Gerry Brownlee - who usually does not attend caucus as he is the Speaker - was just seen entering the National Party caucus.

National on brink of another ‘Hunger Games’ phase, staff unsettled ‒ sources But Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is not expecting a leadership vote at Tuesday’s caucus meeting.

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Christopher Luxon insists he’s not expecting a leadership vote next week Th PM is said to have “ghosted” his whip, but he says he is not expecting any vote.

Christopher Luxon says he doesn't anticipate a vote on his leadership at this Tuesday's caucus meeting

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What does Labour have outside of its past? OPINION: The return of Jacinda illuminates how backwards-looking the current Labour project is.

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or just do a stop ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. we’re a long way away!

I don’t work for stuff

I am on purpose extremely easy to contact and you take the good with the bad on that

oh they were very good about it (this is largely years ago)

have they sent you emails about wanting to hang you? bc they have to me, daily for a while. texts and phonecalls too.

if you open the story, she’s there for the IMF and World Bank mtgs

Quite an array of protestors outside the Jacinda Ardern book event - also a huge line of punters waiting to get thru security.

Nicola Willis to ask White House when things will return to ‘normal’ The finance minister is also suggesting Pacific get World Bank aid at big Washington DC meetings.

I just spoke to Nicola Willis from DC, where's she's meeting White House officials tomorrow.

Willis is planning to:
- Make clear how concerned NZ is about the conflict
- Ask when US sees things returning to 'normal'
- Raise the ramifications for the Pacific

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MBIE say the reason they aren't talking about ships outside of the three week window because they only talk about ships that are already en route to NZ, and that is about the length of time it takes.

They say ships are expected in May but won't share details.

Albo is throwing the kitchen sink at the fuel crisis. Should we be doing the same? OPINION: Australia began this crisis in a better place than New Zealand. Are they responding to it better too?

Column today: Why is NZ not throwing the kitchen sink at the crisis like Albo is?

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Who’s who in the fuel crisis response? Nicola Willis has been the public face of the fuel response so far - but she’s being helped by six CEOs from six big agencies.

Want to know which public servants and staffers are running the response to largest crisis this Government has faced yet?

The Post is here to help:

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finished DEATH IN VENICE last night - haunting!

Statement which you can attribute to Foreign Minister Winston Peters: New Zealand welcomes the announcements by the United States and Iran over the past few hours - as we welcome all efforts to bring an end to this conflict. While this is encouraging news, there remains significant important work to be done in the coming days to secure a lasting ceasefire. We are grateful for the work of Pakistan, and others such as Turkiye and Egypt, to seek to find a solution to the crisis.  As we discussed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio today, this conflict has had wide-ranging impacts and disruptions - for both those in the Middle East and further afield including in New Zealand and the Pacific region. In the coming days and weeks, New Zealand will stand in support of all efforts to bring about a lasting, durable end to this conflict.

Winston Peters welcomes ceasefire announcement, but says significant work to be done to secure a lasting ceasefire:

What would a far more powerful NZ First look like? OPINION: As Winston Peters surges in polls, National should start thinking about what rats it can swallow.

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Column today: What would a coalition with a far more powerful NZ First look like?

Transcript here:

Christopher Luxon says NZ still does not have a view on the bombing of the school in Iran. He says he has seen the reporting on the US investigations into it (which found the US was at fault) but it is up to them to explain their actions.

Just finished this lovely book about the many stumbling paths that texts from antiquity took to the renaissance. occasionally more detail about varying versions of translations than I really wanted, but came together very well at the end - in Venice!

Luxon rips tendrils of power from Bishop OPINION: Chris Bishop has built up huge power inside National. His boss just removed a lot of it.

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RESHUFFLE:

Simeon Brown is getting the energy portfolio and campaign chair role.
Chris Penk enters Cabinet with Defence and Space.
Chris Bishop loses associate sport and leader of the house and campaign chair.

See all the portfolio changes in this story:

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Labour campaign chair Kieran McAnulty on his new opposite number Simeon Brown:

“Doesn’t matter who the chair is when the PM is still a dud.”

It’s starting to feel a lot like 2020 OPINION: As an “air bubble” of fuel disruption heads towards us in April, it’s starting to feel a lot like March of 2020.

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ideally just do a single fare for everyone and increase peak performance massively but this seems like a good starting point

i have a free idea for the metlink given it is about to change payments entirely: allow a single fare all non-adult cards, so that kids and students no longer have to "snap off" and keep the bus at a standstill for three minutes at peak times.

Price vs rationing: The big debate behind fuel response Nicola Willis says she is doing all she can to avoid the “communism” of rationing fuel betweeen users at higher phases.

Should the Government have a role allocating scarce fuel supplies or let high prices do the work?
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if you want you can watch the press conference today, it’s literally all just us asking things.