POLITICAL INTEGRITY, REGISTER OF PECUNIARY INTERESTS, POLITICAL FINANCE
David Fisher (Herald): Investigation: David Seymour’s special medicines envoy has investments in Big Pharma (paywalled)
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Govt accepts charity-commissioned report of its own worth at face value, prime minister doubles down
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Gumboot charity's links to National questioned after $24m funding boost
RNZ: I Am Hope chair's donations to National questioned after $24m Gumboot Friday pledge
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Te Pāti Māori wants National MP referred to police - just like the ‘brown party were’
Daniel Perese and James Perry (Te Ao Māori News): ‘Government of privilege’ - Te Pāti Māori on National’s undeclared donations
Glenn McLean (Stuff): New Plymouth MP hits back at corruption claims over undeclared donations
No Right Turn: More National corruption
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): MPs own 2.2 houses on average
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): What it's like to be a renting MP
Adam Pearse (Herald): Which MPs have the heftiest credit card and travel expenses in Q1, 2024? Judith Collins spends almost $150,000 on international travel
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Why some MPs take a pass on KiwiSaver
Stacey Rangitonga (Post): The KiwiSaver schemes popular with MPs (paywalled)
Philip Crump (Newstalk ZB: Greens confirm party paid for Darleen Tana puff piece now subject to Electoral Commission inquiry (paywalled)
BUDGET, ECONOMY
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Here’s the big number to watch when Nicola Willis delivers her first Budget (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlann (Herald): Government confirms further cuts to come as MSD proposes 700 headcount reduction
Claire Trevet (Herald): PM Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis joint interview: how they operate and a Budget of “surprises and bold moves” (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Luxon and Willis sing the darkness before dawn in chorus (paywalled)
Josie Pagani (Post): Can Nicola Willis lead us away from a candle-powered economy? (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Finance Minister adamant tax cuts won't be inflationary
Cameron Smith (Herald): Kiwis feeling more pessimistic about inflation, rate cuts and finances (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Tova podcast: In a cost of living crisis, what do Kiwis want to see in the Budget?
RNZ: Ministry of Social Development job losses top 700 after more cuts announced
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): The Ministry of Social Development looks to shed 700 staff
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Public Service Commission looks to cut nearly 20 percent of its workforce
Kate Green (RNZ): NZTA to axe 24 more jobs in third round of proposed cuts
Post: Job cuts at DOC and MSD, Education Ministry and union head to mediation (paywalled)
Cécile Meier (Newsroom): Further job cuts could be on the cards for Ministry of Education this year (paywalled)
Hanna McCallum (Post): The 'dehumanising' flow-on effect of government cuts (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Budget 2024: A novice's cheat sheet, and what to expect
RNZ: Nicola Willis gives pre-budget speech to business leaders
Post: Finance Minister gives nod towards infrastructure spending in Budget (paywalled)
Michael Cugley (Te Ao Māori News): Whānau Ora boss John Tamihere on next week’s budget: ‘I don’t have any hope’
Robyn Hunt (Spinoff): What can disabled people expect in the budget?
Jessica McCarthy (Stuff): Newsable: Why young people get hardest hit by job losses
Kristin Kelly (Spinoff): Need a side hustle in these tough times? Here are your National-approved options
RNZ: Households still in grip of high food costs
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Government looks to scrap tax incentive for utes
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): ‘Rate cuts are just not part of the discussion’: Hawkesby (paywalled)
FAST-TRACK BILL, MINING
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Fast-track regime would lead to ‘disasters’, Simon Upton warns (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Why do we keep defending what doesn't work?
RNZ: Government's mining proposal an attack on NZ environment - Forest and Bird
1News: Forest and Bird, opposition critical of Govt's mining plans
Mike Thorpe (Newshub): Shane Jones attacks 'metropolitan, identity-driven' Labour Party as he commits to new mining projects
Steven Cowan: Shane Jones goes to Blackball
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Shane Jones' billion dollar opportunity
Felix Desmarais (1News): Mining 'back in business' with plan to double export value - Govt
Newshub: Resources Minister Shane Jones announces plan to double export earnings from mining, says industry is 'back in business'
RNZ: ACT says ‘drill, baby, drill’ as govt unveils mineral mining strategy
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Shane Jones hopes to increase the value of mineral exports to $2 billion over the next decade, even if it means digging up some conservation land
Brent Edwards (NBR): Shane Jones promises high environmental standards for mining (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Coalition wants to double mining revenue within a decade (paywalled)
Ian Taylor (Herald): A letter to Shane Jones (paywalled)
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