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Kiwis have long complained about grocery prices - now politicians are promising to do something about it, but their solutions couldn't be more different.
What 300 pages of documents released under the Official Information Act tells us about the government’s $40 million concert fund.
Newsroom
From the University of Auckland - Comment: Urgent legislative fixes for fast-track planning and winter energy blunders show NZ's lawmaking checks are failing, argues Gehan Gunasekara.
Stuff
The election hasn’t really begun, but a lack of confidence that anything will actually change is already making it exhausting.
Stuff
Look carefully at the KiwiSaver policies. They could have a massive impact on your future.
Stuff
How hard is it to achieve change through politics? It’s a question frequently asked by members of the public, sometimes with a hint of scepticism but most often simply curiosity.
Ernie Newman
20 September 2026The saying “a week is a long time in politics” was well illustrated this past week.
Claire Robinson + Associates: Unleashing the Science of Power, Presence and Political Insight
Is a protest vote for ACT a luxury centre-right voters can’t afford in the tightest major party race in NZ’s MMP history?
For years, Storm and Jubilee Dawson warned agencies about their missing siblings. No one believed them but a new report into Tom Phillips documents their efforts and the failures of our system.
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The newly released inquiry into the Tom Phillips tragedy is a damning account of how Police and Oranga Tamariki failed his three children.
Policies worthy of Soviet Russia circa 1926, seem ludicrously heroic in the New Zealand of 2026
Stuff
In the preferred prime minister stakes, Luxon is polling at just 4%.
A Whakaata Māori-Curia poll finds 72% say the Government weakened the Treaty partnership; cost of living is top issue; Te Pāti Māori leads Māori roll party vote at 29%.
Newsroom
This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Is National and Labour's dominance over? Politicians get desperate on supermarkets; plus what to do about the police
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Nobody is selling the combination of taxes we need. It is by design and it is why the tax debate is stuck.
Stuff
ANALYSIS: A once radical proposal is, thanks to the election, becoming the mainstream consensus.
Poll of Māori voters shows strong dissatisfaction with the Government. Labour leads but loses Māori-roll support to Greens; TPM dominates Māori seats. Cost of living is top issue.
There’s a big difference between mediocre electoral conjuring and genuine political magic.
www.democracyproject.org.nz
BusinessNZ’s Catherine Beard thinks New Zealand is starting to look like Venezuela.
Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
If there was any doubt Winston Peters intends to fight Election 2026 on his own terms, this week has probably removed it. The New Zealand First leader has again placed […]
National wants to break up Foodstuffs. The Greens want to establish KiwiMart. A beautiful compromise is there for the taking.
Stuff
What? How can I be optimistic when so many are doing it tough?
www.democracyproject.org.nz
Anyone concerned about public money being squandered on council vanity projects received more evidence for their discontent this week.
Oranga Tamariki closed a report of concern while the children were still missing.
Law News
Neil Sands A damning report into the abduction of the Phillips children has detailed a litany of missed opportunities, ignored warnings and operational failures by government agencies that, if handled properly, might have prevented the siblings’ four-year ordeal in the bush at the hands of their father.
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