PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Farah Hancock (RNZ): Big NZ First donors argue for tax breaks to save ‘unsustainable’ racing industry
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): National and NZ First are now feasting on each other
Verity Johnson (Stuff): I know I should vote Labour - I just don’t want to
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Why Inland Revenue looks like the grown-up in the room (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Fear, loathing and respect: Judith Collins bows out after 24 years in politics, says people ‘don’t like a strong woman’ (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Oh crap: it really looks like India thinks we’re gonna invest $33 billion in their economy
Scott Sheeran (Post): Better ideas for raising New Zealand’s living standards (paywalled)
Richard Harman: Unfriendly fire; NZ First’s preferred target (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): ‘Buck stops with ministers’: OIO overruled in dairy farms’ sale (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. a bull in a china shop
Francesca Rudkin (Newstalk ZB): We need more civility in this election season
Julia Gabel (Herald): Act reveals immigration campaign policies
Phil Smith (RNZ): Anti-slavery law uses new rules to bypass ballot
AJ Hendry: Changing the Government will mean nothing if we do not also Transform it!
PM IN SINGAPORE
Jo Moir (RNZ): Christopher Luxon heads to Singapore to formalise crucial trade relationship
Jo Moir (RNZ): Luxon’s Singapore visit to formalise crucial trade relationship
Luke Malpass (Post): Luxon in Singapore: Fuel fix and a bigger strategic play (paywalled)
Anneke Smith (Post): Prime Minister signing food-for-fuel deal overseas as coalition cools off after weeks of bust ups (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Treasury’s hope for rapid return to normality hard to reconcile with the current outlook (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Washington to Wellington: You’re on your own (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): ANZ NZ’s Chief Risk Officer says ‘we’re definitely heading’ towards stagflation
Mandy Te (Interest): March quarter labour market data expected to largely reflect economic conditions pre-dating oil shock
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Jobless rate to remain close to 5.4% but economists see darker days ahead (paywalled)
Aimee Shaw (Post): Iran war: Rod Duke on Briscoe Group navigating Middle East conflict pressures, and why he’s optimistic it will end soon (paywalled)
Chris Keall (Herald): Amazon’s NZ revenue surges, but it takes a $45m impairment on its abandoned data centre build (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Penalties mount while KiwiSaver members wait for hardship withdrawal approval
Liam Dann (Herald): Unemployment preview: Economists predict jobs holding steady for now (paywalled)
Michael Sergel (Herald): Small businesses running low on cash reserves as fuel and KiwiSaver costs surge
Stuff: Kiwi exporters eye $1b windfall after US Supreme Court overrules tariffs
Oliver Mander (Post): Upcoming FNZ law case will put NZ’s Companies Act through an acid test (paywalled)
Mark Lister (Herald): S&P 500 rally: Strong corporate earnings drive better-than-expected results (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Ikea changing pattern of Auckland shopping
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Wellingtonians divided over paying higher water bills for improved infrastructure - survey
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington water meters rollout cost balloons from $144m to $590m (paywalled)
1News: Auckland mayor says his city deal ‘quite underwhelming’
Mark Thomas (Newsroom): Will Auckland’s city deal run out of power?
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Here’s the real issue impacting local councils
Katie Todd (RNZ): Queenstown gondola and housing plan raises ‘more questions than solutions’ -councillor
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Warning of wave of quake work (paywalled)
ODT: ORC $2m fund model confirmed (paywalled)
Tracey Roxburgh (ODT): Proposed reforms trigger council review (paywalled)
Claire Robinson (Post): Why Toi Māori in civic buildings is essential, not indulgent (paywalled)
TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Andrea Vance (Post): Cook Strait ferry project hit with Treasury warning over delays and cost increase risk (paywalled)
1News: Auckland mayor says his city deal ‘quite underwhelming’
Justin Hu (1News): CRL opening update expected in weeks as fuel crisis adds pressure
Justin Hu (1News): Fears of ‘backlash and mockery’ played into new Auckland rail line names
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): ‘Reliable’ City Rail Link timetable firms up with network changes (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (BusinessDesk): Northland corporates call on Government to provide expressway certainty (paywalled)
Samantha Gee (RNZ): Standoff as Vega crew await repatriation to India
Tim Cronshaw (ODT): $3b Otago inland port project ‘shovel-ready’ (paywalled)
Felix Walton (RNZ): Fatal crashes declining, but not fast enough - Brake NZ
Jack Horsnell (1News): Drivers on notice as major change to restricted licences kicks in
HEALTH
Amanda Gillies (Newsroom): Questions grow over personal health data safety
Danica MacLean (Newstalk ZB): Health New Zealand locum doctor costs hit $216m amid staff gaps
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): Medical migration only option for many blood cancer sufferers
Mildred Armah (Stuff): ‘Sitting duck’ cancer patient warns cost of rural care cutbacks could be deadly
Joanne Naish (Post): A son’s mission for his father: a prostate cancer screening programme (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Health issues not solved (paywalled)
RNZ: Pharmac rationing of menopause drugs ‘fair’ - women’s health expert
RNZ: Medicinal cannabis stigmatised ‘even within the medical community’, doctor says
ELECTRICITY
Rebekah White (Newsroom): If solar is the cheapest form of energy, why don’t we make more?
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Transpower electricity security outlook says good winter, tough decade (paywalled)
Steve Hepburn (ODT): More power needed, grid operator says (paywalled)
MEDIA
Post: Media Council upholds ferry project ‘over budget’ claim complaint
Shayne Currie (Herald): The new TVNZ+ app - broadcaster’s digital boss Rob Hutchinson on when final bugs will be ironed out (paywalled)
Critic: Editorial: Stop being mean to the BSA
Simon O’Connor: Hamlet and the NZ media
David Farrar (Patreon): Why Audrey and Richard are wrong (paywalled)
1News: ‘Defining moment’: TVNZ reveals FIFA World Cup event pass pricing
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Anna Fifield (Listener): On China’s soft-power flex (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Should New Zealand help reopen the Strait of Hormuz? What do you think?
RNZ: Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ government to intervene after Israeli interception
CARTOONS
