> ## 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 – 25 March 2021 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-25-march-2021/ - Published: 2021-03-24T19:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2021-03-25T19:54:13.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14 **Housing: Rental market** Glenn McConnell (Stuff): [Forget first-home buyers, the metric of success in the housing crisis is rental prices](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9dccb455e3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [New Zealanders react after Finance Minister Grant Robertson says tenants will ‘go looking elsewhere’ if landlords hike rents](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=38c826be0c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Sadler (Newshub): [Housing crisis: Social media users attack Jacinda Ardern over Government’s new housing plans](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e6eb48af3e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Housing package opens door to investor angst, renter despondency](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9a13abbd94&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Madison Reidy (Newshub): [Housing crisis: Landlords’ warning to increase rents not an empty threat – economists](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=943633129a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anne Gibson (Herald): [Government housing changes: 12-house landlord reveals plan to defeat state, avoid extra tax](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eac1f007c8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): [The housing announcement will not help renters](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cf5c5e3384&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Judith Collins says rents will rise thanks to Government housing package](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d7013fdb82&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) The Civilian: [Landlords threaten to install uneven stairs, put light switches in awkward places if bright-line test is extended](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=05c49a60e4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing: Govt announcement** Shamubeel Eaqub (RNZ): [Housing policies: Tilting towards supply, away from landed gentry](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3eceae67b8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stephen Forbes (Stuff): [Salvation Army questions Government’s new housing package](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=baf6e53142&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dita De Boni (NBR): [Housing package doesn’t address irrationality underlying real estate market](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a407a516e8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Greg Ninness (Interest): [Government’s new housing policies should bring hope to first home buyers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=711cf51069&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [Will the Government’s housing policy work?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=38599b00c0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Labour hopes changes bring stability to housing market, Ardern says ‘we’ll see’ if prices fall](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5ec3bb7351&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Daniel Dunkley (Stuff): [Govt reforms put investors and first-home buyers on collision course](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5f415e5d68&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Reddell: [Messing around with housing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=791466ff2c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Housing package likely makes it harder for first-home buyers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5d2341a875&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steven Cowan: [Housing: Labour tinkers with a failed system](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=71375e28c1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan and Mel Logan (Newshub): [Government housing policy appears to have been made ‘on the fly’ – political scientist Bryce Edwards](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fb9bb03789&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Adam Jacobson (RNZ): [Housing Acceleration Fund welcomed but industry questions if it is enough to fix crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e2f98139da&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [First home buyers: What you can buy around the country under the new First Home Loan price caps](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=56ae6a1c6f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing: Tax deductibility changes** Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [‘Will my sector be next?’ – BusinessNZ slams Government’s move on interest deductibility](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f180558e9d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Jason Walls (Herald): [Housing package interest policy: Economist questions Treasury’s lack of advice due to ‘time constraints](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=283f162c09&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Priscilla Dickinson (Newshub): [Not ‘money-hungry fat cats’: Landlord takes exception to Government reference to interest deduction ‘loophole’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b6d3405e4f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tamsyn Parker (Herald): [Investment property interest write-off change prompts lending rethink by ANZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0cf84b9d82&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing: Ten-year bright line test extension** Claire Trevett (Herald): [Will housing be PM Jacinda Ardern’s political capital gains tax risk?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6979138c7e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): [Brightline test reform ‘worse than doing nothing’: Treasury](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d1cd002891&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [How much tax has come from the bright-line test? Inland Revenue doesn’t know](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=521fc7305c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Henry Cooke (Stuff): [How the Government is changing rules for renting out your ‘main home’ and the bright-line test](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=582d91700e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing: General** Brendon Blue (Democracy Project): [Non-homeowners are paying the cost of the Covid recovery](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=31fb63c552&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sam Kelway (1News): [Government must ‘build houses now’, ?p?tiki mayor pleads amid housing crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0a471f462e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rebecca Moore (1News): [Property commentator Ashley Church predicts house prices will double in next six years](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6575700b60&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuart Smith; Arena Williams (Stuff): [If we are to solve the housing problem we need more houses – not a capital gains tax](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f1c3571ce5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Health** Audrey Young (Herald): [Health system under serious stress, major reform coming, Andrew Little says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1f1fdd1a66&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Government set to urgently restructure stressed and unequal health system](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=52287926da&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Richard Harman: [The big health overhaul picks up pace](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2361a0fb33&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hannah Martin (Stuff): [How coronavirus and lockdown impacted New Zealand’s health system](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b214c73951&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hamish MacLean (ODT): [Code black at Dunedin Hospital: ‘Avoid ED if possible’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3fcd03e494&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard** Barry Soper (Herald): [Jacinda Ardern seems to have a ‘la la la’ moment when it comes to Trevor Mallard](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=45843d6f8a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Yvette McCullough (RNZ): [National calls on PM to back no confidence vote on Mallard](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fe8b831e76&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Judith Collins renews call for Trevor Mallard’s head in letter to Jacinda Ardern](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=210aaee25c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [National, Collins step up campaign against Speaker Trevor Mallard](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=44eefa408c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Judith Collins renews calls for removal of Trevor Mallard as Speaker](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a2ebab5fa2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Parliament and Government** Audrey Young (Herald): [Former Air NZ boss Christopher Luxon explains his Christian faith in maiden speech](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d1a1c21f00&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Luke Malpass (Stuff): [Ex-Air NZ CEO Christopher Luxon gives maiden speech to Parliament, defends his Christianity](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7a0f0e569b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [MP Chris Luxon tells Parliament his religious views not extreme](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3045a72065&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds delivers maiden speech](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d293d188b3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Derek Cheng (Herald): [Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds tells Wellington to get out of the way](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b7bbed0ec6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [National MPs Nicola Grigg and Simon Watts deliver maiden speeches](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aace0b486e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Security Intelligence Service** Tova O’Brien (Newshub): [NZSIS boss Rebecca Kitteridge can’t promise spies are looking in right places, picking up obvious far-right threats](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bce67e5590&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jane Patterson (RNZ): [Andrew Little defends SIS, criticises media coverage](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9f8b3c2515&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [SIS expansion of data mining powers not off the cards – Andrew Little](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7ecdb71fcb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Spies increasingly investigating ‘white identity extremism’, including organised extremist groups](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d258f1d302&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Derek Cheng (Herald): [Spy agency’s shift to far-right white nationalist threat – but SIS won’t say how far balance has swung](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f897725262&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rebecca Moore (1News): [Threat of young people, mainly men, joining extremist groups ‘very real’, security expert says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bd57495889&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [NZSIS top spy Rebecca Kitteridge tells group of powerful MPs there’s ‘no doubt’ white supremacy is on the rise](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a8e19f551d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy and work** RNZ: [More than a third of people living pay day to pay day – study](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bb90376bce&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Westpac Bank considers selling New Zealand business, cites RBNZ pressure](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a161759461&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Hosking (Herald): [Has the Government sabotaged our economy?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c2307e332b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Sarah Robson (RNZ): [Covid-19 employment hardship: Where does New Zealand stand a year on?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=506e7146e3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Power bills start to climb as wholesale prices surge](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a64b5e848a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** RNZ: [Otago Regional Council ponders general rates rise of 73%](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=617c60119f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bernard Orsman (Herald): [Secret planning under way for second Auckland Harbour Bridge](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=55f98784f7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Joel MacManus (Stuff): [Seventeen years have passed, but Let’s Get Wellington Moving plan hasn’t budged](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ff760e26b8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brittany Keogh (Stuff): [Some Hutt City councillors face $6500 pay cut, in a move labelled as seeming ‘petty’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fd55b207fd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Three Christchurch City Council redundancies cost ratepayers $316,000](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a766e6d0be&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tina Law (Stuff): [Canterbury’s civic leaders call for Government to slow down its water reforms](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=370c82a6a5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Racism; Police** Qiuyi Tan (Herald): [Racism prevalent in New Zealand, says Human Rights Commission](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5bf15b8cdd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Meng Foon criticised by both political parties for calling police racist](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dbbf755e87&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Herald): [A greater Maori TV presence? We’re not talking Police Ten 7](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3ca7e6eccf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Darroch Ball (Kiwiblog): [Police are not racist, they are just doing their job](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b391bf19bf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Covid** Colleen Hawkes (Stuff): [A year since the first lockdown, how the pandemic has changed how and where we live](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=492c25c860&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [One year on from New Zealand’s unprecedented move into full lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=207b359e79&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Editorial – The toil and trouble of the trans-Tasman bubble](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b0fc313375&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Stephen Hoadley (The Guardian): [No matter how disagreeable Australia is, New Zealand may just have to accept it](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ac73b1ba62&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [2021 Budget date revealed: Finance Minister Grant Robertson unveils the big date to MPs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9a380b0c48&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)