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# Daily News Roundup – 10 December 2020
- URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-10-december-2020/
- Published: 2020-12-09T19:15:01.000Z
- Updated: 2020-12-10T18:58:53.000Z
- Author: General
- Tags: Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

**Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations**  
Jason Walls (Herald): [MPs challenge House Speaker Trevor Mallard over timing of his false rape accusation apology](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eaad4bee17&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Zane Small (Newshub): [Speaker Trevor Mallard comes under fire from National, ACT over ‘rape’ comments](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5139450bea&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): [MPs call for a vote of no confidence in Speaker Trevor Mallard over ‘rape’ allegations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=35ba15e584&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Anna Whyte (1News): [National calls for Speaker to be ‘upfront’ over taxpayer money spent on defamation suit](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7c4fd5b5f7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Speaker Trevor Mallard refuses to say how much taxpayer money spent in defamation case after incorrect rape claim](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1648618765&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Newstalk ZB: [Stuart Nash defends under-fire Trevor Mallard over rape accusations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6a1b325f2e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Stuff: [Speaker Trevor Mallard challenged to reveal details behind retraction of rape allegation against staffer](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6fd034e8fb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**China-NZ relations**  
Malcolm McKinnon (Democracy Project): [NZ human rights diplomacy and East Asia](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2c6c9c636b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [The spy club and international politics](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=41cb36b412&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Richard Prebble (Herald): [Politicians aren’t asking the big questions on China](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5897f52e25&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
  
**Royal Commission into terrorist attack: Commentary and analysis**  
Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation): [The Christchurch commission’s call to improve social cohesion is its hardest — and most important — recommendation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c13d97b086&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
ODT: [Editorial – Too soon to assess impact of report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3da47a7cf4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Zane Small (Newshub): [Green MP Golriz Ghahraman expresses ‘huge concern’ about NZSIS boss Rebecca Kitteridge over ‘inappropriate’ targeting of Muslims](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3cbfbcb837&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Donna Miles-Mojab (Stuff): [Mosque terror attacks were a massacre by a thousand cuts](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=607344df3c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Intelligence agencies to remain intact in national security overhaul](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=027c0c21fc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Kris Gledhill (The Conversation): [The royal commission report on the Christchurch atrocity is a beginning, not an end](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0f73c7b2e2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Phil Pennington (RNZ): [Need for better detectives than counter-terrorism agency – security expert](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5ca5b4b1d2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Karl du Fresne: [Nothing could have been done – so why are we apologising?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ff6f069023&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Royal Commission on terrorist attack: Changes planned by Government**  
Stuff: [Editorial – Freedom, hate and reasonable limits](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a2a836072a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [Christchurch shooting: Changes in wake of mosque attack inquiry will be made carefully – Andrew Little](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=acfa7bedda&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): [Jacinda Ardern promises to close ‘gaps in hate speech legislation’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a6a5bb0b7c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Newstalk ZB: [Concerns over freedom of speech following mosque attack report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7147c48b68&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Newstalk ZB: [Paul Spoonley: ‘We need to rethink what hate speech is today’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=01f319ed6f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Point of Order: [Hate speech: creating a climate in which silence is the best form of defence against heavy-handed Thought Police](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c9163c45f9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Royal Commission into terrorist attack: Police report**  
Juliet Speedy (Newshub): [Christchurch mosque attacks: Victims’ families disagree with ‘rapid and exemplary’ police response](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6730cfe947&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Kurt Bayer (Herald): [Police review into Christchurch mosque attacks response revealed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b0fe013da5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Mosque attack response ‘exemplary’ but processes can improve – police review](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9bac005283&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [Christchurch shooting: Independent review finds where police could improve, overall response ‘exemplary’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3a52fb5a00&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Royal Commission into terrorist attack: Responses**  
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [Christchurch shooting: Opposition Australian MP calls for country to ‘recognise’ Royal Commission of Inquiry](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=321079e634&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [‘It’s not OK’: Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel issues call to address racist behaviour](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=82ce6b8600&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Anna Leask (Herald): [Christchurch mosque shootings: An Islamophobic, racist ‘lone actor’ – gunman’s path to murder detailed in report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0e24d792c0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Christchurch shooting: No one to blame but the terrorist himself – Judith Collins](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=afbcfdb171&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Parliament, Government, and election**  
Zane Small (Newshub): [Judith Collins reveals the ‘body blow’ to election campaign that National never recovered from](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b4ccd0b667&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Election 2020: Judith Collins says she almost rejected National leadership, says fiscal hole and leaks ruined party’s chances](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=12c34529f5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): [Election in review: Judith Collins considered rejecting National leadership](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fae646376c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Claire Trevett (Herald): [Memo to Judith Collins from Jacinda Ardern](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6db74c1735&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
TVNZ: [MP Ricardo Menéndez March makes powerful maiden speech in Parliament — ‘The rules weren’t made for us’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=97dc816c10&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
David Farrar: [The Marxist maligning MP](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0288a177f8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Green MP Teanau Tuiono weaves whakapapa through maiden speech](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=879d292536&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [We’ve reached the end of a crazy political year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4e5e1930d8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [‘Still the pragmatic idealist’: PM denies popularity will move Labour to the centre](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d66c0c34e7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): [Jacinda Ardern named among most powerful women in world, ahead of Queen Elizabeth](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ba2e7f9917&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern named ahead of Queen Elizabeth in Forbes 100 most powerful women](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0d17b8ee09&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Stuff: [Jacinda Ardern ranked world’s 32nd most powerful woman by Forbes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3d54845d15&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Newstalk ZB: [Christmas bestseller? Judith Collins to spend her summer writing a thriller](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7c11703a97&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [National Party leader Judith Collins’s next gig: Thriller writer](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9c631c1ff3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Economy, inequality, and work**  
Marta Steeman (Stuff): [Businesses stockpiling deposits including wage subsidies while making strong profits](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ad19435f4e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Emile Donovan (RNZ): [Tolerating child poverty as part of an economic strategy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c71605b140&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): [Wealth gap between young and old growing – ANZ report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0793facb35&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Reserve Bank tramples MPs in first major meeting since election](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2f1e0b522e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Should we fear the rise of the woke central banker?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6d652557f7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Anonymous (Stuff): [An open letter to my boss in the New Zealand fruit-picking industry](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b433e54b99&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Stuff: [Immigrant workers are more reliable and twice as productive as other workers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1ae3683300&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Commerce Commission investigating fake money drop event](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=666c0dd5ae&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): [Orr defends size of the RBNZ’s QE programme](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2483cf1124&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [Infratil and ACC at odds, again, in $5 billion hostile takeover attempt](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=96ae4d5cae&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
  
**Housing**  
Ruth Hill (RNZ): [Housing market ‘insane’ for buyers, but realtor says ‘job is to get best price’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=24b8c70c0f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Ashley Church (One Roof): [Are rising house prices really a bad thing?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9cce0e0769&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Robert MacCulloch (NBR): [Capital taxes will not work in New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5e550df334&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Sophie Trigger (Herald): [Wellington house sales: Buyers ‘getting tired’, survey shows](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c2fe3dbd59&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Covid**  
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Chris Hipkins holding on to report slamming Health Ministry](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=66b8dfe338&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [Covid refugees? What legal experts say as INZ receives 14 claims](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e524651f94&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jason Walls (Herald): [Chris Hipkins: Anti-vaxxers could be significant issue in Covid vaccine rollout next year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e87811f513&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [No privacy issues with new Bluetooth upgrade to Covid Tracer App – Hipkins](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ff6b0804a7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [The ‘Catch 22’ with the new Bluetooth feature in the Covid Tracer app](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c6d7951e8a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dan Satherley and Rosie Gordon (Newshub): [COVID Tracer app’s new Bluetooth tracing: Is it a privacy concern?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=615de4a3e5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dan Lake (Newshub): [New data from Statistics New Zealand reveals cost of COVID-19 to local tourism](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=996e30bd64&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Whakaari/White Island disaster**  
1News: [Judith Collins says no Royal Commission into White Island tragedy ‘not acceptable’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a2f08e6b56&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [‘You forever have a place here,’ Jacinda Ardern tells Whakaari victims from overseas](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0bae9ee00c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Newstalk ZB: [‘Defining tragedy’: East Coast MP reflects on White Island tragedy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3b146bb9d3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Local government**  
Damian George (Stuff): [Wellington City councillors propose rainbow advisory group](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a7a7b42d52&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): [Conspiracy group shown the door at Hamilton community centre](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=75dc933ca1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tina Law (Stuff): [21 per cent of Christchurch City Council employees earn more than $100,000](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3fb28c256e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tina Law and Liz McDonald (Stuff): [Call for action as 20pc of central Christchurch sites remain undeveloped](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=76a3e6e86a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Relationship between Wellington Water and city council found wanting](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ec34474384&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Wellington indoor arena could be shafted for $85m venues upgrade](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fbe68cd069&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Georgina Campbell (Herald): [A Capital Letter: Earthquake-prone building owners are making a mockery of the rules](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3cdc41d3f0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Piers Fuller (Stuff): [The small district with the highest rates in the country](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3ad94b7c59&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Bernard Orsman (Herald): [Half of Auckland Council’s regional fuel tax has not been spent](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4f4c4932e4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Re: News: [The 22-year old Wellington City Councillor who’s not trying to change boomers’ minds](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aa2acd0953&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Climate change and environment**  
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): [Climate crisis won’t take a summer break, say activists](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e35581e3b9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Daniel Dunkley (Stuff): [Even in a climate emergency, New Zealand risks becoming a ‘dumping ground’ for dirty cars](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=51747acf93&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Troy Baisden (The Conversation): [Report shows New Zealand’s ‘fragmented’ environmental research funding doesn’t match most urgent needs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f0508d1988&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Guy Trafford (Interest): [It is tough trying to be virtuous](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6d986f41ac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Harry Lock (RNZ): [Wetlands should be carbon sink under ETS, Wellington Regional council says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d17ca7c38c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Rachel Thomas (RNZ): [Environmental research funding ‘fragmented’, government watchdog warns](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5904cdec5d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Human Rights Commission report on prisoner solitary confinement**  
Mandy Te (Stuff): [Human Rights Commission calls on agencies to reduce, if not eliminate altogether, seclusion and restraint in detention facilities](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fbcce69959&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Health**  
Luke Kirkness (Herald): [Exclusive: Cost of concussion in New Zealand nearly $100 million since 2015](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=69a7b5aafc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
TVNZ: [Ministry of Health says regulation of sunscreen SPF is coming, but has been delayed by Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b63407ead9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [Not enough drug treatment services available during pandemic, says Drug Foundation report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b3678a366f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): [Mental health patients being secluded despite goal of ending practice by 2020](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ad989bd49b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Mike Yardley (Newstalk ZB): [Government’s Smokefree goal has run out of puff](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=65644a28ee&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Other**  
John Bishop (Stuff): [Aotearoa or Aotearoa New Zealand: what’s in a name?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6c67a3d08a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Sophie Cornish (Stuff): [Police and health professionals will soon share more patient information regarding firearms licences](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=68cb072b2b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [NZ students record worst results in maths and science](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5550919ec8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Otago university postpones graduation ceremonies after security threat](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c0b0d483f8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tina Ngata: [Dear Stuff](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f4566389f4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)