> ## 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 – 3 April 2020 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-3-april-2020/ - Published: 2020-04-02T19:46:01.000Z - Updated: 2020-04-02T19:46:04.000Z - Author: General - Tags: COVID-19, Media, News, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24 **Media** Henry Cooke (Stuff): [There’s no easy way for Government to save media drowning. But a fast fix is needed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e8d96fd675&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Stewart (Democracy Project): [Can the noble cause of journalism be restored?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=73669dee07&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rick Neville (Stuff): [Why the Government must take some blame for Bauer Media’s closure](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9f9b9376de&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Martyn van Beynen (Stuff): [Bauer’s closure leaves a devastated staff and a cultural gap](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ef7a346694&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tim Watkin (RNZ): [RIP The Listener, New Zealand’s pioneering voice](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e41ef0def9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Damien Venuto (Herald): [Coronavirus claims its first big business scalp](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=23b5364ec2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Covid-19 is hastening the death of media](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c0f2fa4461&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Joanne Black (Stuff): [Bauer Media closures: So many livelihoods, so much devastation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=069fbf9956&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tova O’Brien (Newshub): [Government turned down request for help from struggling publisher Bauer Media](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4e9ef6b186&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Edmunds, Anuja Nadkarni and Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Prime Minister ‘gutted’ Bauer closing its doors, but says company refused wage subsidy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0e065b5eec&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Matt Burrows (Newshub): [Jacinda Ardern rejects notion Government’s COVID-19 response caused magazine publisher’s closure](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c95bad5650&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern criticises Bauer Media for refusing Government support](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6ee99efca8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Jacinda Ardern ‘extraordinarily disappointed’ Bauer rejected wage subsidy ahead of closure](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=68f8632711&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Colin Peacock (RNZ): [Why did Bauer blow up the business so soon?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8c4756b0f0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hayden Donnell and Colin Peacock (RNZ): [Sudden shutdown for New Zealand’s largest magazine publisher](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cd81d37409&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Magazines ‘only product’ banned from supermarkets, says publishers association](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f0505cd233&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Melanie Carroll (Stuff): [Who is Bauer, the conglomerate shutting Woman’s Day, Metro and NZ Listener?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=584136e47e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Brunskill and Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): [Publishing empire scion Matthew Horton eyeing Bauer titles](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f558023779&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): [Govt must resist private media bail-outs: Horton](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d22239a259&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) RNZ: [Major magazine publisher Bauer Media closing down](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2a34b51d2f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Vita Molyneux (Newshub): [Government ‘put a bullet’ in Bauer Media, forcing ‘tragic’ closure – industry expert](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2dd2c88e57&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Publisher of Woman’s Day, North & South magazines to close NZ business; lockdown blamed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=46477ddba3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Bauer Media closing – publisher of the Listener, Woman’s Day, Woman’s Weekly, North & South](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=78992dbbef&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dita De Boni (NBR): [Bauer New Zealand closes its doors, all staff laid off](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=71fde47e87&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Lance Girling-Butcher (Taranaki Daily News): [Community newspapers are the lifebood of society](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ed3b9380e3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Government and public health response, DIY epidemiology** Juliet Gerrard (Herald): [Why we need to look beyond the numbers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c39bd53fe2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katie Kenny (Stuff): [This isn’t about Millennials saving Boomers, it’s about the country banding together to save itself, experts say](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0bfe683e4a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Graham Adams (Democracy Project): [Confessions of an armchair epidemiologist](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=248838cf17&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Confidential Government emergency plan warns recovery still a some time away](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8ab58db664&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Government says it has no plan B if lockdown fails to stamp out Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=accb94e254&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [How many social distancing rule-breakers it will take to stop the lockdown from working](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8b1b397a5b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Richard Harman (Politik): [What it will take to end the lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b85e9cccb9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Alert Level 4 will be maintained until cases of coronavirus ‘drop off’ – Dr Ashley Bloomfield](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e1e5eb71bc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Sadler (Newshub): [New Zealand not flattening the curve during COVID-19 crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2ac4ad3458&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Audrey Young (Herald): [No sign yet that NZ has lethal virus under control](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fc4123696a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [The idea that life will go back to normal post coronavirus lockdown is not realistic, expert says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=373a56ce9f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Simon Bridges wants Government to overtest for Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0dbf98a8a6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newshub: [Government-bought masks could be made available to public – director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5f9d80cb04&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Health Ministry considers US review of who should wear face masks](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=689e66cec2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Phil Pennington (RNZ): [Epidemiologist says safer to wear masks, but priority should be health workers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0764fb9439&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Govt launches WhatsApp channel to share Covid-19 updates](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c9989fbe9c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andrea Vance (Stuff): [Ministry of Health to amend ‘unclear’ self-isolation bubble guidelines](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=94c94bac48&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Government** Matthew Hooton (Herald): [Save lives, but at any cost? That’s Jacinda Ardern’s awful dilemma](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4cb24516cf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Chris Trotter: [Returning To “Normalcy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2991ff763e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brent Edwards (NBR): [Government needs to be more transparent than ever](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b6d1f38a89&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Point of Order: [Election date may be determined by progress in defeating virus and ending the lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ebd62cd4c5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Enforcing the lockdown, lockdown rules, civil liberties** Derek Cheng (Herald): [The yawning gap between Jacinda Ardern, Ashley Bloomfield and Mike Bush and why it matters](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=61389e6dc7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lana Andelane (Newshub): [New Zealanders arriving home asked to consent to police tracking their location](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eae80ed32d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Police use mobile phones to track returning Kiwis entering into self-isolation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=16e3e264ed&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Collette Devlin (Stuff): [Police use cellphone location data to track quarantine compliance](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=32814c1ca2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jane Patterson (RNZ): [Border restrictions: No sign of tighter controls despite police admission](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2b2a925000&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jane Patterson (RNZ): [Police didn’t check all recent arrivals were self-isolating – Bush](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f631116386&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jenna Lynch (Newshub): [Police admit to not tracking every Kiwi that’s come home from overseas](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bf5c6a351d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Graeme Edgeler: [Waiver, the singular Crown and the conduct of Crown legal business](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=caa3545db7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Cat MacLennan (Newsroom): [‘Flippant’ Bush doing himself no favours](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c4ce4a6e65&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Disaster law specialist concerned about ‘mixed messaging’ by police during COVID-19 lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a6fdb1c783&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Collette Devlin (Stuff): [Police Commissioner under fire for withholding lockdown law guidelines](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=886ea0133f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Manch and Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Health Minister drives to local park to ride his mountain bike, amid coronavirus lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=42a39a3761&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Health Minister David Clark flouts his own Government’s lockdown advice](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=70b60d51c3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Liam Hehir (Pundit): [Maybe Axing Clark Would Be Unfair. But What About Any Of This Is Fair?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=682bd3fc05&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amelia Wade (Herald): [Police Commissioner Mike Bush admits the lockdown advice is unclear](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a217b95e18&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Whyte (1News): [Police Commissioner asked to clarify lockdown rules – ‘When am I allowed on a beach?’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=96f7894468&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Matt Burrows (Newshub): [Epidemic Response Committee grills Mike Bush over beach access guidelines in lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9925ef1d7f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [Queenstown Lakes District Council shames social-distancing rule-breakers jumping off bridge and swimming amid lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d8586dba6c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Civil Defence promises transparency as more powers ‘may be required’ to combat COVID-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5a9d303a0e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [Police to increase presence in Northland after Kaitaia residents blasted by Dr Lance O’Sullivan](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=608e088428&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Kaitaia area under police scrutiny as some locals flouting lockdown law](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=41e59bc32d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Why Kaitaia locals flooded the streets this week, despite lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bb9969a59b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): [Northland doctor: ‘This isn’t lockdown, this is a joke’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1642dc9378&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Inequality, welfare** James Fyfe (Newshub): [Coronavirus and social inequality: How poorer Kiwis are set to bear the brunt of COVID-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fab62d0c48&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Ensor (Newshub): [Cutting public sector workers’ pay not currently proposed – Finance Minister](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bf6d78fcd0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jonathan MItchell (RNZ): [Charities expect to suffer losses in Covid-19 disruptions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1a13ffcad1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) CPAG: [Let’s move hard and early to curb Covid-19-related poverty](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=81d1ac74c4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Todd Niall (Stuff): [1000 Aucklanders call Covid-19 emergency food service in first day](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=48249066da&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kristin Hall (1News): [Single mum forced to supply medical records for food grant before lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=03c9869c4a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Workers, businesses, wage subsidies** Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says essential workers vulnerable to the virus will receive leave payments](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=50fd572133&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Essential workers given scheme to ensure they get paid for time off during COVID-19 lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3ce3d77832&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Government announces new leave scheme for vulnerable essential workers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d18cc20d11&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [More Kiwis worried about jobs than the disease itself – survey](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3e728843cb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Union on badly behaved employers: ‘We will remember’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c1c1721331&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Government’s COVID-19 wage subsidy scheme claimed by 15 percent of the population](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b8ba1a02b7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Cushla Norman (1News): [Fletcher Building staff were given 24 hours to decide on pay cuts](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=98abd143e1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Gibson (Herald): [Union decries Fletcher Building cutting staff pay up to 70% in sliding scale of cuts](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=94ad521e3d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Andrew Bevin (NBR): [Fletcher and unions at odds over wage subsidy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=35c1be5cc8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) RNZ: [Fletcher pay cut talks nearing completion](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=04d084f5f8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgina Campbell (Herald): [A fifth of central NZ businesses have no contingency plan](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1fa41b2bdd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Damian Geroge (Stuff): [Business confidence plummets to record lows as coronavirus pandemic hammers economy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2f9574ea2b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy** Peter Lyons (Herald): [The Covid-19 economic freefall](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2596ac7ba5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andrew Patterson (Newsroom): [Awkward questions from the last crisis managers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e90b1dbad2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [Economist’s plea to MPs: ‘We need a grown up to tell us how to think about it’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d443216cb2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Newstalk ZB: [Economist urges Government to be careful about lock down period](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b684a0b336&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [New scheme aims to curb unemployment from Covid-19 fallout](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0bdc641885&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Health system** Charlotte Cook (RNZ): [Prepare to reuse goggles, frontline health workers told](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=315fee273d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Carmen Parahi (Stuff): [Government fends off major health system review to avoid distraction from Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4d90d6fe91&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Over 40m masks, 500k gowns and 30k face shields: The staggering PPE order made by Ministry of Health](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=00a7bc10c0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Morrah (Newshub): [Doctors running out of swab tests, told there are no more available](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4ff681e71b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Natalie Akoorie (Herald): [Testing definition widened to ‘priority groups’ – docs say more needed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=783166f8dc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Robin Martin (RNZ): [Expanded criteria for testing puts strain on assessment centres, doctor says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0ec8d01202&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) James Fyfe (Newshub): [GPs dispute claims they’re not carrying out enough COVID-19 tests](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e8fa897028&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sam Sherwood, Joanne Carroll and Michael Hayward (Stuff): [GP blasts health officials for raising expectations around testing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=320537c026&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): [Details of $30 million for Covid-19 M?ori health funding to be released next week](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3f561c6f16&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Hospital staff report increase in being spat on](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4256c47ec5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Auckland healthcare workers test positive for Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d76170e7f8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [GPs working for free as coronavirus threatens job losses](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9a1f5091eb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bridie Witton (Stuff): [Hundreds of doctors have hours cut, while dozens are out of work](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=911f5fddb9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Over 100 St John staff in self-isolation due to coronavirus concerns](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bdfc17dd20&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katarina Williams (Stuff): [STI testing restricted as testing kits needed for Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ed7d8161b9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Repatriation** Vita Molyneux and Holly Carran (Newshub): [Tens of thousands of stranded tourists will be helped out of New Zealand despite coronavirus lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4932c99e21&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Winston Peters announces plan to return stranded tourists home](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cf428a531b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Foreign nationals can travel to catch international flights](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e4e2ca8c45&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Government unveils plan for stranded foreigners to leave New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e17a37badc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tess Brunton (RNZ): [Tourists face hefty plane ticket costs to return home](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=44205c1da4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Many Kiwis still stranded overseas are facing a long wait to come home](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=93b4ba4b7d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Kiwis stuck in Nepal get rescue flight back home](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=03addc812c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Kiwis stuck in New Dehli call for help from the government](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=38c9ede430&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Transport** Grant Bradley (Herald): [Air NZ pilots flying planes with no passengers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e90a4fa418&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Grant Bradley (Herald): [Air NZ shrinks its domestic network to handful of cities](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0580ecb17b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Air NZ slashes domestic flight capacity by 95 per cent](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eb8affa1ec&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Air NZ slashes domestic flights by 95 percent](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e51b9f9ced&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eva Corlett (RNZ): [Transport Agency was failing to deliver road projects before pandemic struck, documents show](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=da322220f8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Domestic violence** 1News: [Domestic violence on the rise in Kiwi homes as coronavirus lockdown has unintended consequences](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c052887465&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Vita Molyneux (Newshub): [How the COVID-19 lockdown has created a ‘perfect storm’ for domestic violence](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=adbf225a2a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Education** John Gerritsen (RNZ): [Foreign students worry about families and passing their courses](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2599cd742a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Sadler (Newshub): [AUT student faces ‘uncertain’ future following term date reshuffle](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b73c4cfdf8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Internet, technology** Jason Walls (Herald): [National calls on Jacinda Ardern to stop using Zoom at Cabinet meetings](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bed93261c8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Using Zoom for Cabinet meetings undermines scrutiny – National](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fdcd6a572e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Environment** Phil Vine (Newshub): [We have one chance to rebuild our economy sustainably](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e990bf603a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lana Andelane (Newshub): [GeoNet’s volcano monitoring network ‘senses’ Auckland’s dramatic slowdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1beb86baa5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ryan Anderson (Stuff): [Prolonged coronavirus lockdown will lead to rise in pests and predators – experts](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4f9f336a5e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Wellington City Council looking at $70m fiscal shortfall](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=85be288e32&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Christchurch City Council allows rate payment deferrals](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c69a41dff9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Auckland Council launches effort to co-ordinate Covid-19 support for M?ori](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a9f7bce8db&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Chloe Ranford (RNZ): [Marlborough council plans annual plan ‘lolly scramble’ without the lollies](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=69851cccc9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Chloe Ranford (RNZ): [New Marlborough water policy scrapped](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2e8ee399e0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Pacific** Barbara Dreaver (1News): [Pacific Update: 147 new coronavirus cases confirmed across the region](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b3228b571e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Tahana (RNZ): [Fiji confirms two new Covid-19 cases, Suva will go into lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f6417e9262&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Koroi Hawkins (RNZ): [Pacific economies hit hard: ‘Unlike anything we have seen’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e538225139&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RN **Banks** Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [NZ banks not allowed to pay dividends until recovery, RBNZ announces](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3cf68c2460&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kate MacNamara (Stuff): [All eyes on Australia’s big banks after Reserve Bank bans dividends](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7deeecd1ae&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): [Number of confirmed Covid-19 cases among M?ori increases to 56](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0e16b67c74&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brittney Deguara (Stuff): [Almost 100 Kiwis have overcome the virus, but how is recovery defined?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5174e3743b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) M?ori TV: [Online petition demands Government open unoccupied houses to homeless](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2aa1a14c0c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Funeral restriction reprieve a relief to grieving families under lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=40a8bfa762&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Expert says high demand, not price-gouging, reason for expensive groceries during lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=396e4656c4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dave Gooselink (Newshub): [South Island town of Glenorchy in its own little bubble telling visitors they’re not welcome](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=111d54512f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Harry Lock (RNZ): [Teenager waits in isolation in Auckland, family in Christchurch](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6ff343764d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eric Frykberg (RNZ): [Electricity use down since lockdown began](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=647fdbf2ea&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: Checkpoint: [Flour demand up 500 percent for NZ producer, but plenty of wheat](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a2261140dc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Belinda Feek (Herald): [‘We’ve got the flour’, however, country-wide distribution proves tricky](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b43b905de3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [NZ’s island communities get lifeline as Government announces fund](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e5c5d3932e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Phil Pennington (RNZ): [Some plumbers defy lockdown rules for non-essential jobs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=02b74b173e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Eleisha Foon (RNZ): [Families worried about members with addictions in lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0352584080&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)[ing for vital air freight](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=34c58279d4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Government allows butchers to process pork for wholesale only](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0b2b0b6119&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Mike Bush – last day as Police Commissioner** Derek Cheng and Anna Leask (Herald): [Outgoing Police Commissioner Mike Bush opens up about police bias, tragedy and trauma counselling](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=41465d1df9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Outgoing police commissioner Mike Bush reflects on 42 years in the service](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d436e7e4ac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Mike Bush hangs up blue uniform on last day as Police Commissioner](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=61cfbe3ec6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [Today marks final day of Mike Bush’s tenure as Police Commissioner](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cfdcef6f84&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)