LABOUR LIST AND THE NAIDOO CONTROVERSY
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Has Labour just fixed its talent problem?
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Labour’s reset is off to a very shaky start
Ani O’Brien: Labour’s List is defensive
Henry Cooke (Post): Top cop joining Labour to go on leave, commissioner ‘comfortable’ with how police were notified (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Police launch review into Superintendent Rakesh Naidoo’s engagement with Labour
Adam Pearse (Herald): Police to investigate whether superintendent, now Labour candidate, shared sensitive information
1News: Hipkins backs cop’s Labour run as police boss, minister slam timing
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Police launch review into Labour candidate
Stuff: ‘Done at the last minute deliberately’: Hipkins defends recruitment of senior cop into Labour’s top ranks
No Right Turn: Deeply unethical
Anna Whyte (Interest): Labour candidate fallout, tweaks to LNG and tax relief policies on the way?
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Labour set to announce first policy in six months, on cost-of-living
ENERGY AND THE LNG DECISION
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Government backs down on levy to fund new LNG import terminal
1News: No levy on power bills to pay for new LNG import facility - Brown
Ella Somers (Interest): Gentailers to pay for LNG facility as government scraps consumer levy plan
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Power firms to fund LNG port through user pays – but effect is the same for consumers
Jamie Gray (Herald): LNG terminal plan hailed as price cap step, critics call it ‘dirty T-shirt’ fix (paywalled)
Jane Yee (Herald): What happens to National’s LNG plan if Labour wins the election?
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Ministers may hope for no more tough calls on energy after LNG, but dream on (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Simeon Brown confirms LNG still part of the solution for an energy system ‘run on the edge’ (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): LNG project advances but power bill levy ruled out (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Govt proposes electricity sector dry-year insurance rules (paywalled)
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Govt unlocks $55m for superhot geothermal push (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt finds more Warmer Kiwi Homes savings as energy hardship spikes
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): We’re all paying for this LNG project one way or another
1News: What needs to be done to bring down power prices - Consumer NZ
MP SPENDING AND EXPENSES
Charlie Mitchell (Post): What one minister’s airport parking bill reveals about MP spending (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Becoming a politician could ruin your life, but it does pay well (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Government spending $300k per year on unused limos for former PMs
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): MPs’ expense claims are legally right, but are they morally right?
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): ‘Constitutionally abhorrent’: Expert reveals advice to government on climate law change
Taimor Hazou (Post): The Government says it is reducing risk to business with climate law change; it has done the opposite (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Helen Clark and Ruth Richardson critique MMP – has it been good or bad for New Zealand? (paywalled)
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): NZ First’s latest candidate aligns party with Reform, One Nation and Trump
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Ex-speaker says Gerry Brownlee ‘buying a fight’ over Stuff photo row (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Act exempts proposed rural workforce visa from $6 day charge, follows criticism from Erica Stanford
1News: ACT proposes Rural Workforce Visa to address farm labour shortages
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Greens promise fines for privacy breaches if elected
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Vanessa Weenink on leaving Labour to become a blue blood
Chris Trotter: Digging Out the Elites (paywalled)
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