> ## 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 – 28 April 2020 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-28-april-2020/ - Published: 2020-04-02T19:46:01.000Z - Updated: 2020-04-27T20:19:08.000Z - Author: General - Tags: COVID-19, Featured, Media, News, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24 **Eliminating Covid-19** Derek Cheng (Herald): [Eliminating Covid 19 coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern’s trailblazing mission that we may have already won](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3d39700f54&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Andrea Vance (Stuff): [Why the hero-worship of Jacinda Ardern is unhealthy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=526eeaf2a3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): [Political Roundup: The Challenge of speaking “truth to power” in a time of crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ffec19fd3a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steve Elers (Stuff): [Prime minister needs to be held to account over coronavirus claims](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c8e32f6113&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Roughan (Herald): [Why end lockdown tonight? What do we know today we didn’t last Monday?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3441c9ba98&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kim Moodie (Herald): [Half of those infected with virus might not even know it](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=73bef7c99f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newshub: [Almost half of Kiwis think we’re coming out of lockdown too soon – survey](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e4c3e28d4a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Poll finds support for staying in isolation, providing Police with mobile data](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=98962d6e49&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Roger Morris (Stuff): [What lies ahead, and what NZ can teach the world about fighting Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9f840a5871&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [NZ’s responses to Covid-19 and polio vastly different](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8f807d844a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Siouxsie Wiles claps back at David Seymour’s claim coronavirus risk ‘not as big as it was sold’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dd29048b01&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [US social distancing policies would save trillions of dollars – US Professor](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f9e8c117f3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Contact tracing** Clive Elliot (Herald): [Contact tracing – Fighting Covid-19 without undermining our democratic values](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ad7f159e54&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Brian Gaynor (Herald): [Contact tracing system still in development as full lockdown ends](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ddfb4ef097&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): [Contact tracing system still in development as full lockdown ends](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cc0d83e356&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) RNZ: [Covid-19 contact tracing app: National decries slow pace](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f4dba08b50&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [New Zealand contact tracing app due within two weeks](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=157ce68d27&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Covid-19 tracing app gets go-ahead from Ministry of Health](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=747dd2abc3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [NZ’s own tracing app on way as Australia rolls out COVIDSafe](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=81b3b1814f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nikki Macdonald (Stuff): [The story behind the doctor pushing for better Covid-19 contact tracing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6f321f20fd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Level 3** Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Jacinda Ardern says there is a ‘good chance’ we won’t stay in Covid-19 level 3 long](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=263d167151&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Claire Trevett (Herald): [PM Jacinda Ardern on making the big calls, and the rocky road ahead](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=18ea0a71b5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) 1News: [‘I will not risk the gains we made’ – Alert Level 3 may be extended beyond two weeks, says Jacinda Ardern](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=26dcf90868&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katarina Williams (Stuff): [Prime minister ‘optimistic’ as New Zealand heads to Covid-19 alert level 3](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6a3958dc5b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [Last day of lockdown – Jacinda Ardern’s message to New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=137b88b510&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [‘Do not become complacent’, Kiingi Tuheitia urges M?ori as New Zealand moves into Alert Level 3](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ffe9724090&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) James Fyfe (Newshub): [M?ori King places rahui on Waikato and Waipa Rivers amid COVID-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=06baa61f98&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steve Braunias (Herald): [Farewell (and good riddance) to level 4](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0281e88d50&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Andrew Gunn (Stuff): [Gransplaining and other Covid-19 additions to Kiwi English](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=269f00f0ef&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Anzac weekend sees over 800 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown, nearly 100 prosecutions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dc1fd334f8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Lockdown breaches: 87 prosecutions over Anzac weekend](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4b5ebbe09b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andrew Geddis and Claudia Geiringer (UKCLA): [Is New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown lawful?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=965df7022f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Second lockdown lawsuit against Jacinda Ardern, Ashley Bloomfield and Sarah Stuart-Black fails](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c06da5547e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **National Party** John Armstrong (1News): [Simon Bridges has to go but is there another leader in National’s ranks?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a2f43041a5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Henry Cooke (Stuff): [The quandary facing the National Party](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a9d5cf2e09&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Claire Trevett (Herald): [Is Simon Bridges’ goose cooked? Don’t count him out just yet](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d3ed842dee&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan: [Simon Bridges is on borrowed time](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e41c6e4824&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Tova O’Brien (Newshub): [Exclusive: Senior National MP Nick Smith lashes Simon Bridges’ decision-making in a caucus-wide letter](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5b370883ac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [National MPs questioning Simon Bridges’ leadership after recent misstep](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c28972a7f0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [National Party leadership: Judith Collins insists she’s ‘not interested’ after topping poll](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a2aadbcb3f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Simon Bridges not keen on helicopter cash, wants lockdown to end sooner](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2afc0afe29&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amelia Wade (Herald): [National MP Tim Macindoe slammed for joking about domestic violence](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6cdcf3cfd0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jenna Lynch and Zane Small (Newshub): [National MP Tim Macindoe apologises for joking about pushing women off a balcony](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9b7fe4e22c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Wage subsidy** Catherine Harris (Stuff): [Was Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme too lenient for big business?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dbfa5e03b2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [In a time of free money, how exactly are we all in this together?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=902f1124f1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Jason Walls (Herald): [Finance Minister condemns businessman ‘profiting’ from wage subsidy scheme](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3c14a46f09&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bevan Hurley (Stuff): [Business owner pockets $150,000 from Government wage subsidy, and he’s not paying it back](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c978345a0a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Business owner says government should not have given wage subsidy in lump sum](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4aa4f3ed2a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [The 12-week wage subsidy is nearly over, but businesses are still feeling pain](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c1b667ced8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): [Christ’s College claiming more than $1m in wage subsidies](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=212fd48c7d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [Government’s fraud investigations unit doing wage subsidy audit](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=55748e77c8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Economist warns profitable firms against taking COVID-19 wage subsidy as audit reveals extent of abuse](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=84e83caf69&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): [The Warehouse asks staff to take 10 to 20% pay cuts or face redundancy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=491d9115c3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy and society** John Anthony (Stuff): [Inviting rich foreigners to invest in New Zealand will do little to benefit Kiwis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8caf7ab162&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) James Fyfe (Newshub): [High credit rating shows NZ in strong position to bounce back from COVID-19 – Finance Minister Grant Robertson](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=97fd5c96ff&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Budget 2020 may be time to look beyond Covid-19 ‘relief’ and towards recovery](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0bc69f6246&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tim Hazeldine (Herald): [Covid 19 coronavirus recovery needs tax breaks, not shovels](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=49e28857d2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Paul Goldsmith (Stuff): [Getting New Zealand working again? Here’s my plan](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=51fcb26ff6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Neilson (Herald): [Greens want $1b for nature-based fund to save economy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f4acb8136c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Collette Devlin (Stuff): [Greens propose $1b nature-based economic recovery package](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b0e249a5bc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Sadler and Emma Stanford (Newshub): [Green Party proposes $1 billion environment package to create nature-based jobs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ed1228a246&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) ————— Dylan Asafo (E-Tangata): [Are we finally paying attention?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0167bcaad0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Paul Barber (Stuff): [We need to build something better out of what is broken](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=55a266f802&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steven Cowan: [The new normal could be worse then the old normal, if we let it](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9499a06053&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kerensa Johnston (E-Tangata): [Doing the right thing in the post Covid-19 world](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0277fd3342&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kaila Colbin (Stuff): [What do we focus on post-lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8b1a2ff364&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lana Hart (Stuff): [A vision for a post-Covid New Zealand urgently required](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2df4ddfece&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Inequality** Max Rashbrooke: [Building a bridge across the coronavirus ravine](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=398d233f4b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Pete McKenzie (Stuff): [Charities struggling under an explosion in demand as Covid-19 thrusts thousands into poverty](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ee426153ce&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Pearl Little (Newshub): [Coronavirus is much worse for M?ori, but it shouldn’t be](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ab7390213c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Cate Broughton (Stuff): [Over 1000 families without hygiene basics during Covid-19 outbreak](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3a7eda0bcb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mihingarangi Forbes (Newshub): [Risk of inequity growing thanks to COVID-19 – Finance Minister Grant Robertson](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1dcdb0b349&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Universal Basic Income** Matthew Hooton (Herald): [Universal Basic Income high on Government’s post-lockdown agenda high on Government’s post-lockdown agenda](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c3c3008825&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Geoff Simmons (Stuff): [Coronavirus demonstrates the power of a UBI as long-term solution to our failing welfare system](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=375571356f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Unemployment, essential workers** Sarah Robson (RNZ): [Nearly 30,000 more people on jobseeker benefit](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=59cb6e5fc6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Whyte (1News); [Thousands more on benefits during Covid-19 lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aaa9baaa0c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Fears of M?ori unemployment ‘tsunami’ post Covid-19 lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=82e8d80cd9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tim Brown (RNZ): [Unemployment could reach 30% in Queenstown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1bbf66884a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Queenstown migrant workers need access to benefit – community group](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b321631617&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) ————— Kristy Johnston and Chris Knox (Herald): [How women became the lockdown’s most essential workers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c27120e926&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) RNZ: [Plea for supermarkets not to end workers’ Covid-19 bonus pay](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8d988d10e2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Business** Madison Reidy (Newshub): [Banks aren’t handing out loans fast enough to save businesses, experts warn](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6c3d1bea5b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB:[‘That’s not Jacinda’s way’: Why Labour MP wasn’t told off for hurtful comments](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6673f1064b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [MP Deborah Russell apologises for comments about small businesses](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6c87b06eab&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Fast food** John Anthony (Stuff): [McDonalds’ plans to hand customers food, cash and receipts, which breaches level 3 rules, union says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1b6dc6a80d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Union worries fast food outlets may breach level 3 restrictions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=885e9c6c66&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Burger King employee pleads for patience from customers during re-opening – ‘Not a time to be a dickhead’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=729e414517&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Employees must feel safe working at level 3 – union](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=859c909195&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Health system** Andrea Vance (Stuff): [The health system is in crisis. Can Covid-19 help?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2a441aedf6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Elspeth McLean (ODT): [Public has interest in report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=07beeea0f4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ruth Hill (RNZ): [Nurses complain of lack of consistency in Covid approach](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1d236fb276&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rawiri Taonui (Waatea): [COVID Update 27 April 2020| Data Sovereignty – Is Ministry of Health Data Racist?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b7b39ecef3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rawiri Taonui (Waatea): [COVID Update 26 April 2020| Opposite Concerns Testing M?ori and Pacific Communities](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0e707edd88&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Collette Devlin (Stuff): [Pharmac says it will need more funding amid global Covid-19 crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=745fc37601&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Natalie Akoorie (Herald): [Pharmac won’t fund drug Spinraza to help children with spinal muscular atrophy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9900585850&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Cathy Stephenson (Stuff): [How medicine supplies are managed during Covid-19 crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e508375a96&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Flu vaccinations double from last year – government](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0f1fd0c669&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kim Moodie (Herald): [Covid 19 coronavirus: Record number of Kiwis get the flu jab before winter](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0a91550c34&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Sadler (Newshub): [Record number of New Zealanders receive flu vaccine](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5d2e6e8513&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katarina Williams (Stuff): [Cancer diagnosis, treatment ‘must be prioritised’ following Covid-19 lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=05a82063f1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rowan Quinn (RNZ): [DHBs need to prioritise cancer treatment – Cancer Society](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e0bb853bd9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Oliver Lewis (Stuff): [Coronavirus pandemic will add months to knee, hip surgery backlog](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=563af28e0b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katarina Williams & Georgia-May Gilbertson (Stuff): [Community midwives pen letter to Jacinda Ardern](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6d0f22412a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Lockdown leads to ‘advances’ in healthcare delivery](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cee28656e9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): [Dentist bills set to rise as clinics pass on cost of expensive protective gear](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=519cd10d98&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Dentists relegated to ‘poor cousin’ without govt funding – advocate](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ac594e2141&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): [Waitemat? DHB staff open to rongo? M?ori traditional medicine](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=28d81a24f3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Mental health** Scott Palmer (Newshub): [Government’s new mental health funding blasted by counsellors](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=51003fb108&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Govt announces $40m funding for mental health service](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=459c95bef7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Free mental health, addiction services to be made available for 1.5 million New Zealanders](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ca4ff8b460&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ben Leahy (Stuff): [Free mental health services roll out to more districts](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c548bed365&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [National calls for free online psychological first aid training to help Kiwis deal with distress of Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=456be4d211&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Nurses union** Andre Chumko (Stuff): [New Zealand Nurses Organisation president resigns after feud with executive team](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3d27c2c7ff&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [NZNO nurses union president Grant Brookes resigns](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=87fde8369c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Parliament** Stuff Editorial: [New Zealanders must recoup our democratic rights](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7701f07939&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sasha Borissenko (Herald): [Should Parliament be using urgency during lockdown?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1b31c2a361&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Phil Smith (RNZ): [Going virtual: taking parliament onto the holodeck](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ebb12a6ce7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Daniela Maoate-Cox (RNZ): [Parliament post-lockdown: more money and bills but fewer debates and MP](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=19ff30ecb5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Health Minister David Clark reveals when he’ll be back in Wellington](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=89893d9e5f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [MPs defend each other in wake of public abuse, Simon Bridges death threats](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7f7077f3c9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Foreign affairs and trade** Collette Devlin (Stuff): [Australian government wants travel restrictions with NZ to ease in second half of 2020](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=44adefcb3e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Travel to New Zealand likely to re-open with ‘natural partner’ Australia](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=84677a8b39&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) AAP: [Senior Australian politician says opening border with NZ a ‘logical first step’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e68b9169c8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Ensor (Newshub): [Trans-Tasman travel bubble ‘may be possible’ in future – Grant Robertson](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=53bfe4804c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jo Moir (RNZ): [Trans-Tasman bubble could start ‘more quickly than we think’ – Peters](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3996b2ed25&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Martin van Beynen (Stuff): [Aussie-NZ bubble should be on fast track](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1085ffdc92&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tova O’Brien (Newshub): [Jacinda Ardern and Scott Morrison want to axe border restrictions between New Zealand and Australi](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fffce0f9ba&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)a David Parker, Simon Birmingham, Elizabeth Truss and Chan Chun Sing (Herald): [Why restoring and deepening global trade is vital in response to Covid 19 coronavirus](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4c1bb8654b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Simon Draper (Stuff): [How we understand and engage with Asia is more important than ever](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aa1e839d16&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Covid-19 will disrupt NZ hosting APEC forum and leaders’ summit](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1f4b01e7fd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Media** Gavin Ellis: [Trust is a percentage gain](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1cc4b8dbb1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Cohen (BusinessDesk): [Foundering media pin hopes, mastheads on Faafoi’s second try](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6e4a33ba78&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eric Crampton: [Media shakedown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=882fb41d10&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bob Jones: [Our dying newspapers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3ea05797b3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Government won’t stop spending millions on Google and Facebook ads – Kris Faafoi](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=34873c9d7c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Kris Faafoi hints at Facebook/Google crackdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d3bcc0e7ee&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Colin Peacock (RNZ): [Struggling media get takeaways from government](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=17a30afc93&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Colin Peacock (RNZ): [Media ramp up news of going down a level](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ce365bcfef&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom O’Connor (Stuff): [Retaining Kiwis’ voice an essential part of the rebuild](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7c0f655c77&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eric Crampton:[Media funding](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bd66ea5d21&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Early childhood and schools** Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): [On average 5% of children to return to schools and early learning centres under Alert Level 3](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f5ef49dd0e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andre Chumko (Stuff): [‘It’s just impossible’ says educator as schools prepare to reopen](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=adb819b955&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tony Walls and Philip Hill (Newshub): [Opinion: Sending your children to school is as safe as it’s ever been](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=73e2c8967a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Sending children to school at Alert Level 3 ‘as safe as it’s ever been’, says infectious disease expert](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=078da85a52&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [‘School is as safe as it’s ever been’ – infectious disease expert](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b34b878cf8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Schools prepare to resume classes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9e70178c1f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [One third of early childhood centres to remain closed at level 3](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c396957c49&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katarina Williams and Brittney Deguara (Stuff): [Coronavirus: Teachers concerned with online and in-school teaching demands in Covid-19 level 3](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4526932620&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) William Terite (Newstalk ZB): [Concerns for senior students and their learning](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=789dfe2f64&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Universities** Kristin Hall (1News): [University staff may be fired if student accommodation ‘holding fees’ aren’t paid: Victoria University vice-chancellor](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2f8252a46b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Hunt (Stuff): [Victoria University double-charging for rooms amid Covid-19 lockdown ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9dad7818e9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Hunt (Stuff): [Pay-up-or-get-out: Rent strike against Victoria University’s halls ultimatum](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f3ec1b6487&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kristin Hall (1News): [Victoria University students plan rent strike after being charged for rooms they can’t stay in](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=785cfc10d3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hamish Cardwell (RNZ): [Victoria University students organise rent strike to protest placeholder fee](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cda614f70c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): [Victoria University of Wellington students refuse to pay $150 per week ‘placeholder fee’ for unoccupied rooms](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=15cb709f2d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Joel MacManus, Andre Chumko (Stuff): [Victoria University halls charging rent despite locking students out](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=26eb69d3e8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Cherie Howie (Herald): [Victoria University of Wellington halls of residence students told to pay for unoccupied rooms](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=87b62f9376&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Thomas (RNZ): [Victoria University students pay fee for rooms they cannot access](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=df6c42495e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Victoria University students blindsided by student accommodation ‘holding fee’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4a8cf99ec6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Salient: [Absent VUW Halls Students Being Charged For Their Rooms](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b6bb6b564b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lincoln Tan (Herald): [Auckland university’s lockdown accommodation fees slammed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a969872ac3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Sadler and Emma Stanford (Newshub): [University of Auckland halls of residence charging students for unoccupied rooms](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2fbaf072db&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brittney Deguara (Stuff): [All you need to know about how universities will operate at Covid-19 alert level 3](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=abab26a84d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [AUT helps Maori and Pasifika students with computers and internet](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e6bacae499&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Otago Uni’s Harlene Hayne donates 20 per cent of salary to student fund](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3739826132&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Community checkpoints** Rawiri Taonui (Democracy Project): [Checkpoints – A Pakeha or Maori problem?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=07e3c6115d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Leigh-Marama McLachlan (RNZ): [More iwi checkpoints to be set up in Taranaki for alert level 3](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=df18a9d087&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Leighton Keith (Taranaki Daily News): [Taranaki iwi checkpoints to go ahead as uncertainty remains about Covid-19 case numbers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=41d37e323d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Taranaki iwi community checkpoint plans start tomorrow](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fb93614e1d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Politics isn’t a reason to ignore vigilantism](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6a82a5ed84&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Karl du Fresne: C[oster: a masterclass in fudging](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ab3adc94d9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** Aaron Leaman (Stuff): [Councils warned not to cut rates to ease Covid-19 pain](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dad06cc5d7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Todd Niall (Stuff): [Big Macs vs playgrounds and jobs – the rates-rise dilemma](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=064920ee0b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bernard Orsman (Herald): [Up to 150,000 households could struggle to pay Auckland Council rates this year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f66312919a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bernard Orsman (Herald): [Auckland Council bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars, looking at help for struggling ratepayers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b9cd527867&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jim Tucker (Taranaki Daily News): [No need for councillors to take a pay cut](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6fe22c5726&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Virginia Fallon (Stuff): [Town houses sit empty nearly one year after Porirua City Council’s $10m purchase](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e977c27d0d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lois Williams: [Coast councils support legal challenge to wetland labels on M?ori reserves](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ebcec8710a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lois Williams: [West Coast districts may end up with differing rules to regulate Airbnbs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3c82bd7155&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Botting: [Whang?rei rates to be used towards likely $3m council Covid-19 relief](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b0f3fb7e96&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Botting: [Whang?rei Council considers $6m rate cut from budget](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0d8dca8803&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Aaron van Delden: [Gisborne council heeds call for urgent rates relief](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a46965f5fc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Invercargill considers rates relief](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=893e142b07&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Donna-Lee Biddle (Stuff): [Councillors give to charities, community, during Covid-19 lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=71d7f7f9b4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Laura Smith (ODT): [About 100 ICC staff on 50% of wages](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4e738e3710&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Laura Smith (ODT): [Rates policy on agenda](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=25e7543c2f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Yardley (Press): [Covid a chance to right-size Christchurch council](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=66ed3efb71&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Wellington City Council** Damian George (Stuff): [Problems at Wellington City Council could result in Crown commissioner being brought in to help, says former deputy mayor](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=93ecefc5d2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Damian George (Stuff): [Tensions continue at Wellington City Council as spat between councillors leads to official complaint](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a201270a3a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Wellington city councillor in hot water over online criticism](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=18cc6e1505&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Wellington council divided over whether facilitator needed to sort squabbles](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fdf8e554c5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): [Wellington City Council promises support to airport in Air New Zealand-type deal](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fb8e5c2c7f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Housing** 1News: [Government pledges $107 million to house rough sleepers during and after pandemic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e37705014e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Collette Devlin (Stuff): [Government funds 1600 motel units for homeless after lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=edeaac2bca&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [Government to spend $100 million on housing homeless in motels](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=426bd75ed8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Sadler (Newshub):[Government to spend $100 million on housing the homeless in motels](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2261101629&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Government announces $100m for housing homeless](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=01b254f645&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Scott Palmer (Newshub): [Jacinda Ardern reveals one good thing about lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0a5997d39e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lana Andelane and Miriam Harris (Newshub): [COVID-19 response has helped tackle homelessness in New Zealand – Megan Woods](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1fb3369f82&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Why the Government’s homeless package won’t keep people off the streets](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6261a85121&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Virginia Fallon (Dominion Post): [Coronavirus lockdown delays construction of new state houses in Porirua](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=10998e6794&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Aged and disability care, resthomes** Judy McGregor (Herald): [Covid 19 coronavirus throws focus on our treatment of elderly](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b2692f3f14&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) RNZ: [Lack of social connectedness with elderly a big concern – Research NZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=79d7536b0b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Care organisation worries about PPE](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b4b27609b3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kaysha Brownlie (Newshub): [High security remains at rest homes for most vulnerable](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fe6e04e1f5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Transport** Tracy Neal (RNZ): [New Zealand’s shrinking national carrier](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ee5dafc578&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Air NZ to drop two international routes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=44021075b9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Bus union calls for higher wages under lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1de16ff9ff&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rebecca Moore (1News): [Big biking boom: Kiwis turn to other modes of travel and fun while in lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1e3f2cd225&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Auckland Transport encourages face masks, health officials say ‘not important’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b12a0cea57&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Primary industries** RNZ: [Struggling fishing industry must be monitored, Forest and Bird warns](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a05811daac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John McCrone (Stuff): [Not your typical sheep paddock: why sunflowers and lentils herald NZ’s regenerative revolution](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a1a3c24861&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Police** Pounamu Jade Aikman (E-Tangata): [We don’t have to go down this path](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e4aff10ca6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Controversial Police Armed Response Teams trial to end on Sunday](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=58e195e017&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Police Armed Response Teams trial to end on Sunday](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1e39eb3a8f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Green Party** Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Left-wing Green faction wants to axe co-leader James Shaw, and Eugenie Sage and Chlöe Swarbrick](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0e17988389&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Cannabis and Euthanasia referendums** Isaac Davison (Herald):Cannabis referendum All you need to know about what your vote means (paywalled) Isaac Davison (Herald):[Euthanasia referendum: All you need to know about what your vote means](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9b2a29bada&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Anzac Day** Jared Davidson (Guardian): [Covid lockdowns give us a chance to reimagine Anzac Day and consider war more honestly](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5f636fe0d0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Jacinda Ardern lays flowers outside Premier House to mark Anzac Day](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4eaa8d4425&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Jacinda Ardern records poem for Westminster Abbey Anzac commemorations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d39243ac9d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Daniel Faitaua (1News): [Turkish gardener lays wreaths at deserted memorials in honour of Kiwi soldiers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=646c927ce5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Defence** RNZ: [Survey points to prevalence of PTSD in NZ military](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=15a7cdf59a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): [Nearly 80 percent of Maori military personnel have PTSD symptoms](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=26ae924002&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Rim of the Pacific naval exercise risks Covid-19 spread – activists, academics](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1a17e6e36e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Willie Cuthers (RNZ): [Rewriting the stories of the Pasifika Coastwatchers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4a068388a0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Justice and corrections** Guyon Espiner (RNZ): [Ombudsman ‘discouraged’ from accessing prisons amidst Covid-19 lockdown concerns](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7514bac30c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Beefed up safety measures for reopened courts](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ba2e2edf29&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [District Court taking extra measures to ensure safety when court reopens to public tomorrow](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=27d51e9f52&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Repatriation** Hannah Martin (Stuff): [Kiwis, Aussies stranded in South America brought home on Anzac Day](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7646df40b9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Qantas’ Anzac Day rescue flight to bring stranded Kiwis home from Argentina](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f3cacc5440&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Whakaari/White Island eruption** 1News: [Group of White Island eruption victims’ families to sue Royal Caribbean cruise line](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=485ced8a57&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [White Island volcano victims to sue Royal Caribbean](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=23a9795e8a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Olivia Wannan (Stuff): [Why it’s time to resurrect the ‘feebate’ scheme](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=29b1ef7d02&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [BNZ profits rise despite Covid-19 crunch](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f8f0e91308&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Liam Napier (Herald): [From Britain to NZ – what quarantine is really like](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=28ced539e3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): [Ng?puhi descendants in Auckland rally together during lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a43f2a28d4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Cate Broughton (Stuff): [Domestic violence calls up 34 per cent in four weeks of lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2772713931&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ryan Anderson (Stuff): [Life in lockdown at Ihum?tao protest site in south Auckland](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e1207ab48f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dale Husband (E-Tangata): [Shayne Walker: Social work as an act of love](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d49534bcc6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kurt Bayer (Herald): [Sir John Key gets keys to luxury $6m pad – and lists it the next day](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=18d0b5bd08&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Dillane (Stuff): [Civil unions in New Zealand turn 15; same-sex couples reflect on struggle for equality](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6adb468525&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Elisabeth Easter (Herald): [My Story: Dr Juliet Gerrard – The life and times of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d5f27e3878&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Gavin Evans (BusinessDesk): [Stark, tough choices coming at Marsden Point](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0afd21866e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Dominic Harris (Stuff): [Rules rethink needed to save New Zealand’s beleaguered events industry](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=17242f185a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Indira Stewart (RNZ): [Independent grocers ask for flexibility to open in alert level 3](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c02ba62c5c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)