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Author: Bryce Edwards
FAST TRACK
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Why the govt's fast-track bill could turn into its own Three Waters debacle (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Revealed: All the 300 Fast-Track projects and ministers' conflicts of interest
Thomas Manch (Post): Ten controversial projects on the fast-track list (paywalled)
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Revealed: Ministers’ conflicts of interest with fast-track projects
Jo Moir (RNZ): Ministers lift the curtain on fast-track approval conflicts
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Fast-track Approvals Bill: Chris Bishop bows out of Winton Land decision ‘out of an abundance of caution’ (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Cabinet ministers' conflicts over fast-track project made public (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): Fast-track law: The political peril of keeping conflicts of interest in the dark and why Shane Jones and Judith Collins have been upfront (paywalled)
Nicolas Lewis (Newsroom): What the fast-track list doesn’t tell us
Andrew Gunn (The Post): Half a million reasons why political donations are the ultimate waste of cash (paywalled)
Greg Presland (The Standard): The best Government that money can buy
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Details of fast-track conflicts of interest released (paywalled)
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Billion-dollar backtrack by fast-tracked seabed mine
Robin Martin (RNZ): Seabed miner Trans-Tasman Resources retracts claim it will earn $1 billion a year
Thomas Manch (Post): Hopeful Taranaki seabed miner retracts billion-dollar earning claim (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Warning offshore wind could be off the table anywhere in NZ if seabed mining proceeds (paywalled)
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): 'War on nature': WWF-NZ highlights concerns with Govt Fast-Track bill
Sinead Gill (Press): Long awaited Cranford Basin development could be fast tracked (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): The iwi and hapū-led projects on the fast track for Māori
Marjorie Cook (ODT): Development chosen for fast-track Bill
Felix Walton (RNZ): Fast-track Approvals Bill only way to keep promise to Auckland Council - Ports of Auckland
RNZ: Fast-track projects: Government told to strengthen ties with iwi in areas like aquaculture
Te Rina Kowhai (Te Ao Māori News): Tama Potaka’s iwi-led project seeks to house Māori, fast-track project to double prison numbers
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): Tauranga mayor ‘disappointed’ projects not greenlit for fast-tracking
NZ FIRST
Adam Pearse (Herald): Opinion: Energy the goldmine NZ First will exploit in 2026 election campaign
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Winston Peters up against tricky allies on $100b Future Fund
Richard Harman (Politik): No longer grey power volunteers
Felix Desmarais (1News): 'Normal people' are endangered: Peters speaks to party faithful
ODT Editorial: Staying right where they are (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Protests and policy spanners make for dramatic end to NZ First conference (paywalled)
Felix Desmarais (1News): The ideas New Zealand First will ponder at its conference
Adam Pearce (Herald): NZ First conference: Winston Peters claims plagued Interislander ferries can work for 20 more years
Russell Palmer (RNZ): NZ First convention speaker rails against 'race-based' policies, members vote on remits
Adam Pearse (Herald): NZ First conference: Shane Jones calls for new Crown entity to drill for geothermal energy to address power shortage
Adam Pearse (Herald): NZ First conference: Winston Peters promises ‘major’ overseas investment policy announcement
Adam Pearse (Herald): NZ First conference: Return to power charges party members as Winston Peters opens proceedings
Anna Whyte (Post): NZ First: An eye to the future, and a question mark on the Manawanui (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Geothermal energy, bagging on Te Pāti Māori - NZ First conference rolls to day two
Anna Whyte (Stuff): NZ First leader Winston Peters eyes election 2026
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Winston Peters calls out opponents and media at New Zealand First annual conference
Russell Palmer (RNZ): New Zealand First to savour electoral victory at Annual General Meeting
1News: Watch: Protesters disrupt NZ First conference, confront Peters
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Two arrested after Palestine protest interrupts Winston Peters speech
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Chaos at New Zealand First conference conclusion
PM’S PROPERTY SALES, TAX, INEQUALITY
Gordon Campbell: On Luxon Living In Denial About His Privilege
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Christopher Luxon puts another rental property on the market
Herald: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon lists mortgage-free Onehunga rental home for sale
Sam Stubbs (Post): No Capital Gains Tax, or how to get rich, badly (paywalled)
Peter Davis:Ten fixes for mainstreaming our tax system
Rob Stock (Post): ASB boss Vittoria Shortt: New Zealand should ‘lean in to taxes’ to pay for more infrastructure (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): The state of the Government’s books (paywalled)
Peter Vial (Post): Why now is the right time to be debating a capital gains tax
Terry Boucher (Interest): Te wiki o te tāke: Is it time for a Tax Law Commission?
Simon Robertson (BusinessDesk): On death, taxes and the government (paywalled)
GOVERNMENT
Anna Murray (1News): One year in: What has the Govt achieved since the election?
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): Arrogance laced with ignorance
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Reporting): Auditor General damns the Govt’s charity funding processes
No Right Turn: Goldsmith's "transparent" human rights appointment process
Audrey Young (Herald): Judith Collins on misogyny, China, Nato, Rommel, drones, GE and being caught between MPs and judges (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Too slick? Judith Collins is the comeback queen, but some old habits die hard (paywalled)
Laura Walters (Newsroom): The Koroneihana speech the Prime Minister didn’t give
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Here’s how ACT gets a Treaty principles referendum regardless of what the PM says
Cherie Howie (Herald): Act Party uses Tui beer brand tagline ‘Yeah right’ to criticise University of Auckland’s Treaty of Waitangi course
Kelvin McDonald (Te Ao Māori News): ‘Yeah nah’ response to Act Party’s ‘Yeah right’ meme
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Act’s blunderbuss
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