> ## 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 – 21 April 2021 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-17-december-2020-3/ - Published: 2021-04-20T20:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2021-04-21T20:25:56.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14 **Ihumatao unlawful government spend** Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Auditor-General rules the $29.9m the Government used to buy Ihumatao was unlawfully spent](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0f308b9af3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tova O’Brien (Newshub): [Housing Minister Megan Woods promises to ‘tidy up’ unlawful purchase of Ihumatao](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c15d2b1ff2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Unlawful Ihumatao payment another ‘messy chapter’ in the saga, 1News political reporter says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0497130f05&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Whyte (1News): [Ihumatao $29.9m payment ‘unlawful’ after officials miss key steps in approval process – Auditor General](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a248fb1667&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Ihumatao land deal ‘unlawful’ until validated by Parliament – Auditor-General](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=645c5cf5b2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Neilson (Herald): [Government’s Ihumatao land purchase ‘unlawful’ – Auditor-General](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c41306772f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Farrar: [Oops we broke the law again](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ca90b0f084&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Health** Jason Walls (Herald): [Government to unveil significant ‘once-in-a-generation’ health sector shake-up](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8b79726c1e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bridie Witton and Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Government to announce shape of NZ’s reformed health system, possible powers for new Maori Health Authority](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ba28ecb216&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Richard Prebble (Herald): [Andrew Little’s health reforms will achieve little](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2211093a84&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Cate Broughton (Stuff): [Ban on DHB members making political comment may prevent criticism of health reforms](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8d9e7ae264&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Art Nahill (Herald): [Curing our overcrowded emergency wards](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=db5c0e777e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Andrew Little is completely wrong on decriminalising drugs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=518b09d3d4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Alice Angeloni (RNZ): [Dental care for East Coast teenagers after principal fights tooth and nail for 20 years](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=82b3f3f591&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): [‘Clear’ inequity for Maori in health care – report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bc8b708f90&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **NZ-China relations: Mahuta Speech** Stuff: [Editorial – A welcome shift in talk of China](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d1dcddcaa3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand’s new stance on Five Eyes isn’t a backdown to China](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f9c690a0e6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern reaffirms commitment to Five Eyes after UK media claims it’s ‘become four’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8f8ccc7c6b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [New Zealand ‘concerned’ about China asserting itself in the region, foreign minister says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6fb63d0837&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Foreign Affairs Minister addresses her comments on Five Eyes and China](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6e88db4d2d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Foreign Minister urges NZ exporters to become less reliant on China](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=624ebd2c17&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy, immigration and work** Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Grant Robertson’s billion-dollar window of opportunity](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=66c95bcb48&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) ODT: [Editorial – The story of subsidies](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c59ca34965&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ben Kelleher (Stuff): [Here’s how the pandemic improved NZers’ financial fortunes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c051ed33d5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Meriana Johnsen (Stuff): [Call for more Maori, Pasifika businesses to be awarded government contracts](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=60a247fb4e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Aimee Shaw (Herald): [Kiwi workers upbeat about their jobs and industry – survey](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=46b1682130&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Helen Roberts and Dennis Wesselbaum (Stuff): [Minimum wage increase: bone or bane?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d7309c18b5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Gray (Herald): [A small lift in March quarter CPI expected, but pressure builds](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2afa877da4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Covid: Vaccinations programme and border** Derek Cheng (Herald): [Flying blind? We don’t really know how many border workers are missing tests](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=34b0d98066&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Herald: [New case at Auckland Airport – vital questions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a2eeef6d37&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Roger Partridge (Herald): [Testing and vaccination bungles fail cautionary principle](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f9e7793900&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) John Anthony (Stuff): [Customs and Immigration NZ officers can process red and green zone passengers on same day](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1130ac0474&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **National Party** Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): [Political Roundup – National has bigger problems than its leadership](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4e72b41ab5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Liam Hehir (The Guardian): [National MPs should stop their intrigues – changing the leadership won’t help right now](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=997b125788&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [National Party will meet in June for special conference on constitutional changes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6ce1cfe77a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing crisis** Jane Patterson (RNZ): [Emergency housing: Woman beaten unconscious, children being ‘put at risk’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fe50e81557&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [House prices continuing to soar – new QV Quarterly Index](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=017255cf4e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Climate change** Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [Helen Clark warns New Zealand will look ‘as silly as we do now’ if climate change ‘political football’ continues](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a8e818bab4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steven Cowan: [James Shaw: The corporate-friendly climate change minister we don’t need](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=082699cb4d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jim Salinger (Herald): [Climate change, overfishing, a mammoth threat](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ca1b92f5c1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Stuff: [Biden’s climate summit is Govt’s chance to unveil tougher emissions-reduction pledge](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cf31a06f05&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Transport** RNZ: [National defends Transmission Gully after serious planning flaws found](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bf994b3aa9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Wellington’s Transmission Gully review shows there’s no value in trying to cut corners](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=77097fe262&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Winston Peters MSD privacy court case** Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Winston Peters’ privacy breach case no longer targets former National MPs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7da9e0d02e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Melissa Nightingale (Herald): [Winston Peters in court to appeal superannuation privacy breach decision](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4873b2c43c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Mental health crisis** Lois Williams (RNZ): [West Coast DHB defends child mental health service](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a1733b4000&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Mental health campaigner Jane Stevens ‘hopeful’ after meeting with minister Andrew Little](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fe04ab369c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): [Mental health service Nikau House not recognisable, says client](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6afd5d90ba&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Parliament** Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Labour ends attempt to repeal ‘dead rat’ Waka Jumping law](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=32cb7f1b34&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Media** Gavin Ellis: [Mosque killer dilemma: To name or not](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=99a2d9464d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [NZME found to have breached stock exchange rules relating to Stuff bid](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c68848079a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Donna Chisholm (Listener/Herald): [NZ’s potentially catastrophic near-miss from outer space: ‘We’re not learning’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=329c0b36e2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Michael Daly (Stuff): [Leading scientists call for public report of risks facing NZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=746f02659e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andrea Vance (Stuff): [More than 300 Kiwis deported from Australia while borders closed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=098431c315&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Matthew Tso (Stuff): [Report warned of toxic mould problems at Hutt High three years before classrooms were closed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b5ba912afb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)