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  "description": "10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You",
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  "textContent": "**This is edition 2026/098 of the _Ten@10_ newsletter.**\n\nHi all,\n\nThis is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.\n\nEnjoy!\n\n* * *\n\n## 1. Putting a face to the corporate influence in the Beehive\n\n _Bryce Edwards_\n\n  * 🔥 A lobbying scandal has emerged over **hidden corporate influence that appears to have shaped a retrospective law change** blocking private climate lawsuits against companies like Z Energy and Fonterra.\n  * 👥 The story shifted when **Matt Burgess, Christopher Luxon's senior policy adviser** , was named as the official who received hard-copy briefing notes from Fonterra and Z Energy not later disclosed via OIA.\n  * 🔍 Burgess responded to media requests with a single line: **\"I have nothing to add.\"**\n  * 🏢 Burgess came to the role directly from the **New Zealand Initiative** , a business-funded think tank and lobby group, covering resource management, energy and the Emissions Trading Scheme.\n  * 📰 In 2022 Burgess authored an Initiative report called **\"Pretence of Necessity\"** , arguing New Zealand did not need extra climate policies beyond the ETS.\n  * 🔄 The Initiative's chief economist Eric Crampton **joked that Luxon's office had \"stolen\" Burgess** from them, a remark the article says captures something real about Wellington's revolving door.\n  * 🏛️ The New Zealand Initiative grew from the merger of the **Business Roundtable and the New Zealand Institute** and counts major banks, energy companies, supermarkets and Google among its corporate members.\n  * ⚖️ Genesis Energy, **one of the defendants in the Smith v Fonterra climate lawsuit** , sits inside the Initiative, and its chair Barbara Chapman serves as the Initiative's deputy chair.\n  * 🌿 The Initiative's climate position over the past decade has consistently **favoured keeping climate accountability within statute and away from common-law litigation** — the same outcome the corporate briefings sought.\n  * 💰 Whether Fonterra or Z Energy are **current paying members of the Initiative cannot be established** because the full membership list is not publicly disclosed.\n  * 📊 The article argues the more plausible problem is not conspiracy but **the same people, institutions and assumptions circulating through the same small set of rooms**.\n  * 🧾 When Fonterra and Z Energy delivered briefing notes in **mid-2024** , the material went directly to Burgess, whose policy background was unusually aligned with the companies' arguments.\n  * ⚠️ Journalist Audrey Young summarised the affair in **two words: \"It stinks.\"**\n  * 🔵 Luxon faces a **\"nothing to see here\" problem** , according to the article, with further sections behind a paywall examining whether the episode constitutes a cover-up.\n\n\n\nRead More\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/098",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-02T22:00:06.024Z"
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