Collected stories - 1 March 2023 to 31 May 2023
Greenpeace Aotearoa
After years of nothing but crickets from National on climate change, party leader Christopher Luxon finally launched a policy promising to deal with the greatest existential threat of our time - but is it any good?
Newsroom
Officials who knowingly break the country's official information law need more than a slap on the wrist, experts say as the Ombudsman investigates a former minister's email to donors.
RNZ
As Nanaia Mahuta heads to Europe to represent New Zealand at a key NATO meeting, experts say our relationship to the alliance is only getting stronger.
Stuff
Mahuta will express New Zealand’s “ongoing condemnation of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine one year on".
Griffith University's Professor Charles Sampford says it's important a culture of integrity is built within Government.
Dubbed by some as the "townhouse bill", height restrictions on houses have been raised to three storeys across New Zealand cities.
Stuff
OPINION: It is a grubby irony that Labour finds itself in the grip of a scandal underpinned by the two very things it promised to clean up.
Stuff
OPINION: Successive governments have subverted the spirit of the OIA by employing an army of staffers to parse the wording of responses that dodge the release of any information they don't want out.
Newsroom
The danger of National's policy is that it undoes much of an informal pact with Labour to depoliticise education at a time of real struggle, argues Peter O'Connor
Stuff
On Wednesday, Jacinda Ardern gives her valedictory speech and leaves Parliament, likely forever. How will history rate her turbulent period as prime minister?
RNZ
The Prime Minister has had his flu and Covid vaccinations and is encouraging others to do the same.
RNZ
Analysis - When is a cabinet minister not a cabinet minister? The faulty logic of Stuart Nash has landed him and Labour in a heap of trouble but opened the door to serious reform of the Official Information Act, Tim Watkin writes.
RNZ
The biggest overhaul of holidays laws in two decades has been delayed further and now will not happen before the election.
Newshub
The Greens meanwhile want benefits to be increased to "liveable levels".
RNZ
Police Minister is a tough gig: focusing on social issues leads to 'soft-on-crime' criticism while going too hard can look like populism. With four ministers in eight months it's ended up a hot-potato portfolio for Labour, and the latest appointee Ginny Andersen has only been in Cabinet since February - raising a few eyebrows. She evidently wanted the role and says she's more than capable of steadying the ship, but the law-and-order focused opposition will be eager to test her mettle in an election year: she will have her work cut out for her. In this week's Focus on Politics Political Reporter Giles Dexter assesses how police has proven so challenging for Labour, and the prospects of its latest appointee.
Pundit
When is a cabinet minister not a cabinet minister? The faulty logic of Stuart Nash has landed him and Labour in a heap of trouble but opened the door to serious reform of the Official Information Act
RNZ
The biggest overhaul of holidays laws in two decades has been delayed further and now will not happen before the election.
Stuff
OPINION: “Six-and-a-half months out from a general election no politician wants to risk the drip, drip, drip of scandalous information...”
Newshub
He plans to complete his investigation as soon as possible.
NZ Herald
Hipkins says Nash has been 'ultimately held accountable'.
Newshub
He called them "diligent and honest".
Newsroom
The latest revelations in the Stuart Nash saga extend Chris Hipkins' political headache but also spotlight the lack of transparency on freedom of information decisions.
NZ Herald
“It’s Auckland over there, being a bit special, and the rest of New Zealand is separated."
Newshub
Watch it here.
Stuff
Nash's political career is in tatters, but his email trail is now dragging down the new prime minister's office with him.
Your voice is important and you can help shape the outcome for all New Zealanders by putting your views before Parliament. Be sure to have your say so Parliament is better informed.
RNZ
Parliament changed a long-standing rule this week and will now leave the counting of votes to the experts. It turns out MPs just aren’t that good at counting.
The Conversation
As she prepares to deliver of her valedictory statement to parliament, Jacinda Ardern will be remembered as an outstanding prime minister – though perhaps not for reasons of her own choosing.
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