INDIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Anneke Smith (Post): Guarded celebrations as National secures support for its India free trade agreement (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): India free-trade agreement: Businesses unconcerned about risk of Government’s $34b commitment to promote investment in India (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Labour had no other direction to go on the India FTA
Adam Pearse (Herald): Free trade: Chris Hipkins confirms Labour will support deal with India
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Chris Hipkins announces Labour will back India free trade deal
Anneke Smith (Post): Labour backing India free trade agreement ‒ with conditions (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): India free-trade agreement: Businesses unconcerned about risk of Government’s $34b commitment to promote investment in India (paywalled)
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Labour to support India free trade agreement
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): Racism has no place in kapa haka, or Aotearoa
POLICE INTEGRITY
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Review of police integrity finds reset ‘urgently needed’
Sam Smith (Stuff): Review into police organisation finds ‘integrity’ reset ‘urgently’ needed
Michael Webster (Post): Policing and privacy can work together, but not like this (paywalled)
LUXON’S LEADERSHIP
Claire Robinson (Guardian): Christopher Luxon shoots the messenger as nightmare New Zealand election scenario hangs over him
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Luxon a leader on trial despite caucus backing
Chris Trotter (ODT): National’s problem: alliance of two parties pretending to be one (paywalled)
1News: ‘Not a tidy situation’: Bishop on Stuart Smith-Luxon saga
Stuff: ‘It would have been helpful’ if chief whip spoke sooner, National MP says
Michael Swanson: The Winner & the loser from the National leadership saga
GOVERNMENT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Winston Peters isn’t about to walk away from the Government, but sometimes it feels that way (paywalled)
Herald: NZ First deputy Shane Jones apologises for comment about Nicola Willis’ weight loss
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (1News): Govt risks another colossal hīkoi if it weakens Treaty obligations
Harriet Laughton (Post): Job advertised for social media ban despite law not being written (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): U16 social media ban: Govt advertises for director to implement change - before bill hits Parliament (paywalled)
Stephen Haslett and George Seber (The Conversation): The NZ Census guided vital economic and social planning. What happens now it’s gone?
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): ‘It keeps me awake at night’: Bishop orders cost-benefit review of promised roads
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): David Seymour floats giving year 11s $500 to invest, taking from annual KiwiSaver subsidy
Azaria Howell (Herald): Minister for Children Karen Chhour visits all 72 Oranga Tamariki sites
Phoebe Utteridge (Stuff): Inside the mouldy lunch investigation that pitted a senior minister against a school principal
Andrew Ashton (Waikato Times): Bishop rebuffs plea to pause fast-track projects (paywalled)
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Auditor-General concerned over monitoring of Māori initiatives (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
Matthew Hooton (Herald): National to campaign against Jacinda Ardern’s 2021 record (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): MPs approve controversial bill to allow online casinos (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Winston Peters says NZ First ‘won’t do a deal with Labour’ as Chris Hipkins remains non-committal, Nicola Willis unconvinced
Stuff: Hipkins says he has apologised to Willis after ‘medical help’ barb
Rodney Hide: Marama Davidson’s toxic delusion: White men cause all violence — Even when they don’t
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