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# Daily News Roundup – 14 April 2020
- URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-14-april-2020/
- Published: 2020-04-13T20:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-04-13T20:36:49.000Z
- Author: General
- Tags: COVID-19, Featured, Media, News, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

**Government, parliament**  
Andrea Vance (Stuff): [How Jacinda Ardern is using soft propaganda to beat Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5ba079775f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Graeme Edgeler (Democracy Project): [On being sure of your legal footing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=faec35a042&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Sam Hurley (Herald): [Law Society calls for greater Govt clarity on curbs to our freedoms and commerce](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=194c4ae2bd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Eugene Bingham and Adam Dudding (Stuff): Coronavirus podcast: [Inside Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus bubble: What’s on the PM’s mind during Covid-19 crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=78993b71c5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Audrey Young (Herald): [A spot of trouble in Jacinda Ardern’s virtual bubble](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f3d5069933&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Clark’s actions could cost Dunedin dear  
Colin James (Democracy Project): An Easter message on democracy  
Peter Wilson (RNZ): Week in Politics: The exit plan and life after level 4  
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): CNN praises Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand COVID-19 response  
Stuff: More international praise for New Zealand’s response to Covid-19  
Herald Editorial: Trump and Ardern – A tale of two leaders (paywalled)  
Newstalk ZB: David Seymour criticises Govt for continuing legislation during lockdown  
Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Simon Bridges ‘open’ to taking a paycut amid COVID-19 pandemic  
1News: David Seymour forges ahead with proposal to cut MPs pay in solidarity with Kiwis losing work during pandemic  
1News: Jacinda Ardern gets behind the NZ Egg Hunt at Wellington home  
1News: Jacinda Ardern shares daughter Neve’s contribution to #NZEggHunt campaign  
  
Election  
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Labour Party is polling well but are they untouchable? (paywalled)  
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Why National and NZ First want a delay and what’s best for Labour (paywalled)  
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Winston Peters might want it but the election can’t be delayed  
Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): Should we delay the election?  
Henry Cooke (Stuff): What is Fortress New Zealand going to look like?  
Jason Walls (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern sticks with planned election date despite Peters’ lobbying  
Jo Moir (RNZ): Opposition doubts public will be ready for September election  
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Winston Peters says the election should be delayed due to Covid-1  
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Henry Cooke (Stuff): Green Party initial election list puts newcomer Teanau Tuiono ahead of several sitting MP  
  
Public health strategy  
Kate Newton (RNZ): Lockdown could eliminate Covid-19 – new NZ research  
Jamie Morton (Herald): New data reveals bullet NZ dodged by locking down when we did  
Ian Powell (Democracy Project): Eliminate or Mitigate; why not Exterminate?  
Dan Satherley and Lydia Lewis (Newshub): NZ could be ‘its own bubble’ by wiping out COVID-19 – researcher  
Roger Morris (Stuff): Time to look for loopholes in our national strategy  
TVNZ: Q+A: Lockdown ending ‘won’t be a return to life as we remember it’ – disease specialist  
Elisabeth Easter (Herald): Professor Michael Baker – ‘I wept when PM announced that NZ was going into lockdown’ (paywalled)  
Dave Armstrong (Dominion Post): Let’s hear it for the scientists who’ve saved us from ignorance  
Michelle Cooke (RNZ): Why is NZ’s mortality rate so low?  
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Jason Walls (Herald): Ashley Bloomfield takes questions via Facebook live on Covid-19 response  
1News: Dr Ashley Bloomfield responds humbly to news of petition for him to be New Zealander of the Year  
  
Debates over ending the lockdown  
RNZ: Most New Zealanders willing to extend Covid-19 lockdown ‘pain’ – survey  
Keith Woodford (Interest): There are big risks if we move to LEVEL 3 too quickly without greatly improved contact-tracing. There is no way back if we get this wrong  
Matthew Hooton (Herald): A second national lockdown would be catastrophic (paywalled)  
Liam Hehir (Democracy Project): The Amity Island solution  
Coin Peacock (RNZ): ‘Your money or your life’  
Coin Peacock (RNZ): Media beat the drum to roll back lockdown – and sound the alarm  
Nicholas Agar (Newsroom): Let’s not end lockdown early  
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Newstalk ZB: Winston Peters: Health an imperative ‘but not at all costs… we’ll be broke’  
David Seymour (Herald): ‘Stay home, save lives’ a blunt, costly strategy (paywalled)  
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): Lockdown rules should be relaxed, health experts say  
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): Fear, death and protecting the vulnerable (paywalled)  
Ani O’Brien (Democracy Project): Class in the age of COVID-19  
  
**Border measures, quarantine**  
AAP: [Trans-Tasman travel not on the agenda after fifth Covid-19 death, Jacinda Ardern warns](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a4da7df5e2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
BusinessDesk: [Start planning transtasman ‘bubble’ now, says Auckland airport chief](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=24b10dbdba&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Collette Devlin (Stuff): [Mandatory border quarantine for all returning Kiwis announced](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5fcdccfd35&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Compulsory two-week quarantine for overseas Kiwis returning to NZ to be enforced](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=10175b20fd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Quarantine or ‘managed isolation’ compulsory for all arrivals into NZ, PM says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e08dd2cfbc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Newstalk ZB: [Jacinda Ardern defends delay in quarantining all international arrivals](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b5969b09cc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Military may help escort returned citizens to holding centres – Winston Peters](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=23deebeacb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Testing**  
Oliver Lewis and Felippe Rodrigues (Stuff): [Where Covid-19 testing is highest – and lowest – in New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=23a8b2568e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Whanganui DHB to expand testing after low numbers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ef054e1c31&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Rachel Moore (Stuff): [Regions struggle to get Covid-19 samples tested without Air New Zealand flights](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=49433d1010&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Leilani Momoisea (RNZ): [‘I was angry about the process’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4beb810ef3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): [Test based on loss of smell, researcher says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cc5d441124&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Phillipa Yalden (Stuff): [Coronavirus health academics call for localised reporting of Covid-19 test results](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7d60b92174&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Tracking, use of location data**  
Chris Keall (Herald): [As NZ considers TraceTogether, a Kiwi in Singapore gives his verdict on the tracking app](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0c44d78afa&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
1News: [Government warns Covid-19 tracing app not a ‘silver bullet’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e364ccff88&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Privacy Commissioner ‘understands’ why apps are being explored for tracking Kiwis during lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ae844d25a4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Govt looking into tracking phones to curb spread of COVID-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0638d34e3b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Katie Kenny (Stuff): [What telco data tells us about the economic impact of lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cd06ba649a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Katie Kenny (Stuff): [Government pulls telco location data for Covid-19 pandemic planning](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1963edcd11&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Hospitals, health system**  
1News: [Dr Ashley Bloomfield says relaxing rules around dying family members being ‘actively’ looked at](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6a0e2508b1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Health Ministry looking at rules around people visiting dying family members – Director-General](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cdb4099bb3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): [No compassion for sick, dying elderly during lockdown, say family](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=62c40f28df&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Kristin Hall (1News): [Doctors desperate to get message across that Kiwis needing medical help can still be treated](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1c5a677208&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [People needing emergency medical treatment urged to get it, even during lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2fb4852263&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Patient numbers at emergency departments in Auckland, Northland fall](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0f5e51cf44&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Lois Williams (RNZ): [District Health Board regulates flu vaccine supply on West Coast](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9fc4e8a067&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Nationwide lockdown causes number of ACC claims to drop](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0e5aba50d6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Katarina Williams (Stuff): [Sir John Kirwan app to receive Government mental health funding](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1968e69538&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Government launches online tools to help improve Kiwis’ mental health during Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=edb06c15b3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Masks and protective gear**  
Kristin Hall (1News): [We’re not getting masks, gloves because of PPE confusion, say disability support workers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5463040bd7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Andrea Chumko (Stuff): [New national PPE distribution system introduced after faults and shortages](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9d2d2164e9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Michael Morrah (Newshub): [Union claims Waikato Hospital nurses who caught COVID-19 were told to remove PPE](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cbaddc478e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Michael Morrah (Newshub): [Waikato Hospital doctor urging Government to make face masks mandatory](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9cce8c9220&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Aaron Leaman (Waikato Times): [Waikato Hospital doctor says compulsory masks vital to stopping Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3445a80fd9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [DHBs accused of ‘rationing’ PPE say they’re working to distribute it](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=42898fa174&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [New Zealanders ‘caught short after masks sent to China’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=893a305b51&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Rest homes, care for our elderly, disabled**  
Conan Young (RNZ):[‘Requests fallen on deaf ears’: Rest homes consider buying Covid-19 tests](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d2321a295a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jane Patterson (RNZ): [Health authorities reinforce message to rest homes after death](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fe54b7002a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [‘I just want my mum safe’ – Concerns grow for residents at two Christchurch rest homes that are Covid-19 clusters](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d97d1acd05&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Daughter of Rosewood Rest Home resident praises staff dealing with Covid-19 outbreak](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ae7d0d5af0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Elderly concerned access to vital information mostly online](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6e64d86ebd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Health workers**  
Glen Scanlon (RNZ): [Are government agencies ignoring official advice?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=233cfb29d1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Glen Scanlon (RNZ): [Casual healthcare worker’s Easter wish is ‘our normal life’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=986f64fef9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Glen Scanlon (RNZ): [Health workers left struggling to pay the rent](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7539402beb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Kate Nicol Williams (1News): [Immunocompromised support workers staying home to protect themselves from Covid-19 left with reduced pay](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9e5942781c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Donna-Lee Biddle (Stuff): [Retired community nurse works for free amid Covid-19 pandemic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6e24db3a4d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Enforcing the lockdown, lockdown breaches**  
Imogen Wells (1News): [Heightened police presence around the country as police roll out new Covid-19 response units](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fd924dcdb8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Police release new figures around level four lockdown breaches](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bb61d1bee1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [64 prosecutions for breaches over Easter](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=313f2dd398&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Anna Whyte (1News): [More than 800 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules with 109 prosecutions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1e13bdbfef&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Amelia Wade (Herald):[Aviation Security Service officers join lockdown enforcement effort](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=09a3832639&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Impact of Covid-19 on Maori and Pacific communities, iwi checkpoints**  
Phil Pennington (RNZ): [Data systems need to focus on equity – M?ori health specialist](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6429c1f8f0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Carmen Parahi (Stuff): [Maori health experts question government testing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b0b8610717&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Geoffrey Rice (Stuff): [Maori have every reason to be concerned about the pandemic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c1c67c17c3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Carmen Parahi (Stuff): [The demand for equality in the battle against Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=30a5c55446&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dean Nathan (Maori TV): [Closing gateway to Far North to protect against virus great for community](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=30c56760fc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Donna-Lee Biddle (Stuff): [Iwi establish more checkpoints to protect communities from Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=91710410b1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Maori and Pasifika communities being supported by iwi in Hawke’s Bay during lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=90307b5a28&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Wiremu Manaia (E-Tangata): [Maori millennials are showing the way](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fc316f80af&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Lockdown lessons and NZ post-lockdown**  
Chris Trotter: [The ‘What’ And The ‘How’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4aa6f5fcf2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Cherie Howie (Herald): [How Kiwis’ lives will change during pandemic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b89b257e6a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Rod Drury (Newsroom): [What we do now will shape New Zealand’s future](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=767d39dee1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Bob Jones: [The coming economic crisis and its political consequences](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=146e33b693&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Grant Shimmin (Stuff): [The pandemic should put our focus back on people](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b9f4cfe6d8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Economy**  
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): [Big government is back](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b9216a9731&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [Sir Bill English warns that if markets shake off Covid-19, the public will respond](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=17eeb8836c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Why I am optimistic we can get through Covid-19 without becoming paupers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5de647d341&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Liam Dann (Herald): [Ghost of Sir Robert Muldoon – state support can’t mean a return to the 1970s](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5c5c070a35&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Peter Vial (Herald): [Time for a tax rethink as part of balance sheet repair job](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a73472a24a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Geoff Simmons (NBR): [Universal basic income: An economic vaccine to fight Covid-19?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a31452c44e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Norman Gemmell (Stuff): [The shape of New Zealand’s post-Covid-19 economy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c26161a816&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Alan Bollard (NBR): [How to?pay for Covid-19?: Lessons from previous wars](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4cd023356d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Bruce Munro (ODT): [Much ado about nothing?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eaf39e9ae1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Peter Lyons (Herald): [We don’t need to make Covid 19 coronavirus impact any worse](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d5fffb2b9d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Economist calls for ‘Ashley Bloomfield of economics’ to explain how we’re going to recover from COVID-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3fcc639ddf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [New Zealand has advantage in world trade slump, economist says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1592051891&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Infrastructure**  
Richard Harman (Politik): [After the lockdown, here comes the biggest construction boom – ever.](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4b5b62e05f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Eleanor West (Stuff): [Why some ‘shovel-ready’ projects are bad options for Covid spending](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3f71740b57&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Business, unemployment**  
Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [Grant Robertson warns that even in the double digits, unemployment will be masked by the wage subsidy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=115584884d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): [Pilots ‘helping to stock supermarket shelves’ with unemployment figures set to be released](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0609fd221a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Matt Burrows (Newshub): [Government must ‘think outside the square’ to get Kiwis back into jobs, says Winston Peters](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=035e004d7e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Vita Molyneux (Newshub): [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says more support for businesses is on the way](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=649cec9e67&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [Finance Minister Grant Robertson says lessons of hasty move up alert levels will be used in slide downwards](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=15a8acedf1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Tom Hunt and Kate Green (Stuff): [60,000 hospo jobs could soon fall to Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=72b781ab61&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Kurt Bayer (Herald): [Mitre 10 confirms job losses at its Albany support centre](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=abaeeb8309&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Mitre 10 lays off some support centre staff](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8a6c9a64ba&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
John Anthony (Stuff): [160 jobs at stake as Green Cabs ceases trading](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=599123e80c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Brian Gaynor (BusinessDesk): [Politicians are poor choices as company directors](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=958e0e47a3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
  
**Wage subsidy, employment**  
Rob Stock (Stuff): [Watershed moment as businesses become Covid-19 beneficiaries](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cbcc72904c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Taxpayers’ Union gives up ‘ideological purity’, accepts $60,000 in taxpayer wage subsidies](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5895f051b6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Newstalk ZB: [Taxpayers Union defends taking wage subsidy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6fa78db23f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Complaints probed: Employers pocketing wage subsidy face fraud charges](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b9e898a03b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jacob McSweeny (ODT): [Pay unfair, Scott workers claim](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=808cff06b7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Amelia Wade (Herald): [The Kiwi businesses taking up Govt’s wage subsidy scheme](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a4758ebab7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Farmers, The Warehouse, apply for wage subsidies](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c23de924f4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Georgia Forrester (Stuff): [How much NZ’s most popular restaurants have been paid in welfare amid Covid-19 crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8662a94030&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Glen Scanlon (RNZ): [Some workers missing out despite wage subsidy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ca9b3974cc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Catherine Harris (Stuff): [Can you be forced to take leave without pay during the Covid-19 lockdown?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=37a7ae898b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Rod Oram (Newsroom): [CEO interview – Richard Wagstaff, CTU](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=47cfebcd58&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Welfare**  
Thomas Manch, Thomas Coughlan, and Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [More than 20,000 benefit applications during first week of Covid-19 lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5ed92b618b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Anna Whyte and Brodyn Knuckey (Stuff): [Benefit numbers jump due to Covid-19 crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9b4039cee1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Janet McAllister (Stuff): [Thousands face welfare struggle if they lose their jobs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=499b4fa982&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Newshub: [An A-Z of all the Government help you could get if your job’s been affected by COVID-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8fad06a22d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Inequality, poverty**  
Stephen Forbes (Stuff): [Salvation Army report highlights social impact of Covid-19 lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2c750f97a9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [UNICEF teams with The Salvation Army to support NZ children in need](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ba5daf26e6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Increased electricity usage means bigger bills coming in](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0b8435a5ae&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Food banks around the country struggle to cope with demand created by coronavirus lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e8904d1fee&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [Low-interest loan providers braced for surge in demand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=80b89ae08c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Supermarkets and essential workers**  
1News: [New World worker tests positive for Covid-19 in Hawke’s Bay](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d097ecce98&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [Foodstuffs pledges at least $1m in donations, recognises ‘privilege’ of trading](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ff9970dda3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [Foodstuffs pledges million-dollar helping hand for Kiwis struggling due to pandemic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=961e49e424&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Paywave limit increased to $200 at Countdown stores in effort to stop Covid-19 spread](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=66dd311cea&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Phil Pennington (RNZ): [Call for in-home health workers to get supermarket priority](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dbbcb0ac8c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Steve Braunias (Herald): [The Covid-19 Secret Diary of the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cd955aa783&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
  
**Wealth**  
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): [Covid 19 and the rich – time for the wealthy to step up and help NZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d77d615c43&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Rob Stock (Stuff): [How Tindall, Morgan and Fyfe worked to ready country for Covid-19 fight](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=70143278f6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Rob Stock (Stuff): [Economic turmoil massively reduces wealth of the super-rich](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=182685443f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Tourism**  
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): [Hospitality horror – how fast will the industry recover?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1d617a99f7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Tourism industry will need to rely on Kiwis to keep afloat following lockdown, says business owner](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=51ffa87225&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Cas Carter (Stuff): [Time to reassess what tourism looks like after Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a1f4c87425&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Primary and extractive industries**  
Steve Elers (Stuff): [Primary interest: Time to cut the cord and let agriculture thrive](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ad2a2e87c8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Government dodges massive payout over 2010 kiwifruit disease outbreak](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=25380e7909&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): [Kiwifruit growers’ PSA case: Government cleared of liability](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=66e470eb36&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Esther Taunton (Stuff): [Kiwis grab horticulture jobs as Covid-19 reshapes labour market](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f8e3a4bbaa&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Crayfish exports pick up but far from normal](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=355320790e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Robin Martin (RNZ): [Offshore oil and gas rigs working skeleton crews during lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=09131477d6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [Oil and gas group OMV declares ‘positive result’ in the final well of its campaign](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dc0cd40963&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
  
**Housing**  
Lydia Lewis (Newshub): [KiwiBuy campaign chair’s plea to Government to resume housing projects during lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d43bc3965f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)