> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Daily News Roundup – 11 May 2020 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-11-may-2020/ - Published: 2020-05-10T20:46:00.000Z - Updated: 2020-05-10T20:47:26.000Z - Author: General - Tags: COVID-19, Featured, Media, News, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24 **Government documents on Covid-19 response released** Derek Cheng (Herald): [The gagging order from Jacinda Ardern’s office – cynical, arrogant and unnecessary](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=81faff31e5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tim Watkins (Pundit): [Gagging Order Is Double Dumb: Disrespecting Public Sacrifice & Damaging Brand Ardern](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c348104772&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tracy Watkins (Stuff): [Are these the first signs of third term arrogance from a first term government?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=298305a126&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Beehive scrambled to contain email telling ministers to ‘dismiss’ questions about Covid-19 response](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0ccef7e7b2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tova O’Brien and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): [Leak: Jacinda Ardern gags ministers on discussing COVID-19 response](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=16ec35f165&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Craig McCullough (RNZ): [Ministers told to ‘dismiss’ interviews on Covid-19 documents – leaked memo](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e579a128c4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) ————— RNZ: [Govt releases Covid-19 documents: The key takeaways](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b31d4bf09d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls and Derek Cheng (Herald): [Government dumps thousands of pages of official Covid papers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=25aea993e1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [Thousands of pages of previously secret Covid 19 documents made public](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=581b953d38&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newshub: [What you need to know from Government’s mega COVID-19 document dump](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eafe082403&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amelia Wade (Herald): [Why New Zealand had to go into lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1dd39da2d9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amelia Wade (Herald): [The ‘most significant impact on human rights in living memory’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7eb323e56d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nicholas Jones (Herald): [Border closure advice predicted economic carnage without ‘exit plan’ to end isolation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=23ac9759ee&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Derek Cheng (Herald): [Document dump shows Government was ‘flying blind’ over if patients were isolating](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fbbffa563e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [Govt removed wage subsidy test despite warnings that strong companies would take it](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9816540d3c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katie Scotcher (RNZ): [Alert levels two and three could be in place for ‘moderate amount of time’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cad1dfa26f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nicholas Jones (Herald): [Over 11,000 Kiwis in ‘high and moderate-risk’ countries as repatriation flight spend revealed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6fd854fcdd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jessica Mutch McKay (1News): [Cost of repatriating Kiwis due to Covid-19 upheaval could cost taxpayers $14 million](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=828ac4f5bf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Claire Trevett (Herald): [Uni students dropping out to go on the dole after one week in lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=69b34190f9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dubby Henry and Claire Trevett (Herald): [Cabinet papers show scramble to get laptops, modems to disadvantaged students](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e2e023ad5c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Richard Harman (Politik): [Ministry says no to Chinese students because they could mean extra work](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9334205df6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Natalie Akoorie (Herald): [Benefits got $72.4m increase in urgent MSD changes to cope with Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=51af9f1cc0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Document dump shows officials shot down GST plan to help businesses](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ff0153a0f5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kristin Hall (1News): [Officials recommended allowing takeaway deliveries, liquor stores and butchers to operate under Level 4 lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=798470164a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amelia Wade (Herald): [Government rejected advice to keep liquor stores open during lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e03de68ff2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katie Scotcher (RNZ): [Royal Commission investigating Christchurch mosque attacks needed extension despite lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4ad46dbc3c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) ————— 1News: [David Clark rejects accusations of Government arrogance following gag order on Ministers after Covid-19 document dump](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0efe4e9dde&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [James Shaw defends gag on ministers talking about COVID-19 documents](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c14e09e087&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Government need to explain response after documents released – National](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f9e13d7524&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Scott Palmer (Newshub): [National scathing of Government’s COVID-19 document dump and gag order](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0b29c4d84a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Welfare, inequality** Cat MacLennan (Democracy Project): [We Are Beneficiaries](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7d1c34c0b6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Glen Scanlon (RNZ): [Costly legal action may await over mishandling of redundancy issue](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=232cb7e6ed&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Glen Scanlon (RNZ): [Work and Income wrong on benefits and redundancies for decades](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0ddc5db097&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Glen Scanlon (RNZ): [Pilots ask for tax relief to help those who have lost jobs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=425a4fdb74&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Isaac Davison (Herald): [Benefit numbers soar as pandemic hits New Zealand economy hard](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e32a9f6cb0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): [Coronavirus has polarised those most vulnerable in society, experts say](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bb1061f7d9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kirsty Johnson (Herald): [The new jobless, Penrose worker hears via Zoom](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a2e9568c03&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brittany Keogh (Stuff): [50pc more youth on unemployment benefit, more job losses predicted](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e1f3eb2578&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Government, rebuilding NZ** Danielle van Dalen (Stuff): [People need ‘active trust, not blind faith’ in Covid-19 measures ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=512c4f2704&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Keith Woodford (Interest): [Covid-19 illustrates the difficulties society has in dealing with uncertainties and the stresses this creates](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d9d5b740ae&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Sadler (Newshub): [Kiwis encourage others to elect their own ‘Jacindas’ instead of wanting to move to New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e9706cc508&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Liam Hehir (Pundit): [How New Zealand Saved The World](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b436624bfb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Carmen Parahi (Stuff): [Five Maori leaders on what Covid-19 has changed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9d668eb5b5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Maori seek ideas on Aotearoa’s future after pandemic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dd3aa38d65&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Level 2 decision** Toby Manhire (Spinoff): [Decision day: When will New Zealand move to alert level two?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=70a63c8e28&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [Cabinet meets to decide if New Zealand is ready for alert level 2](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=443b0462dd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Derek Cheng (Herald): [Jacinda Ardern’s big call tomorrow – ready for alert level 2?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b81a7a6748&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Decision looms on moving to alert level two](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7d3750b16d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Daly (Stuff): [Monday ‘too soon’ to decide Covid-19 alert level drop](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c6fb54fe32&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Siouxsie Wiles says New Zealand could use ‘another week or two’ at Level 3](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2d6f70db01&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Emma Cropper (Newshub): [Epidemiologist says New Zealand isn’t ready for COVID-19 alert level 2](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=042519aab1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Life in NZ could be ‘back to normal’ by Christmas – expert](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1072ca2a5d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Daly (Stuff): [Expert says it may be a decade before NZ can stop isolating arrivals](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4c6f91d8f0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brittney Deguara (Stuff): [Arguments for and against moving to alert level 2 next week](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d1d2ef3079&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [A new level of freedom and confusion](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c78fffd954&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dubby Henry (Herald): [Latest case arrived in New Zealand over two weeks ago](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=68acff6b0d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Popping bubbles: Almost 500 breaches reported to police – are we ready for level 2?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4ef07a15d3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Over 1000 breaches in fortnight of Alert Level 3 restrictions, including 50 over 24 hours this weekend](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=00f1d05ef8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bonnie Flaws (Stuff): [Jacinda Ardern’s ‘unhelpful’ talk of an ‘alert level 2.5’ stresses ‘desperate’ businesses](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2d155e7a72&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Scott Palmer (Newshub): [David Seymour says Government ‘must not hesitate’ moving to alert level 2](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9cdc574b5b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Vita Molyneux (Newshub): [Thousands of jobs at risk if shops don’t open soon, says National MP Nikki Kaye](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3197971ef2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Lockdown legality** Andrew Geddis (Pundit): [The Lockdown And The Law – Where Are We Now?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=973ef5601a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Hopkins (Stuff): [Law, luck and legitimacy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c665315777&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kris Gledhill (The Conversation): [Was New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown legal? One week might make all the difference](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=69683237cf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Government escalates stoush over lockdown legal advice, refers National leader Simon Bridges to the privileges committee](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=33573d589b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jane Patterson (RNZ): [David Parker hits back after Bridges questions legality of lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7f16cc56b9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Rights lawyer backs Govt over lockdown legality fight](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2ed9923420&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sam Hurley (Herald): [Attorney-General says ‘there is no gap’ in response to questions over lockdown legality](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f8122cf091&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Lockdown legality case can’t leapfrog High Court](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=97166c030a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): [Police response raises more questions about whether lockdown was legally enforceable](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e9fc7f84a1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sam Hurley (Herald): [Duo who sued PM now ask for judicial review of Govt’s pandemic decisions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f9eb8bcad6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy** John Armstrong (1News): [Ardern and company have barely reached base camp in dealing with Covid-19 economic upheaval](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f007859ae8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Audrey Young (Herald): [Jacinda Ardern’s AAA minister oversees a Budget like no other](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e0372f0fed&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Liam Dann (Herald): [This week one of biggest in NZ’s economic history](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5e3c63d32a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Liam Dann (Herald): [Grant Robertson faces epic timing dilemma](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3bcafc36f6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Brian Easton (Pundit): [Distribution And The Budget](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=559c56a53c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ilan Noy (The Conversation): [Past pandemics show how coronavirus budgets can drive faster economic recovery](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fec171cb94&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Peter Wilson (RNZ): [Week in politics: A bad news Budget like no other](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f3fbd7a1df&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Luke Malpass (Stuff): [Reckoning with recession, Grant Robertson weighs up Budget 2020](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2a421daabe&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Paul Goldsmith (Herald): [If I were National Govt Finance Minister](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6e7e6870c2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Steven Walton (Stuff): [Here’s the data that shows Covid-19’s impact in New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=622eaca684&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [Economists’ wishlist: Training, investment and growth](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a4133d0212&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Slack (Interest): [A brief history of economic self-sufficiency in New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=36e1956f9c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): [Bazookas out, money printers fired up!](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=19baf5de16&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bryce Wilkinson (Stuff): [Government must choose between prudent debt levels and a ‘borrow and hope’ approach](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9a16c797be&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Josephine Franks, Amy Ridout and Rahul Bhattarai (Stuff): [After the lockdown, the recovery budget – but can it save your job or your home?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c5cef87588&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Greens say future generations will pay for today’s spending, so spend it on them](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=da480e99e5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Simon Bridges says Kiwis need to return to work to avoid ‘deepest recession in a generation’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0050b0683b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub):[Simon Bridges questions COVID-19 ‘economic management’ as tens of thousands join benefit queue](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f538adc7d8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Banks** Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Have the banks let us down? ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3b7ca5c557&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rob Stock (Stuff): [Billion dollar cash jump indicates stockpiling by nervous households](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1ae2e936a0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Only $23m of loans approved under ‘$6.25b’ government scheme](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a679db9c48&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Employment** RNZ: [Courier contractor ruling could open way for action against other employers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ad29588250&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Courier contractor employment case a ‘human rights issue’, lawyers say](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=68ba4876e5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andrew Barnes (Stuff): [Flexible working can be a tangible benefit from the Covid-19 crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bd70ac4a02&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Migrant workers** Irra Lee (1News): [Pandemic a chance to re-think NZ’s reliance on migrant workers, and their treatment](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=211b2ad719&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Blair Ensor and Sam Sherwood (Stuff): [Canterbury liquor baron’s licence under scrutiny](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=66fb0da8b4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amelia Wade (Herald): [Migrant exploitation could be rife, Epidemic Response Committee hears](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9cef6ceb94&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [About 1000 migrants on work visas have been allowed to switch employers during the lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=64325b0a55&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Donna-Lee Biddle (Stuff): [Calls for Government to support migrant workers left in visa ‘limbo’ after losing jobs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6513ad2dac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Wage subsidy, business** Victoria Young (BusinessDesk): [Why the law firms are handing back wage subsidies](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ae765b94f8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis Allan (Herald): [Wage subsidy package is worthwhile spending](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=93b22be95d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Nicholas Jones (Herald): [Business insolvencies to surge as wage subsidy runs dry](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1128bdb555&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [Working over-65s could stand aside to ease unemployment, economist says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e530ff24ed&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [Unemployment could be eased if employed over-65s retire – economist](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=abac5929ba&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Contact tracing, testing** 1News: [All recommendations from Covid-19 contact tracing audit implemented but tracing app faces delay](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f32931a22b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Ensor and Conor Whitten (Newshub): [Government reveals progress on contract tracing recommendations, phone app coming ‘very soon’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a6a21fab58&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Manch (Stuff):[Criticised tracing system now ‘well placed’, Health Minister says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8328028d50&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Tech expert frustrated by Government’s lack of ‘engagement’ with private sector around Covid-19 tracing app](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=831b5a8b96&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Melanie Earley (Stuff): [Auckland expert says antibody Covid-19 testing needed in level 2](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=75058a5eb0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Leigh-Marama McLachlan (RNZ): [Surge in M?ori testing but some district health boards lagging behind](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c67a2d528a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Dr Ashley Bloomfield says Government’s Covid-19 testing regime is strong enough for Level 2](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3e71077e7b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Libby Wilson (Stuff): [Testing goes to remote spots to assess Covid-19 spread](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=95388e6830&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Foreign affairs, WHO** Nicholas Jones (Herald): [200,000 Kiwis in Australia with no social security support](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=86facf3ca2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hannah Kronast (Newshub): [Grant Robertson avoids confirming NZ backing Taiwan for role at WHO](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=074e7081bc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Business leader warns against antagonising China over Taiwan dispute](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=975f594142&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [World Health Organisation praises New Zealand for its ‘very systematic’ response to Covid-19 pandemic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=902a476714&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Jami-Lee Ross urges Winston Peters to join Australia and ask China ‘the hard questions’ on COVID-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3023046fa2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Winston Peters is playing a dangerous game with China](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c3b2531212&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dominic Godfrey (RNZ): [NZ Speaker wants better appreciation of Pacific](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=26e13fbbe9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Trans-Tasman or Asia-Pacific bubble** Philip Matthews (Stuff): [How could a trans-Tasman or Asia-Pacific economic bubble work](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1d70cdb95e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Patrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): [Transtasman bubble possible as early as July](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=33b87d1f9f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bruce Munro (ODT): [Asia-Pacific bubble ‘big prize’ for NZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=54e90eff5c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katie Kenny and Amanda Cropp (Stuff): [Beyond travel, what will a trans-Tasman bubble mean for NZ’s economy?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ab1cf47a1a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** Todd Niall (Stuff):[It’s time to ‘be kind’ to Auckland Council contractor cleaners](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c784b14d52&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Hunt (Stuff): [$100,000-a-day down the drain but Wellington’s books ‘strong’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a9e440f736&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Thomas (RNZ): [Wellington Water calls on council to relax performance targets](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cdd8ac1cac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tina Law (Press): [No rates increase will have an ‘enormous impact’ on Christchurch](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=20ba2089e1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lois Williams: [West Coast DHB ‘spending more than budgeted for’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4c8cdad84a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dominic Harris (Press): [Coronavirus could leave $34m hole in Christchurch council finances](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=47ae9a5021&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Plea for government to endorse Northland infrastructure projects in Budget](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ea9793da61&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Janine Rankin (Manawatu Standard): [Rates rise of 4.4 per cent slammed as out of touch](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b46c1ad769&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Budget: Funding for Pharmac, domestic violence refuges, helplines** Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): [Government funding boost for Pharmac announced, but it doesn’t go far enough for some cancer sufferers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d22ae38fe5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Government to pump $160m into Pharmac to secure medicine supply](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b1d197ee20&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [Health Minister David Clark announces more medicines, vaccines in $160m Pharmac Budget boost](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=34e12bf24a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lana Andelane (Newshub): [New funding takes Pharmac’s medicines budget to record $1.045b for 2020/21](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0abfd24335&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Govt to boost pharmaceutical funding by $160m](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2acdfb6082&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Scott Palmer (Newshub): [National blasts Government’s Pharmac funding increase](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3c8341ed29&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Domestic violence refuges and helplines to receive further funding as Government announces $183 million Budget spend](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ce0cd5d5ec&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Sadler (Newshub): [Family violence services to receive nearly $203m in funding](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=de6f844552&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [$200m boost in funding to reduce family violence, elder abuse](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=556a4da701&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Health** Michael Morrah (Newshub): [Waitemata DHB defends mask access and bullying allegations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=75f83a2dcc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sarah Dalton (Stuff): [Now more than ever we need a budget which values the health of New Zealanders](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a3ee4f81da&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Pauline Norris (ODT): [Gaps in the system](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a0970c6502&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Marty Sharpe (Stuff): [Worst case would have seen 4000 people needing NZ’s 868 ventilators](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f3d597c0fe&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nicholas Jones (Herald): [M?ori and Pacific patients could be prioritised for electives by greater Auckland and Northland DHBs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cecd25302f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Mental health sector boosted by $3.5 million Government investment](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cb21d0d677&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Matthew Tso (Stuff): [Health workers fear violence as police deliver more people to hospital emergency department](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b29aa6313e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Checkpoints** 1News: [Far North M?ori who set up road checkpoints to stop Covid-19 spread now carrying out patrols with police](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c46fb4212e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Taranaki iwi end checkpoints after ‘high level’ of inter-regional travel](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dcfccf4339&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Iwi-led Taranaki checkpoints to be removed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fee97550ba&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Denise Piper (Stuff): [Controversial iwi checkpoints to end at alert level 2](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=385ae063e7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Applications for exemption from managed isolation** Cherie Howie (Herald): [Ministry of Health mandatory isolation review too late for one applicant](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9de37fd5d1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Five applications for exemption from managed isolation approved on review after being denied previously](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7b73ef46d2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub):[Judith Collins slams ‘appalling’ decisions to stop the dying being comforted by loved ones](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5e3e846ca4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anan Zaki (RNZ): [NZer in quarantine appeals to government compassion to see dying wife](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4fc91e7374&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Cherie Howie (Herald): [Ministry of Health review overturns some rejected isolation exemption requests](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=60b7046804&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Robin Martin (RNZ): [Month in quarantine bars Brisbane-based man’s bid to see dying mum](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=648ac81533&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Education** Zac Fleming (Newshub): [Leaked survey shows more than a third of secondary school teachers don’t want to go back to work under alert level 2](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=81496cba03&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kaitlin Ruddock (1News): [Teachers brace for ‘frustrating’ time at Level 2 after students work during school hours](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6bdf8a134b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Weekes, Bevan Hurley and Blair Ensor (Stuff): [Auckland Grammar kicks out 11 students for drug offences during 150th anniversary year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4a297f0575&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andre Chumko (Stuff): [Ministry connects 18,000 households to internet, but many still without](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3b98383d4f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) ————— Guy Trafford (Interest): [Breaching our border security to ‘save’ the tertiary education sector is stupid](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=21ab7b262e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [University has plans for bringing back international students](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=33646239a1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kristin Hall (1News): [Charges and communication bungles at universities and polytechnics continue over student accommodation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bc8a24858f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Catrin Owen (Stuff): [Auckland University students will have grades scaled up](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b2b038d940&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Auckland University students to have marks scaled up due to Covid-19 disruptions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bec4aa87e9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lee Kenny (Stuff): [Uni students can return to halls at level 2 but must stay 1m apart](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d6a9018258&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) ODT: [Otago Polytechnic prepares for Level 2](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bf11dd5d60&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) James Baker (Stuff): [New Zealand trades training not prepared for coming recession](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d385069f9e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Tourism** Miriama Kamo (Marae): [‘Good luck’ – Tourism Minister’s blunt message to anyone wanting to set up new business](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d0ee81c40d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Emma Dangerfield, Joanne Carroll, Johanna Mckenzie-Mclean (Stuff): [Can level 2 save South Island’s tourist gems?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=829d423a84&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amanda Cropp (Stuff): [Tourism minister warns high prices could dampen domestic travel](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0b64741bb4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [‘Resilient crowd’: Tourism town eager to welcome more NZ visitors](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e3b366469c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Kiwi tourism operators claim Australian counterparts are better off](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=86d5100d9b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Transport** 1News: [Government placing trust in airlines to implement safe physical distancing when domestic flights resume](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b5c5ffaa5e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Air New Zealand cancels domestic flights over May, June ahead of level 2](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=91246a1468&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Air New Zealand announces Alert Level 2 domestic flights](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8ba0818a01&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Air New Zealand to resume flights to most domestic airports in alert level 2](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4904ae0a5d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Air New Zealand keen to keep domestic fares affordable despite losses](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e5526ff57f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Aaron van Delden: [Shane Jones backs KiwiRail’s dismissal of Gisborne train link](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=43480af0ee&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Environment** Marcus Anselm: [Too early to make RMA calls – councils](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ca91c381b3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Williams (Newsroom): [Court’s cryptic move to protect rare plant](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2149b89dc7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Louise Ternouth (RNZ): [Increase in bird life during lockdown may be lost once people return](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5e1aa8ce91&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Choe Ranford (RNZ): [Coronavirus lockdown improves air pollution in Blenheim](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=476d4ca29a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Philip Hulme (Stuff): [Covid-19 proves better NZ biosecurity possible](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a11858ecdf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Auckland’s water levels lower than before 1990s drought](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5944a3ae5c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Stark effects of drought on Hawke’s Bay revealed in photographs from space](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=84326d1b6c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sean Hogan (1News): [Hawke’s Bay farmers desperate as serious drought is overshadowed by Covid-19 crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7d43e0fae0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Irra Lee (1News): [School climate strikers to shift action online amid Covid-19 restrictions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6cb414b253&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Primary industries** 1News: [Forestry workers who’ve lost jobs amid pandemic redeployed for conservation projects](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ec75175a8e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Government pulls forward biosecurity, conservation projects to provide work](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c5653bf873&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing** 1News: [Home buyers urged to be cautious as banks set interest rates below three per cent for first time](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=85999b7f18&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Gareth Hughes and Marama Davidson (Newshub): [Upgrade homes to create new jobs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e448d32650&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Construction starts up again at public housing work sites](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=056cbf010e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Media** Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: [Radio ‘roadblock’ interview sparks racism complaints](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=abaf510bb1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hayden Donnell (RNZ): Mediawatch: [Rogue suicide claim goes viral](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6d2c20692c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hayden Donnell (RNZ): Mediawatch: [The forgotten media crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4fd9f88181&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Cannabis** Emma Clark (Newshub): [Cannabis referendum explained: What Kiwis will vote for or against](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e5d8f0b5bf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michelle Dickinson (Herald): [How will we measure cannabis intoxication if legalised?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b9ce7a4e02&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Emma Clark (Newshub): [I have fibromyalgia. This is why I need cannabis to be legalised](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=15eb141c68&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Justice, corrections** Joy Reid (1News): [Questions raised after 14-year-old girl spends days in police cell during lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a2a9e8b303&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kurt Bayer (Herald): [Ashburton Winz gunman Russell Tully threatens legal action to move prisons](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=06961ed813&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Bill Birch biography** Tracy Watkins (Stuff): [Blast from the past: The man behind “think big” talks about crisis, climate change and covid](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=16146f7df3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brad Tattersfield (Stuff): [Book extract: Bill Birch, Minister of Everything](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dfe2eb788e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** 1News: [Serious Fraud Office warns criminals will start to target Covid-19 relief schemes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9d1842d17c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Winston Peters responds to Simon Bridges’ ‘my sweetheart’ comment](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5cbb934cf1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andrew Gunn (Stuff): [National hires big name to reboot ailing franchise](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d218e90244&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Collette Devlin (Stuff): [Opposition attacks work on prisoner voting law change during Covid-19 lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1052006eb1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Auckland neighbourhood bands together to create world-first safety device to detect Covid-19 in vulnerable communities](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=31a254c891&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Audrey Malone (1News): [Dubai World Expo delay to cost New Zealand taxpayers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8477bd4154&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steve Elers (Stuff): [Push to restrict alcohol to all Kiwis during lockdown social-engineering at its dumbes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e839e6ab49&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eleisha Foon (RNZ): [Anti-freedom camping petition withdrawn after violent threats](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e6d36d32bf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Four flights will allow stranded residents to return to Samoa](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eb09b61549&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Nearly 150 Kiwis stuck in South Africa after repatriation flights cancelled](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5019c8055d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Oil demand dries up, backlog of tankers at Marsden Point](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d167ae5392&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Ensor (Newshub): [Police 105 number turns one: How new line is ‘absolutely’ helping cops](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b35b82f6aa&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Peter Ashworth (ODT): [Sir Michael Cullen’s legacy shows insight and prudence can change society](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=183ca749b9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): [Courier company facing 5 day backlog wants anyone with a car to deliver](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=77dbbbda90&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Thomas (RNZ): [Food businesses struggle with delivery efficiency](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=406e483614&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)