> ## 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 – 20 January 2021 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-20-january-2021/ - Published: 2021-01-19T19:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2021-01-20T20:03:25.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38 **Housing** Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Public housing waitlist grows by 1000 in two months to new record high as high rents hit the poor](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=53ed5159ef&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [The Crown spent $16.5 million in four years on motels for emergency accommodation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4908aa3347&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sophie Trigger (Herald): [Affordable Wellington flats offered through council initiative](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1e3ee90be6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Melissa Nightingale (Herald): [Shipping container for rent at $390/wk: Council to inspect](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=165a9b2e11&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Miriam Bell (Stuff): [Do property values really double every 10 years?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a3118c5d9e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Madison Reidy (Newshub): [House prices predicted to soar in 2021 as Auckland ‘property boom’ starts again](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=72cc0bc790&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Hargreaves (Interest): [Taking the temperature of the first home buyers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e0f29674c8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [Property expert predicts even tougher year for first home buyers with loan-to-value ratios set to return](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=606d2742fe&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Laura Wiltshire (Stuff): [Wellington students call for better support for student living with capital in midst of housing crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7ce390e209&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [House prices double over past decade in some parts of the country](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=90896ecde6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anne Gibson (Herald): [Pending sale could set new record for most expensive New Zealand residential property](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5aadb4a937&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Covid** Audrey Young (Herald): [Is Chris Hipkins’ halo slipping?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dd6480bb8c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Richard Prebble (Herald): [New Zealand dangerously exposed to Covid outbreak](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6c98940f18&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Michael Morrah (Newshub): [Coronavirus: Epidemiologists call for removing smoking, exercise areas in managed isolation facilities](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bc7dee7b19&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Luke Malpass (Stuff): [Why a trans-Tasman bubble by April is still on the cards](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c90ebdac02&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Covid 19 coronavirus: Australia hopes for ‘more reciprocal’ travel bubble with NZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=81aa7f789e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Covid-19: Chris Hipkins explains why Australia is exempt from pre-departure test rules](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c047a75c77&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Expanded pre-departure Covid-19 testing starts next week](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=379d56da8a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Covid-19: Pre-departure test extended to all passengers from next week](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=15b58be4db&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [The race to immunise a nation: Preparing to vaccinate NZ against Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c295ac3a9c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Was Labour wrong to dismiss National’s pre-departure COVID-19 test policy? Chris Hipkins argues otherwise](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=26bcde82ae&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Medsafe defends COVID-19 vaccine hold-up as National’s Judith Collins, ACT’s David Seymour demand answers to ‘big questions’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=84be6d0851&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [National, ACT take credit for COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins’ confirmation of early vaccine request](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3b2b5858a4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Whyte (1News): [Government attempting to obtain small batch of Covid-19 vaccines early for border staff](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5d1e61e284&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eric Crampton: [Vaccines are cheap](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1440692a9b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Daly (Stuff): [Covid-19: Helen Clark-chaired panel criticises China and WHO over pandemic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=330810ec4f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Helen Clark-led Covid-19 independent review panel criticises China, WHO](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=86ff5b035d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jake Kenny (Stuff): [Covid-19: What do you do if you can’t scan a QR code or sign a sheet?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=261b28b790&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andre Chumko (Stuff): [Stop! Scanner time: Arts sector pleads for people to keep scanning](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e224eb4afd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy, inequality and work** RNZ: [Labour shortages a drag on economy – survey](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a6bee2610a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [‘The problem’s escalated’ – Food poverty in Aotearoa only getting worse says those on the frontline](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2a0807463f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Liam Dann (Herald): [World Economic Forum’s grim post-Covid warning: Social, economic and geo-political instability](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b252b095db&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) David Hargreaves (Interest): [RBNZ ‘to be first in the world to raise interest rates’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4db2ffd291&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): [Rise in confidence sees businesses take out more loans via govt-backed scheme](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=89391897b3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eleisha Foon (RNZ): [New Zealand women taking leap into entrepreneurship during Covid-19 era](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=48aa93c6c5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Banks should continue to offer cheques as an option until we can be sure that disadvantaged groups will not be left behind](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d9c0deb455&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John McDermott (NBR): [Who leads when government plays strategic games with RBNZ?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=929f180dd0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Andrew Bascand (NBR): [Why there is room for growth and employment optimism](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9a14ee97d7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Tiwai smelter deal** Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Power prices ‘already up’ as a result of Tiwai Point aluminium smelter deal](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=94739b6748&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bryan Leyland (Herald): [Why we need the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0d1011dfd9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Gray (Herald): [Broker goes back to the drawing board after Rio Tinto keeps Tiwai open](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0ab4c59dce&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Reweti Kohere (NBR): [Meridian boss says new smelter deal an ‘exit agreement’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bdbb99db8b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Parliament, government, and extremism** 1News: [When will quarantine end? PM’s first Facebook live of 2021 answers tricky questions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=19a1f09fbb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **US politics and NZ; International relations** Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [No, Chris Liddell is not going to head the OECD](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1b8e251180&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Robert G. Patman (The Conversation): [Trumpism doesn’t end with Trump — NZ needs to take a firmer stand against a global threat to democracy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=baebfbf216&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Henry Cooke (Stuff): [New Zealand calls for release of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7677cb8107&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [NZ’s Foreign Affairs Minister calls for release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2849e402ad&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Prisons, police, law and order** Sam Sherwood (Stuff): [Police slash annual cannabis operation, blind siding frontline staff and officials](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9e10fc3893&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) M?ni Dunlop (RNZ): [Police launch internal review into policy of taking photos of young people](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1ff49b771d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Carwyn Jones and Jamie-Lee Tuuta (Stuff): [Waikeria prison protest result of government failing to act on its own advice](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7d3bc39ebb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Former Waikeria Prison inmate credits Te Ao Marama unit for turning his life around](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=928fb943f5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Taneatua’s new police station: No cells, no barriers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d464293f5b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Leask and Jamie Morton (Herald): [Mentally distressed people more likely to be killed by police in armed events, new study on shootings has revealed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=28ea1f10c4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** Kirsty Lawrence (Stuff): [Calls for Government to step in as Maori wards issue heats up](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=91d52186ff&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): [MP and councillor combine on social media to get more people engaged with politics](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cd36c636e9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ellen O’Dwyer (Stuff): [Waikato council boss says no more water for Auckland](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=27843ed9ed&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stephen Forbes (Stuff): [Auckland mayor says Government’s water reforms must stack up for city](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5987cbd1e4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Auckland to keep assets despite Watercare’s financial woes – Goff](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ac911efb10&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Returning to Wellington worse than the holiday blues](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cc0bd8165a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Logan Savory (Stuff): [Aaron Hawkins, from political intrigue in Invercargill to Dunedin’s mayor](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1cf0ed9873&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Health** Cecile Meier (Stuff): [Canterbury DHB not ready to go without a Crown monitor, health minister says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ac7f627d33&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Drug testing groups want to expand beyond music festivals](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8c552f49a2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Climate and environment** Chloe Ranford (Stuff): [Forestry practices questioned after three quarters fail first inspection](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=73e45a5406&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Education** Jamie Beaton (Stuff): [Education must act on advances made during lockdowns](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1e29f80ddb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Laura Wiltshire (Stuff): [Maori-medium education thrived during lockdown, leading the education sector by example](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a5f4446343&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Ella Stewart and Te Aorewa Rolleston (RNZ): [Auckland gallery Maori arts curator calls out colonial institutions after resigning](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eec3751a01&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Lower speed limits on some state highways frustrate locals](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0bed8ef4d3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andrew Owen (Stuff): [Protestors continue fight against live animal exports from Port Taranaki](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ad429e352e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Laura Wiltshire (Stuff): [Queens are doing it for themselves: Wellington’s drag queens are coming out for a cause](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f636aa474d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Deepfake video stars Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford in The Princess Bride](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8690137b28&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Monika Barton (Newshub): [Clarke Gayford tweets Princess Bride deepfake parody clip starring him and Jacinda Ardern](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=39fad57011&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nile Bijoux (Stuff): [‘Better than anticipated’ – new vehicle market drops 23 per cent in 2020](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8501d988bf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)