LABOUR’S PUBLIC TRANSPORT POLICY
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Mind the gap: Labour’s policy platform empty no more
Luke Malpass (Post): A $20 ticket to the suburbs: Labour targets commuters with first big policy play (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Government floats using emergency fund on public transport, Labour asks why it wasn’t in Budget
Nick James (Post): Labour to introduce caps on public transport costs for cities, regions (paywalled)
Nick James (Post): Auckland mayor ‘concerned’ about new Labour transport policy, Wellington mayor backs it (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Mission impossible? Labour tries to announce a policy without a screw up or scandal
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Labour reveals public transport fare cap in long-awaited election policy
RNZ: Labour vows to put $20-a-week cap on public transport, $10 outside main centres
Adam Pearse (Herald): Weekly public transport costs would be capped at $20 for Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch under Labour government
Jane Yee (Herald): What Labour’s public transport fare cap reveals about its election strategy
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
RNZ: Opportunity’s Qiulae Wong makes a play for ‘kingmaker’, aiming straight at NZ First
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Developer donates to Nats as it looks to fast-track thorny golf course housing
RNZ: Former MP Peter Dunne says questions remain over minister’s $17k airport parking bill
Sam Smith (Stuff): Minister defends $17k airport parking spend, says she prefers to ‘self-drive’
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): Democracy cannot mean bypassing voters (paywalled)
Nicolas Lewis (Newsroom): Social cohesion means different things to Clark and Luxon; both are flawed
Michael Swanson: New Zealand First and the 2026 Election: Winston’s Last Dance?
Richard Harman: Down on the farm; a new Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
RNZ: Chief Ombudsman explains how he’ll handle OIA probe of PM’s office
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Concern raised with Worksafe about Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard’s chainsaw use in social media video (paywalled)
Greg Presland (The Standard): Labour’s list
Jordan Williams: Chris Hipkins wants to tax your holiday home so you can pay for his
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): What alternatives do we have to capitalism and MMP?
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): The case for Māori switching to the general roll this election
POLICE COMMISSIONER AND LABOUR CANDIDATE
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Has Police Commissioner Richard Chambers made his own position ‘untenable’?
RNZ: Labour’s Chris Hipkins accuses Police Commissioner of not being a good employer over Superintendent Rakesh Naidoo comments
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour police candidate stoush deepens as Police Minister accused of instructing Police Commissioner
Henry Cooke (Post): PSA say police commissioner’s ‘overreaction’ to Labour candidate will have ‘chilling effect’ (paywalled)
FIELDAYS AND THE PRIMARY SECTOR
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Sustainability goals ‘not the end-game’: Luxon lays out National’s intentions at Fieldays
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Fieldays: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon rolls out policies intended to lift rural productivity, address environmental issues
Rob Stock (Post): Government MPs scatter the lollies to a friendly crowd at Fieldays (paywalled)
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): View from the top: Agricultural leaders upbeat at Fieldays (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Government announces Primary Sector Growth Fund projects
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Government investing $5 million into Māori-owned businesses
CLIMATE, EMISSIONS AND ENVIRONMENT
Andrea Vance (Post): Is the Attenborough Effect turning Kiwis against bottom trawling? (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): ACT proposes new ‘split-gas’ emissions target
Henry Cooke (Post): ACT proposes NZ leave Paris climate pact if it can’t make pledge weaker (paywalled)
Kate Newton (RNZ): Government earmarks $51m for new methane-busting technology
Steven Price (Spinoff): Why the supreme court was not ‘totally out of line’ in its climate case ruling
Claire Taylor (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Potentially devastating’: Fast-track bid to take more Lake Pukaki water
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