NZ FIRST CONFERENCE
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): NZ First campaign offers showgirls, sparklers and the distant promise of prosperity
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Feeling abandoned, former opponents unite under the banner of NZ First
Anneke Smith (Post): Is NZ First anti-immigrant rhetoric working or getting ‘weird and weirder’? (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): NZ First’s pitch to the ordinary Kiwi battler who’s scared of the world (paywalled)
Richard Harman: The two faces of NZ First (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Winston Peters’ weird weekend waging an election culture war
NZ FIRST’S $1B OIL AND GAS POLICY
Adam Pearse (Herald): NZ First pitches $1b survey of offshore oil and gas
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Can NZ First pull off the ‘drill baby drill’ moment it dreams of?
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): NZ First promises to invest in oil, gas surveys
Anneke Smith (Post): NZ First wants to spend $1b looking for offshore oilfields (paywalled)
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): NZ First pledges $1b for surveying oil and gas to drill
RNZ: NZ First’s $1b pledge for oil and gas exploration better spent on renewables - Greenpeace
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): A billion-dollar gamble on oil
Brent Edwards (NBR): Winston Peters proposes $1b oil and gas spend (paywalled)
ENERGY AND FUEL SECURITY
Verity Johnson (Stuff): New Zealand is a geopolitical chew toy – we need to electrify now
Felix Walton (RNZ): Should NZ follow Australia’s lead and increase fuel reserves? AA says no
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Gas market rules divide opinion (paywalled)
ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Major parties wake up to fleeing voters (paywalled)
1News: ‘Can we not move on?’: ACT’s Paul Henry brushes off broadcasting rows
Nadine Roberts (Stuff): Paul Henry grilled by Jack Tame over lack of policy answers
Francesca Rudkin (Newstalk ZB): Paul Henry will provide style over substance to politics
Herald: Editorial: Is it time candidates are required to live in their electorate? (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial: Votes from women (paywalled)
Gryffin Blockley and Hanna Varrs (Critic): Critic Chit-Chats with Chippy
John Tamihere (Waatea News): Believe
Catherine Knight: The Opportunity Party is proposing a land tax
PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT
The Post: Editorial: Parliament heads back to class (paywalled)
Penny Smith (RNZ): Leave Bill: Workers will be worse off, Labour and Greens say
Louis Collins (RNZ): A Parliamentary Budget Office: why and how?
Penny Smith (RNZ): Firearms Safety Authority rebukes lobby group over claims of police bullying, standover tactics
Justin Hu (1News): Penk again insistent on Govt’s nuclear-free NZ stance
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