SUPERMARKETS
Jonathan Baker (The Conversation): Every party has pitched its own supermarket fix. What if we combined the best ideas?
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Everyone wants to break up the supermarkets. How would it actually work?
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Has New Zealand’s supermarket duopoly created higher prices?
Liam Hehir (Herald): Supermarkets v super markets: National’s Foodstuffs split is no betrayal of conservative values (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): It’s breakup season: Labour, National clash on tearing up grocery duopoly
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Are politicians trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist?
RNZ: National MPs don’t like supermarket break-up policy - David Seymour
Stuff: Seymour says ACT could stop National, NZ First supermarket break-up
Anna Whyte (Interest): ACT’s David Seymour aims to prevent coalition partners’ Foodstuffs break-up if returned to government
Herald: Christopher Luxon: Supermarket duopoly split depends on Commerce Commission
Simon O’Connor: Scapegoats at the Checkout
Katie Bradford (Herald): Foodstuffs split: Kawerau New World owner warns it would affect business
Mike Thorpe (Herald): Kai Co on the verge of second Christchurch supermarket as sales surge (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Te Pāti Māori to give Māori collectives Crown-owned land, $100m to set up supermarket chains
Māni Dunlop (Post): Te Pāti Māori unveil $2.8b kai credit plan and $300m food sovereignty push (paywalled)
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori pledges $3.1 billion plan for ‘kai sovereignty’ if elected
Sam Smith (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori promises up to eight weeks of free food for low earners
Kate McVicar (NBR): The organisation that hopes to shrink demand, not grow it (paywalled)
Kaitlyn Morrell (Herald): Tauranga Community Foodbank launches Kai Now initiative in cost-of-living response
ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): After nine years, Nicky Hager is publishing a book - could it change the election? (paywalled)
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): ‘Don’t know who he is’: Luxon unfazed by new Nicky Hager book
Nick Leggett (Post): Is the decline of the major parties the opportunity our democracy needs? (paywalled)
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): What Upper Hutt tells us about Chris Hipkins’ NZ and how he plans to win this year’s election (paywalled)
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): National and Labour spooked by Greens’ economic coherence
James Ball (1News): National’s anti-Labour crime ad uses footage from Government’s own term
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): National’s tall talent battles Labour’s rising star in Kapiti race
Tim Hunter (NBR): Only Act and Opportunity open to asset sales (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): NZ First loses six candidates, says they were only ever ‘potential’ runners
Adam Pearse (Herald): NZ First board member abandons Palmerston North race over ‘personal’ matter
George Heagney (Post): NZ First’s Palmerston North candidate withdraws (paywalled)
RNZ: Former Te Pāti Māori electorate executive member becomes list candidate for Te Tai Tokerau Party
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Chris Hipkins wants police to ‘front up’ and explain ‘ongoing matter’ with Rakesh Naidoo
Poppy Clark (Stuff): ‘I’ve got no idea’: Luxon surprised to hear government department jobs have biggest pay increases
Gordon Campbell: On The Ongoing Relevance Of Jim Anderton
LANDLORD TAX AND PROPERTY
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Hipkins confirms Labour will leave interest deductibility alone
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Property investors relieved at Labour’s landlord tax deduction promise
Henry Cooke (Post): Labour will not reverse ‘landlord tax cut’ interest deductibility change (paywalled)
RNZ: Labour rules out changes to interest deductibility settings for landlords if elected
Justin Hu (1News): Labour rules out interest deductibility changes for landlords
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Labour confirms it will allow residential property investors to continue deducting interest as an expense when paying tax (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Explainer: What Labour’s capital gains tax means for properties worth less than they were bought for (paywalled)
Stuff: How the election is affecting what property sellers are doing
Mike Jones (Newsroom): Housing outlook dims as inflation pressure builds
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): The rise of ‘accidental landlords’
DEMOCRACY, TRANSPARENCY AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Gavin Ellis: National must come clean over Official Information Act
Geoff Plimmer and Charlie Mitchell (Post): When public servants mislead Parliament and the incentive that will keep them doing it (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Countering the influence of lobbying and money in politics (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Ignoring the elephant in the House
David Harvey (LawNews): When the state breaks its own rules: unlawful is unlawful, not merely ‘inappropriate’
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Leaked video shows top education curriculum official telling staff not to put information about minister’s office in writing (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): More beneficiaries may have had payments wrongly suspended - but ministry won’t say how many
Oscar Francis (BusinessDesk): Govt.nz app’s secure messaging feature delayed (paywalled)
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): The $44 resource keeping NZ orchestras alive faces the chopping block
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