Bernard’s Pick ‘n’ Mix at 6am on March 17

Seymour says lunches critics 'nitpicking'; Wellington Council social housing funds in danger; Wellington Opera to shut without Council rescue; Andrea Vance thinks Luxon will survive, for now.

Here’s my selection¹ of scoops, breaking news, news, analyses, deep-dives, features, interviews, Op-Eds, editorials and cartoons from around Aotearoa’s political economy on housing, climate and poverty from RNZ, 1News, The Post-$², The Press−$, Newsroom³, NZ Herald, Stuff, BusinessDesk-$, Newsroom-$, Politik-$, NBR-$, Reuters, FT-$, WSJ-$, Bloomberg-$, New York Times-$, The Atlantic-$, The Economist-$ and more as of 6am on March 17.

In short: David Seymour accuses school lunches critics of ‘nitpicking’. Andrea Vance doesn’t think Christopher Luxon is about to be rolled. Yet. A Wellington councillor was to cut social housing spend running at $245k/unit, but the Council is being asked to save Wellington Opera from being shut down because of Government budget cuts. Guyon Espiner has an excellent gambling investigation.

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Bernard’s Pick n’ Mix Six at 6am on March 17