ECONOMY, BUDGET, PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, COST OF LIVING
Matthew Hooton: Tax cut story now indistinguishable from lying
Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): More Harm Than Good
Chris Trotter (Newstalk ZB): Willis Not About To Deliver Her Own 'Black Budget’ (paywalled)
Oliver Hartwich: New Zealand faces its biggest test since the 1980s
Jo Moir (RNZ): Explainer: Nicola Willis' pre-Budget speech - what we learnt
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Willis won’t repeat austerity 'mistakes' despite worsening fiscal forecasts
Felix Desmarais (1News): Swarbrick accuses Finance Minister of 'let them eat cake' approach
Thomas Manch (Post): Most households will get a tax cut, Nicola Willis says (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): ‘Wasted money’: Labour critical of Govt’s social rebrand (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The economy is stuffed and the reports show it
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Public services savings confirmed, but possibly not complete
Anna Whyte (Post): Behind the cuts: The Finance Minister’s public service hints (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Emails detail aftermath of Suicide Prevention Office stoush (paywalled)
RNZ: Job applications soar as public sector layoffs continue, data shows
RNZ: ACC proposes cutting more than 300 jobs
Anna Whyte (Post): ACC propose to cut almost 400 roles (paywalled)
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): NIWA job cuts could gut team of NZ's top climate modellers
RNZ: NZTA looks to cut 12 roles
RNZ: Victoria University offers new scholarship for public servants made redundant
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Budgeting service cuts: 'It's like watching a train derail'
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): 'Where's the support for them?'- debt solution providers lose funding
ELECTIONS, PARLIAMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Losing confidence in the integrity of NZ elections
Jack Tame (1News): The case for keeping election-day voter enrolments
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Labour needs a bolder leader than Chris Hipkins (paywalled)
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): How the Greens could be contenders
Sam Stubbs (Post): Why our politicians deserve their pay rise (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Water reforms, prison miscalculations, the Budget, woke food
Greg Dixon (Listener): Another Kind of Politics: A week of political absurdity (paywalled)
ENERGY
Molly Swift and Leighton Heikell (Newshub): Energy Minister Simeon Brown 'incredibly concerned' amid warnings of power cuts
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Minister says energy supply in ‘crisis’ as country braces for possible power cuts (paywalled)
Newstalk ZB: The Government's mission to 're-legitimise' gas with energy production levels plummeting (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Govt must regulate to smooth EVs and data centres' demand on power grids - Vector
Lana Andelane (Newshub): Possible power cuts: Transpower CEO eases concerns of outages amid cold snap, says situation is 'comfortable'
Piers Fuller and Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Cold snap pushes power demand to the brink (paywalled)
RNZ: Pressure on power supply 'timely wake up call' for industry
RNZ: Genesis Energy to fire up coal imports, citing increased demand, dwindling gas supply
Herald Editorial: Genesis’ coal, gas call - NZ needs sensible energy, power supply approach (paywalled)
Raphael Franks (Herald): Grid crisis: Power cuts possible as cold weather sees demand spike, Transpower issues warning
RNZ: Transpower warns of possible power shortages on Friday
Newshub: Kiwis told to reduce power use on Friday morning to avoid outages during cold blast
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): How did we get into the gas shortage mess?
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