> ## 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 – 29 December 2020 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-29-december-2020/ - Published: 2020-12-28T19:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2020-12-31T09:30:28.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38 **Parliament, and end of year reviews** Bryce Edwards (Guardian): [The secret of Jacinda Ardern’s success lies in her conservatism](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2daeb9b6b7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Chris Trotter (Interest): [Jacinda Ardern knows that it’s restoration people want – not revolution](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=630978c7c4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation): [New Zealand’s 2020 report card: doing well but could try harder](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=904c71050d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Martin Van Beynen (Stuff): [A year of soul-searching and virtue signalling](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=54e94c279e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Damien Grant (Stuff): [Sir Roger Douglas’ great experiment is finally coming to an end](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=55e311faaa&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steve Braunias (Herald): [The secret diary of 2020](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5bb008af24&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Stuff: [What we learned this year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=36bf6bcfbb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Carmen Parahi (Stuff): [2020: The year we challenged systemic racism in Aotearoa and around the world](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=59817243fb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [David Seymour reflects on 2020, euthanasia and free speech](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e141daa0d9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Craig McCulloch and Katie Scotcher (RNZ): [2020: An ‘unprecedented’ year in politics](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2ab1d9a7c3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sasha Borissenko (Herald): [Cultural appropriation and racial discrimination – it’s not okay](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a61123e64d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Steven Joyce (Herald): [Covid, border controls and economic hangover. Buckle in for 2021](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8d331dde11&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Ziena Jalil (Stuff): [A year to forget, but some good reminders too](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6a106b4d70&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Good news in a bad year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3f33a2b55c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Jacinda Ardern’s Christmas message to Kiwis: ‘Congratulations on getting through this year’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b136b7f3c5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing** Sam Stubbs (Stuff): [How to solve the housing crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8f856da671&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Skara Bohny (Stuff): [Property values could suffer from far-off inundation warnings, says advocate](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bc9a050630&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Matthew Tso (Stuff): [Capital’s median house price tipped to hit $1m by the year’s end](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c8e4326ffd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lois Williams (Stuff): [‘Explosion’ of Airbnbs on West Coast coinciding with ‘serious housing crisis’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d6d7be8eca&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anne Gibson (Herald): [Leading questions: What Kiwi Property Group chief executive Clive Mackenzie expects of 2021](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e15fc662b4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Anan Zaki (RNZ): [MSD denies emergency housing eviction due to policy change](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=da15a253de&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Vicki Anderson (Stuff): [Christchurch social housing tenant a ‘new man’ after getting new flat](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ae04e084c6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy, inequality and work** Melanie Carroll (Stuff): [NZ Covid-19 triumph turns tragedy after wealth grab, says equality commissioner](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5e7655b9c8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Steven Cowan: [The Pandemic of poverty](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=20adc73c44&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) ODT: [Editorial – Repayment of subsidies welcomed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=13b92ebd49&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Aimee Shaw (Herald): [MediaWorks repays some voluntary pay cuts, leaves TV staff in the lurch](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d3ba153c24&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [13% rise in cost of public servants’ salaries](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=62e1964f57&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Covid finances: solo parents, small business owners among hardest hit](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e93ad55910&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Brexit: NZ to negotiate free-trade agreements with UK and EU](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fd5ca0ce85&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rob Mitchell (Stuff): [Wellington’s ideas factory is the capital’s ‘best kept secret’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d08e79620c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Covid, vaccine, and border** Branko Marcetic (Demcracy Project): [The Tragedy of NZ family separations at the border](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f56639cae1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Morton (Herald): [Big Read: The scientists who helped NZ crush Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=646e6c3259&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): [Sorry for being the Christmas grinch but why are we so complacent about Covid?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=41d8529bd1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Georgia Forrester (Stuff): [Covid-19: Chris Hipkins slams Covid Tracer app use this summer as ‘woeful’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=37e2f2fe9e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amber Allott and Leighton Keith (Stuff): [Covid-19 scanning: We observed, and the numbers aren’t good](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9aadce7d55&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgia Forrester (Stuff): [Covid-19: Additional coronavirus tests for returnees from higher risk countries](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1fa1896010&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Covid 19 coronavirus: Kiwis step closer to vaccine as freezers to store 1.5 million doses unloaded at Ports of Auckland](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c6a08fa410&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Chris Trotter: [Christmas in the time of Covid](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9d3615a936&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Roughan (Herald): [Did we overestimate the pandemic threat?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d73f3cf6bc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Tom Dillane (Herald): [Covid 19 coronavirus: New Zealand scientists critical of anti-lockdown letter in top medical journal](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e35d534391&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Morton (Herald): [What exactly united the ‘team of 5 million’ to quash Covid-19?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=01ebdb5b84&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Covid-19 at border: National calls on government to address concerns over new strain](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=da0eab5010&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Editorial: Covid-19 border rule changes show pandemic response must be flexible](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9ce5e72eff&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Justice and policing** Kurt Bayer (Herald): [Christchurch mosque shootings: Police launch AI unit to monitor Kiwis’ social media](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=21b41f681a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) RNZ: [Body set up to look at miscarriages of justice flooded with applications](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a4cbc79ef4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Mental health issues a factor in almost 60,000 police calls, minister told](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fc3f32b3e2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Gil Elliott (Herald): [Long way to go before victims gain rightful status, says Sophie Elliott’s father](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=34ff865ad5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Drug testing** Glenn McConnell (Stuff): [Most summer festivals will not have pill testing, despite urgent law change](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9208c0e54a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Know Your Stuff issues warnings to partygoers over drugs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ef95cd9cf6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Yardley (Stuff): [Roll on rapid roadside drug-testing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1b4af4c696&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Environment and conservation** Helen Livingstone (Guardian): [New Zealand readers say ‘everything’ must be prioritised in battle against climate change](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=808b1bfad2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Logan Savory (Stuff): [Southland ‘leads the way for New Zealand’ in carbon reduction plans](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=afc0868464&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eloise Gibson (Stuff): [The climate isn’t saved, yet: Eloise Gibson on the biggest environmental stories of the year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=054a609e91&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amber Allott (Stuff): [Freshwater reforms and farmers: two sides of the same coin](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=90d6b69234&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Education** Katy Jones (Stuff): [Schools should provide uniforms for free, former principal says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=14859fc5ed&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald/RNZ: [Record enrolment for te reo Maori, foreign languages down](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7477b43191&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Gibb (ODT): [Non-Maori speakers essential to survival of te reo](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1bb352ddd3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Matt Nippert (Herald): [Scrooge Harold Plumley leaves $122m fortune to Church](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0e85054a2c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Tony Wall (Stuff): [Oranga Tamariki is leaving kids in meth homes to be abused, says former social welfare boss Christine Rankin](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8395947f41&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Youth offending drops, Oranga Tamariki says no room for complacency](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=642aa2c445&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Multicultural New Zealand condemns hate speech in Queenstown and Invercargill](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=94fedc084c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bernard Orsman (Herald): [City Rail Link: Auckland’s $4.4 billion underground railway being built to new Covid-19 playbook](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7c21caebfe&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Samantha Motion and Kiri Gillespie (Herald): [Tauranga council: Govt papers reveal possible five-year intervention](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ad66b49065&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Tom Hunt (Stuff): [$8000 for Wellington City Council forum for 54 people](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e93b7d0c6f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Matthew Tso (Stuff): [Censorship in 2020: Tiger King, terrorism and the death of the video tape](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=996927d1f0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andre Chumko (Stuff): [Bringing our archives to the people: Stephen Clarke on Archives New Zealand’s changing role](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ddd300f451&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Cohen (BusinessDesk): [The NZ media that would not die](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=466ab39bcc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Justin Latif (Spinoff): [What I learned in my first six months at The Spinoff](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fc460600f4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Nicholas Jones (Herald): [Doctor denied C section/caesarean at Auckland Hospital: ‘Why is the Ministry of Health controlling how we birth?’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9cbf7303d0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Louisa Steyl (Stuff): [WellSouth appoints project manager to meet health targets](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7c17fee348&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jonny Edwards and Cate Broughton (Stuff): [Rising number of New Zealanders considering a move to Christchurch](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2a79c4b547&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)