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New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project.

Today’s content

LOBBYING, OIA, STUART NASH
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Lobbying reforms substance or just ‘something’? (paywalled)
RNZ: Government’s proposed crackdown on lobbyists dismissed as too tentative
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Hipkins takes on the lobbyists – what is planned, and is it enough?
Richard Harman (Politik): Hipkins’ sensitivity over Nash affair
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Prime Minister Chris Hipkins eats humble pie by telling lobbyists the gig is up
Jo Moir (Newsroom): From bread and butter to beltway – PM resets narrative
Felix Desmarais (1News): Lobbying in Parliament: New rules announced by Hipkins
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announces crackdown on lobbying at Parliament
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Lobbyists get reined in: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins writes to Speaker to cut off their access, wants voluntary code of conduct
No Right Turn: Doing the right thing a decade late
David Farrar: The Claytons lobbying reform
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Call for official information penalties following Nash saga
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Stuart Nash to leave at election, Cabinet secretary reviewing his messages
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Stuart Nash to stand down from politics at election
RNZ: Labour MP Stuart Nash will leave politics at October election
Bridie Witton (Stuff): National told to stop using Newshub clip about Stuart Nash

PARLIAMENT, ELECTION
Tema Hemi (Whakaata Māori): Wāhine Māori gearing up for election contests
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour announces candidate for hotly-contested Te Tai Hauāuru electorate
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Winston Peters gives lengthy interview to conspiracy theorist Liz Gunn
Shane Jones (Herald): Chris Hipkins is handing out policy Easter eggs but voters are not bunnies (paywalled)
Re News: PM Chris Hipkins answers your questions
Newshub: Chris Hipkins hopes Kiwis ‘on fringes’ now ‘back off’ from Ardern as she leaves Parliament

GREENS
Michael Neilson (Herald): Greens make another push into Labour territory, Ricardo Menendez March to run in Mt Albert ‘two ticks’ campaign
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Greens’ initial list revealed: The outsider ranked ahead of current MP, where Efeso Collins sits
Felix Desmarais (1News): MP who broke isolation rules ascends initial Green Party list
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Golriz Ghahraman down, Elizabeth Kerekere up in new Green Party list – Efeso Collins in unwinnable position
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Green Party releases initial election list, Elizabeth Kerekere jumps to four
RNZ: Green Party releases draft candidate list
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Green Party releases initial candidate list for 2023 election + TDB Top 5 picks

ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Up to 185,000 people may soon no longer be earning ‘living wage’
William Hewett (Newshub): David Seymour supports increase for benefits but not minimum wage-earners as they ‘are not leading households’
Jordan Lane (1News): How are the minimum wage and the living wage different?
Eric Crampton: 2023 Minimum Wage increases
Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): March was the month of redundancies – but is it about to get worse?
Gordon Campbell: On hiking up interest rates
Imogen Wells (Stuff): Newsable’s OCR cheat sheet: The who, the what, the why and how (much?)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Parental leave rule that can catch out people who are partly self-employed

SUPERANNUATION
Chris Trotter: Dangerous Generations?
Robert MacCulloch: Newshub stirs anger toward “rich, old people” (and gets in wrong in the process)
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): The Detail: Why there’s no comparison between pensions in France and NZ

BUSINESS
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Are diversity plans back-firing – or am I just being a grumpy old man?
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): NZ ‘behind the curve’ on banking industry changes – report
RNZ: Small businesses owners face dipping into personal funds to stay afloat
James Higham and Susan Houge Mackenzie (Newsroom): Public-private partnership could be the key to survival of tourism

HEALTH
Kristie Boland (Stuff): Senior doctors demand action from health minister as concerns over unmet need go ‘ignored’
Phil Pennington (RNZ): National cancer working group forms in response to critical shortages
RNZ: Ousted Te Whatu Ora chair Rob Campbell hits out at ‘half-baked’ health reforms
Stephen Forbes (Local Democracy Reporting): South Auckland GPs worried sector won’t cope this flu season
RNZ: Recruitment specialist warns New Zealand nurses may end up worse off in Australia
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Thousands of nurses are jumping across the ditch
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Dunedin hospital – do it once and do it right
Olivia Shivas (Stuff): Health system a ‘lonely road’, not fit for Māori needing kidney transplants
Charlotte Muru-Lanning (Spinoff): ‘Woeful’ kidney transplant rates among Māori prompt calls for urgent action
RNZ: Vaccine hesitancy still an issue with disinformation circling on social media – GP
Tamara Poi-Ngawhika (BusinessDesk): By Māori for Māori: How a covid-19 fund helped lift Māori vaccination rates
RNZ: Covid-19 update: 12,202 new cases, 25 further deaths attributed to the virus
RNZ: Apology ordered after patient denied care due to cost

TRANSPORT
Timothy Welch (The Conversation): A short history of doomed second harbour crossing proposals for Auckland – and a quicker, cheaper option
Todd Niall (Stuff): What Auckland Transport could learn from a beleaguered ferry company
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland Transport to cut jobs and restructure as budget slashed
Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Buses a much lower priority than cars in our big cities
Farah Hancock (RNZ): Wellington’s most cancelled bus routes
Farah Hancock (RNZ): Auckland’s most cancelled bus routes
Conor Knell (Stuff): More bus drivers on Wellington’s roads but price rise, cancellations still bite
Soumya Bhamidipati (RNZ): More engineering faults, more cancelled ferries on Cook Strait
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): $650m Manawatū to Hawke’s Bay highway pushed back until mid-2025

HOUSING
Miriam Bell (Stuff): Fixing New Zealand’s unhealthy homes could cost over $50 billion
RNZ: Fixing unhealthy homes would hit GDP growth, but benefit families – report
Tina Morrison (Stuff): Debt-to-income controls on housing could help first-home buyers, RBNZ says

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
RNZ: Veteran Gore councillor Bret Highsted resigns over ‘unsustainable anxiety’
Rachael Kelly (Stuff): Councillor resigns as fallout from Gore mayor Ben Bell’s meeting continue
RNZ: ‘It’s artists that often shine the way forward’ – Why arts funding matters
Tom Kitchin (RNZ): The Detail: The core of karakia
David Kārena-Holmes (Stuff): Use of karakia in formal proceedings

CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Simon Wilson (Herald): National, Labour and their magical thinking about climate change (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): First salvo in the climate election
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Luxon’s bright ideas make him more credible (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on scrapped clean car schemes
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): New ETS plan concerns Māori leaders, but gagging order stops them talking about it
No Right Turn: Climate Change: Treasury says “not like that”!
RNZ: Tiwai Point smelter considered in renewable energy strategy, Southland agency says
David Williams (Newsroom): Finally, water’s health is being put first

MEDIA
James Halpin (Stuff): MediaWorks’ board breaks silence over Today FM closure, takes swipe over final broadcast
Julie Jacobson (Stuff): Broadcaster Sean Plunket suspended from Twitter
1News: ‘Rather ironic’ – Sean Plunket says Twitter ban ‘troll attack’
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Culture War Round 2 – Sean Plunket Banned for life from Twitter

CULTURE WARS
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: Do culture wars win politicians votes?
Ling Yee Wong (Spinoff): Singing, safety and the limits of free speech

OTHER
Aaron Dahmen (Newstalk ZB): Exclusive: CCTV cameras made by CCP-linked companies found in Govt departments, home of Kiwi MP, as allies remove Chinese tech
Justin Latif (Pacific Media Network): Auckland club football’s racist underbelly revealed in new report
RNZ: National claims judges ignoring police bail objections
Katie Ham (Stuff): ‘Trusted insiders’ help tobacco smuggling into Aoteaora, says customs
Gianina Schwanecke (Stuff): How the cost of living crisis is leading to fewer kids in sports
Charlotte Cook (RNZ): NZ Defence Force ongoing staff shortage affected Cyclone Gabrielle response
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): One NZ inks deal with SpaceX to provide 100% mobile coverage of NZ
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Disaster-prone cell tower network forces telcos to reach for the stars

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