ALLEGATIONS ABOUT CHRIS HIPKINS
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): How Hipkins claims spread from Facebook to news headlines
Herald: Chris Hipkins’ ex-wife Jade Paul on her decision to post allegations to Facebook
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): ‘Marriage break ups are hard’: Labour MP on ex-wife’s claims against Chris Hipkins
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Chris Hipkins rejects social media allegations from ex-wife
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Chris Hipkins’ ex-wife makes series of unsubstantiated claims about him
Andrea Vance (Post): Chris Hipkins rejects ex wife’s personal claims (paywalled)
1News: ‘I reject the allegations’: Labour leader Hipkins on ex-wife’s claims
David Farrar: Difficult to assess
ENERGY CRISIS
Luke Malpass (Post): Iran War: A crisis the Government can grip (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Here’s what the Government probably won’t do about the global oil squeeze
Henry Cooke (Post): Iran War: Government wants public servants in the office despite fuel price rise (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Iran War: Rethink of Russian fuel sanctions shelved as supply fears grow (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Government could consider ‘targeted support’ if petrol rose towards $4 a litre (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Why the fuel crisis might be giving the Government a lifeline (paywalled)
RNZ: Willis reveals how bad inflation could get as petrol surges past $3
Emma Stanford (Stuff): ‘Non-negotiable’: Willis promises Air NZ will keep flying - some say turbulence lies ahead
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Government prepares for prolonged Iran war; oil supply issues weeks away (paywalled)
Richard Harman: Not the Podium of Truth (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Pouring oil on troubled waters (paywalled)
David Williams (Newsroom): Petrol prices: Is it cheaper to use buses, trains in Auckland amid rising fuel cost?
No Right Turn: A government without a plan
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Fuel disruption level system: What could prompt move to Level 2, when may that happen (paywalled)
Evie Richardson (RNZ): Farmers face uncertain future as fuel prices skyrocket
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): The entire fuel situation is a mess
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Petrol price could hit $4, economists warn
RNZ: ‘Emergency package’ could help low income families amid financial crisis, economist says
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Middle East turmoil weighs on NZ dollar as inflation heats up (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Interest): Treasury predicting 3.7% inflation in Iran war ‘worst case scenario’, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says
Damien Venuto (Stuff): Willis says we have a 52-day fuel buffer. The numbers aren’t as clear-cut
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): It wasn’t a mistake to cancel the EV subsidy
Phoebe Utteridge (Stuff): ‘We’re pretty nervous’: This is what farmers fear will happen to your grocery bill
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Fact-check: Did Nicola Willis really tell people to save on fuel by putting less stuff in the boot?
RNZ: High fuel prices putting pressure on families already struggling with basic living costs - budgeting service
AI
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The hard questions behind Southland’s AI factory
David Williams (Newsroom): From dairy to data, the $3.5 billion bet on Southland
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): Fears new data centre could bump up power bills
Nick Agar (Post): This war shows why NZ needs to get smarter about AI and Big Tech (paywalled)
Hamish McNicol and Calida Stuart-Menteath (NBR): Pumping the brakes on AI (paywalled)
PM IN THE PACIFIC
Johnny Blades (RNZ): Manawanui compensation still in flux, as Samoa and NZ leaders talk
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Pacific’s family ties place Luxon in visa bind
Giles Dexter (RNZ): NZ, Samoa vow to combat flow of drugs through Pacific ‘super highway’
Anneke Smith (Stuff): Prime minister gets Samoan chief title he didn’t ask for
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon moves on from Samoan matai title ‘miscommunication’
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Samoa confirms Luxon did not request matai title
Anneke Smith (Post): Luxon in Samoa: Up against it in the Pacific as cocaine trafficking skyrockets (paywalled)
Vaimoana Mase (Herald): Chief Tui Christopher Luxon joins other world leaders with Samoan matai titles
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Chris Trotter (Interest): Parliament does not exist for the purposes of making gestures, it exists for the purposes of making laws
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Social Investment Agency deputy resigns while under bullying, harassment investigation
Henry Cooke (Post): Minister Brooke van Velden considered 0% minimum wage increase, documents reveal (paywalled)
Azaria Howell (Herald): Tom Phillips inquiry lead being paid a ‘daily fee’ of $1680, documents say including Family Court ‘unwieldy’
Anaru Eketone (ODT): Voting for a Maori MP accountable to Maori voters (paywalled)
CLIMATE
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): The legal challenge to New Zealand’s ‘incoherent’ climate plan, explained
Kate Newton (RNZ): Government’s climate change plans go to the High Court
Andrea Vance and Tom Hunt (Post): Climate plan faces High Court challenge over reliance on pine forests (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Climate action lawyers open case against Government in High Court (paywalled)
HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS
Kelvin Davidson (One Roof): Buying a house still isn’t cheap, but data shows it is more affordable
Greg Ninness (Interest): The REINZ’s February sales volumes and selling prices unchanged year-on-year
Liam Dann (Herald): REINZ data: House prices show biggest monthly increase in two and a half years (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): How car parks became a new frontline in the intensification war
Miriam Bell (Post): Iran War: House price rise could be undermined by Middle East conflict (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): ‘Inappropriate, ineffective’: Govt shuns plea to exempt begging and rough sleeping from ‘move-on’ proposals (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Dave Armstrong (Post): The Odd Sea: a classical take on Wellington’s pipes (paywalled)
Adam Burns (RNZ): Christchurch community leaders uneasy about plan to pump partially-treated sewage into sea
Tina Law (Press): Stormwater plant may be built in Christchurch’s Hagley Park in $30m scheme to clean up Avon River (paywalled)
Justin Wong (Local Democracy Reporting): Thousands of tonnes of Porirua sludge will need new disposal place
FONTERRA
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Winston Peters slams departing Fonterra boss Miles Hurrell
RNZ: Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell resigns
Rob Stock (Post): Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell resigns (paywalled)
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): The Miles Hurrell Fonterra era is (just about) over (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Fonterra denies NZ First leader Winston Peters’ claim that Lactalis sale is ‘not going well’ (paywalled)
Duncan Bridgeman (Herald): Fonterra’s next CEO faces crucial test amid strategy shift (paywalled)
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): How Fonterra will search for its next boss after Miles Hurrell (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
David Hargreaves (Interest): BNZ economists say latest Performance of Services Index figures are ‘are real disappointment’
Anne Gibson (Herald): Supermarket boom: Woolworths and Foodstuffs add new stores (paywalled)
Thomas Mead (1News): Retailers must now honour three-year gift card expiry under new law
Neil Reid (Herald): Inside Sir Peter Beck and Rocket Lab’s sub-$17 million mission to find life above Venus (paywalled)
HEALTH
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Leaked papers show ‘extreme risk’ around Health NZ decentralisation
RNZ: Government announces extra $25 million funding to boost hospital capacity and staff
Emma Hildesley (1News): Unclaimed money for health agencies among $616m held by Inland Revenue
Gemma Aburn (Newsroom): See the child, not the diagnosis
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Fears NZ’s tobacco black market will get as bad as Australia’s
Stuff: Government proposes sweeping changes to alcohol laws
CARTOONS