CHRISTOPHER LUXON’S ACCOMMODATION ALLOWANCE
Dave Armstrong (Post): A week in the life of the entitled
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Anger at excessive politician pay and entitlements
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon refuses to show public state of Premier House he claims is unlivable
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Christopher Luxon has no good explanation for taking taxpayer allowance while enforcing fiscal discipline
1News: 'Quite full on': Luxon on public's $52k allowance backlash
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Christopher Luxon isn't leading by example
TRANSPORT
Luke Malpass (Post): It turns out roads cost money (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): National’s surprise rego tax a blow in the cost of living crisis
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Anger as details of Government's new transport scheme become clear
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Simeon Brown’s plan to build new roads, says fines could double, fuel taxes gone by the end of the decade, eying greater Crown ownership of City Rail Link (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Car rego hike to fund $20 billion transport plan (paywalled)
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): London-style congestion charges for rush hour drivers in major NZ cities
Adam Pearse and Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour slams Government for hiking fuel tax by 22c next term, increasing regos by $50, slashing public transport cash
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Labour, Greens warn transport fee increases will impact lower-income families
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Higher taxes, fewer potholes: How the Government’s transport plan impacts you
RNZ: Transport Minister proproses fuel tax increase for 2027
1News: Govt wants to build 15 new four-lane highways across NZ
Newshub: Government proposes $20 billion transport plan in draft policy statement
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): State highway spending takes centre stage in new GPS (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Coalition Government unveils rego fee hike to pay for transport plan
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Government puts Road to Zero out of its misery
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Auckland’s public transport faces a privately funded future
RNZ: Auckland Transport adds extra buses to combat March Madness
RNZ: Tauranga Commission drops business case into road charges
Tom Hunt (Post): More bus lanes coming – this time to harbour quays (paywalled)
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Transport agency told of more than 200 possible breaches of Clean Car Discount
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Palmerston North buses go 100% electric, in first for NZ
NEWSHUB, MEDIA
Gavin Ellis: Newshub bell is tolling but who can hear it?
Chris Trotter (Interest): Was it ever realistic to believe that two commercial television networks could settle into such a tiny market?
Thomas Manch (Post): Broadcasting Minister Melissa Lee ‘working pretty hard’ on media sector issues (paywalled)
Duncan Greive and Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Turns out Melissa Lee did give a one-on-one interview about Newshub after all
Greg Presland (Standard): Where is Melissa Lee?
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Newshub has been broke for ages
Lisette Reymer (Post): We owe it to Kiwis to tell the stories that matter (paywalled)
RNZ: Mediawatch: Government keeps media problems at arm’s length
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: More media layoffs - up to 21 NZ Film Commission staff may lose roles under restructure (paywalled)
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Facebook stops paying for news in Australia (paywalled)
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