Dug into numbers around claim KO under Labour would sell 10k state homes.

Treasury thinks that assumption was unreasonable.

KO says it would lead to no net reduction in public housing places and would increase the total number of homes in NZ nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/tr…

Another policy focused episode of On The Tiles. This week we talked to Chris Penk about his plans for Building and Construction and Defence procurement. Some really interesting comments on the review of quake parts of the Building Act.

Nicola Willis very dominant in the House this week. Labour not landing a blow.

Big Residential Tenancy Act changes have been agreed. Basically go back to status quo prior to Labour's 2020 RTA changes (which NZF voted for).

Officials not convinced benefits to tenants from more investment will outweigh cost of greater insecurity.

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Late Easter miracle.

There's a fair bit of support for this in the Government.

NZ First saying it'll support it to select committee too. Big cheers.

National now looking like a big outlier.

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ACT announcing it will support Teanau Tuiono’s member's bill (1R only at this stage) on restoring citizenship to people who lost NZ citizenship by Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982.

That's enough to get it over the line. Big cheers from across the House.

In other media news today:

Newsroom had success in the Court of Appeal in overturning a High Court injunction that forced us to remove a Melanie Reid video investigation on Oranga Tamariki's 'reverse uplift' of four kids. Three years ago.

Judges said we did not identify kids.

Families with young kids spend a third of their incomes on childcare.

Interesting RIS on why fee transparency is likely to be key to getting that figure down. David Seymour says he's open to looking at it as part of whatever follows review.

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Winston Peters tends to speak very fondly of Helen Clark. Not so this morning when he was critical of her remarks on Aukus pillar 2 nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/wi…

From yesterday, some agencies won't hit savings targets. Big unknown is what is happening at MFAT and whether Winston Peters is putting up a bit of a fight.
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Great piece from Henry.

Joint statement from AUKUS nations says they’re “considering cooperation with Japan” on AUKUS Pillar II in order to strengthen collaboration on advanced military technology. No announcement it’s joining as partner (as Rahm Emanuel declared) but direction of travel fairly clear

Is it time for a new Chris on the 9th floor? New TPU-Curia Poll finds Chris Bishop has better net favourables than Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins.

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MfE one of the fastest growing agencies. It got lumped with the massive RMA reforms and Emissions Reduction Plan work, so a lot of growth was probably to be expected. Govt hopes to re-reform RMA and continue ERPs, so full reversal of staffing growth probably not an option.