PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Off the record, off the hook
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Men and women have never been so polarised; who will decide this year’s election? (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Here’s how Willis and Edmonds will really dodge the fiscal potholes along the campaign trail
Brent Edwards (NBR): Recycling old policies and old politicians (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): MBIE chief executive to submit to cross examination on pay equity changes (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): NZ First opposing clauses in Government’s Crimes Act reform
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Echo Chamber: Death by a thousand amendments
Matthew Tukaki (Waatea News): Rawiri Waititi Faces Questions on Health, Leadership and Te Pāti Māori’s Election Vision
MICHAEL LAWS AND NZ FIRST
Adam Pearse (Herald): New NZ First candidate Michael Laws wants broadcasting portfolio to scrap RNZ
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Luigi and the Ferret ride again: the long, dazzling double-act of Michael Laws and Winston Peters
RNZ: Former mayor, broadcaster Michael Laws to stand for NZ First in upcoming election
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Laws NZ First’s Waitaki candidate (paywalled)
THE OPPORTUNITY PARTY
Ben Thomas (Post): Opportunity’s positioning not new, but it has a radical idea (paywalled)
Nigel Haworth (The Standard): Opportunity knocks
Josh Drummond: Should you vote for the Opportunity Party?
US AMBASSADOR TO NEW ZEALAND
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Trump’s man in NZ wants to prove US is no boogeyman
Henry Cooke (Post): Trump’s new man in Wellington will need a lot more than self-deprecation to turn the tide (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): New US ambassador says there ‘has to be give and take’ on Kiwi film subsidies (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (Post): NZ need not worry about a nuclear power ‘bogeyman’, says new US ambassador Jared Novelly (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): New US Ambassador would like chance to work on New Zealand’s nuclear policy
Zar Lilley (Stuff): New US ambassador to NZ: I want to get in a DeLorean, go back to 1985 and fix this nuclear thing
MODI VISIT AND NZ–INDIA RELATIONS
Russell Palmer (RNZ): India’s Modi to visit New Zealand this month
Stuff: India PM Modi set for ‘historic’ visit to NZ, flying in for one night next week
Amelia Wade (Post): Where are the tickets to Modi? Confusion mars lead-up to Indian PM’s Auckland visit (paywalled)
Mohan Dutta (Post): What is Hindutva and why should New Zealand care? (paywalled)
EX-LOTTO HOST PAID SUSPENSION
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Ex-Lotto presenter suspended on full taxpayer-funded-salary for five years after global FBI sting arrest
Catrin Owen (Stuff): ‘Utterly unbelievable’: Prime Minister responds after criminal paid by taxpayers for five years
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): What real employer would do what the Ministry of Justice did?
1News: Ex-Lotto host’s 5-year paid suspension from Govt job amid criminal case
Dubby Henry (Herald): Paul Goldsmith demands answers after ex-Lotto presenter gets taxpayer-funded wage for five years while on leave
KIWISAVER AND RETIREMENT
Brian Easton: The Origins of KiwiSaver
Post: Editorial: National’s KiwiSaver conversion is Labour’s historical victory (paywalled)
Mary Holm (Herald): Compulsory KiwiSaver - the pros and cons and the group that risks being left behind (paywalled)
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