Election Audrey Young (Herald): Labour leaps out of blocks in reset campaign (paywalled) Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Political parties back into campaign mode but Covid still casts a shadow Herald: Front Bench podcast: A new public holiday from Labour, while Winston Peters goes for theatre Nicholas Jones (Herald): Election 2020 battlegrounds:
Election Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Even the politicians look tired as the campaign kicks off – again Audrey Young (Herald): How parties are relighting the campaign spark (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Stuff): Taxing decisions on debt for the big parties NZIER: Why are Labour and National policies basically the same? Mark Quinlivan (Newshub)
A heroic Beach Haven man thwarted a robbery by standing up to four masked men who stormed into his family dairy on Saturday night. After taking one glimpse of Manav Prasad – a 110kg, 21-year-old rugby prop, power-lifter and ex-boxer – and the would-be bandits fled. Read the full article here Then
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The Portland Antifa activist Michael Reinoehl who admitted on video to murdering a Trump supporter was killed yesterday when a federal fugitive task force of US Marshals moved to apprehend and arrest him. In the below video a friend of the man that Michael Reinoehl shot speaks out to counter
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Economic inequality Susan Edmunds (Stuff): New Zealand’s trillion-dollar wealth gap: Who are we leaving behind Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): The Government likes to say it follows expert advice – that’s not quite true Susan Edmunds (Stuff): 185,000 workers expect to lose their jobs within next year, Stats NZ say
Green private school funding row, education Stuff Editorial: Shaw’s Green School shambles risks his party’s future Claire Trevett (Herald): Will James Shaw’s endless sorry save the Greens? (paywalled) Tova O’Brien (Newshub): NZ First and Greens fighting for survival, trying to kill each other off amid Green
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A Taranaki iwi has signed a multimillion dollar agreement for the $200 million Mt Messenger bypass, a court was told. But the same court then heard the “devastation” a family had endured while trying to get similar treatment. On Wednesday, the appeal hearing against an interim Environment Court decision in
Green private school grant row Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Green co-leader James Shaw refused to sign-off on $3bn of infrastructure projects unless Green School was included Jane Patterson (RNZ): Treasury opposed Green School grant over lack of approvals Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): James Shaw has a bigger problem than the
