LABOUR’S CAPITAL GAINS TAX
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Labour’s capital gains gamble: From leak to launch
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour’s CGT calculus: Taxing property to pay for healthcare (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour’s CGT: ‘the moderates have won’ (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour’s capital gains tax, health plan by the numbers (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour’s mini-CGT sets a small target but has big loopholes, including for the ‘family home’ (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Will a capital gains tax be what the doctor ordered for Labour? (paywalled)
Giles Dexter and Lucy Xia (RNZ): What doctors, landlords and economists make of Labour’s tax plan
Bernard Hickey and Shamubeel Eaqub (The Kākā): Shamubeel Eaqub on CGT-lite
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Missed opportunity? Questions over Labour’s capital gains tax policy
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Labour commits to capital gains tax, but can’t say if interest expenses will be deductible (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): How much is the capital gains tax on this priceless Ming vase?
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Go Labour, give us nothing
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Long live the Tax Working Group
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Chris Hipkins the latest labour leader hit by the curse of the CGT
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Labour will oust anyone found to have leaked capital gains tax policy, Chris Hipkins says
Adam Pearse & Julia Gabel (Herald): Labour’s capital gains tax: Chris Hipkins celebrates ‘progressive’ policy amid stern warning to leaker
Martin Lally (Asymmetric Information): Are capital gains taxes fair?
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): What you need to know: Seven questions about a capital gains tax
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): What a capital gains tax might do to rents and house prices (paywalled)
Tony Alexander (One Roof): Labour’s capital gains tax - what it means for house prices
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Do New Zealanders really want a capital gains tax?
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour’s capital gains tax is simpler but still has complexities (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Labour’s ‘watered down’ CGT satisfies few
Nigel Haworth (The Standard): Tax: the debate must continue
Greg Presland (The Standard): Is that it?
No Right Turn: Still useless
David Farrar: Who leaked Labour’s tax?
Grant Duncan: Labour’s CGT: A Punt on Rising House Prices (paywalled)
Geoff Cooper: Labour’s Policy Rollout: The Gap Between Story and Execution
Laszlo Szollosi-Cira: CGT on investment properties: Where the hell did this policy come from?
Thomas Manch (Post): How Labour’s proposed capital gains tax would work (paywalled)
Damien Venuto (Stuff): Money moves: How Labour’s new tax could change the way Kiwis build their wealth
Miriam Bell (Post): Here’s what a capital gains tax means for commercial property (paywalled)
RNZ: Royal New Zealand College of GPs backs Labour’s capital gains tax policy
Julia Gabel (Herald): Labour’s free GP visit policy: Doctors sceptical but party confident there is enough capacity to meet demand
Anna Whyte and Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): GP visit pledge welcomed with a dose of workforce scepticism (paywalled)
1News: Chris Hipkins talks capital gains tax, party leaders respond
RNZ: Nicola Willis slams Labour’s capital gains tax plan: ‘It’s a terrible idea’
Stuff: The time is right for a CGT, Chris Hipkins tells Samantha Hayes
TE PĀTI MĀORI
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): Te Pāti Māori executive under pressure as suspension process faces backlash
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Supporters and MPs fume as Te Pāti Māori tries suspending MP, who threatens legal action
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara publicly backs under-fire Mariameno Kapa-Kingi
Adam Pearse (Herald): Te Pāti Māori MP’s son Eru Kapa-Kingi claims legal action initiated as rift with party deepens
Te Ahipourewa Forbes (1News): Te Pāti Māori: What the heck is going on?
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT
Gordon Campbell: On Labour’s CGT, The Government’s Mean Spirit, And Timor-Leste’s Future
RNZ: NZ Initiative proposes more MPs, smaller Cabinet, four-year Parliamentary term
David Williams (Herald): New Zealand think tank backs four-year parliamentary term and suggests adding 50 MPs
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Brian Roche and strikes, policy, the ‘C’ word and more (paywalled)
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Hundreds gather across Aotearoa calling on government to honour Te Tiriti
Riria Dalton-Reedy (Te Ao Māori News): Rā Whakamana: Thousands unite for tino rangatiratanga and workers’ rights
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE
Russell Palmer (RNZ): PM Christopher Luxon talks up project to boost halal meat exports
Jamie Ensor (Herald): New Zealand strengthens Malaysia, Asean ties with halal agreement, Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Red meat deal a taste of what halal means to finance, cosmetics and other exports
Henry Cooke (Post): Luxon in Asia: New Zealand and Malaysia confirm halal deal (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Luxon to attend dinner with Donald Trump, other leaders in South Korea
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon expected to attend dinner in South Korea alongside US President Donald Trump
Imogene Bedford (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon reveals plans for stronger trade ties with Asia
EDUCATION
RNZ: Education Minister Erica Stanford stands by contentious curriculum amid growing criticism
John Gerritsen (RNZ): School curriculum criticism grows: ‘A total lack of understanding of our disciplines’
Laura Walters (Newroom): New, new curriculum setting kids up to fail – maths experts
1News: A ‘rushed’ new maths curriculum doesn’t add up. Experts call for more time
RNZ: Govt releases full draft of curriculum for years 0-10
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): ‘We are very sorry:’ University apologises after error in law exam
HEALTH
RNZ: ACC stops payments to record numbers of long-term clients
Maddy Croad (Press//Post): Petition calls out the Government for ‘appalling’ lack of action on youth mental health (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Former head of hospital build resigns (paywalled)
Kate Green (RNZ): Measles outbreak at Wellington schools: ‘It’s scary’
Nikki Macdonald (Post): Mental health fence escape risk flagged three years before patient death (paywalled)
ODT: Helpline gaps highlighted after 23-year-old’s death
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): ‘Healthy, young’ but medical insurance premiums rise 25 percent in a year
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Cost of living increases: Who is being hit hardest now?
Herald Editorial: Food drive slump exposes cost-of-living strain (paywalled)
Emma Gleason (Spinoff): Charities providing food for homeless Aucklanders are struggling to meet demand
EMPLOYMENT
RNZ: WorkSafe board no longer has any worker representative - CTU
Layla Bailey-McDowell and Pokere Paewai (RNZ): ‘What’s good for Māori is good for workers’ - iwi and unions unite in solidarity
Tobias Macintosh (Herald): Wellington job market a ‘shocker’ as 600 people apply for casual mini-putt role
David Hargreaves (Interest): Latest monthly filled jobs data shows a reasonable sized gain ahead of official unemployment figures due to be released next week
IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT WORKERS
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Migrant workers disproportionately impacted by high unemployment
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Elderly couples applying for visas asked to prove marriages are real with WhatsApp chats
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Altered clients’ photos causing headaches for immigration advisers
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Applications flood in for new parent visa, amid residence review
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Immigration asked asylum-seeker to ‘reconsider his position on telling the truth’
Benn Bathgate (Waikato Times): Immigrants’ language tests probed after Times investigation (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): IRD mulls sharing data with Immigration NZ to catch illegal migrants
1News: Q+A: Race Relations Commissioner on migration tensions overseas
PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Marc Daader (Newsroom): Seabed mine could produce devastating sediment flows, panel told
Andrew Patterson (Newsroom): Farmers weigh up windfall versus risks as Fonterra vote looms
Jamie Gray (Herald): Fonterra shareholders poised to back $4.2b consumer business sale to Lactalis (paywalled)
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Fonterra sale could inject $4.5b into economy and $3.2b directly to farmers
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Fonterra divestment windfall for farmers but brings risks: ASB
Riley Kennedy (BusinessDesk): Still logging deals: Ikea’s forest chequebook far from closed on NZ soil (paywalled)
Sally Rae (ODT): Changing face of forestry management
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Māori forestry exemption reshapes carbon opportunity (paywalled)
Gisborne Herald: Forestry leader concerned Gisborne land use plan could impact economy
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Ngaiotonga’s comeback and the red meat boom (paywalled)
Julie Asher (ODT): Mine a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity (paywalled)
CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER EVENTS, NATURAL DISASTERS
Simon Wilson (Herald): ‘GM-free, clean and green’ v climate change: Time for a big call (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Why many big businesses will no longer have to disclose their climate-related risks
ODT Editorial: Rising frustrations over recovery (paywalled)
RNZ: Southland farmer’s damage estimated at more than government’s entire relief fund
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Here’s what we can and can’t say about what might be causing this extreme spring weather
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Earthquakes still top of the league for insurance costs (paywalled)