NZ Politics Daily: 5 September 2024

COMCOM GROCERY SECTOR REPORT
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Supermarkets now a sitting duck for intervention (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Supermarkets get terse tongue-lashing for ‘ripping off’ Kiwis (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Five things households should know about the first annual grocery report
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Government action needed to break supermarket duopoly pain - consumer watchdog
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Foodstuffs merger in doubt as the commission considers final submissions (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Foodstuffs North Island has flown the co-op coop
Tom Raynel (Herald): Grocery competition: Consumer advocate calls for faster action to ease checkout pain (paywalled)
RNZ: Calls for greater powers to get supermarkets competing after report
Bryan Bruce: The Food Crisis (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): I'm hoping the next supermarket call might be more promising
Tom Raynel (Herald): Supermarket sector has no meaningful competition, Commerce Commission says
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Stiff penalties proposed for supermarkets as Commerce Commission finds no improvement
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff):‘Concerning picture’ in grocery sector now worth $25 billion
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ‘No meaningful improvement’ in supermarket competition — minister ‘disappointed’ (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (NBR): Com Com: supermarkets as uncompetitive and profitable as ever (paywalled)
Gregor Thompson (BusinessDesk): Grocery sector set for regulatory shake-up after inaugural Commerce Commission report (paywalled)

GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Police must explain why they won’t enforce the Electoral Act
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Luxon doesn’t understand his public role
Barry Soper (Herald): It’s been one hell of a year for Christopher Luxon
Grant Duncan: Is Aotearoa on the mend?
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Norman Kirk's Tongan tapa cloth unveiled in its new home
Greg Presland (Standard): Shane Jones is obsessed with communists
Spinoff: Gone By Lunchtime: The Kīngi and us

KIINGI TUHEITIA
RNZ: Live: Kiingi Tuheitia to be laid to rest, new Māori monarch welcomed
Aaron Smale (Listener): Kiingi Tuheitia: The legacy of the truck driver who ascended the throne (paywalled)
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Kotahitanga will not be forged through silence in the court of Kiingi Tūheitia
RNZ: Kiingi Tuheitia to be laid to rest alongside his ancestors at Maunga Taupiri today
Te Aorewa Rolleston (Waikato Times/Post): Māori King’s funeral: Mourning one monarch, crowning another (paywalled)
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Front Page: Kīngi Tūheitia’s legacy remembered as his successor is set to be revealed
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): How the next Māori King or Queen will be chosen
Daniel Perese (Whakaata Māori): Kiingitanga lays out how Thursday’s Te Whakawahinga and Tangihanga will proceed
RNZ: Official proceedings for Kiingi Tuheitia's funeral will start with the Whakawahinga of the new monarch
Julia Gabel (Herald): Kīngi Tūheitia tangi: New Māori monarch announced this morning ahead of funeral proceedings for Kīngi Tūheitia
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): The shade in the shadow of Taupiri maunga
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Farewelling a King

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