CLIMATE LOBBYING CONTROVERSY
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Former Beehive staffer used private email account to receive document from Fonterra
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Climate case briefing against major emitters sent to former Beehive staffer’s private email
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Officials investigating after climate document went missing, PM’s staffer used private email
Andrea Vance (Post): PM’s office admits climate lobbying document was sent to staffer’s private email account (paywalled)
1News: Fonterra legal case doc sent to private email of Luxon’s former staffer
No Right Turn: A crime
DEFENCE, NUCLEAR AND FOREIGN POLICY
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Should NZ pay Washington’s defence bill?
Henry Cooke (Post): In a world of cheap drones, does a 2% defence target make sense? (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZ Defence Force tests SpaceX’s Starshield system
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Pete Hegseth’s ‘freeloading’ snipe: Should NZ be worried?
Gordon Campbell: On having the backbone to restrict our defence spending
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Hegseth’s comments shouldn’t upset New Zealand
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): The ‘freeloading’ jab that’s forced NZ into a defence debate
Richard Harman: What the nuclear talk is really all about (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): ‘It ain’t changing’ Christopher Luxon hoses down ‘conversation’ on altering nuclear policy
RNZ: Non-negotiable: Christopher Luxon says nuclear-free stance not changing
Stuff: We aren’t ‘freeloaders’, and we won’t be changing our nuclear-free policy, PM says
RNZ: New Zealand imposes travel bans on three ‘extremist Israeli settlers’
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Roy Morgan: Support for National-led Government surges in May as Labour support falls
1News: Hipkins says new policy coming soon, Labour still working through Budget
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): NZ First is a sanctuary. But which parties have its current and future MPs fled from?
Adam Pearse (Herald): NZ First recruits another Hobson’s Pledge spokesperson to stand in general election
Nick James (Post): Former New Conservatives leader standing for NZ First (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): 16 characterisations rejected by Nicola Willis
Elspeth McLean (ODT): Geez Louise, being entitled does not mean you should take it (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: From public service reform rhetoric to reality, David Seymour’s spaghetti nightmare and more (paywalled)
Rebecca Macfie (Listener): ‘A really complicated hotchpotch’: The surprising groups opposed to van Velden’s health & safety reforms (paywalled)
Nik Dirga (RNZ): New Zealand’s Definitions of Woman and Man Bill and how the public can give submissions
Adam Pearse (Herald): Christopher Luxon and David Seymour wary as Winston Peters explores saving Moana Pasifika rugby franchise
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Parliament after hours: The random laws MPs urgently passed over the weekend
Stuff: MPs claiming accommodation allowances ‘something we’re looking at’, Hipkins says
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Here’s one thing we shouldn’t forget about Winston Peters
Justin Wong (Post): National MP ‘likes’ social media comment criticising Budget defence spending (paywalled)
RNZ: Stats NZ’s most valuable source of official data to get $58m makeover
SUPERMARKET COMPETITION
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Little change in supermarket competition over past year, Commerce Commission report finds
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): NZ supermarket competition little better despite years of reform: Commerce Commission report (paywalled)
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Commerce Commission report finds little change in anemic supermarket competition (paywalled)
Jaime Lyth (BusinessDesk): ComCom says grocery competition shows ‘little change’ (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): Grocery Commissioner Pierre van Heerden says ‘reforms need more time to bed in to see significant improvements in the market’
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