> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # NZ Politics Daily: 5 September 2024 - URL: https://goodoil.news/nz-politics-daily-5-september-2024/ - Published: 2024-09-04T20:18:07.000Z - Updated: 2024-09-04T21:26:54.000Z - Author: Guest Post - Tags: NZ Politics, Politics *Republished with Permission* Author: **Bryce Edwards** **COMCOM GROCERY SECTOR REPORT** **Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk):** [**Supermarkets now a sitting duck for intervention**](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/retail/supermarkets-now-a-sitting-duck-for-intervention?ref=goodoil.news) **(paywalled)** **Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post):** [**Supermarkets get terse tongue-lashing for ‘ripping off’ Kiwis**](https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/350403121/supermarkets-get-terse-tongue-lashing-ripping-kiwis?ref=goodoil.news) **(paywalled)** **Susan Edmunds (RNZ):** [**Five things households should know about the first annual grocery report**](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527084/five-things-households-should-know-about-the-first-annual-grocery-report?ref=goodoil.news) **Lauren Crimp (RNZ):** [**Government action needed to break supermarket duopoly pain - consumer watchdog**](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/527074/government-action-needed-to-break-supermarket-duopoly-pain-consumer-watchdog?ref=goodoil.news) **Kate MacNamara (Herald):** [**Foodstuffs merger in doubt as the commission considers final submissions**](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/the-foodstuffs-merger-in-doubt-as-the-commission-considers-final-submissions/JUJPNCPN3FBILO2WESZ7CTRP4I/?ref=goodoil.news) **(paywalled)** **Andrew Bevin (Newsroom):** [**Foodstuffs North Island has flown the co-op coop**](https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/03/foodstuffs-north-island-flew-the-co-op-coop-academics-warn/?ref=goodoil.news) **Tom Raynel (Herald):** [**Grocery competition: Consumer advocate calls for faster action to ease checkout pain**](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/grocery-competition-consumer-advocate-calls-for-faster-action-to-ease-checkout-pain/ES5VTXPSPVFYHNXL2MYGMUVOSE/?ref=goodoil.news) **(paywalled)** **RNZ:** [**Calls for greater powers to get supermarkets competing after report**](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527031/calls-for-greater-powers-to-get-supermarkets-competing-after-report?ref=goodoil.news) **Bryan Bruce:** [**The Food Crisis**](https://bryanbruce.substack.com/p/the-food-crisis-bc4) **(paywalled)** **Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB):** [**I'm hoping the next supermarket call might be more promising**](https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/opinion/heather-du-plessis-allan-im-hoping-the-next-supermarket-call-might-be-more-promising/?ref=goodoil.news) **Tom Raynel (Herald):** [**Supermarket sector has no meaningful competition, Commerce Commission says**](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/supermarket-sector-has-no-meaningful-competition-commerce-commission-says/GE5JWMLSZVEXBETCYG7K5XB4RA/?ref=goodoil.news) **Gyles Beckford (RNZ):** [**Stiff penalties proposed for supermarkets as Commerce Commission finds no improvement**](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/526985/stiff-penalties-proposed-for-supermarkets-as-commerce-commission-finds-no-improvement?ref=goodoil.news) **Brianna McIlraith (Stuff):**[**‘Concerning picture’ in grocery sector now worth $25 billion**](https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350402674/concerning-picture-grocery-sector-now-worth-25-billion?ref=goodoil.news) **Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post):** [**‘No meaningful improvement’ in supermarket competition — minister ‘disappointed’**](https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/350400064/no-meaningful-improvement-supermarket-competition-minister-disappointed?ref=goodoil.news) **(paywalled)** **Dita De Boni (NBR):** [**Com Com: supermarkets as uncompetitive and profitable as ever**](https://www.nbr.co.nz/business/comcom-supermarkets-as-uncompetitive-and-profitable-as-ever/?ref=goodoil.news) **(paywalled)** **Gregor Thompson (BusinessDesk):** [**Grocery sector set for regulatory shake-up after inaugural Commerce Commission report**](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/retail/grocery-sector-set-for-regulatory-shake-up-after-inaugural-commerce-commission-report?ref=goodoil.news) **(paywalled)** **GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT** **Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project):** [**The Police must explain why they won’t enforce the Electoral Act**](https://democracyproject.substack.com/p/the-police-must-explain-why-they) **Verity Johnson (Stuff):** [**Luxon doesn’t understand his public role**](https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350403370/verity-johnson-luxon-doesnt-understand-his-public-role?ref=goodoil.news) **Barry Soper (Herald):** [**It’s been one hell of a year for Christopher Luxon**](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/its-been-one-hell-of-a-year-for-christopher-luxon-barry-soper/XMAJBMF5LBHTPNI443F6RIPAZQ/?ref=goodoil.news) **Grant Duncan:** [**Is Aotearoa on the mend?**](https://grantduncanphd.substack.com/p/is-aotearoa-on-the-mend) **Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ):** [**Norman Kirk's Tongan tapa cloth unveiled in its new home**](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/527080/norman-kirk-s-tongan-tapa-cloth-unveiled-in-its-new-home?ref=goodoil.news) **Greg Presland (Standard):** [**Shane Jones is obsessed with communists**](https://thestandard.org.nz/shane-jones-is-obsessed-with-communists/?ref=goodoil.news) **Spinoff:** [**Gone By Lunchtime: The Kīngi and us**](https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/04-09-2024/gone-by-lunchtime-the-kingi-and-us?ref=goodoil.news) **KIINGI TUHEITIA** **RNZ:** [**Live: Kiingi Tuheitia to be laid to rest, new Māori monarch welcomed**](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/527081/live-kiingi-tuheitia-to-be-laid-to-rest-new-maori-monarch-welcomed?ref=goodoil.news) **Aaron Smale (Listener):** [**Kiingi Tuheitia: The legacy of the truck driver who ascended the throne**](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/new-zealand/kiingi-tuheitia-the-legacy-of-the-truck-driver-who-ascended-the-throne/2O4Z5B3HKRHAPBNYQVFVSCDQU4/?ref=goodoil.news) **(paywalled)** **Laura Walters (Newsroom):** [**Kotahitanga will not be forged through silence in the court of Kiingi Tūheitia**](https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/05/kotahitanga-will-not-be-forged-through-silence/?ref=goodoil.news) **RNZ:** [**Kiingi Tuheitia to be laid to rest alongside his ancestors at Maunga Taupiri today**](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/527076/kiingi-tuheitia-to-be-laid-to-rest-alongside-his-ancestors-at-maunga-taupiri-today?ref=goodoil.news) **Te Aorewa Rolleston (Waikato Times/Post):** [**Māori King’s funeral: Mourning one monarch, crowning another**](https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350403502/maori-kings-funeral-mourning-one-monarch-crowning-another?ref=goodoil.news) **(paywalled)** **Georgina Campbell (Herald):** [**Front Page: Kīngi Tūheitia’s legacy remembered as his successor is set to be revealed**](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kingi-tuheitias-legacy-remembered-as-his-successor-is-set-to-be-revealed-the-front-page/EOQLBUPQG5GALN7RXNZIDNH4UQ/?ref=goodoil.news) **Glenn McConnell (Stuff):** [**How the next Māori King or Queen will be chosen**](https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350402184/how-next-maori-king-or-queen-will-be-chosen?ref=goodoil.news) **Daniel Perese (Whakaata Māori):** [**Kiingitanga lays out how Thursday’s Te Whakawahinga and Tangihanga will proceed**](https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/09/04/kiingitanga-lays-out-how-thursdays-te-whakawahinga-and-tangihanga-will-proceed/?ref=goodoil.news) **RNZ:** [**Official proceedings for Kiingi Tuheitia's funeral will start with the Whakawahinga of the new monarch**](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/527064/official-proceedings-for-kiingi-tuheitia-s-funeral-will-start-with-the-whakawahinga-of-the-new-monarch?ref=goodoil.news) **Julia Gabel (Herald):** [**Kīngi Tūheitia tangi: New Māori monarch announced this morning ahead of funeral proceedings for Kīngi Tūheitia**](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/kingi-tuheitia-tangi-new-maori-monarch-announced-this-morning-ahead-of-funeral-proceedings-for-kingi-tuheitia/COSCQGZP5VC4DBYNXMLF754VXQ/?ref=goodoil.news) **Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff):** [**The shade in the shadow of Taupiri maunga**](https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-09-2024/the-shade-in-the-shadow-of-taupiri-maunga?ref=goodoil.news) **Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff):** [**Farewelling a King**](https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/05-09-2024/farewelling-a-king?ref=goodoil.news) “NZ Politics Daily” continues below. 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