> ## 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 – 16 November 2020 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-16-november-2020/ - Published: 2020-11-15T19:15:01.000Z - Updated: 2020-11-15T19:02:53.000Z - Author: General - Tags: COVID-19, Election 2020, Featured, Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38 **Housing** Henry Cooke (Stuff): [If it wants to fix housing, Labour needs to get out of its defensive crouch](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d884fda71b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bernard Hickey (Stuff): [Millennials suffer as old generals fight the previous war](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=957bdf3c6a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tracy Watkins (Stuff): [What happens when the only way for housing seems to be up?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cdfaaaa31d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steven Joyce (Herald): [It’s housing for the haves, and no relief in sight for the have-nots](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3247331b1a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Tony Abraham (Stuff): [Non-bank lenders turning on the funding tap to meet housing demand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d78adeceda&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Gareth Vaughan (Interest): [The RBNZ, housing and the sort of society New Zealanders want](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9338e485f6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Greg Ninness (Interest): [House price rises are probably skewed more towards the top end of the market](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1987b2caf8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kerre McIvor (Herald): [Elusive hunt for a place to call home](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=29d6d9b184&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Jenny Ruth (BusinessDesk): [RBNZ is responsible for rising house prices](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6dae0241f0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywaled) Newstalk ZB: [Sunday Panel: Will Jacinda Ardern actually do anything about house prices?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=952a3cd282&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ashley Church (One Roof): [Would first home buyers be better off buying an investment property?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3bcfe4a29a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ben Leahy (One Roof): [Golden hammer: Booming house sales are lining the pockets of real estate agents](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=59cbe2a84e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andy Fyers (BusinessDesk): [Can LVRs make a dent in housing demand?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c622c8f5c0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **National Party** Monique Poirier (Kiwiblog): [Where to from here for National?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a328495f1e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): [It’s politics Chris Luxon, so remember your place](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d939e7f6e3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Brent Edwards (NBR): [Fact or Fiction: Can National’s financial credentials be regained?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d52f495562&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Peter Wilson (RNZ): [The Week in Politics: A week of surprises](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6a6238171a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Labour** Joel Maxwell (Stuff): [Willie Jackson: ‘You gotta get the deal .. to fulfil dreams’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4f8743c20f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy and work** Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [Was this the biggest recession we never had?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=49d3ced12d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [Covid-19 job losses: ‘That’s probably it’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f468ea5338&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) NZ Herald: [Greens push to double sick leave by Christmas but Labour is ruling it out](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cebaaa587f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eric Crampton (Stuff): [The case for a better Covid-19 leave policy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2c1cf9c7a6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Melanie Carroll (Stuff): [Covid-19 sick leave situation not straightforward for vulnerable employees](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=949bc5e198&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Covid-19: Robust sick leave systems needed – union](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=82cbb42642&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Liam Dann (Herald): [Returning Kiwis – just what impact are they having, really?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=812e10ebf1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Colin Peacock (RNZ): [Slim pickings – reporting the shortage of labour for fruit and veges](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0c4448e881&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Martin Van Beynen (Stuff): [New Zealand’s isolation and chicken meat security](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bb542e319d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jon Duffy (Stuff): [Telcos, supermarkets and airlines all owe customers better treatment](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dab424c32b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Paul Conway (Interest): [Adjusting to a post-COVID-19 world economy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=521624eb4c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Guy Trafford (Interest): [2020 harvest a write-off?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fb2f706435&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Covid** Katie Todd (RNZ): [Cabinet to decide on mandatory mask use on Auckland public transport and domestic flights](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f92902260b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Government’s move on masks does not go far enough – epidemiologist](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3d4647247a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amelia Wade (Herald): [How Government will bring in mandatory mask rule by Thursday](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8c913358bb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Audrey Young (Herald): [Covid 19 coronavirus outbreak tests Chris Hipkins, super-minister](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1653f87c90&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Sarah Robson (RNZ): [Support for moves to make Covid Tracer app scanning mandatory](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b44e5be858&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nicholas Jones (Herald): [Ministry of Health stands by sick student/work information provided and released](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ab0467a665&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Covid community case says she didn’t have a translator after ‘asking many times’, leading to inaccurate info](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bbe59c31f8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **International relations and trade** Audrey Young (Herald) [New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta’s path to top diplomat](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=78856e49ca&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Elzanne Bester (Herald): [Nanaia Mahuta paves the way for women in foreign policy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b0ac0a478b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Erin Matariki Carr and Phoebe Matariki Carr (Spinoff): [Four ways Nanaia Mahuta can do foreign policy differently](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c75b39b165&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Opposition as NZ joins world’s largest free trade agreement](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2f3edc162c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Richard Harman: [China and NZ are in but the US is out of world’s second largest trade pact](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e1669bed15&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jackson Thomas (Stuff): [PM meets with ASEAN leaders to discuss ongoing ‘strategic partnership’ in the face of Codiv-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=778907da8a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Esther Taunton and Troels Sommerville (RNZ): [Signing RCEP trade puts NZ economy in ‘best possible position’ post Covid](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5b3b4478b8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Malcolm McKinnon (Asia Media Centre): [NZ & Asia relations: Interests, Identity and Values](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c4a857bd2a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Isaac Davison (Herald): [Trump’s Kiwi staffer Chris Liddell says he never supported separating children at US border](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ee5ce09505&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Poverty and inequality** Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): [Political Roundup – The Left’s challenge to Labour’s inaction on poverty and inequality](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b5b104542e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Don Franks (Redline): [New Zealand union structure past its use by date](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=263a70bc10&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** Sarah Catherall (Stuff): [Has Wellington lost its cool title to Auckland?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cc974ca102&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Hunt (Stuff): [Council land in capital’s Shelly Bay sold to private developer – not mana whenua](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d3ee879525&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eugene Doyle (Stuff): [Wellington the numpty of water infrastructure](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f7b7b2a9af&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steven Walton (Stuff): [Major government invested needed to get mass rapid transport for Canterbury off the ground](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2cf8ef8d08&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anan Zaki (RNZ): [‘Unpleasant’ community board ‘bickering’ deters potential members – professor](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b649eb23fc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Botting (Herald): [Northland MP Willow-Jean Prime disappointed in council reaction to Maori wards](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=116b0c6900&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Botting (Herald): [Work towards Local Electoral Act changes in favour of Maori wards underway](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=89be001fb3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Election and Parliament** RNZ: [The rise – and fall – and rise – of the Maori Party](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f8e1ee9a20&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sasha Borissenko (Herald): [The new Parliament – lawyers, lawyers, lawyers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e1ea5d6cab&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Ethan Griffiths (Herald): [Maori Party recount request is pure politics](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e631945ca5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Claire Trevett (Herald): [Beehive Diaries: The National Party’s awkward couples and PM’s property call](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=67f03429aa&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Katie Scotcher (RNZ): [New Zealand First’s Tracey Martin considers options away from Parliament](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fac70a1ffc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Golriz Ghahraman: finding her place in Aotearoa](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=272dbd9bf0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steven Cowan: [First impression can be deceiving](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7bcc95e4e9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Environment** Andrea Vance (Stuff): [The way we protect the oceans is badly outdated. Will the Government change that?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ef8da79cf9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** David Farrar: [Government refusing legitimate OIA requests for three years](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=72ae64fbac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Khylee Quince (Stuff): [Why referendums are never likely to advance Maori interests](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ee07ba62cf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Cate Broughton (Stuff): [Boom in $100k-plus salaries at cash-strapped Canterbury health board](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e4506afd07&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Laura Wiltshire (Stuff): [Mum feels ‘backed into a corner’ by Ministry of Education’s refusal to help kid with sensory needs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ad2f91783c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Roughan (Herald): [New Transport Minister picks up old harbour crossing issues](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9a81a3365a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Herald: [Editorial: Turning a blind eye to bullying no longer an option](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9206f96b76&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Bob Edlin (Point of order): [Creative NZ gives support to the art of pressing MPs to change “racist” law and facilitate race-based voting systems](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7e9d2ac5e9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)