GOVERNMENT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Christopher Luxon to reshuffle Cabinet – can he turn it around? (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): What I would do in the Cabinet reshuffle (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Reshuffle: Who will be up and who will be down in Christopher Luxon’s new Cabinet? (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): What to watch as Luxon shakes up Cabinet ahead of election
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): My thoughts on Luxon’s reshuffle
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): An organisational chart to help CEO Christopher Luxon understand the government
BSA VS THE PLATFORM
RNZ: BSA ‘bordering on fascist’ after The Platform decision - Peters
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): The BSA’s decision to take on The Platform is brave, principled – and indefensible
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Broad Overcast
Steven Price: Attempt to de-Platform the BSA fails
Jenni McManus (Law News): BCA investigates itself, decides it can rule on racism complaint against The Platform’s Sean Plunket
David Farrar: Abolish the BSA
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): BSA claims jurisdiction to cover complaint about Sean Plunket’s The Platform (paywalled)
Simon O’Connor: BSA: Ideologically compromised?
FUEL CRISIS
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): The New Zealand fuel crisis laid bare in nine simple charts
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Iran war: Diesel price tops $3.50/litre, still outpacing 91 petrol and set to go higher (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On the folly of blaming everything on Trump
RNZ: Latest fuel stock update shows overall figures down
Anna Whyte (Interest): The Government’s planned 2027 fuel excise increase is ‘pretty unlikely to go ahead’ - Transport Minister Chris Bishop says
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): Prices for key plastic piping products shoot up thanks to Middle East (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): National MPs threaten to withdraw support for fisheries bill
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: Fishing while walking backwards
Reynold Macpherson (Herald): Populism and the election: Warning signs voters should watch for (paywalled)
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): Winston Peters is no social conservative, nor is NZ First (paywalled)
Adam Pearse & Jamie Ensor (Herald): Delegate defends National Party Papakura candidate selection amid claims of unfair process (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): One MP, One Pint: Brooke van Velden on knowing when you’ve reached your peak
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Bill to ease holiday alcohol restrictions passes final reading in Parliament
ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY
Richard Prebble (Herald): Winston Peters’ vintage attack on Labour masks big gaps in power-cost plan (paywalled)
Jen Purdie (The Conversation): LNG vs pumped hydro: will NZ choose to import risk or build cleaner resilience?
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Is it time to split electricity gentailers?
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Shane Jones claims support for coal energy is across political spectrum (paywalled)
Blayne Slabbert (Post): Cook Strait power cable gets $1.14b upgrade nod (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Commerce Commission plans to approve Transpower’s $1.13b Cook Strait cable (paywalled)
Kate Newton (RNZ): EV ‘fomo’ drives sales to their highest level in years amid fuel crisis, dealer says
Aziz Al Sa’afin (1News): EV sales surge in NZ as global tensions and fuel prices drive demand
Miriam Bell (Post): Horizon Networks adopts AI tech to boost climate resilience (paywalled)
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