NZ FIRST’S BABY BONUS AND THE BIRTH RATE
Henry Cooke (Sunday Star Times): Exclusive: NZ First to offer families $45k for having three kids - if they are citizens (paywalled)
Matthew Hooton (Sunday Star Times): Winston wants more babies (paywalled)
Amy Ridout (Sunday Star Times): ‘It feels selfish, but what do you do?’: The cost of living is reshaping the modern Kiwi family (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): If a foreign diplomat can stand up to Winston Peters, why can’t Christopher Luxon? (paywalled)
Mengzhu Fu (E-Tangata): Why we call Winston Peters ‘Lao Pi’
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Why National needs a tax enemy (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Sunday Star Times): What Kiritapu Allan regrets and what she doesn’t (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Public service bosses race against clock to submit job cut plans
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Sheriff Winstone
David Farrar: Aussie taxpayers making Jacinda rich
Mohan Dutta (E-Tangata): We must name racism when it happens
LUXON’S ‘PARENT-CHILD’ COMMENTS TO BUSINESS
Annabel Reid (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon responds to Rotorua business owners’ deflated economic confidence
Henry Cooke (Post): Luxon’s ‘patronising’ criticism of NZ business ‘mischaracterised’ by Labour, aides claim (paywalled)
Natalie Akoorie (Stuff): ‘Be adult’: Prime Minister’s Office hits back at ‘mischaracterisation’ of his comments to business owners
The Post: Patronising or mischaracterisation? You be the judge of PM’s criticism of NZ business (paywalled)
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): Sometimes it’s worse when our prime minister does actually make himself clear
Deborah Coddington: Go Sack Yourself Prime Minister
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Damien Grant (Stuff): Like an accelerating e-scooter, NZ’s inflation is moving faster than you think
Liam Dann (Herald): Slow recovery: Why it’s too late for the economy to save National now (paywalled)
Ella Somers (Interest): Will unemployment hit an 11-year high?
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Why it’s time for a review and reset at the FMA
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Property market’s ‘longest and deepest downturn’ in 30 or 40 years
Rob Stock (Sunday Star Times): No consent, no loan: The fight to protect co-owned homes steps up to Parliament (paywalled)
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