CABINET RESHUFFLE
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Luxon’s reshuffle reveals a PM punishing rivals and rewarding loyalists
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Hell hath no fury like a Luxon scorned
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): National’s reshuffle: After week of instability, Christopher Luxon makes his move (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Why was Chris Bishop unceremoniously dumped as campaign chair in Luxon’s Cabinet reshuffle?
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Luxon’s reshuffle: New campaign chair coy on whether he asked for the job, Pacific Peoples Minister says Auckland roots qualify him for the role
Luke Malpass (Post): The reshuffle Christopher Luxon says the bubble is overthinking (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Luxon’s reshuffle: Why Chris Bishop’s ‘demotion’ raises new leadership questions
Audrey Young (Herald): Why Christopher Luxon’s Cabinet reshuffle makes sense (and the one thing he can’t say) (paywalled)
Tom Day (1News): Chris Bishop hit hard in PM’s reshuffle
Nick James (Post): The winners and losers of Christopher Luxon’s Cabinet reshuffle (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Watts loses energy portfolio amid clashing views on LNG and Lake Onslow (paywalled)
Māni Dunlop (Te Ao Māori News): Luxon refreshes Cabinet, representation gaps come into focus
Brent Edwards (NBR): PM suggests reporters are over-thinking Cabinet reshuffle (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly and Giles Dexter (RNZ): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announces election-year Cabinet reshuffle
FUEL CRISIS
Natalia Albert: The Fuel Crisis: Who, What, And On Whose Advice
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Marsden Point to get diesel storage capacity boost
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Iran war: Shane Jones strikes $21m deal for extra diesel storage, told tanks will be ready in two months (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Government to contract Channel Infrastructure for $21m in additional diesel storage (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): New Zealanders’ 30% fuel bill increase laid bare
Blayne Slabbert (Post): Fuel shock tests New Zealand’s faith in hybrids as EV sales surge 174% (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Iran war: Rising shipping costs weigh on NZ agri-produce exporters (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Government to ‘relook’ at LNG terminal says new energy minister (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Interest): New Minister says world has changed, old Minister says Cabinet has made decision on LNG
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Life-saving services need priority in fuel plan, aviation sector says
Maxine Jacobs (Press): Christchurch electric vehicle seller does two years of business in ‘a couple of weeks’ as fuel crisis deepens (paywalled)
Mihingarangi Forbes (Te Ao Māori News): Debbie Ngarewa-Packer says the fuel crisis is causing anxiety among Māori communities
Stuff: Government increases mileage rates for community support workers during fuel crisis
POLICE-NETFLIX-PHILLIPS DOCUMENTARY
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Tom Phillips doco crew received text as ‘heads up’ he had been shot and killed
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Inside the messages between police’s media communications director and documentary boss
Katie Ham (Post): Commissioner Richard Chambers thanked as ‘facilitator’ of Netflix doco on Tom Phillips fugitive saga (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Tom Phillips Netflix documentary - almost 300 pages of police, production company emails and texts revealed (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Post): Inside TVNZ’s gang story backlash: How the broadcaster responded (paywalled)
GREYHOUND RACING BAN
RNZ: Greyhound racing to end in August as bill passes
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Should the greyhound industry get compensation following ban?
George Heagney (Post): $4m racing operation now worth ‘zero’: Greyhound trainer wants compensation (paywalled)
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