PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Amanda Gillies (Newsroom): Te Pāti Māori’s one-tick trick could change the government
1News: ‘I don’t believe your poll’, politicians like to say. But are they right?
David Cohen (Herald): Only Winston Peters is attuned to the public’s desire to abandon our bonkers voting rights (paywalled)
Chris Penk (Stuff): The elephant in the room after my Cabinet exit
Audrey Young (Herald): Why Christopher Luxon blew up unwritten coalition rules – and infuriated David Seymour and Winston Peters (paywalled)
RNZ: MP Mark Cameron farewells Parliament from afar
Nick Mills (Newstalk ZB): Politicians should be able to safely walk down the street
Neil Sands (LawNews): Labour’s Vanushi Walters talks foreign policy, Winston Peters and the murder that triggered her passion for social justice
Jacqui Van Der Kaay: Aotearoa New Zealand’s MMP kingmakers
Henry Cooke (Post): Labour hugs National, National pretends it isn’t happening (paywalled)
Don Brash: Why the Reserve Bank should remain focused on inflation
TAX
Matthew Hooton (Post): National places all its remaining chips on tax (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: More tax plans released but are any of them serious policy? (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): National rules out increasing GST
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Chris Hipkins says capital gains tax is Labour’s only tax – but is he staying quiet on another increase?
Oliver Hartwich (Herald): Why Labour’s capital gains tax policy is flawed (paywalled)
David Farrar: Te Pati Maori’s bonkers tax plan
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): ACT promises tax-free crypto gains after a year
Gordon Campbell: On Why New Taxes Are A Good Thing
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): National has pledged no bank tax, but the Government’s prudential levy is going ahead
FUEL TAX
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour signals $2b cut to transport budget to pay for fuel tax promise (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Labour promises not to increase fuel excise for a full term
1News: Labour promises not to increase fuel tax for three years
Stuff: Hipkins calls on Luxon to drop planned 22c fuel tax increase
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Nicola Willis clarifies no fuel tax increase is National’s position, Cabinet yet to decide
Stuff: Jones targets gas ‘profiteers’, hits back at Labour fuel tax freeze
Giles Dexter (RNZ): ‘Flabbergasted’: Road freight lobby criticises fuel excise deferral
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Are we about to witness the return of the pothole?
BED TAX AND REGIONAL DEALS
RNZ: Otago councils pause regional deals after National backtracks on bed tax
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Bed tax U-turn puts regional deal in limbo (paywalled)
Katie Bradford (Herald): Otago Central Lakes regional deal signing paused over National’s accommodation levy decision
RNZ: Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown disappointed with National’s ‘nonsense’ reason to reject bed tax
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Bed tax ruling leaves Ruapehu asking who will pay for infrastructure burden
MOUNT MAUNGANUI LANDSLIDE
Michael Morrah (Herald): Mount Maunganui landslide: CTV victim’s husband calls for Tauranga council oversight (paywalled)
Manu Caddie (Herald): We must resist turning tragedy into an online witch-hunt (paywalled)
Chris Egan (World Socialist Website): Review into fatal New Zealand landslide finds multiple warnings were ignored
PUBLIC SERVICE
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): There are no punishments if you work in the public service
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): What will it take for public servants to be held accountable?
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): What happened to public service accountability?
Anneke Smith (Post): Fire and Emergency to delay ‘planned upgrades and improvements’ in savings crunch (paywalled)
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Government’s domestic violence centre cuts 22 jobs
WELFARE AND POVERTY
Susan St John (Herald): Giving a lie to the claim ‘work is the way out of poverty’ and a flawed child benefit system (paywalled)
Alicia Sudden (Post): Nearly 90 years ago, New Zealand made a promise – it’s time to ask if we’re still keeping it (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Christopher Luxon, Louise Upston said no benefits were cut after law change - they were wrong
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): People miss out on benefit payments after second MSD error
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