PARLIAMENT, ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT
Chris Trotter (Interest): Is Treasury suggesting we change everything - so nothing changes
Liam Hehir (Spinoff): Can National win back Tāmaki now that Brooke van Velden is gone?
Henry Cooke (Post): National Party spending thousands more advertising Nicola Willis than Christopher Luxon on Facebook and Instagram (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Is being a ‘strong woman’ really such a problem?
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): For many, elections are done to them not by them
Dave Armstrong (Post): Dear Aunty Dave, I write seeking your wisdom and advice (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): Business and unions unite to seek change to parts of health and safety amendment bill (paywalled)
Neil Sands (LawNews): Minister takes aim at employment advocates, launches major consultation on dispute resolution
Chris Trotter: Don’t go there (paywalled)
Steven Cowan: The Economic crisis is a political crisis
FMA RESIGNATION
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Financial Markets Authority chair Craig Stobo resigns after investigation finds he made too much political commentary
Rob Stock (Post): FMA chair Craig Stobo resigns over comments which breached political neutrality rules, report finds (paywalled)
Hamish McNicol (NBR): The political comments which cost Stobo his FMA chairmanship (paywalled)
Stuff: FMA chair resigns after review finds political impartiality breach
Hamish McNicol (NBR): FMA chair Craig Stobo resigns following investigation (paywalled)
Jeffrey Halley (RNZ): Chair of Financial Markets Authority resigns after conduct review
Justin Hu (1News): Markets regulator chair quits after probe finds neutrality rules broken
Victoria Young (BusinessDesk): Stobo resigns after FMA probe (paywalled)
PM IN SINGAPORE
Jo Moir (RNZ): With New Zealand signing a free trade with Singapore, what are the fuel concerns?
Luke Malpass (Post): Singapore’s warning: the fuel disruption is far from over (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): ‘We have each other’s backs’: Luxon on NZ-Singapore fuel deal
Jo Moir (RNZ): NZ, Singapore prime ministers speak of importance of trade in increasingly volatile world
RNZ: New Zealand signs deal with Singapore to ensure trade of essential goods
Julia Gabel and Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Christopher Luxon thinks other countries may join landmark Singapore food for fuel deal
Luke Malpass (Post): NZ, Singapore ink trade deal ‘keeping fuel flowing to NZ’ (paywalled)
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Who’s getting pay rises at the moment?
1News: Only half of Kiwis got a pay rise last year - here’s who did best
Brian Easton (Interest): In too many areas we are avoiding thinking about or preparing for oncoming changes
Andrew Patterson (Newsroom): BNZ lifts unemployment rate forecast as hiring intentions soften
Rob Stock (Post): Iran war impacts will make coming months ‘a bit of a grind’ for Kiwis, says ANZ boss (paywalled)
RNZ: Amazon takes $45m hit, abandons planned West Auckland data centre
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): BNZ’s books take $352m hit as bank accounts for fact AI is seeing software age increasingly quickly (paywalled)
Stuff: Kiwi exporters eye $1b windfall after US Supreme Court overrules tariffs
Andy Macdonald (BusinessDesk): War on Iran clouds BNZ outlook as profit drops (paywalled)
Mike McRoberts (NBR): KiwiSaver’s proposed next chapter (paywalled)
Oliver Mander (Post): Upcoming FNZ law case will put NZ’s Companies Act through an acid test (paywalled)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Luxon wanted in on Trump’s war
Ani O’Brien: Who is right about the India Free Trade Agreement?
Rahul Sen (The Conversation): NZ-India free trade deal: were early fears about immigration and investment justified?
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Do we have any choice but to help out the US?
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