GOVT TAX PLANS, PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, USE OF URGENCY
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Government faces death by a thousand cuts (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Second blowout in a week: Government caught short $500m by gambling levy
RNZ: IRD predicts government's casino tax plan will bring in less money than forecast
Gordon Campbell: On National’s fantasy trip to La La Landlord Land
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): No, Prime Minister, rents don’t rise or fall with landlords’ costs
Lynn Prentice (The Standard): Luxon on rents – another National economic idiot
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Will the rental tax cut improve life for renters or landlords?
1News: Renters 'won't get a discount' from Govt's changes - advocate
Mare Haimona-Riki (Te Ao Māori News): No promises for lower rent from reintroduced interest deductibility rule
Kelvin McDonald (Te Ao Māori News): ‘Be prepared to pay it back’: Te Pāti Māori’s warning to landlords claiming tax break
Esther Taunton (Stuff): How many millionaire landlords will interest deductibility really create?
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Government details proposal to reduce the bright-line test
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Officials side with Government on rent debate, but Treasury wants effective capital gains tax
Brent Edwards (NBR): Coalition tax changes should be law within two weeks
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Watch: PM not across details of police pay and exodus
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Tova podcast: An Interview with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
Philip Crump (Newstalk ZB): Parliamentary Question Time triggers three agency leak investigation
Trent Doyle (Newshub): National's Chris Bishop blasts letter from Free Speech Union, asks to 'cancel my membership'
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Govt becoming all delivery and no aspiration
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): The National Express
Azaria Howell (Herald): MBIE confirms more than 100 voluntary redundancies as it looks to cut spending by $412.5m (paywalled)
Jemima Huston (RNZ): Callaghan Innovation wants to cut staff, focus on money-making projects
Adam Pearse (Herald): Field Days: The PM can use a digger and race a lawnmower but can he fix inflation?
ENVIRONMENT
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): We can’t find the environmental group that was extensively consulted on the fast-track consenting bill
RNZ: Government drops need for councils to comply with Significant Natural Areas provisions
Post: Councils no longer have to comply with Significant Natural Area provisions
Herald: Government pushes pause on Significant Natural Areas pending overhaul of resource management laws, tells councils ‘don’t bother’
BusinessDesk: Govt suspends 'significant natural areas' rules for three years (paywalled)
Wyatt Ryder (ODT): Govt vetoes ‘despised’ land laws (paywalled)
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Fast-track consents may undermine Treaty settlements — Ngāi Tahu
No Right Turn: The return of Muldoon
GREENS
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Green MP suspended amid migration exploitation claims
Herald: Green MP Darleen Tana steps down amid migration exploitation allegations
Newstalk ZB: Green Party suspends MP amid "deeply serious" allegations
Herald: The Front Page: Chlöe Swarbrick on becoming the Green Party co-leader and the Government’s agenda
LABOUR
Luke Malpass (Post): Labour starts planning for a tough three years (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Lesson from America: how the left lost to diversity
RIchard Harman (Politik): Labour’s policy gap (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Let’s do ... something; Labour ponders road to victory (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Chris Hipkins pushes ‘slow and steady’ message to Labour caucus
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour MPs gather to lick wounds and manage expectations, dogged by talk of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, wealth tax
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Tax question hangs over Labour as Hipkins looks to rebuild
Luke Malpass (Post): Labour leader Chris Hipkins says party is in ‘new era’ as it holds rebuild talks (paywalled)
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Labour lays low as it works on a comeback
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Labour MP Greg O'Connor briefly suggests New Zealand could go the way of US, Russia if doesn't follow proper democratic process
NZ Lawyer: Gibson Sheat secures ex-minister
PARLIAMENT
Russell Palmer (RNZ): 'Unambitious' Luxon vs 'irrelevant' Hipkins: Leaders trade barbs from the regions
Brent Edwards (NBR): Beehive Banter: New co-leader, landlord boost, unhappy cops, Labour retreat
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Human Rights Commission doesn't condemn 'How to train your Pākehā' post on Te Pāti Māori's Instagram
Josie Pagani (Post:): The Cabinet structure is failing us; it’s time for an overhaul (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Glenn McConnell and Anna Whyte (Stuff): Students protest, spit in front of David Seymour during school visit
RNZ: Student spits near David Seymour during visit to Palmerston North high school
1News: Student spits in front of Seymour during school haka protest
Herald: Students at Palmerston North school protest Act leader David Seymour, spit at his shoes
Jaime Lyth (Herald): ECE: David Seymour criticised for claiming foreign early childhood teachers ‘less useful’ than Kiwi counterparts
1News: 'Mass exodus': What’s drawing NZ’s ECE teachers to Australia?
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Uni braced for $5m hit as enrolments drop
Stuff: Otago student numbers stay steady as deficit reduced
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Some staff at Te Pūkenga to get their old jobs back (paywalled)
James Kierstead and Dr Michael Johnston (Kiwiblog): The problem with the vice-chancellor’s ‘free speech’ column
GOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN
Herald: Golriz Ghahraman: Ex-Green MP and Judge Maria Pecotic previously worked together as lawyers
Philip Trump (Newstalk ZB): Golriz Ghahraman court case: details of prior working relationship with judge emerges (paywalled)
Peter Williams: The Ghahraman Conflict
RNZ: Golriz Ghahraman's law career at risk if convicted, professor says
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Court documents detail how Golriz Ghahraman's shoplifting unfolded, encounter with boutique worker
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Method, scale of Golriz Ghahraman's shoplifting offences revealed
Catrin Owen and Caroline Williams (Stuff): Extent of Golriz Ghahraman’s shoplifting revealed
1News: Golriz Ghahraman: Court documents reveal more details of offending
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): This is the consequence for Ghahraman's actions
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): ‘If councils were companies, some would be bankrupt’
Adam Blackwell (Stuff): Winners and losers: Rates rises sweep the country
1News: New Zealand homeowners facing an average rates rise of 15%
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Homeowners facing average rates rises of 15% with no relief in sight
Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): NZ homeowners facing mammoth rates increases with one council proposing 31.8 pct hike
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Napier ratepayers face highest ever rate rise
Jo Lines-McKenzie (Post): Rates rises fuelled by spiralling infrastructure costs (paywalled)
James Perry (Te Ao Māori News): Large rate rises in store across the country
Tim Scott and Grant Miller (ODT): DCC to sell Aurora for over $1b, critic says
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): ‘Significant proposal’ - Dunedin City Council eyes asset sale
RNZ: Dunedin council takes Aurora Energy proposal public
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Waimakariri council unimpressed with Christchurch stadium request
WATER
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Three Waters repeal an added complication for councils' long-term plans
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Wellington has a water crisis, let’s form a committee (paywalled)
RNZ: Wellington council agrees to join other councils to plan for new water model
Nick James (RNZ): Wellington water: Funding problems creating 'extreme residual risks'
Nicholas Boyack (Post): At last some good news about Wellington’s water crisis (paywalled)
HOUSING
Erin Gourley (Post): Six storeys in store for Wellington suburbs after vote (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Housing wins the war
Nick James (Spinoff): Wellington City Council votes to increase housing density
Erin Gourley (Post): Gordon Wilson Flats should not stay on heritage list, council decides
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Pushing through the 'cheer squad' to have a proper conversation on housing with Aussie economist Cameron Murray
Rayssa Almeida (RNZ): Kāinga Ora cans controversial social housing development, saying it is not financially viable
Katie Kenny (RNZ): Why breaking your home loan contract might not be worth it: What you need to know
Greg Ninness (Interest): Housing sales and prices both rose in February but sales were still well below long-term norms
CHRISTCHUCH MOSQUE ATTACKS
Thomas Manch (Post): Five years since the Christchurch mosque terror attack, the Government has work to do (paywalled)
1News: March 15 terror attacks: ACC payments end for some victims' families
Anjum Rahman (Spinoff): ‘Please do not put our safety at risk again’ (paywalled)
Chris Wilson, Ethan Renner, Jack Smylie and Michal Dziwulski (The Conversation): Christchurch attacks 5 years on: terrorist’s online history gives clues to preventing future atrocities
Marc Daadler (Newsroom): Is New Zealand at risk of forgetting March 15?
Charlie Mitchell (Post): ‘Grief doesn’t have an expiry date’: 5 years on, March 15 families are still fighting for justice (paywalled)
Anjum Rahman (Spinoff): Five years since the Christchurch terror attacks, are our online spaces any safer?
Jen Vermeulen (Spinoff): March 15 and the very worst of social media
Matt Slaughter (Stuff): Newsable: Declining sense of security for Muslim, Arab and Jewish communities
Mildred Armah (Stuff): Largest gathering since mosque attacks as community honours victims
Lianne Dalziel (Newsroom): Mosque attacks inquest a court of understanding, not of blame
RUAPEHU BAILOUT
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): A brief history of government bailouts
RNZ: Christopher Luxon defends more funding for Ruapehu ski fields
RNZ: 'Final' Ruapehu ski bailout good money after bad - business owner says
Te Ao Māori News: Fifth cash injection keeps Ruapehu Alpine Lifts in business
David Farrar: More corporate welfare for Ruapehu
EMPLOYMENT
Anna Murray (1News): What might the Govt's workplace and holiday reforms look like?
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Labour Inspectorate investigation launched after allegations of migrant exploitation at Metrolanes Auckland bowling alley
LIVE ANIMAL EXPLORTS, PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Matt Slaughter (Stuff): ‘Last time they’ll ever stand on grass’: Thousands against Govt live export proposal
RNZ: Government unlocks drought relief for top of South Island
RNZ: Government announces animal facial eczema research fund
TRANSPORT
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Interislander’s cancelled Cook Strait mega ferry contract could be renegotiated for smaller ships (paywalled)
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): 'Penalty on a plug' - MPs told EV taxes would be too high
Rayssa Almeida (RNZ): Airline reps say lack of government action to boost competition leading to high fares
Anan Zaki (RNZ): Air New Zealand 'record-high domestic airfares' called out
Grant Bradley (Herald): Consumer NZ and NZ Airports Association take aim at Air New Zealand over airfares (paywalled)
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): New Auckland rail nerve centre gears up for big changes
POLICE PAY OFFER
Jack Tame (1News): Police pay dispute sends curious message about priorities
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Government refuses to increase police pay offer, despite talks of protest
RNZ: Pay offer a 'significant loss' to frontline officers- former police minister
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
RNZ: Political fallout from Winston Peters’ comments on Sikh killing overshadows progress on aviation with India
RNZ: Winston Peters clarifies comments about alleged Indian government involvement in Canadian Sikh leader's killing
Thomas Manch (Post): Winston Peters appears to question Canada’s claim against India over Sikh leader killing (paywalled)
Newshub: Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters stirs up overseas media, questions India's connection to high-profile killing
1News: Winston Peters wades into India-Canada spat over Sikh leader's death
Thomas Manch (Post): Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit New Zealand (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): China sends foreign minister as NZ eyes new priorities (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit New Zealand and Foreign Minister Winston Peters next week (paywalled)
1News: Chinese Foreign Minister to visit New Zealand next week
Newshub: Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi to visit New Zealand next week
Andrea Vance (Post): Louisa Wall’s ambassador role scrapped (paywalled)
Bruce Munro (ODT): 'NZ must address injustice here and abroad'
MEDIA
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Another blow for media? Ministry talking to RNZ to identify ‘potential savings’
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: TVNZ job cuts - staff set for new showdown; Newshub’s secret lifelines; Stripe Studios - three more companies placed in receivership; Will AP news agency keep a reporter in NZ? (paywalled)
TE REO MĀORI
Herald Editorial: Te reo Māori is an official language - so let’s embrace it, not get offended by it (paywalled)
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): ‘It’s my right’: Dame Naida Glavish on te reo in the workplace
William Hewett (Newshub): Health NZ worker claims manager banned them from using 'Kia ora' and 'Ngā mihi' after being screamed at by two patients
MIGRATION
Greg Ninness (Interest): Migration added another 133,835 people to NZ's population in the January year
RNZ: Migration still at record levels but signs of slowdown
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ‘Massive churn’ as record 380,500 people arrive or up sticks from NZ in a year (paywalled)
COST OF LIVING
Cameron Smith (Herald): Kiwis tightening belts as they hunker down for tough year (paywalled)
Tumamao Harawira (Te Ao Māori News): Tough times get worse for families as BBM forced to downgrade
BUSINESS
Chris Keall (Herald): Job cuts at Spark, with AI in the frame (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Stuff): Spark to lay off staff, AI could replace some roles
Nicholas Pointon (NBR): Liquidation activity spikes as IRD gets back to business (paywalled)
HEALTH
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): More than half of lung cancers not diagnosed until after emergency department visit - report
Danny Bedingfield (Post): Health minister's comments on prostate screening ‘deflating’ (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Bonding medical graduates isn't realistic
Mark Crysell (1News): First head knock-linked brain disease in pro NZ rugby player confirmed
BANKS
Jenny Ruth: Should the little guys be able to opt out of the deposit insurance scheme? (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): RBNZ designing a trademark for insured deposits
OTHER
Mary Williams (ODT): Children sleeping in OT offices
Eleisha Foon (RNZ): 'Need to break' cultural taboos for survivors of abuse in NZ state care
Natasha Hill (Te Ao Māori News): Māori lawyer pushes for more resources to meet the need for legal aid
Thomas Manch (Post): For sale, as is where is: Air Force's old Hercules planes (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Even more so now, age is but a number
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): One in 71 NZ social media posts is misinformation – study
Ella Somers (Interest): Uninsured 'free-riding' via fire & emergency levy and 'attacking insurance'
Alex Penk: The last post