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GOVERNMENT
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Why tax cuts may not be enough to kickstart the economy (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Beehive bloat (paywalled)
1News: Govt's 36-point plan: What does 'take decisions' mean?
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon says he’s ‘relentlessly focused’ on achieving quarterly action plans (paywalled)
Newstalk ZB: Questions surround 'the big picture' following Government's latest action plan (paywalled)
Felix Desmarais (1News): 'Untethered from reality': Swarbrick on Govt's new action plan
Trent Doyle (Newshub): Greens unleash on Government's new action plan as '36-point PR spin'
RNZ: Luxon's quarterly action plan 'pointless' - Labour, Greens
Chlöe Swarbrick (Herald): A country is not a company and a Prime Minister is not a CEO
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Prime Minister lays out his priority list for next three months
Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): Luxon has released another action plan – here’s how to make one for yourself
Grant Duncan: Luxon & Co's quarterly plan
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Government signals boring Budget as it looks to rebuild the economy
Newshub: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon vague on if living wage for Government workers will continue
Erin Gourley (Post): Lowest paid government workers worry about living wage promises (paywalled)
Anna Murray (1News): More than a minimum wage: 5 questions about living wage, answered
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Economist Cameron Bagrie explains the 'danger' of gutting the public sector
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): How much fat is really there to cut in public sector jobs?
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Public service job cuts: What ministries are proposing
Azaria Howell (Herald): Public service cuts: Ministry of Health staff called into meetings to learn job fate
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Counting public servants (paywalled)
Oliver Hartwich (NZ Initiative): Luxon’s Leap: New Zealand after Ardern
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Marco de Jong and Robert G Patman (Newsroom): Aukus Pillar 2 compromises NZ’s principled, independent voice
Luke Malpass (Post): Global Tory confab comes to Wellington with International Democracy Union meeting (paywalled)
Eva Corlett and Jonathan Yerushalmy (Guardian): Why didn’t New Zealand impose sanctions on China?
Corazon Miller (1News): Concerns raised about allowing Myanmar representatives to visit Wgtn
Thomas Manch (Post): NZ’s invitation to Myanmar junta officials criticised (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Govt hopes for India trade momentum through elections
Oliver Hartwich (Newsroom): More beef with the European Union
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