> ## 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 December 2020 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-3-december-2020/ - Published: 2020-12-02T19:15:01.000Z - Updated: 2020-12-02T19:11:43.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Featured, Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38 **Climate change** Stuff: [Editorial – Declaration’s value will be measured by action](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5d75fc84d0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Yvette McCullough (RNZ): [Climate Change declaration: ‘It’s not just symbolic declaration’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=908dcfd200&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Richard Harman: [Climate Change Emergency; is it more than a PR stunt?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a97455f5d8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Melanie Carroll (Stuff): [Aspirational goal but nothing concrete: Business reaction to climate emergency](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b80c102ffc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Labour’s climate emergency: Virtue signalling, or the start of real progress?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f38b9c0f4c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Government declares climate emergency and looks to clean own house](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3d24ba0dea&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Gavin Evans (Business Desk): [Climate emergency: It didn’t have to be this way](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4dff30618f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Climate change emergency: Minister admits not everything will be replaced by 2025](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8490d315f1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Whyte (TVNZ): [New Zealand climate emergency declared after Ardern tells House to ‘be on the right side of history’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4591cecb87&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): [Jacinda Ardern declares climate emergency in New Zealand after decades of rising greenhouse gas emissions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=223be84e24&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Whyte (TVNZ): [Jacinda Ardern releases text of Government’s declaration of climate emergency](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=658dbf579f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) TVNZ: [New Zealand climate emergency declared after Ardern tells House to ‘be on the right side of history’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=15915cb6f2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Gavin Evans (Business Desk): [Climate emergency sets emission targets for public sector](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=49632d2e85&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Climate emergency declaration by New Zealand government includes commitment to 2025 targets](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e8d35e46f9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Climate change is not the biggest emergency NZ is facing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b7331cccd1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Judith Collins: Government’s climate emergency vote another ‘virtue signal’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cdca67b3c2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [National Party opposes climate emergency declaration and festival drug check law](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c526e0f6b9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Audrey Young (Herald): [National response to climate emergency rings hollow](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=07935105dc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) David Farrar: [LOL](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=231404a9ba&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Farrar: [If Labour says climate change is an emergency, how do they explain this?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=381e5df1aa&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [All Govt departments now required to buy electric vehicles – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=11a28f9084&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Climate change emergency: How the Government plans to make public sector carbon neutral by 2025](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2e1854b7ce&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Olivia Wannan (Stuff): [Snugger Government buildings could move the whole office market](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9033ce7f8a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Damien O’Carroll (Stuff): [Government commitment to EVs welcomed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8841ef8f55&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) NBR: [Public sector to be carbon neutral by 2025](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=31e4c7fe3e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Yuki Fukuda Helen Hughes (Stuff): [Transport and food two keys to reduce our carbon footprint](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6594acf6ac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Olivia Wannan (Stuff): [How staff learned to stop worrying and love the EV](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dc6c678596&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [Many of New Zealand’s coastal homes could have unaffordable insurance within 15 years – new report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=12190367df&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Climate Crisis: Coastal Wellington homes could lose insurance as sea levels rise](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=02d1ac8643&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **China; International relations and trade** Thomas Manch and Luke Malpass (Stuff): [Two MPs criticise China’s ‘coercive diplomacy’ amid widening Australia stoush](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=686182e5ec&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Ensor and Emma Cropper (Newshub): [China ‘surprised’ New Zealand weighed into Australian soldier image debate](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=55f249a13b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Alexander Gillespie (Stuff): [NZ ideally placed to broker truce between China and the Five Eyes alliance](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1d85fc314b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Derek Cheng (Herald): [Jacinda Ardern says NZ not taking sides in China-Australia feud](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ae68c5ed34&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [China ‘surprised’ NZ expressed concern over falsified photo of Australian soldier](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ffe2d7d04e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Ardern on raising concern with China: ‘It was a matter of principle’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0051306273&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [New Zealand warned to tread carefully in China-Australia spat](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9ee0384a8b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): [China hits back at New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=132542e4f1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Matt Burrows (Newshub): [Australia’s allies should follow NZ’s lead and speak up over China’s ‘bullying’ – Kiwi academic Anne Marie Brady](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0b26a518b8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Point Of Order: [Mahuta plugs the progress of Maori at powhiri for our big APEC year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cdfe3e1368&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Zwartz (Stuff): [NZ stance on Middle East should take account of changing realities](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dfeef71f6b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Poverty** Tumamao Harawira (Te Ao Maori News): [We talk of a climate emergency but we have a child poverty emergency’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=765ea1cd10&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [‘Deeply distressing’ – Child poverty emergency needs urgent action, Children’s Commissioner says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c9d9c96742&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Child poverty: How the latest statistics compare to last year’s report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a46b7a30db&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rosie Gordon (Newshub): [The Porirua school where every student faces poverty](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4255382895&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andrew Becroft and Glenis Philip Barbara (Stuff): [Children’s Commissioners: It’s not just about what the media reports, but what they choose to leave out](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=33d1bad667&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Joel Maxwell (Stuff): [Cheeky question time for Jacinda Ardern after youth group member asks ‘is there a plan?’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0b1c35b1a7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Anthony (Stuff): [Extra $32 a week for 3600 low income families thanks to higher benefit](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eac120a7bd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sarah Robson (RNZ): [Calls to budgeting helpline more than double and expected to rise](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2cb12c07d0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing** Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Evidence ‘inconclusive’ that lower interest rates are increasing inequality, says Adrian Orr](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3fcffc7f4c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [With so many prospective tenants vying for so few properties, landlords hold the power](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a5dcdaa15c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dan Satherley (Newshub): [‘Every politician is scared’ of house prices falling – Don Brash](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ab9acc73cd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Judith Collins open to taking GST off new builds to encourage building](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=055b24b21b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): [I finally solved the housing crisis. Ask me how](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=326b0a0a71&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anne Gibson (Herald): [Appliance supply shortage hits house builders: ‘We have to wait months’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c3357103bf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Brent Edwards (NBR): [Housing market has helped economy through Covid-19 downturn](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=47210e628d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Parliament, Government, and election** Alexander Campbell (The Big Q): [What will campaign finance reform in New Zealand look like?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=67d9ac8b53&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Claire Trevett (Herald): [Sex, drugs and taxes as Labour ‘cracks on’ without NZ First](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c754cdc755&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Katie Scotcher (RNZ): [Phil Twyford takes leave from Parliament as wife diagnosed with cancer](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=867fdbd852&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amelia Wade (Herald): [‘An ode to artists’: More Labour MPs give their maiden speeches](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bb2433d367&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Derek Cheng (Herald): [Jacinda Ardern receives Gleitsman International Activist Award, opens up about sexism, impostor syndrome](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9bc4d2ad2a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [Ihum?tao still haunting the government](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5c680c76df&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy and work** Tom Hunt (Stuff): [Film-maker James Cameron’s businesses takes $150,000 in wage subsidies](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6eedfed23a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Covid-19: Economic effects expected to endure in New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f6b159312c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Editorial: Employers concerned over Government’s extension of sick leave](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=986817eaba&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Melanie Carroll (Stuff): [Covid-19 is putting the squeeze on Generation X’s retirement savings](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a57a62cea4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) John Gascoigne (Herald): [Low wage economy stifles superannuation aspirations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d5feed16f4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Liam Dann (Herald): [Market Watch: Vaccine news makes it harder to keep rates low](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=060acbd062&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): [IRD wants trustee tax rate hiked to meet new top income tax rate](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8c04517245&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Priscilla Dickinson (Newshub): [BNZ let off likely responsible lending breaches with warning](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=38441bd4bd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Hosking (Herald): [Our country needs to shake off its malaise](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cd2ecb92f8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Geraden Cann (NBR): [ACC levies likely to increase](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=445450ef24&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) RNZ: [ACC records paper loss of $5.9 billion](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=13f009f0fd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Taxation** Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Labour’s big new tax makes 0.2 percentage point dent in inequality](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=678b2bfc76&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Pattrick Smellie (Business Desk): [New top tax rate left open to avoidance, tax department warns](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=28eff16b59&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Scott Palmer (Newshub): [Green Party won’t vote to support Government’s top tax rate change Bill](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2e0d482714&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [The Green Party is refusing to support the Government’s new top tax rate legislation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=efa217ee0a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Stuff’s apology to Maori** Glenn McConnell (Stuff): [Our Truth, T? M?tou Pono: You can’t change the past but you can fix the future](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cbff745f13&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Joel Maxwell (Stuff): [Our Truth, T? M?tou Pono: On being a Maori journalist in Stuff, you keep coming back to that moral choice](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3df95ce7c5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Dita De Boni (NBR): [Stuff apology a recognition of changing New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7dba839eb5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Festival drug testing** Zane Small (Newshub): [Chlöe Swarbrick accuses National of ‘high-horse moralising’ as Simon Bridges swipes at ‘woke anger’ in pill testing debate](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=05ffed9667&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Henry Cooke (Stuff): [Pill testing legalised ahead of summer festival season after ‘woke anger’ debate between Simon Bridges and Chloe Swarbrick](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ab84758d73&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Health Minister Andrew Little on drug testing at festivals](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1215fb4943&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) TVNZ: [Judith Collins declines to reveal her own view on legal pill-testing, as National’s solidarity shows cracks](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ae02b277b5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Amelia Wade (Herald): [Pill-testing law passes in time for summer festivals with only the National Party opposed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=265dd4487f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Josephine Franks (Stuff): [How new drug testing rules will change the summer for pill testers and festivals](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=658bc3f704&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** Todd Niall (Stuff): [Auckland Council’s climate change plans hit by Covid-19 cash shortfall](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9a006e6103&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Northland mayor says recent gun attacks legacy of neglect and deprivation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b84c6ef2b5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Joel Maxwell and Christina Persico (Stuff): [‘Fire is hitting the h?ng? stones’ – petition ramps up pressure on Government to ease Maori wards](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f95bd54341&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Maori wards petition delivered to Parliament: ‘Not a case of if, but when’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=40eacffd2e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Education** Ben Leahy (Herald): [Education Minister Chris Hipkins takes aim at University of Auckland over $5m Parnell house](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=61810f40df&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Troels Sommerville (Stuff): [Auckland University broke own rules in purchase of $5m house for vice chancellor – Auditor General](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=803cac14b2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Gill Bonnett (RNZ): [Managed isolation charges: Third of users not paid fee after three months](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0b218846bb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): [Cricketers ‘prioritised’ over reuniting international students with families](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=85e4230c95&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Rawhiti-Connell (Newsroom): [Our health system: a comedy of errors](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dab14fd76e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [National MP Michael Woodhouse tells of ‘pain’ living with Crohn’s disease at tearful march to fund medication](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9e2df607f2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katie Scotcher (RNZ): [Ministers at odds over need to further Whakaari / White Island investigation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=69bfefc3e7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anuja Nadkarni and Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): [New lending rules to protect vulnerable borrowers from loan sharks](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7b70c2f223&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Damien Venuto (Herald): [NZTA calls in second ad agency as it ramps up efforts to reduce road toll](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fea37d8d20&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Te Aorewa Rolleston (RNZ): [Auckland park first to get bilingual signage in effort to celebrate te reo Maori](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=99f22c6467&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ellen O’Dwyer (Stuff): [Debate over Huntly’s name resurfaces through bilingual train platform sign](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=da88a8bb02&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Samantha Motion (Herald): [MPs Simon Bridges and Todd Muller slam construction delay on $933m Takitimu North Link](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=62c6343f0e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)