Good morning. Here are 3 of the 10 stories in today's Ten@10.
1. Democracy Briefing: The Right face a miserable time in power
Bryce Edwards argues that the right is much more likely to end up in office, but that a returned coalition would be fragile, with one seat to spare on the preliminary count and every partner able to block it. In a Further Analysis section he looks at what a deal with Opportunity would cost: Wong's five bottom lines, including Paris and a bottom-trawling ban, collide with Act and NZ First, and even her offer to abstain on the crossbenches would leave Luxon leading a minority government she could bring down.
Read it at The Democracy Project
4. Shrugging-Off The Atlas Network.
Chris Trotter reposts a February 2024 Democracy Project essay, arguing that as the Left tries to make sense of the 2026 election it will fall back on its favourite conspiracy theory, the Atlas Network. He says the network is real, not a Q-Anon equivalent, and that the Left's defeat is the work of ordinary citizens who liked the Right's stories better. If those stories were made more convincing by a sympathetic think tank, he writes, the Left should get mad at itself for not having one of its own.
7. RICHARD PREBBLE: Luxon is a caretaker
Richard Prebble writes that Christopher Luxon remains Prime Minister, but only in a caretaker capacity, and should not make significant policy decisions or use the office for party-political advantage. Defeated ministers can stay until 4 December. If Luxon appoints replacements, Prebble says the obvious course is to use existing Associate Ministers, take independent advice, make that advice public, and explain how the appointments comply with the caretaker convention before making them.
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