PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT AND ELECTION
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Someone should have the guts to sort out these MP perks (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Sunday Star-Times): NZ’s chief electoral officer on why counting the votes will still take so long – even with a law change (paywalled)
Public Interest: “Labour is reckoning with that history”: Max Harris on Rogernomics, flipping Tāmaki, and the election
Vernon Small (Sunday Star-Times): Show me the small change: The U-turns and sweeteners shaping election year (paywalled)
Michael Swanson: Te Pāti Māori at a Crossroads
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star-Times): Labour stirs – just (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Sunday Star-Times): The battle for rural New Zealand: Is National under pressure? (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Govt fights US legal bid to protect dolphins by banning Kiwi seafood
SUPERANNUATION
Ngaire Kerse (Sunday Star-Times): Raising retirement age is unfair (paywalled)
Mark Sainsbury (Sunday Star-Times): Before we raise the pension age, let’s talk about the men who won’t live to see it (paywalled)
Sam Stubbs (Sunday Star-Times): How to fix Super, once and for all (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Sunday Star-Times): Means testing super: Why it’s more complicated than you think (paywalled)
CLIMATE CHANGE
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): New Zealand handed a $5b bill for climate inaction
Herald: Editorial - Winston Peters knows leaving the Paris climate agreement is attractive to some (paywalled)
Keith Woodford (Interest): Climate-change parameters change with big implications
RNZ: Costs of not adapting to climate change will rise along with sea levels – scientist
RNZ: Climate change boosts risk of bacteria-infected seafood, water
TRANSPORT & LABOUR’S FARE CAP
Simon Wilson: This transport policy will sweep the world
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Labour leads with its chin on transport cap costs – critics swing wildly
Nick James (Sunday Star-Times): Labour fare cap: The five public transport trips where travellers would gain the most (paywalled)
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