KIWISAVER AND SUPERANNUATION
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Labour rules out changing superannuation settings if elected
Andrea Vance (Post): Poll shows overwhelming support for compulsory KiwiSaver (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): The beginning of the end of NZ Super? Eight unanswered questions on National’s about-face on KiwiSaver (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Christopher Luxon keen for cross-party support on compulsory KiwiSaver
Damien Venuto (Stuff): There’s a fly in National’s KiwiSaver ointment – and it’s one John Key put there in 2008
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Workers could wear cost of National’s proposed KiwiSaver changes - business leaders
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): The pros and cons of National’s KiwiSaver plan
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): The Super bill keeps growing: Can KiwiSaver bring down the cost?
Stuff: PM wants politics out of KiwiSaver changes, while Winston says National blatantly stole policy
ODT: Editorial: Thinking about tomorrow (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): 12 percent KiwiSaver contribution rate could be too much, actuaries say
1News: Nats’ KiwiSaver proposals ‘big gift’ for financial services sector - Seymour
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): New tool to make KiwiSaver hardship process easier
Mandy Te (Interest): National eyes consultation with employers & employees about KiwiSaver & total remuneration packages
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): National ‘open to considering’ end to total remuneration pay
David Chaplin (BusinessDesk): Make me love you: compulsive KiwiSaver behaviour (paywalled)
TAX POLICY AND THE ELECTION
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Greens release tax plan, but nothing goes to plan
Justin Hu (1News): Greens correct $800m tax policy error, Swarbrick calls it a ‘typo’
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Tax changes: What’s been suggested so far?
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): The global ideas behind the Greens’ tax plan (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Green tax plan taps anger over assets, wages and inequality (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): The Greens have made another mistake with their new tax policy
No Right Turn: Time to tax the rich
Steven Cowan: Labour rejects the Green Party’s tax policy. Where does that leave the Greens?
Mandy Te (Interest): Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds says the only tax policy Labour will campaign on is its capital gains tax
Ani O’Brien: Tall Poppy Economics: the politics of envy won’t make New Zealand rich
1News: Chlöe Swarbrick pressed on how wealth, inheritance taxes would work
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Geoffrey Palmer and Andrew Butler (Newsroom): Twelve policy questions to ask political parties ahead of the election
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): All the times National has trashed its own campaign policies
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): One of Brooke van Velden’s final acts as a politician will also be her most dangerous
Hanna McCallum (Newsroom): Seymour eyes bigger portfolios and more deregulation
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): ‘Riding the gravy train’: Why our politicians are no longer us
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Greens up on every measure in IPSOS polling
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Money looms large in election as National, Greens set out economic policies
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): A coalition house divided cannot stand … each other
Veronica Schmidt (Spinoff): The Beehive reno: Party leaders draw up their wishlists
Dale Husband (Waatea News): John Tamihere says Te Pāti Māori focused on unity, candidates and Māori survival
Anna Fifield: How Singapore built its success on a strong public service
Chris Trotter (Interest): Heading for the bathtub
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): Bold report maps path to utopia, but is anyone listening?
Aimee Shaw (Post): Three things the struggling hospitality industry wants from the next Government (paywalled)
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Are Golden Visa holders stingy or do the rules stymie charitable donation? (paywalled)
Mary Watson-Burton (Newsroom): As the cash reserves run out, who would bet on NZ’s racing industry?
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Time to throw off the self-imposed shackles of GDP growth
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Costa Rica and NZ: Saving the international trade system (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Critical minerals pact stuck on price floor (paywalled)
Tim Hunter (NBR): Opportunity for Maari field as Echelon exits Cue (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Rural set to drive New Zealand’s economic recovery (paywalled)
Cécile Meier (BusinessDesk): Budget chain muscles in on Les Mills as NZ’s biggest gym earner (paywalled)
Jarrod Kerr (Post): Economy in the balance: NZ hopes for a ‘glad-flationary’ reversal of fortunes (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): Movac venture capital fund raises $185m as golden visa investors, NZ Super Fund and Ngāi Tahu chip in (paywalled)
RNZ: Three rūnanga partner with global giant for Lyttelton Port bid
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): EU tax plan catches big New Zealand steel and aluminium exporters
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