FISHERIES BILL AND ORCA DEATHS
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Controversial fishing bill not dead in the water (for now): Shane Jones blames ‘disharmony’
Andrea Vance (Post): Controversial fisheries bill delayed as Shane Jones declares war on recreational fishers (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Controversial fisheries bill abandoned, minister cites ‘disharmony’ in Parliament
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Controversial fisheries amendment Bill delayed after Shane Jones request
Andrea Vance (Post): Rare orca deaths in set-nets trigger urgent fisheries review (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): One of two dead orcas found in bycatch incidents was in Kaikōura whale sanctuary
RNZ: Video of orca deaths shows fisheries monitoring, enforcement works - Minister Shane Jones
SHANE JONES TRAVEL EXPENSES
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): ‘Provoke the matua at your peril’ Shane Jones warns, as criticism flies over $63k trip
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Shane Jones’ luxury flights booked weeks before Cabinet approved cheaper ones
Harriet Laughton (Post): ‘Significant errors’: Nicola Willis lashes Shane Jones over $30k travel overspend on limo (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Winston Peters defends Shane Jones’ $63k travel bill including private limo on standby for 24 hours
Henry Cooke (Post): Scrutiny week fails to move the expenses story on (paywalled)
Isaac Davison (Stuff): A brief history of politicians’ perks (and why they’re so hard to understand)
Stuff: We asked the party leaders one question about MPs’ pay. This is what they said
CONSERVATION LAND, MINING AND FAST-TRACK
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Forest & Bird calls on government to change bill that could open Coromandel up to mining
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Coromandel mining loophole an ‘unintended consequence’
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Spat erupts in Parliament over proposal to sell off conservation land
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Labour asks for comfort, Potaka asks for trust in preserving public land
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Major Treaty case over return of Crown land heads to top court
Steve Hepburn (ODT): Lobbyists struggling to afford Santana fast-track process (paywalled)
Ian Taylor (Stuff): Shane Jones wanted Fast-track to move faster, not ask questions
Charley-Kai John (ODT): ‘Savagery’ slammed after death threats (paywalled)
Tim Hunter (NBR): In praise of a fast-track panel (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Kate Newton (RNZ): Chris Bishop defends new Ministry under scrutiny
Anna Whyte (Interest): Inside the ‘once in 40 year opportunity to redesign and reinvent’ the public service
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Poll of polls: Gap narrows between coalition and opposition as The Opportunity Party rises (paywalled)
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Independent assessment of parties’ spending plans would stop this tedious fiscal farce
Felix Walton (RNZ): Cuts to domestic violence centre ‘don’t go far enough’, says advocate
RNZ: Vote against protections for gig workers ‘embarrassing’
Richard Harman: Why the Nats are putting the boot into NZ 1st (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Police say nothing stopping FENZ from ‘investing in their own helicopter’ after frontline tensions
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Another Labour health policy where the numbers don’t add up
Chris Trotter (ODT): Picking the radical as the Left-Right culture war rages on (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Defence not buying any killer drones, MPs hear
Derek Cheng (Herald): New Zealand Defence Force land combat capability falls to 45%, minister blames poor facilities as ‘imperfect’
RNZ: ‘World-first’ system will monitor New Zealand’s critical underwater cables
RNZ: ‘Indahouse’: Winston Peters quotes Ali G in Parliament
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Winston Peters clashes with Palestine protestors at Parliament
Neil Sands (LawNews): Shane Jones rails against Supreme Court ‘adventurism’: ‘We’ll take this to the election’
Audrey Young (Herald): The truth about Labour’s ‘hidden bill’ as Nicola Willis goes on attack (paywalled)
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): New Zealand First to campaign on scrapping Independent Māori Statutory Board
Te Ao News: NZ First campaigning to scrap Auckland’s Independent Māori Statutory Board
Corey Fleming (Herald): Meet Michel Mulipola - the Green Party candidate body-slamming opponents on weekends (paywalled)
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Police Minister Mark Mitchell hits out at character attacks over Naidoo candidacy
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Paul Goldsmith on being a victim of Tova O’Brien
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Why has National had a fiscal crack at Labour so early?
Blayne Slabbert (Post): Luxon wants government out of the way — and delivering more (paywalled)
IMMIGRATION NZ IT SCANDAL
David Fisher (Herald): Immigration NZ’s IT meltdown: ‘If you whistle-blow, you’ll never work again’ - former insider reveals what it was like inside the $30m disaster (paywalled)
Herald: Immigration scandal: Winston Peters accuses MBIE officials of ‘constructive theft’ from public over failed tech project
Natalia Albert: What is the right question about the Immigration NZ saga?
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