MEDIA
RNZ: Christopher Luxon cancels weekly TVNZ Breakfast slot, lodges complaint over press gallery conduct
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. media coverage of the leadership coup
Shayne Currie (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ditches Tova O’Brien and TVNZ Breakfast - will it help or hurt him? (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): ‘You can’t hate what Jacinda did and then love what Chris Luxon has done’
Shayne Currie (Herald): PM Christopher Luxon pulls out of weekly TVNZ Breakfast show interview with Tova O’Brien
Sam Smith (Stuff): Christopher Luxon pulls out of weekly slot on TVNZ’s Breakfast
1News: Luxon pulls out of weekly Breakfast media interview
Sam Smith (Stuff): National Party lays complaint with TVNZ over conduct of reporters
Audrey Young (Herald): Barry Soper memoir: Veteran political journalist calls Dame Jacinda Ardern an ‘imposter’ (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): RNZ’s new audio boss on rebooting Morning Report - and what could be next (paywalled)
NATIONAL PARTY AND LUXON’S LEADERSHIP
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): Christopher Luxon leadership: Why the ‘Flakey Five’ coup fizzled fast (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Causing what you cover
Ben Thomas (Post): National’s ‘cathartic release’ has paid off, but it can’t let conflict turn dysfunctional (paywalled)
Andrew Gunn (Post): A short prepared statement, AKA the ‘spray and walk away’ strategy (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Stuart Smith moves from the shadows to the spotlight
Henry Cooke (Post): National gets read the riot act (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): National and the Coalition’s messy week (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): The National Party in a state of emergency
Blayne Slabbert (Post): Christchurch developer calls $10,000 to sit with PM Luxon ‘cheap’ (paywalled)
SOCIAL COHESION
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): New Zealand’s alienated 28%
Damien Venuto (Stuff): The Kiwi dream of ‘work hard, live well’ is falling to pieces
RNZ: Does hard work make you better off? More New Zealanders aren’t convinced
Tom Rose (Herald): Financial stress is fraying New Zealand’s social fabric as trust and unity fall, new report claims
Rob Stock (Post): New Zealand’s sense of social cohesion is eroding under financial stress, report says (paywalled)
Martin Van Beynen (Post): How the ‘Alienated’ call the shots (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Otago folk feel safest: report (paywalled)
Doug Laing (Herald): Former MP Chris Tremain says volunteering in Hawke’s Bay sport is a ‘quiet crisis’
PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
RNZ: Te Matatini stage used as ‘a racist weapon’, group claims, as new translations of haka emerge
Azaria Howell (Herald): Greens candidate cops criticism after posting now-deleted joke about Charlie Kirk assassination
Moana Maniapoto (Te Ao Māori News): Singing from the same song sheet: Three Māori candidates, three parties, three electorates
Imogene Bedford (Herald): Islamic group labels Wayne Brown’s ‘Muslim terrorist’ comment ‘downright racism’
David Farrar: Winston rules out Labour
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Old poppies, new poppies: Are our MPs donating to the RSA this Anzac Day?
James Nokise (Post): Matua Shane, messaging and the politics of climate (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Embracing opportunities (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Getting up to speed on a tricky first day week at the office (paywalled)
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): The politics of weight loss: Why nobody owes you an explanation if they shed kilos
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