> ## 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 – 17 April 2021 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-17-april-2021/ - Published: 2021-05-06T20:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2021-05-06T20:36:59.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Featured, Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14 **Public sector pay freeze** Stuff: [Editorial – Pay freeze stretches public sector loyalty](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=30b798a576&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Pay freeze shows Government can’t manage the books](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c5dbb77900&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Pay freeze controversy enters second day, with Greens and National pressing Labour](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9418bfbf5c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [Do people really earn more in the public sector?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d38661b794&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Farrar: [Robertson and Hipkins become honorary members of the Taxpayers’ Union](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=263d853ad2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Chris Hipkins rebukes Mark Mitchell for classing border staff ‘bureaucrats’ as Greens rip into pay freeze](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cfff9dd9ec&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Caryn Wilkinson (Stuff): [Educators slam three more years of pay restraint for public servants](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f50fe2920f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kerre McIvor (Newstalk ZB): [Public sector pay freeze rightly labelled ‘bombshell’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=86765d954e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Frances Cook (Herald): [Of course I go to work for money, and so do you](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1ebf04793d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Richard Wagstaff (BusinessDesk): [Public sector bargaining must be in good faith](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6f8bafc460&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **China and New Zealand** Matthew Hooton (Herald): [Loose words raise risk of war](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=081808670c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Chris Trotter: [With Friends Like These …](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8896264551&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Bishop (Stuff): [Wanting nations to behave in line with our values is foolish](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=59bd9966e4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) ODT: [Editorial – New Zealand, China and realpolitik](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ace884ef74&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Neilson (Herald): [China lashes out after New Zealand Parliament makes Uighur declaration over ‘severe human rights abuses’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=10d51f0ca5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Ensor (Newshub): [Jacinda Ardern not surprised by China’s angry response to Parliament declaring ‘severe human rights abuses’ in Xinjiang](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f3d37d8c50&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Ensor (Newshub): [Xinjiang: China blasts New Zealand Parliament for ‘severe abuses’ declaration, warns of potential ‘harm’ to relationship](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a9a321eb51&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jane Patterson (RNZ): [Where will New Zealand stand in rising tensions between China and other allies?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=240fd2bfc9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Parliament human rights vote ‘gross interference in China’s internal affairs’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=91d7611d23&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **He Puapua document and Maori self-determination** Karl du Fresne: [The He Puapua affair makes Labour look shifty](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=78d36fc214&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [What are the govt’s plans with He Puapua?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=91916dcea4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Chris Lynch (Herald): [Will He Puapua unite New Zealanders as the authors have claimed?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=00273873d6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Parliament’s Speaker Trevor Mallard** Peter Dunne: [It is time for Speaker Trevor Mallard to go](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=91e57a0c57&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): [How long ’til Mallard goes?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2a51ad534c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [MPs using sexual assault as ‘political football’ not leading by example: Marama Davidson and charity founder](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=34687b9758&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing crisis** Jane Patterson (RNZ): [Police, MSD not collecting data on crime at emergency housing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0148fbaa76&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brian Fallow (Herald): [Choose your weapons in housing fight](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5b27227945&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Ashley Church (One Roof): [Housing market lessons from a Hollywood apocalypse](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=deb4305ed2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anne Gibson (Herald): [Housing crisis: Data shows record number of consents for new houses](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f54d15f886&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy, Budget, and work** Bernard Hickey (Spinoff): [Lower debt in, cutting child poverty out: Bernard Hickey on financial priorities](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7a7df4a5cc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Less than half of ‘shovel-ready’ projects begun by deadline](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=da730afd01&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Max Rashbrooke (Stuff): [Labour still haunted by economic ‘loser’ tag](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ee5a0e55c6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Editorial: How Covid-19 has heated up NZ’s economy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=722996cf47&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [Reserve Bank hints new lending tool might be worthwhile, even if only applied to investors](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d50723e315&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Brent Edwards (NBR): [Finance Minister’s balancing act will continue in May budget](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fffba43fcc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Chris Leitch (Herald): [A social solution to the giant money merry-go-round](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b76da0aec8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Caitlin Ellis (Newshub): [Understanding of Te Ao Maori a core skill for all New Zealand business directors – Reserve Bank assistant governor](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=232d0c3d91&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tamsyn Parker (Herald): [BNZ half year profit up 80% to $660 million](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8cb684ecc3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Hargreaves (Interest): [Businesses’ rising cost expectations ‘are off the charts’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d4995bde9e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Health** Herald: [Doctor burnout: One in two suffering – specialist told patients would die if she took a sick day](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4be5c17035&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Emma Russell (Herald): [Auckland hospitals overloaded: Patients waiting in corridors as demand skyrockets](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c9ccc1328e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Alice Angeloni (RNZ): [Nursing shortage leads to temporary stop on joint surgeries in Gisborne](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=60ad7558e1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tim Brown (Stuff): [Southern DHB ‘fails our patients at multiple stages’ – oncologist](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0cd985844e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Media** Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [Media have brought distrust on themselves – but there is hope](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=73d1ae3d29&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Glenn McConnell (Stuff): [RNZ’s Susie Ferguson and Corin Dann narrowly beat Mike Hosking in latest radio results](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fc60df3823&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Newstalk ZB topples RNZ National as biggest talk station in NZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fd0122bdcf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Covid and border** Derek Cheng (Herald): [Border blind spot: Number of unvaccinated workers outside MIQ unclear](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2e309d3e3c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Manch (Stuff): [New Zealand to support effort to waive Covid-19 vaccine patents, after United States backs WTO bid](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=14b7da3af3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Josh Van Veen (Democracy Project): [The Muller Trap](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1afb59171f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Neilson, Claire Trevett and Jason Walls (Herald): [National received nearly $3m in political donations in 2020 – nearly double Labour](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3b598584d3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Mather (Stuff): [Hamilton ratepayers stuck with 8.9 per cent rates hike and a parking u-turn](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cadae88a14&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Esther Taunton (Stuff): [Union calls for audit of KiwiRail trains amid slave labour concerns](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=212dd2ab48&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Farrar: [A trade union you should join](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=974813da79&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Te Aorewa Rolleston (RNZ): [Gangs in NZ: ‘Talking to those ready to embark on that path is important’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f7fb50a49e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Please share this article so that others can discover *The BFD***