LABOUR PARTY AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT POLICY
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Labour’s subscription-style public transport plan shows its cautious turn (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): The Labour Party has finally arrived. What took so long?
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): The $6 billion problem with Labour’s transport promise, and why the coalition can’t tell you what it is (paywalled)
Henry Oliver (Spinoff): The ups and downs of Labour’s first week back in the spotlight
Henry Cooke (Post): City Labour v country coalition (paywalled)
Azaria Howell (Newstalk ZB): Universal half-price public transport subsidy would cost up to $200 million a year, Govt told
Janhavi Gosavi (Herald): Tax-free public transport launches in Wellington
David Farrar: Labour gets a triple fisking over its dodgy fare numbers
Ani O’Brien: Public transport fallacies and middle class welfare
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): What needs to happen with public transport?
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Is that it Labour?
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): This is not bold and visionary policy from Labour
Steven Cowan: Business as usual, and the Greens are missing in action
ODT: Editorial: A good week or a bad one? (paywalled)
LABOUR’S NAIDOO POLICE CANDIDATE
Adam Pearse (Herald): Former commissioners defend Labour police candidate Rakesh Naidoo’s integrity, question political motives and fear for ‘damaged’ police reputation
Audrey Young (Herald): Police Commissioner’s response to candidate controversy way over the top; where are the pale males on Labour’s list? (paywalled)
Peter Williams: The Naidoo controversy
FIELDAYS AND RURAL
Russell Palmer (RNZ): ‘We’re actually out and about’: Labour cops flack from Bishop, Seymour over Fieldays stall
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Anatomy of a stall: Labour claims mischief over ‘missing’ Fieldays tent (paywalled)
Stuff: The mysterious case of the ‘missing’ Labour Party Fieldays tent
Charlotte Graham (Post): Fieldays optimism meets farmers’ concerns over costs and compliance (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Politicians make promises at Fieldays, but what do farmers actually want?
Kate McVicar (NBR): Fieldays 2026: Farmers ‘just got to get on with it’ (paywalled)
Richard Harman: While farm exports boom small cracks appear in the Nats rhetoric (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Shane Jones casts doubt at Fieldays on Government planning red tape reforms (paywalled)
Gianina Schwanecke (RNZ): Fieldays acts as launching pad for $110 million in new funding initiatives
Gaurav Sharma (RNZ): India trade deal buoys horticulture sector at Fieldays 2026
Gianina Schwanecke (RNZ): Dairy debt falls by almost $5 billion
Herald: Editorial: Rural sector has plenty to celebrate at Fieldays (paywalled)
PARIS AGREEMENT AND CARBON COSTS
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Treasury reveals offshore action to hit NZ’s climate target could cost $5 billion – Christopher Luxon says he won’t send money overseas
Kate Newton (RNZ): Government facing up to $5 billion bill over carbon credits, Treasury reveals
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Treasury warns of $5 billion bill to meet 2030 Paris Agreement target
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Labour keeps options open after Treasury estimates Paris pledge could cost up to $5 billion (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): ‘We ain’t sending billions of dollars offshore’: PM talks NZ’s Paris Agreement targets
PUBLIC SERVICE AND GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Bring the lobbyists into the sunlight
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): The ‘toothless’ official information law keeping us in the dark
Julia Gabel (Herald): Public service staff numbers grow despite Govt’s crackdown on ‘bloated bureaucracy’
André Chumko (Post): Creative NZ proposes to cut 23 jobs in ‘sweeping’ restructure (paywalled)
Juliet Chevalier-Watts (Herald): The Government cap on tax credits for charitable donations beyond $100k will inhibit generosity, say legal experts (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Out of touch
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How many people earn minimum wage? And why are so many just above?
Blayne Slabbert (Post): Think the economic recovery is nearly here? Not so fast (paywalled)
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): Regulator tipped to take reins of open banking amid industry frustration (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): March quarter GDP will show 2026 started well (paywalled)
Rob Campbell (Post): Eat up, but don’t forget to pay - lunch is never free (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Natural Hazards Commission ups reinsurance cover by 20% at no extra cost, but taxpayers remain exposed
Herald: Tens of thousands of KiwiSaver members at risk of missing out on Government contribution (paywalled)
Aimee Shaw (Post): Kiwibank backs women-led startups in bid to bridge funding gap (paywalled)
Andrea Fox (Herald): Kiwi venture capital surges as entrepreneurs chase global scale (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ‘Chaos’ at Callaghan Innovation as Government delays dissolution plan (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Why can Australian taxpayers claim work expenses, and we can’t?
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