> ## 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 – 13 January 2021 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-13-january-2021/ - Published: 2021-01-12T19:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2021-01-12T19:44:05.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Featured, Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38 **Covid** Nick Wilson & Michael Baker (The Conversation): [With COVID-19 mutating and surging, NZ urgently needs to tighten border controls](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c6661f90b9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Craig McCulloch (RNZ): [Government’s latest Covid measures described as both too strong and too weak](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a910becee3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Covid-19: Ban on UK flights should be considered – Professor Nick Wilson](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=79ec1ddadb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [Covid 19 coronavirus: NZ still exposed to mutant strain, despite tightened border](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1517e2ad7c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) George Block (Stuff): [Covid-19 quarantine system ‘couldn’t cope’ with sustained community outbreak](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b8a7a8f3f2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) George Block (Stuff): [Covid-19: Govt defends lack of quarantine capacity for large community outbreak](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a1c424bfd0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Derek Cheng (NZ Herald): [Covid 19 coronavirus: Contact tracing falls well short for Auckland, Christchurch clusters](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c20e645b25&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Rachel Sadler (Newshub): [Coronavirus: New Zealand not entering planned lockdown on January 15 – officials](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=07300f3638&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kristin Hall (1News): [Government probing use of computer programmes to get managed MIQ vouchers for returning Kiwis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=845efe12ba&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Luke Kirkness (Herald) [Covid 19 coronavirus: Tracer app use not high enough if there were to be an outbreak](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fd47933eb7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Craig McCulloch (RNZ): [Government expands pre-departure Covid-19 testing rules](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f4e9e78ed3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (NZ Herald): [Covid 19 coronavirus: Government announces new Covid testing rules](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1c753ce371&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Hunt (Stuff): [Strict new border rules as New Zealand fights to hold back new Covid strains](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=403bb48a0f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Whyte (1News): [Extension of pre-departure Covid test likely ‘within the next few weeks’ – Hipkins](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dcccf636e7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Whyte (1News): [Amid fears over highly infectious new Covid strains, extra testing extended to most travellers to NZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=384ffc3a54&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [Government poised to announce new wider-ranging pre-departure Covid-19 testing rules](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cd8cb98ac4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Liam Hehir (Democracy Project): [Do as I say – the ongoing risks of covid hypocrisy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fc5b79f476&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing** Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): [Urgent government intervention needed to address housing supply shortage – economists](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0f86acd9a3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tony Alexander (One Roof): [Six reasons why house prices are rising](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=304b54034e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brent Melville (BusinessDeck): [Auckland housing will cook for next 12 months: Thompson](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5ecb7bf517&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Geraden Cann (Stuff): [Wait lists for tiny homes double as house prices soar](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5f41e33d75&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anne Gibson (Herald): [Rental reform: $13m landlord’s fears for ‘borderline’ tenants](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=78517e5d56&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): [Value of NZ’s housing stock up 11% in a year to $1.28 trillion – four times that of the country’s annual GDP](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7d7bee3865&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Morton (Herald): [Rising tide: How will climate change hit NZ property values?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=efbaaf5245&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Parliament and Government** Grant Robertson (Stuff): [We can be a nation of sweet moderation – but only if we keep working at it](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9c7ae9de24&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Audrey Young (Herald): [Meet the Minister: Michael Wood – Transport and Workplace relations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bfb94a8e4e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Katie Doyle & Te Aorewa Rolleston (RNZ): [No politicians at R?tana in 2021 as celebrations made exclusive for church adherents](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e070a19662&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Helmut Modlik (Stuff): [Citizens, not governments, are the change-makers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fd00ff8628&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Vaimoana Tapaleao (Herald): [Parliament attack: Axe-wielding man smashes glass panels](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=36803c3431&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Reserve Bank cyber breach** Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Reserve Bank hack has brought its capabilities into question](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=73aa30c614&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nicholas Pointon (RNZ): [Reserve Bank warned of cyber vulnerability weeks before breach](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2040bab5c0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Reserve Bank hack: bank may not have applied patch in time](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=afa2de39b5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Chris Keall (NZ Herald): [Data breach: RBNZ insider warned about underinvestment in security](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b3cee02769&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **US politics and NZ; International relations** Lucy Hu (Stuff): [Despite the Capitol riots, New Zealand can still learn from America](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a94982af2d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Sadler (Newshub): [ACT rescinds support for Chris Liddell’s nomination as OECD Secretary-General after ‘failure to denounce’ riot at US Capitol](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=28dd9a92a8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Richard Prebble (Herald): [Increasingly authoritarian China has silenced New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d19059dc4e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Economy and work** Anuja Nadkarni and Andre Chumko (Stuff): [Job numbers drop for the first time in a decade, women and youth feel the hit](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fa72f7fc11&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sherry Zhang (The Spinoff): [Unpaid internships: foot in the door or labour exploitation?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=187514de82&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): [Minister ordered supermarket study done faster](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f80feafe20&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Chaston (Interest): [Comparing capital support levels at our banks](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=465497a69d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rob Stock (Stuff): [Bankrupts ‘treated worse than convicts’, minister told](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=724662d878&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** Don Brash (Stuff): [Nothing democratic about race-based wards — Don Brash](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c3a934ce2d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Christina Persico (Stuff): [Taranaki mayoral forum goes in to bat for Maori ward law change](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fedb2f82c0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Felix Desmarais (RNZ): [Councils, district health board meeting catering costs $225,000 in two years](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cd24a5fbab&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Prisons** John Weekes (Herald): [Waikeria riot: Climbing prisoner numbers collide with fires wiping out 250 beds](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=99bc9a9c79&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nicholas Boyack (Stuff): [A former probation officer’s view: A paper war that kicks ex-prisoners when they’re down](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f458e51fba&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Riley Kennedy (RNZ): [Prison worker ‘ashamed’ to have worked for Department of Corrections](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=13678bd8af&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Jamie Morton (NZ Herald): [‘Warm years are piling up’: 2020 was NZ’s seventh hottest](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4caa7ca3ea&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bob McCroskrie: [Gender curriculum rejected, support for opt-in sex ed – poll](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=87bdeccf66&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Christian Fuller (Herald): [Oranga Tamariki made aware of Nevaeh Ager in Hawke’s Bay – 20 months before her murder](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=42c477dc98&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Cate Broughton (Stuff): [Rural health workforce could ‘implode’ as cry for help over MIQ costs goes ignored](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=495c89417f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Josephine Franks (Stuff): [Auckland University academics angry at uni’s membership of libertarian think-tank](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=663dbcd3ce&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [‘Outrage’ at Puhoi Pub’s wall hanging bearing offensive term for a black person](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cdbe3e5b53&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Emma Dangerfield (Stuff): [Mayoral apology after mosque victim’s family subjected to racist rant](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=88683580fb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Gavin Evans (BusinessDesk): [High winter power prices loom as gas supply dwindles](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=540d11fcbf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)