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Mediawatch looks at how the blame game played out in the media over the latest Covid cluster and the rulebreakers - while the previously-praised Covid communications strategy was called into question…

One video clip showed police beating an unarmed volunteer medical crew. Another showed a protester being shot and probably killed on the street.

Japan's government is reportedly planning to stop overseas spectators coming to the Summer Olympics due to worries they will spread the coronavirus.

The public can no longer veto a council's decision to introduce Māori wards.

Suggestions to rename a bill on Māori wards to include the words ‘ignore the public vote’, ‘screw the scrum’ and ‘under-arm delivery’ have been ruled out of order at Parliament.

Hawke's Bay Regional Council has pushed back on adding Māori wards immediately and will hear what the public thinks before any decision is made.

There has been little annual change in the number of children living in poverty across most measures, but there has been a drop in the number of whānau struggling to provide the basics.

Seven members of the electoral commission in Niger have been killed in a landmine explosion.

A survey has found seven out of 10 New Zealanders believe the government should increase income support for those on low wages or not in paid work.

Seiko Hashimoto has been chosen as president of the Tokyo 2020, replacing Yoshiro Mori who resigned after setting off a furore with sexist remarks.

Australia and New Zealand are supposedly cultural cousins, but this latest rift - over the return of a woman labelled a terrorist - shows we are drifting further and further apart. 

The Tokyo 2020 organising committee will ask Japan's Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto - who competed in seven Games - to be its new president.

Shorter days, fewer MPs, and work on the Covid-19 response are a few of the changes at Parliament as it sits under Covid alert level 2 this week

While there's no shortage of Māori in the Beehive, it has long been a struggle for tangata whenua to be represented at a local government level. Meriana Johnsen explains the issue.

Analysis: Former Republicans considering a new party to counter Donald Trump's influence would face steep challenges in shaking up a traditionally two-party US political system.

A Waikato Māori ward councillor rejects legislation to rid binding polls on Māori wards has been rushed, saying Māori have been seeking inclusion in local democracy "forever".

A Gisborne councillor says Māori wards are key to making sure that local iwi are represented.

The president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, Yoshiro Mori, is set to step down over sexist remark.