LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND URBAN PLANNING
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Out of control: How to absolutely, positively kill a well-resourced capital city (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Who really runs Wellington?
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Former Labour leader Andrew Little has stepped into one of the worst jobs in politics (paywalled)
K Gurunathan (Post): Councils, contractors and the coming fuel shock (paywalled)
Ben Kepes (Post): Don’t let trivialities overshadow the important work of councils (paywalled)
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Wellington’s new water entity facing scrutiny from Commerce Commission over proposed bills
Nick James (Post): After years of waiting Wellington public transport users can pay debit cards and phones (paywalled)
Errol Haarhoff (Sunday Star Times): Auckland’s growth relies on a careful marriage of density and transport (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Sunday Star Times): The war on exotic trees on Auckland’s maunga continues after power struggle resolved (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): Turns on mood, or mood to turn out? (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): Council may write off $54m Eden Park debt under new Govt ‘deal’ (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): The Auckland deal: Like any ceasefire, slow to take effect (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Bed tax proposal ‘getting pretty close’ (paywalled)
Eric Crampton (Post): The superpower that could unlock billions for Kiwirail - or another railway company (paywalled)
Taelegalolo’u Mary Afemata (Local Democracy Reporting): South Auckland promised growth but leaders say City Deal lacks action
Herald: Editorial – Rotorua Easter trading confusion as council guardians give wrong advice (paywalled)
GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
Blayne Slabbert (Post): Ministers picked the winners of ‘invitation only’ $40m events fund - and only one was in the South Island (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Critical minerals: How the proposed framework with US came about, why ministry told Herald to destroy sensitive information (paywalled)
Geoff Plimmer and Charlie Mitchell (Newsroom): The road from public good to public scandal is paved with good intentions
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Is this National’s least diverse cabinet of the 21st century?
Richard Harman: ACT campaigning on race again (paywalled)
Marcus Ganley (Newsroom): It’s official. That doesn’t mean it’s discoverable
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Is it time for Aunty Helen to return? Why extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): War in the Middle East underlines PM’s weaknesses, NZ First makes hay while the missiles roam (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): Coalition parties leave opposition in the dust ‒ on LinkedIn (paywalled)
Doug Laing (Herald): Trust calls for minister’s removal from Treaty negotiation role over Waikaremoana decision (paywalled)
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: Citizens assemblies - an alternative to select committees?
Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Stats NZ eyes $400 fines for survey dodgers as participation sinks
Graham Adams: The Rosy Resurrection of Helen Clark
HOUSING
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): One in four skip meals, medical care due to cost of housing - survey
Liz McDonald (Press): Modest family cribs now worth ‘a gazillion dollars’ (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): What sort of homes do New Zealanders really want? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Money: ‘Gentrified’ suburbs where renters are disappearing
David Bainbridge-Zafar (ODT): Shelter, not investment: the Kiwi property breakup is overdue (paywalled)
Ethan Manera & Azaria Howell (Herald): Gordon Wilson Flats demolition: Victoria University to spend $7.25m, work to take until 2027
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