LABOUR PARTY
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): After a shocker of a poll, Hipkins signals the end of the phoney war
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Can Labour up the ante after getting outflanked by National on KiwiSaver?
Stuff: Hipkins points to private polling above 30% but won’t reveal the result
RNZ: Internal polling has Labour Party above 30 percent, Chris Hipkins says
1News: Chris Hipkins ‘certainly not happy’ with Labour poll shocker
Stuff: Hipkins really doesn’t want to talk about the latest TPU poll
Public Interest: Labour wants to fix the economy. Do its own rules stand in the way?
SUPERMARKETS, KIWIMART AND FOOD PRICES
Logan Church (1News): Why are my groceries in New York cheaper than yours, NZ?
Chlöe Swarbrick (Post): NZ can feed 40 million people, so why does our own food cost so much? (paywalled)
The Post: Editorial – Step right up for your government groceries (paywalled)
Herald: Editorial – Spending billions on a state-owned KiwiMart is unlikely to lower food prices (paywalled)
Steven Cowan: Kiwimart has exposed the insecurities of a failed status quo
Rodney Hide: KiwiMart — The Great Leap Forward
Tina Morrison (Newsroom): How supermarket AI is squeezing food banks’ meat and dairy supply
BED TAX AND THE VISITOR LEVY
Glenn McConnell and Sam Smith (Stuff): National backtracked on a bed tax, so here’s what it’s offering councils instead
Jo Moir (RNZ): Christopher Luxon announces National’s alternative to introducing bed tax
Stuff: National’s bed tax U-turn gives councils a slice of visitor levy
Justin Hu (1News): National wants to give councils cut of visitor levy after bed tax rule-out
Adam Pearse (Herald): National promises to use international visitor levy to replace bed tax proposal
Nick James (Post): National to give councils a share of international tourism levy (paywalled)
Emma Gleason (Spinoff): What’s the difference between a tax and a levy – and does it even matter?
Richard Harman: Luxon cuts tourism promotion funding to give Brown his Bed Tax (paywalled)
CLIMATE AND THE ETS
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Chris Hipkins attacks coalition on Paris Agreement
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): Hipkins ‘flailing’ after National-style ‘National and their mates’ attack, Luxon says
Mandy Te (Interest): Labour pledges to fix ‘broken’ ETS, says carbon price is too low, reaffirms commitment to Paris Agreement
No Right Turn: Luxon is gaslighting us on climate change
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour says emissions are too cheap, hints price should rise and confirms end of 18-year promise on agriculture emissions
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Labour proposes driving up carbon price by reducing reliance on planting pines (paywalled)
Stuff: Hipkins: ‘National and their mates’ want to leave the Paris Agreement
David Seymour (Post): The cost of unrealistic climate policy (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Climate reports: Is anyone reading them? (paywalled)
Alan McCulloch (ODT): Time for a tactical all out war on methane (paywalled)
Stuff: Act party promises to repeal the Zero Carbon Act
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Climate agreements test New Zealand’s trust and credibility (paywalled)
ENERGY
Rob Stock (Post): Chris Hipkins warns LNG deal would be ‘recklessly irresponsible’ before election (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Labour threatens to overturn any LNG terminal pre-election call (paywalled)
John Harman (Herald): The solar debate is looking at the wrong roofs (paywalled)
Corin Dann (RNZ): Kiwi battery tech promises $2700 power bill cut
RNZ: What Methanex’s departure will do to gas prices
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Aotea Energy bets batteries can make wholesale power work for households (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE
1News: Apology due after MSD told thousands food ‘not an essential need’ - advocate
Farah Hancock (RNZ): PM Christopher Luxon’s targets: Jobseeker numbers climbing, almost 80,000 over target
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Is the public service strike about pay, politics, or both?
Anneke Smith (Post): Nearly 10,000 public servants to strike over pay (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Pay equity would put $300 a week into 91,000 families, union says (paywalled)
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Government departments forked out almost $60k on All Whites’ tickets
Aaron Smale (Listener): Fact fiddling and parliamentary privilege at play in the Beehive (paywalled)
Jing Jia, Richard Fisher and Zhongtian Li (The Conversation): NZ is finally moving on modern slavery law. What can we learn from Australia?
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Bad headlines, bad behaviour and more (paywalled)
Elspeth McLean (ODT): Ministerial girl power movie dreaming (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Government trumpets ACC fraud ‘crackdown’, despite reduction in interventions and few prosecutions (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Fishing and farming officials’ risk aversion endangers transparency, Ombudsman finds
Newsroom: Yet more job cuts threaten Archives NZ and National Library memory
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): We have a minimum wage – but should we have a maximum?
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Outgoing ANZ CEO Antonia Watson doubles down on her capital gains tax call. What else would she like from the next government? (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Fertiliser costs drive up food costs, warns Reserve Bank decision-maker
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): Policy stability tops manufacturers’ election wish list (paywalled)
Blair Turnbull (Stuff): The KiwiSaver divorce New Zealand desperately needs
RNZ: Canterbury businesses see light at the end of the tunnel
1News: Rates cap, data centres key questions for NZ recovery - report
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ‘Default approach’ will be businesses can provide product information digitally (paywalled)
HEALTH
Nicholas Jones (Stuff): A hospital ward closed over ‘disturbing’ care. Documents reveal much wider problems
RNZ: ‘Something has to give’: Gisborne ED nurses to strike against staff shortages
RNZ: Pressure on health system ‘significantly worse’ than expected
Miriam Bell (Post): As the population ages, is Health NZ’s contract slashing fracturing eldercare? (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): Who hired more nurses? Data shows clear workforce plateau under National (paywalled)
RNZ: Home care changes contradict ministerial advice, health trust says
Amy Williams (RNZ): Hospital discharges homeless man with major health needs in just a gown
Mary Argue (RNZ): Drug funding: ‘We are way behind where we need to be globally’
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Hospitals were overflowing well before flu cases peaked, data reveals
RNZ: Government to implement findings from mental health hotline review
Rachel Graham (RNZ): Cost and vaccine hesitancy lead to low flu vaccination rates - Christchurch clinic
HOUSING
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Why the world thinks New Zealand solved the housing crisis
Harriet Laughton (Post): Who should carry the risk? Retirement villages clash with Labour over payouts (paywalled)
RNZ: ‘Golden visa’ migrant investments soon to include build-to-rent housing developments
Janika ter Ellen (Stuff): Why you can buy a house today for essentially the same price as 9 years ago
Mina Martin (NZ Adviser): Kiwi wealth, not overseas buyers, driving NZ’s luxury home market
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Where rents are falling, and where they’re not
RNZ: The mystery buyers snapping up New Zealand’s luxury homes
Deborah Morris (Post): National rental divide deepens as Waikato hits record and Wellington rents climb (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Suburbs where house prices are rising and falling fastest
EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): NZ sitting below group of world-leaders when it comes to reading, science and maths
Derek Cheng (Herald): PISA bombshell: Education data points to post-Covid stabilisation and a narrowing equity gap (paywalled)
Herald: Government reveals the 10 schools getting new classrooms and the Auckland college in line for a new gym
Azaria Howell (Herald): School lunch programme: Unknown matter found in brownie as Seymour defends meals, complaints decrease
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Two former charter schools under microscope for growing debt, illegal board appointments
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Walls in schools’ not a quick fix, Education Ministry says
WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Wellington Council’s got another thing to worry about funding
Ethan Manera (Herald): Pressure grows on Wellington Council infrastructure boss over Moa Point sewage disaster (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Deloitte refusing to commit for refund for ‘ropey’ $435k Wellington council report (paywalled)
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Lack of trained staff hampered council’s response to Wellington extreme flooding - officials
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Ayla Yeoman (Herald): Tauranga councillor Glen Crowther says he was required to view landslide files in supervised room
Katie Bradford (Herald): Auckland councillors vote for ‘nuclear’ option in fiery meeting on fast-track development plans (paywalled)
Jonathan Killick (Post): Auckland Council resolves to pick fights with fast track developers (paywalled)
Allan Kynaston (ODT): Playing with boundaries (paywalled)
TRANSPORT
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): Proposal to cut roadside art might not save us much
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Regional aviation faces collapse without ongoing support, Air Chathams boss says (paywalled)
John Weekes (Herald): Air Chathams CEO proposes public service obligation model for regional airlines (paywalled)
John Weekes (Herald): Stewart Island airline gets $640k loan; Industry praises progress for regional airlines but warns of fuel prices (paywalled)
Katie Bradford (Herald): City Rail Link ready to transform Auckland, KiwiRail CEO says
JUSTICE AND POLICE
Andrew Doyle: Are blasphemy laws returning to New Zealand?
Luka Forman (RNZ): Corrections cuts community bail services as remand prison population grows
Sam Sherwood (RNZ): Release of Tom Phillips inquiry report expected this month
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Who on earth is using meth?
Rachel Moore (RNZ): One year on, we still don’t know how Tom Phillips hid his children in the bush for four years
LawNews: TLANZ committee backs ‘sensible’ clean slate reform
Neil Sands (LawNews): TLANZ committees line up against proposed ‘no body, no parole’ legislation
Tony Wall (Stuff): Prominent lawyer’s firm investigated after conflict of interest complaint
ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES
Ben Czapnik (Post): Trade rules are no longer an excuse for New Zealand animal welfare gap (paywalled)
Mike White (Post): Shane Jones lashes out at ‘green maniacs’ opposing Central Otago gold mine (paywalled)
ODT: Editorial – Protecting Fiordland, our most precious place (paywalled)
Alan McDonald (Post): Replacing the RMA is reform the economy and the environment badly need (paywalled)
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