> ## 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 – 14 May 2021 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-14-may-2021/ - Published: 2021-05-13T20:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2021-05-13T20:29:22.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Featured, Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14 **Inequality and poverty** Claire Achmad (RNZ): [A brave and bold Budget 2021 is needed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=121d7bacd5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Whyte (1News): [Child poverty report ‘grim reading’, says action group](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f97f05a25c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Child poverty report shows no measurable improvement in housing conditions, hospitalisations, food security](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=48cdb644f8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Neilson (Herald): [Child poverty: High housing costs, poor quality continue as factors, Government reports say](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e294ef2b2a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Children going hungry: One in five Kiwi kids living in households where food runs out](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3200ff4ff5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ellen O’Dwyer (Stuff): [Principal on government lunch waste: ‘Schools, sort your systems out’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7c792d2d20&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [Government spends $300,000 on My Food Bag for beneficiaries and food banks](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=667553d0a8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Newstalk ZB: [Child poverty: High housing costs, poor quality continue as factors](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=03d83212b7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Political finance and donations** Sam Hurley and Jason Walls (Herald): [Labour Party donations case: Solicitor and public servant among the six accused who allegedly created ‘illusion’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=01377cdaab&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Jacinda Ardern signals electoral law changes after Labour joins list of donation investigations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=059cc0e916&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Catrin Owen (Stuff): [Serious Fraud Office charges six people over 2017 Labour Party election donations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f1cba5e4c4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sam Hurley (Herald): [Serious Fraud Office charges six people in Labour Party donations case](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=33fa9ca6b8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Craig McCulloch (RNZ): [SFO files criminal charges against six people in Labour Party donations case](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=07d575219a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Serious Fraud Office charges six people over Labour Party donation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3b97dfcfb4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) No Right Turn: [Labour: Dirty and corrupt](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=155e204a58&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Electoral Commission chased Hutt South Labour for missing donation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=25ffbb741d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **He Puapua document and Maori self-determination** Chris Trotter (ODT): [The He Puapua revolution](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=477af002c6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Rawiri Waititi: Maori ‘sick and tired’ of being a political football](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e742c64df2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Abbey Wakefield (1News): [Simon Bridges labels Maori Party co-leader’s haka in the House as ‘fun and games’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ec60bf2c32&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [How MPs reacted to Maori Party’s ‘racist rhetoric’ dispute](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bad6b380b6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Employment relations; Pay freeze and Fair Pay Agreements** Democracy Project: [Union worker: Pay freeze was an attempt at intimidation by a government scared of strikes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1ae5d889e6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Matthew Hooton (Herald): [What’s really driving Government’s pay agenda?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5d3ef062c4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Laura Meriluoto (The Conversation): [As the government is learning, a ‘wage freeze’ can come with unintended consequences](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3b1391dbf5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Fair Pay Agreements bring a shift in industrial relations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b82b7469fc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brent Edwards (NBR): [How did government botch public sector pay expectations?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=110d353ad8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) RNZ: [Grant Robertson says public pay sector restrictions do not amount to pay freeze](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9fdb5ba228&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [BusinessNZ claims its input on risks of FPAs is ignored in Cabinet paper](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2c4ea6f0d5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Budget 2021, economy and work** Brian Fallow (Herald): [What about the workers, Grant?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=33ccd9b8c5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Anne Gibson (Herald): [Budget 2021: Assistance to help more Maori get into homeownership a new focus](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=38ad8543d6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): [I’ll be tough and miserable says National’s Andrew Bayly but never boring](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f91ef5f0bd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): [Post-Covid wishlist needs to be backed with action and money](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=efa95bf467&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [Here’s how New Zealand’s income tax take compares to other countries](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d634c216fe&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): [How much longer do we keep superannuation universal?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=252c8432f9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Parliament and Government** Peter Dunne: [Labour’s post-Ardern leadership](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fd780028e4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): [Shocker of a week for the government](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7b96148806&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bob Jones: [The National Party’s Dilemma](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=44fd785ea3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Covid** Derek Cheng (Herald): [Covid 19 coronavirus: How will New Zealand open up to the world?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d1608498c9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Derek Cheng (Herald): [Government’s blunt message for general public vaccine walk-ins](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=afd11de585&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Florence Kerr (Stuff): [Are the “priority groups” just guinea pigs for everyone else?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a4d90a9a37&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Hartevelt (Stuff): [This is the whole truth about the Covid-19 vaccine](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e88f718448&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [‘Dumb good luck’, not expert management, behind NZ’s Covid-19 success – expert](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f770e2e30e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Expert says call to ‘blow the health system up’ during Covid-19 vaccine rollout is bad timing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a31dbc565a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan and Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Andrew Little hits out at medical expert for criticising timing of health sector reforms](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c9a59b34c6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Wellington City Council** Damian George (Stuff): [Wellington City Council agrees to introduce Maori ward](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b4d3c29d52&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Wellington City councillors vote to establish a Maori ward](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9d46a555b7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Wellington councillors vote to investigate car-free central city by 2025](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a559de437f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Wellington Mayor Andy Foster’s fate to be decided in public](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ddb6288d2c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Damian George (Stuff): [Councillors overturn plan to debate critical code of conduct findings behind closed doors](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0bbfa6260e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Hunt (Stuff): [Wellington Mayor commissions own legal advice saying he shouldn’t apologise to staff member, after critical report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=21a0f529e0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** Stuff: [Editorial – ICC right to reject Maori ward but still faces tricky call over mana whenua seats](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a31a5cbda3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tim Newman (Stuff): [Maori Ward resolution ‘just the first step’ for Nelson](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8783122c8e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tim Newman (Stuff): [Mixed reaction to Nelson City Council’s Maori Ward decision](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7e17e43ee2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing crisis** Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [What action is next from the Reserve Bank on housing?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a891ea2233&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Catherine Harris (Stuff): [Is the housing market losing steam? Economists disagee](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c3fb39e26c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Miriam Bell (Stuff): [House building costs have spiked as capacity constraints and supply shortages start to bite](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=69d63f48ee&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jane Patterson (RNZ): [Emergency housing: Move to end ‘mixed-use’ motels practice in Rotorua](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=af6c742c50&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Leah Tebbutt (Herald): [Govt’s $30m Rotorua motel emergency housing shake-up ‘not a solution’, says MP Todd McClay](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c15d06e184&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [More proof the Government has got it wrong on housing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=76e731fa3d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **International relations** Thomas Manch (Stuff): [New Zealand raises international law violations with Israel, expresses ‘grave concern’ over escalating violence](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=16af2400f4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steven Cowan: [Nanaia Mahuta: Failing the Palestinian people](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1b45e3b263&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Suzannah Jessep (Asia Media Centre): [Reframing the India-NZ Relationship](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2351424d3b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Immigration** Richard Harman: [An end to large scale immigration](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=04a34bac5a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) RNZ: [Immigration Minister confronted at rally over border restrictions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0a33f9bcf6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nadine Porter (Stuff): [‘Families need to be reunited’: Vigil highlights heartache over residency delays](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a6599d3d58&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Neilson (Herald): [Heartbreak, tears and frustration at protest to reunite migrant families](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1dbcc94730&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jacques Steenkamp (BusinessDesk): [Labour shortage at ‘crisis point’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4eb7afd88a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Health** Mike Houlahan (ODT): [Outsourcing underscores SDHB failure: academic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d27c6405a7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Justice** Daisy Hudson (ODT): [Prisoner’s death prompts change](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0b5d82c0e6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Harry Lock (RNZ): [‘We’ve got to stop bashing’: Politicians told to work together on Wellington safety](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=910f0de956&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [New Zealand’s adoption, three strikes laws ‘dreadful’ – former Judge](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3a01bbdc24&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Education** Edward O’Driscoll (Newshub): [Pre-Budget 2021 boost: Hopes early learning teachers’ pay boost will pep up dwindling workforce](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e202baab13&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ben Strang (RNZ):[ National hammers government over unclear gun buy-back estimates](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=70a63f0c07&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Ministers spent contingency funds of $6.8b project, after warnings from Treasury](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=31e56f9a2a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Tens of millions of dollars spent on Auckland light rail despite no shovels in the ground](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=78b1cc8adf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Glenn McConnell and Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): [Newshub to close its Dunedin newsroom](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1a6c95955d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Gerritsen (RNZ): [Taika Waititi fronts anti-racism campaign aimed at teachers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9c344a2a05&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Imogen Wells (1News): [Parliamentary inquiry finds lack of transparency in country’s uni hall sector](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fb5e9d8697&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Olivia Wannan (Stuff): [Is your school burning fossil fuels? Even the Government may not know](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=10b83d606d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Please share this article so that others can discover *The BFD***