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Author: Bryce Edwards
ANDREW BAYLY
Andrea Vance (Post): Harmless bants, or the National party telling us exactly who it is? (paywalled)
Adam Pearse, Claire Trevett, Julia Gabel (Herald): Small Business and Manufacturing Minister Andrew Bayly apologises for interaction during company visit
RNZ: National Minister Andrew Bayly apologises for telling person to 'f*** off'
Felix Desmarais (1News): Minister sorry after calling worker 'loser', allegedly saying to 'f*** off'
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Andrew Bayly apologises after person claims they were called a 'loser’, told to ‘f... off’
Brent Edwards (NBR): ’Take some wine and f*** off’: Andrew Bayly complaint made (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Worker who complained about Andrew Bayly contacted Opposition parties
Thomas Manch (Post): Andrew Bayly apologises for telling worker to ‘take some wine and f... off’ during business visit (paywalled)
No Right Turn: What National thinks of us
RMA, FAST-TRACK, ENVIRONMENT
Farah Hancock, (RNZ): The coalition's very big legal change to the Resource Management Act that very little - so far - is known about
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Freshwater reform strategy ‘not ideal’ – but Bishop’s comfortable
Martin Garcia, April Bennett, Matt Henry & Imran Muhammad (Post): The gaps that still need to be closed in fast-track planning bill (paywalled)
Kate Green (RNZ): New fast-track bill criteria still 'heavily weighted against environment' - critic
Elizabeth Macpherson and Rachael Mortiaux (E-Tangata): Fast-track to Māori exclusion
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Select committee recommends Fast Track bill proceeds (paywalled)
Te Rina Kowhai (Te Ao Mãori News): Iwi leaders slam Potaka‘s ’weak’ justification for continued commercial fishing of Hauraki protected areas
Simon Thrush and Conrad Pilditch (Newsroom): Beware the snags in Hauraki Gulf protections
Andrew Jeffs (Newsroom): A cry for kelp – our kelp forests are in deep trouble
GREENS
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): The Greens have saved their membership, now what about the voters (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Green letter day for Darleen Tana
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Time for the Green Party to get ‘back on track’
RNZ: Green's Chlöe Swarbrick on Darleen Tana and the party's 'trying' year
ODT Editorial: Hopes Tana drama nearly over (paywalled)
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Mãori News): Metiria Turei played part in the Greens hui to eject Darleen Tana
Jason Walls (Newstalk ZB): Will the Darleen Tana saga hit the Greens in the polls?
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): What do we expect our politicians to do?
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Darleen Tana wants more time after Greens vote to waka-jump her
Michael Daly (Stuff): Tana wants Greens to wait until after court of appeal application before moving ahead on waka jumping
Herald: Who is Darleen Tana – and why she might go down in NZ political history
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Darleen Tana
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): What will the Greens do on Darleen Day?
Audrey Young (Herald): Metiria Turei emerges from obscurity – with a new book on the Treaty of Waitangi (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT
Maiki Sherman (1News): Poll snapshots paint mixed picture for parties
Grant Duncan: Will the Labour/National duopoly ever end?
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: The art of the ministerial statement
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Te Pāti Māori calls for Winston Peters to be censured for comment in House
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Mãori News): Te Pāti Māori seeks action on Winston Peters’ ‘racist’ remarks
Poppy Clark (Stuff): ‘They are a bunch of coward bully boys’, Winston Peters lashes out at Te Pāti Māori
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Plain speaking, especially after rain falls mainly on the plain (paywalled)
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Crown limos clock hundreds of kilometres in ghost trips
Andrea Vance (Post): Fight to save the ‘temple of Labour’ (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Schoolboy antics, CPI drop, problems at council, and redundancies (paywalled)
Harriette Boucher (Post): Meet Parliament’s canine constituents (paywalled)
Tony Astle: John Key always welcome, Helen Clark never
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