> ## 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 – 12 April 2021 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-12-april-2021/ - Published: 2021-04-11T20:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2021-04-11T20:08:34.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Featured, Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14 **Covid: India travel ban** Sandeep Singh (RNZ): [Indian travel ban leaves Kiwis stateless](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=28d79df41c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Audrey Young (Herald): [Was Jacinda Ardern’s decision on India racist?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4f3f483a2b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) 1News: [Temporary India travel ban is not racist, Jacinda Ardern tells Q+A](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e1cfa5644e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Editorial – An inconvenient truth: Undermining rights key to securing our freedoms](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1ebcbaabe9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Human Rights Commission probes Government’s India ban](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b38c1475cf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Government right to suspend flights from India](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c648667c16&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brent Edwards (NBR): [Fact or Fiction: Australia: yes. India: no. Coal: no. Christopher Luxon?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=11c1995539&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Covid: Vaccinations programme and border** Alison Mau (Stuff): [Vaccinations are the new frontier — has one DHB already shot itself in the foot?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6c5de7d908&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [National calls for all unvaccinated border workers to be removed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6853da7e52&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Audrey Young (Herald): [Covid 19 coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern says border workers must get jab by end of April](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7ea87d0f99&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nikki Turner (The Conversation): [Vaccination alone will not provide full protection. When borders open, NZ will still be managing Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d583f72aab&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [Is Ashley Bloomfield up to the job?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=30d295f0d3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): [Jacinda Ardern’s treatment of the Cook Islands is paternalism](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1c44e23564&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Herald: [Editorial: Vaccine rollout at a snail’s pace](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=909f258957&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Chris Keall (Herald): [Government’s vaccination register ‘just putting money into a Silicon Valley billionaire’s pocket’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=19f4655012&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Government and wellbeing** Girol Karacaoglu (Interest): [Why Budget 2021 is a historic opportunity for wellbeing, leaving no one behind](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=671702c80b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ryan Boswell (1News): [Government putting more beneficiaries into greater debt, with loans totalling almost $2 billion](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=abd5894c3e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ryan Boswell (1News): [Economist believes more beneficiaries will end up in debt after Government loans total revealed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b962dd4655&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bernie Smith (Herald): [Budget a chance to address insufficient income support](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5df3dadac9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Bruce Cotterill (Herald): [List of Government policy flops grows longer by the day](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=34df3b8647&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) David Farrar: [Why so few Labour Members’ Bills?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d46d3ee91c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [More funding needed for schemes ‘by Maori, for Maori’ – Willie Jackson](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=68918aac13&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Scott Palmer (Newshub): [ACT MP Karen Chhour takes patu to Labour MP Willie Jackson for accusing New Zealand of ‘institutional racism’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=44d7b17d25&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing crisis** Joel Maxwell (Stuff): [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says house sale ‘across the road’ in her neighbourhood showed market unsustainable](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4ee1f5a7fe&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Siobhan Wilson (1News): [Jacinda Ardern hopeful Government’s moves will curb NZ’s ‘unsustainable’ housing market](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9c2f812f4b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): [Yes in my back yard: The millennial movement rebelling against Nimby baby boomers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5c8bd50f44&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rob Stock (Stuff): [No rent rise threat from Government housing policy, Westpac says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5bd0ae8b3a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rob Mitchell (Stuff): [Wellington’s developing drama: City taking the low road when high rise is answer to housing crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a867ff0038&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Government spending $1 billion every three months on housing support](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8e4c2e8b15&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [‘We need a building ministry’: doco reveals high-rise horrors](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7c92db2f56&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Geraden Cann (Stuff): [Descendant of Maori chiefs says housing crisis has cost her wh?nau their identity](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0fe03f702c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rob Stock (Stuff): [Parents are ‘silent co-borrowers’ on their children’s mega-mortgages](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=63b237d311&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Kitchin (RNZ): [Housing pressure surging in Gisborne with many still on street](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3dbb95ebae&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nadine McDonnell (Daily Blog): [The new gold rush…. housing in the 21st Century?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3bd7aa47ca&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Don Brash: [More on housing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b67531071c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Catherine Masters (One Roof): [‘If you’ve got $2m, there’s no housing crisis’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=010bdd384a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) One Roof: [Why buy in a Kainga Ora-led development?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f5cda6d75b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **National Party leadership** Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): [Political Roundup – Rumours of Collins being rolled by Luxon and Bridges](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dab4b3e0fb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Monique Poirier (Kiwiblog): [National must prove it is ready to govern again](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e721fc29b8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [‘I don’t see the point’: Political pundits dismiss National Party leadership change talk](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f3a2f8fcb1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Former ACT leader says National at risk of losing status as main opposition party](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2fa0678642&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Sunday Panel: ‘Covered in the stench of failure’ – is Collins’ time as leader up?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0c9648f590&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local Government** Tom O’Connor (Stuff): [Maori Wards must be decided by ratepayers, not councils alone](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e49891e71d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Farrar: [WCC refuses to give the public any say on voting rights](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=76bdaf7d0a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Joel MacManus (Stuff): [Councillors to decide Let’s Get Wellington Moving’s priorities, two years after programme was launched](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aebae2b621&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bernard Orsman (Herald): [The Super Rich and the Super City: The companies pocketing $10b of ratepayers’ money](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7e99595b97&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Stuart Crosby (Stuff): [Blurred boundaries risk leaving people feeling cut off from issues directly affecting them](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=125f14d906&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Joel MacManus (Stuff): [Wellington City Council failing on cyclist safety, audit finds](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7c3ead6b8f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Hunt (Stuff): [Wellington council poised to start ditching ‘dirty money’ pokie machines](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1c6591ad05&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Drug reform** Audrey Young (Herald): [Coalition calls for health-based approach to drug use in open letter to Govt](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6cd426d616&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hamish Cardwell (RNZ): [Dozens of social service and health organisations call for drug laws to be overhauled](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8f6adae17d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Joel Maxwell (Stuff): [Dozens of organisations pen open letter calling for drug laws to be dumped and replaced](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=64cfbe5ab5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Mental health crisis** Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Government set to spend far less on mental health than promised in 2019](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8a89b3971c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jenny Nicholls (Stuff): [My family’s learned the painful truth about mental health services](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0ba0787567&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Mental health: Labour MP David Parker accuses Mental Health Foundation of not telling the truth about state of services](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=41e7faa66c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Health** Andrea Vance (Stuff): [Why do women put up with the gender health gap?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f84213e483&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michelle Duff (Stuff): [A woman was asked to change her own pad hours after surgery. Where’s the $35m maternity plan?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b2bc00c39f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Louisa Steyl (Stuff): [Cancer treatment costs ‘crippling,’ Southland advocate says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b3a2200413&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy and work** Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [OCR review: Year on hold is over, what comes now?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4c112078b4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [Power struggle: industry warns thousands of jobs at risk due to electricity prices](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=61e0ee4bbd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Sasha Borissenko (Herald): [Legal loophole leaving contractors and shift workers out in the cold](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e1a6120d1e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): [Grant Robertson tightens Government’s grip on Air New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=193a549bef&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Jamie Gray (Herald): [NZ Reserve Bank in no hurry to shift rates yet, say economists](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=26fcfa4dde&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Tamsyn Parker (Herald): [Business Insider: Ron Brierley’s parting gift, fund manager’s 61% return, Don Brash-chaired bank in breach](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=52eff2c0bf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Defence and international relations** Thomas Gregory and Larry Lewis (Herald): [Defence order unlikely to prevent another Operation Burnham](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aa8204afb8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Aaron Leaman (Stuff): [Kiwi firm Gallagher gets Five Eyes’ spy alliance favour by avoiding China](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2e4dbc0f3d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Paul Buchanan: [Principled, pragmatic or expedient](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dabd55bbd4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Climate change** Jamie Morton (Herald): [Covering Climate Now: How do we decarbonise New Zealand’s energy sector?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aa0a137e94&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Morton (Herald): [Covering climate now: How can we play our own part?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ef7d9ce511&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Guy Salmon and Jim Sinner (Herald): [Fairly sharing the burden is necessary for climate success](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d5fbbc39e7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Debra Blackett (Stuff): [Companies, not households, have the power to go fast on reducing emissions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=520a70d5ff&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Public service** Steve Stannard (Stuff): [Public servants’ ‘rock star’ workplace a utopian dream for most of us](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=637478fedb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andre Chumko (Stuff): [Record-keeping in public sector still worrying — Archives New Zealand report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7321f6fa83&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Jessie Chiang (RNZ): [Anti-Asian sentiment in NZ – it’s real, it’s everywhere](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3e0fd9388f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Peter de Graaf (Herald): [Former Deputy PM Winston Peters keeping mum on political future](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b8ccffa65d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Holly Walker (Stuff): [We’re at risk of leaving some marginalised and excluded in a post-Covid world](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cb221a7e30&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jared Savage (Herald): [Gangs and guns: New police Firearms Investigation Team to crack down on illegal weapons](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=65660d8266&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Martin Van Beynen (Stuff): [We don’t need another survey to tell us the obvious](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e935fe80af&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Joris de Bres (E-Tagata): [The Dawn Raids of 1974](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=de11383a70&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Can racism be expelled from the police force?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8a927084b8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Taxpayers’ Union OIAs to Hamilton council cost $60k in staff time](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=26006db1ac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dahlia Malaeulu (E-Tagata): [Rejecting the System](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a3dd845d16&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sam Hurley (Herald): [Artist Mika X and linked entities were awarded $100,000 by Creative NZ when facing police investigation, charges for aiding rich-lister](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fb1d16ca09&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Herald: [Beehive Diaries: PM Jacinda Ardern’s newfound love for Australians](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d4782e662f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)