THE OPPORTUNITY PARTY
Giles Dexter (RNZ): National rules out working with Opportunity Party
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Opportunity Party still open to working with National despite Christopher Luxon ruling it out
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Is Opportunity right, left or truly centrist, and just what are its tax plans? Leader Qiulae Wong talks to Danyl McLauchlan (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): What we know about the Opportunity Party vote, in six charts
Charlotte Graham (Post): Cockies dump on Opportunity’s ‘really bad’ land tax policy (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): National rules out working with Opportunity Party
Justin Hu (1News): Luxon appears to rule out National working with Opportunity Party
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Christopher Luxon rules out working with Opportunity
Henry Cooke (Post): Christopher Luxon rules out working with Opportunity - but Opportunity says door is open (paywalled)
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Was Luxon right to rule out TOP?
GREEN PARTY, AND THE DATA CENTRE DEBATE
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Have the Greens turned a corner?
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Greens target data centres, corporate wealth in bid to win from voter angst
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Green faithful voice support for taxing wealth
RNZ: Data centre opponents welcome Greens policy, warn of ‘potential crisis’
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Do we need a moratorium on data centres?
Justin Hu (1News): Govt wants ‘common-sense’ rules around big data centres – PM
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Luxon eyes rulebook for datacentre investment (paywalled)
Steven Cowan: ‘For all of us’: an election slogan drained of political content
ODT: Editorial: The Greens go hard, go early (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour’s potential partners open to Chris Hipkins’ wanting greater PM power written into coalition deals
Henry Cooke (Post): Labour candidate forces re-selection after pulling out of Selwyn election race (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): Labour candidate backs out of South Island electorate race, party forced to reselect
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Luxon must explain NZ’s vote on UN human rights chief, Labour says
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Erica Stanford refuses to release file Winston Peters says proves discrimination against Indians
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Willow-Jean Prime on juggling basketballs, babies and big issues
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Winston Peters and the perils of global gerontocracy
Dave Armstrong (Post): Messages from beyond the Nashosphere (paywalled)
Michael Swanson: National’s party vote problem
Peter Williams: My vote needs a home
Richard Harman: Bringing back Muldoon (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Transport Minister Chris Bishop pushes out of NZTA board members (paywalled)
FREE SPEECH AND CIVILITY IN POLITICS
Chris Trotter (Interest): Uncivil democracy
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Politicians’ vulgarity is just litter, not free speech
Luke Malpass (Post): Free Speech Union attacks reporter for asking minister questions (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Doctor at centre of free speech row appointed to Medical Council (paywalled)
Lane Nichols (Herald): Auckland councillor’s warning ahead of Free Speech Union event at council venue
Sam Smith (Stuff): ‘Door closed’ on Nash, and Jones wasn’t talking about oral sex, Winston Peters says
PARENTAL LEAVE AND FAMILY POLICY
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): The last advice National got on flexible parental leave – it’s not as easy as hoped
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): National promises more parental leave – but critics want more
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Who’s offering more generous paid parental leave?
Sam Smith (Stuff): ‘Planned for ages’: Luxon dismisses insinuations over parental leave policy
Alex Casey (Spinoff): Amazing: National have finally discovered women exist
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): From 250 to 12,000: More families now getting Family Boost payment
HEALTH
RNZ: Lifting Pharmac’s budget will make healthcare system more efficient - ACT
Harriet Laughton (Post): ACT won’t say what health spending it would sacrifice to fund more medicines (paywalled)
Azaria Howell (Herald): Plunket funding: Nurses union accuses coalition of ‘broken promise’
Ella Scott-Fleming (Herald): Wellington Hospital ED five-hour wait for heart attack diagnosis breached patient care standards
Harriet Laughton (Post): Heart attack patient waited over four hours after triage error in crowded Wellington ED (paywalled)
Nikki Macdonald (Post): Healthcare harm report still unpublished, a year on from Ombudsman’s ruling (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): Inside the Covid papers: What we were and were not told about vaccine doses and myocarditis risk (paywalled)
Ian Powell: Public hospitals increasingly dependent on ‘place-holder’ senior doctors
Gordon Campbell: On the Americanisation of our public health system
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