CORRECTIONS
Jo Moir and Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Contradictions and confusion: More questions than answers at government press conference
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): A very confounding government press conference
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Analysis: Mark Mitchell gets caught up in spin, not substance in Govt's worst performance at press conference
Felix Desmarais (1News): More prison beds, prison officers and rehab programmes — Govt
Adam Pearse (Herald): Govt revives Waikato mega-prison plans as $1.9b spend pays for 810-bed extension
Anna Whyte and Thomas Manch (Post): Government pledges boost to frontline Corrections staff (paywalled)
FAST TRACK BILL
Simon Wison (Herald): Farewell James Shaw, now what about that Fast-Track Bill? (paywalled)
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Federated Farmers’ support for fast-track bill ‘ambiguous’
Natalia Albert: Fast Track Bill and Our Role in Civic Engagement
ECONOMY, BUDGET, EMPLOYMENT, COST OF LIVING
Jenée Tibshraeny. (Herald): OECD warns NZ Govt it shouldn’t borrow to pay for tax cuts (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Top OECD economist puts Willis between a rock and a hard place (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): OECD adds its weight to the capital gains tax debate (paywalled)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Willis pledges fiscal discipline with caveats (paywalled)
RNZ: Inflation, education and productivity: Some of the problems NZ needs to fix, according to the OECD
Simon Shepherd (Newshub): OECD report: New Zealand needs to get inflation down, boost productivity, improve educational achievement
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): NZ may be better off breaking up some big businesses: OECD (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Nicola Willis is considering a new fiscal rule and independent watchdog after recommendations by the OECD
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): Beyond the headlines: Jobs data points to a divided NZ (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): The workers are flying into NZ...and the money's flying out of the country
Michael Gordon: Labour market trends redux
Kirk Hope (Post): What the Budget needs to do to bring confidence back to business (paywalled)
Frances Chin (Post): Housing costs and food prices pushing households ‘over edge’ (paywalled)
Terry Baucher (Interest): Te wiki o te tāke: Taxes on wages are rising. A thresholds review is long overdue
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