PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Jo Moir (RNZ): RNZ poll: More than half of those surveyed could be persuaded to vote for a different party
Gareth Morgan (Newsroom): For Opportunity, getting into Parliament will be the easy part
Matthew Hooton (Post): Labour’s Mt Albert Conundrum (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): David Seymour takes advantage of the calm before the storm (paywalled)
Sapeer Mayron (BusinessDesk): The BusinessDesk Polltracker: Confidence, the polls, and the centre (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Ministry defends $200,000 funding for documentary about Fijian politician
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): The Government needs to prove what it said about co-governance wasn’t just hot air
Stuff: Green Party to take automatic union membership bill to the election
Andrew Dickson: Opportunity Cost
Natalia Albert: National Opened Door and NZ First Closed Door
Graham Adams: India’s view of ‘indigenous’ rattles Māori advisers
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The beat-up of the week
PAUL HENRY AND ACT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Paul Henry is a gift and a gamble for Act
Simon Wilson: Paul Henry: Cometh the hour, cometh the showman
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): New Zealand’s media has been gripped by Paul Henry mania
Martin Van Beynen (Post): Imagine a Cabinet of broadcasters (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Act rubbishes Paul Henry ‘internet conspiracy’ amplified by Winston Peters
Audrey Young (Herald): Labour bungles response to Paul Henry bombshell; the embarrassing part of Indian PM’s visit (paywalled)
Peter Dunne: Much Ado About Henry
BIRD FLU / H5N1
Eva Corlett (Guardian): Fears for New Zealand’s native species as first bird flu case emerges
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): NZ will be forced to put saving livelihoods before saving lives of endangered birds
Jemma Geoghegan and Nigel French (The Conversation): Bird flu has reached New Zealand – what this means and what comes next
Science Media Centre: Bird flu lands in NZ: expert reaction
Dianne Brunton (Post): The questions we should be asking about H5N1 bird flu and our unique wildlife (paywalled)
Amber Allott (Post): Rush to vaccinate natives as deadly bird flu strain reaches NZ (paywalled)
Sammy Carter (RNZ): Bird hospital shuts doors to sick seabirds in wake of first flu case
RNZ: DOC vaccine push exceeds 20% of target after bird flu detection
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): How H5N1 reached NZ and what it means for our birds
1News: Why brown skua? What to know about NZ’s first case of H5N1 bird flu
HEALTH
Vaimoana Mase (Herald): Puberty blockers: Denying treatment with blanket bans unethical, doctors say
David Galler (Herald): Removing ethnicity criteria in health funding overhaul creates an inferior formula (paywalled)
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Doctors accuse Minister and Government of silencing scientists and threatening patient safety
RNZ: Trust gives up helping people quit smoking over refusal to promote vaping
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Is our economic recovery coming at last?
Stuff: ‘Fatigued from the buffeting,’ but NZ may be on the cusp of recovery, economy forecast says
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Thousands more on the benefit, but increase in jobseekers finding work
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): Counting the cost of business shrinkage (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): NZ’s economic recovery is dawning, if Donald Trump allows it: Infometrics (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): Callaghan Innovation loan losses mount as MBIE takes tougher line (paywalled)
Calida Stuart-Menteath and Hamish McNicol (NBR): Just make changes to wholesale investor category, already (paywalled)
NBR: Liquidator workouts, Mainfreight’s US pain, Westminster Wahs (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Government seeks feedback on loophole exposing unsavvy investors to risky deals (paywalled)
Martien Lubberink: Neue Sachlichkeit at the RBNZ?
Corin Dann (RNZ): New buy-to-own Kiwi music platform Lume hopes to cash in on subscription fatigue
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