CHRISTOPHER LUXON’S ACCOMMODATION ALLOWANCE, PREMIER HOUSE
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): When you hear the people sing
Vernon Small (Herald): Perk blinds MPs to political risk (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): Christopher Luxon’s short-lived attempt to claim taxpayer funded accommodation allowance was never going to be defensible (paywalled)
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): The rich stay rich by pretending to be poor
Tracy Watkin (Post): Why the PM’s accommodation allowance failed the fairness test
Maiki Sherman (1News): How Luxon learned a tough political lesson
Jo Moir (RNZ): Luxon's criticisms of profligate spending come back to bite
Grant Duncan: Allowance-gate: Did Mr Luxon take a biblical parable literally?
Peter Williams: Luxon's Backdown
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Luxon to repay $1000 per week he claimed to live in own apartment
Amelia Wade and Scott Palmer (Newshub): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to pay back accommodation allowance
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon saga raises questions about politician entitlements
Adam Pearse (Herald): Christopher Luxon won’t claim $52k accommodation allowance, to repay $13,000 amid Labour claims of ‘hypocrisy’
RNZ: PM Christopher Luxon says he will pay back his accommodation allowance
1News: Luxon does U-turn on $52k accommodation allowance, will pay it back
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Luxon will repay housing subsidy after public backlash
Thomas Manch (Post): Prime Minister - I’ll pay the money back (paywalled)
1News: Luxon says he's 'well within the rules' to claim $52k allowance
RNZ: Watch: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks from Queenstown
Felix Desmarais (1News): Luxon claims $52k allowance for own Wellington apartment
Claire Trevett (Herald): Premier House: Report into Prime Minister Chris Luxon’s apartment reveals it’s draughty, dated, uninsulated
Luke Malpass (Post): How decades of buck-passing left the PM's pad in disrepair (paywalled)
RNZ: Upgrades badly needed for PM's residence - Heritage NZ
Cecilia Robinson (Herald): Prime Minister’s Premier House: The sad state of our nation’s assets (paywalled)
NEWSHUB, MEDIA
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Bailout warning went to Minister Melissa Lee’s office before Newshub’s collapse
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Why we need to let Newshub go (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): NZ’s “media apocalypse” is shifting us into a Public Relations Democracy of distrust
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Apocalypse now?
Hayden Donnell (RNZ): Mediawatch: Three no longer a hub for news
Duncan Garner (Listener): Did Warner Bros. Discovery HQ make every effort to save Newshub? Letting it die is not the Kiwi way (paywalled)
Matt Nippert (Herald): Newshub closure: Three at last - Goodbye to a battler (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): On the government’s ‘glib shrug’ response to Newshub closure
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Focus on Politics: When no news is bad news
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Sky TV the one serious option for 'saving' Newshub
Henry Cooke (Guardian): Newshub is set to close – New Zealand’s democracy will be poorer for it
ODT Editorial: No news is bad news (paywalled)
Mike O’Donnell (Post): Journalism in the fight of its life (paywalled)
Jaime Lyth and Anna Leask (Herald): Newshub closure: Freelancers, contractors also set to lose jobs but weren’t in ‘all-staff’ meeting
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Newshub, TVNZ bosses’ secret discussions for joint news service one week before closure announcement (paywalled)
RNZ: Warner Bros 'baffled' as TVNZ rejects Newshub proposal of shared news operation
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Television channel Three owner tried to strike deal with TVNZ and RNZ to save Newshub (paywalled)
Newshub: TVNZ rejected idea of collaborating with Newshub before closure announcement
Paula Penfold (Stuff): This is what happened on Newshub’s worst day
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Mike McRoberts: ‘You don't realise how much it takes out of you’
Daniel Dunkley (BusinessDesk): How Newshub's closure could hit Three's ad revenue (paywalled)
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Newshub
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediwatch: TVNZ's losses point to media-wide strife
RNZ: TVNZ's total revenue falls 13.5 percent as ad revenue shrinks
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): TVNZ reports $16.7m loss in six months
Melania Watson (Newshub): TVNZ reports major financial loss amid declining revenue
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): TVNZ posts $16.8m half year loss (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (NBR): Horror week for media continues with lay-offs at Stuff (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (NBR): Media trouble comes in 3's: TVNZ makes significant half year loss (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Brownlee bars student journalists from parliament press gallery
Paid subscribers can access the full “NZ Politics Daily” from here. The following categories of news and analysis continue: LABOUR; PARLIAMENT; EFESO COLLINS; TOBACCO, VAPING; HEALTH; MĀORI HEALTH AUTHORITY; TREATY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; TRANSPORT, TARRAS AIRPORT PROPOSAL; WATER; INEQUALITY, POVERTY; ECONOMY; HOUSING; GUN LAWS; GANG PATCH BAN; EDUCATION; PRIMARY INDUSTRIES; FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE; BANKS; BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT