Inflation-targeting architect urges RBNZ: ‘Just don’t do any further harm’
Health
Ian Powell (Democracy Project): The Dialectics of incrementalism and transformation
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Cataracts so bad driving isn’t possible – but public system says ‘No’
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Canterbury health board members challenged to take tikanga and Treaty seriously
Malcolm Mulholland (Herald): Pharmac needs a short, sharp dose of reality (paywalled)
Todd Krieble (BusinessDesk): The outlook for health reforms (paywalled)
Human Rights Commission and the Act Party
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): ‘Abolish Human Rights Commission’: ACT leader says it could be replaced with local MP or court instead
Amelia Wade (Herald): Act’s David Seymour calling for ‘hard-left’ Human Rights Commission to be abolished
Zane Small (Newshub): Greens fear ACT ‘has moved to the extreme right’ over call to abolish ‘hard-left’ Human Rights Commission
International relations
RNZ: Labour and National MPs urge Jacinda Ardern to adopt Hong Kong lifeboat scheme
Covid
Stuff: Editorial – Covid-19: New Zealand’s health response is not ‘fascist’
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): We need to examine our Covid response
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Coronavirus: This is the year we can finally get over our FOMO
Zane Small and Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Greens co-leader James Shaw criticises Fox News over COVID-19 ‘quarantine camp’ speculation
Zane Small (Newshub): Coronavirus: ‘Selfish’, ‘terrifying’ or ‘successful’? How New Zealand’s COVID-19 response has fascinated the globe
NZ First Foundation
Sam Hurley (Herald): NZ First Foundation case: Second defendant pleads not guilty, maintains name suppression
Anneke Smith (RNZ): New Zealand First Foundation case: Pair deny charges, elect trial by jury
Edward Gay (Stuff): Second NZ First Foundation accused pleads not guilty
Reweti Kohere (NBR) Second NZ First Foundation defendant pleads not guilty (paywalled)
Parliament
Peter Dunne: Where have the liberals gone?
No Right Turn: A contempt of Parliament?
Local government
Joel MacManus (Stuff): Iwi and property owners to meet over K?piti Airport future
Logan Savory (Stuff): Councillors to be briefed on independent evaluation review for DIA
Oranga Tamariki
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Oranga Tamariki forced to pick up pieces of failed state policy, Waitangi Tribunal told
Kereama Wright (Maori TV): Maori authority for tamariki Maori and whanau – Annette Sykes
Other
RNZ: The long overdue changing face of zoos
Áine Kelly-Costello (RNZ): Voting accessibility 2020: A mixed report card
Newstalk ZB: ‘Person who hates boomers the most’: Swarbrick to feature on Aussie reality show
Tobey Keddy: Maori In Prison: Where’s The Transformational Change?
Peter Griffin (BusinessDesk): Expect no favours at the OECD from ‘local boy’ Chris Liddell (paywalled)
1News: Matakana Island whenua returned to hap? after almost 100 years of Crown ownership
Laura Wiltshire (Stuff): Covid-19 teacher return no silver bullet for overstretched sector, says union
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Annah Stretton criticised for ‘racist’ poster
Portia Mao (Asia Media Centre): What does the Chinese immigrant identity look like in New Zealand?
