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# Daily News Roundup – 30 November 2020
- URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-30-november-2020/
- Published: 2020-11-29T19:15:01.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-29T19:17:16.000Z
- Author: General
- Tags: Featured, Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

**Housing**  
Bernard Hickey (Stuff): [Here’s why you shouldn’t believe what you’re told about the housing market](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1307836175&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Rob Stock (Stuff): [Which prime ministers oversaw the biggest house price increases?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e1884b1d07&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Luke Malpass (Stuff): [Why this Government must finally grasp the nettle on housing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=494990d763&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Miriam Bell (Stuff): [House price expectations hit record high](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9b9da20672&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): [Housing the real test for Labour this term](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1924cfe587&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): [Like the villain in a cheap horror movie, the housing crisis refuses to die](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5f6037ada5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Steven Joyce (Herald): [Focus on growth, not the property bubble](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aab2bbef6a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Greg Ninness (Interest): [House price expectation at a 24 year high – ASB Housing Confidence Survey](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=30a28f3965&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Ben Leahy (Herald): [New Zealand already has a capital gains tax – you probably just didn’t know it](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5c68872b7a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Miriam Bell (Stuff): [Housing market strength not sustainable – ANZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=49fd495ce6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Liam Dann (Herald): [The real house price problem is us](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c2507a6969&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [The politics of money return after 30 years in the wilderness](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=430ec5022e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Peter Wilson (RNZ): [The Week in Politics: Govt gets serious about housing crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1309388ce5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Catherine Masters (One Roof): [Who’s the housing market’s biggest bogeyman right now?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ad5b764b86&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Housing crisis ‘is not real’, investment expert claims](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=427af2530f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Shamubeel Eaqub (Business Desk): [The Reserve Bank’s shrinking chance to save itself](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8de15b5522&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Housing: Bright-line tax on property actually an income tax – Labour MP David Parker](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d85a3b78c4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Extending the brightline test would be unbelievably dishonest](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3267b9937a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
David Chaston (Interest): [Embedded imbalances](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1f974a2f24&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
David Chaston (Interest): [A tight market, captured by the majors](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bc93878dfc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Andrew King (Stuff): [Why I’m proud to be a property investor](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=75adf3b069&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Breanna Barraclough (1News): [‘Doesn’t have to be this way’ – Stretched rental market labelled a ‘disgrace’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d7ca4fc517&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [Editorial: How you can help our hidden homeless](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=563e37c84c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Michelle Duff (Stuff): [‘I don’t want my kids seeing me like this’: The homeless mothers trying to maintain their mana](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=09317cdc0d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jason Walls (Herald): [Government muddying waters around its no new taxes policy, National Party says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=22010a36b6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [Wellington house sales: Lack of maintenance poses future risk when market slows](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=56dc4bb497&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Newstalk ZB: [‘Common sense will prevail’: ANZ economist predicts housing market to cool next year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=127515ed2f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Oranga Tamariki**  
Martin Van Beynen (Stuff): [Oranga Tamariki – much maligned, deservedly or not?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ec4a93e466&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Isaac Davison (Herald): [Kelvin Davis and Oranga Tamariki: ‘There will be a handover of power to Maori’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=768f9068b8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): [‘Somebody’s lying’: Anatomy of an Oranga Tamariki uplift](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6e89ab61c6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
ODT: [Editorial – Time up for Oranga Tamariki boss?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=874204e1c3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Sam Sherwood and Joanne Naish (Stuff): [Oranga Tamariki visited baby two weeks before he was murdered by father](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b71d23418d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Vita Molyneux (Newshub): [Oranga Tamariki ‘will not get it right’ until power sits with Maori – Assistant Maori Children’s Commissioner Glenis Philip-Barbara](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=50298b421e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Whatitiri Te Wake (Te Ao Maori): [‘Army of nannies’ to set Oranga Tamariki right](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=09bc4a46e9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Climate change**  
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): [NZ faces exclusion from UN event of carbon-cutting nations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6a9ba5e82d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Nile Bijoux (Stuff): [Government urged to introduce feebate scheme for EVs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7813efca92&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Todd Niall (Stuff): [Electric Ferries: Operator pushes case as response to climate emergency](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9fc4ad3747&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Parliament**  
RNZ: [How the 53rd Parliament was opened](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=adb5fff13c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
ODT: [Four-year parliamentary term](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e45a78ea83&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tara Shaskey (Stuff): [Newly elected Labour MP plans to marry at Parliament the day before his maiden speech](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=244db59a7d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Simon Bridges passionately defends ties in Parliament, likes not having to think about what to wear](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7f2dc4a3cf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [Parliament dress code review: Wellington fashion icon on ties and workplace attire](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=676beda3f5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Maori Party**  
Deena Coster (Stuff): [‘Be provocative, but always respectful’: Debbie Ngarewa-Packer’s journey from P?tea to Parliament](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=08fa1ed9c2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Audrey Young (Herald): [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has the Maori Party to contend with](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9764aa75dd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Te Ao Maori): [Speaker of the House and the Maori Party go head to head](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0e1d2774a5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jo Moir (RNZ): [Speaker of the House and Maori Party accuse each other of grandstanding after walk-out](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c661d95d51&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
David Farrar: [Standing orders apply, even to the Maori Party](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b59b1334da&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Newstalk ZB: [‘Pakeha system will have to figure out a way of coping’: Former MP on the Maori Party’s return](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7ad7d7733b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Government**  
Thomas Manch (Stuff): [National portrait: Nanaia Mahuta, the foreign minister no-one saw coming](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2c20e96abd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Caitlin Ellis (Newshub): [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern nominated for Time’s Person of the Year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1ae0fc2f77&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta brings new outlook to role](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=36b8bce53f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Zane Small (Newshub): [‘A leader called Jacinda’: Indian artists pay tribute to Jacinda Ardern in song on her ‘war against virus’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=63a7a24edf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Royal Commission into terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques**   
Patrick Gower (Newshub): [Christchurch mosque attack: Police admin failure allowed terrorist to get gun licence – report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=79e91cb483&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Karoline Tuckey (RNZ): [Christchurch terror attack report: ‘People need to be accountable’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=21d48d6378&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Mike Hosking (Herald): [Why we need to see the Royal Commission report into the mosque shootings](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=42ab1b00cd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Royal Commission stamps 30-year suppression on evidence given by Cabinet ministers and chief executives on March 15 terror attack](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=31466222e1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Kethaki Masilamani (Newshub): [Thirty-year-long suppressions imposed on Christchurch terror attack evidence](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5f5d502712&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): [Payout to March 15 terror attack victims the ‘right thing to do’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=40a9e7169e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Immigrant workers**  
Dan Satherley and Ella Prendergast (Newshub): [Unions question why local fruit-pickers haven’t been offered living wage, like foreigners](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7767d31e70&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tom Kitchin (RNZ): [Fruit-picking worries remain as growers lament dearth of Kiwi labour](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7bb26b8d86&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Liam Dann (Herald): [Government should restrict migrant workers to boost productivity – NZIER study](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8ed54ebc59&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [If Govt wants to fix the skills shortage, they need to let people in](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3490355c8e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Esther Taunton (Stuff): [Govt offers Kiwis $1000 bonus to take up horticulture work amid labour shortage](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2092318764&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Economy and work**  
Andre Chumko (Stuff): [New Zealand’s cleaners, in their own words](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=201c414b36&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): [New Zealand’s ‘value for money’ handbrake](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d10455348c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Damian Light (Herald): [Auckland has been digging a financial hole for a decade](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d9a6502cae&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Alison Brook (Interest): [Are we reaching peak debt?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ae0d06abc7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Rob Stock (Stuff): [NZ’s most dangerous debt could be for our cars, advisory group says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3dd7410eeb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Covid break gives us a chance for a tourism reset](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=179f56ea63&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Zac Fleming (Newshub): [Finance Minister Grant Robertson was warned removing wage subsidy cap risked ‘waste, fraud’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9e55df0add&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Economics New Zealand: [It can work after all](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7961e2bd72&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tim Grafton (Stuff): [Insurance Council chief defends new natural disaster model](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6ea715a762&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Terry Baucher (Interest): [The Week in Tax: Using CB14 “innovatively”](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2302300d58&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jude Murdoch and Steven Hail (Interest): [What is modern monetary theory?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=50224838a9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Covid**  
TVNZ: [Leading epidemiologist calling for overhaul of MIQ process amid repeated system failures](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=26591c58b3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Is it time for New Zealand to get the Covid card after testing finds it’s easy to use?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=000783651c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Emma Cropper (Newshub): [Coronavirus: Australia pushing for two-way trans-Tasman bubble with New Zealand before Christmas](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=faa54e701f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Stuff: [Isolation breaches just not cricket](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=63d3d88c9e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
D’Arcy Waldegrave (Herald): [‘Astonishingly arrogant’ – time to make an example of Pakistani cricketers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c429b7221f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Heather Du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Ministry of Health is overreacting to Pakistani isolation breach](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f8d4233a32&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Local government**  
Logan Savory (Stuff): [The findings, the fallout, the future – how a damning Invercargill City Council review played out](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1998e78913&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Stephen Forbes (RNZ): [Will Auckland have Maori seats in 2025?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a65e5bce82&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Susan Botting (Herald): [Maori wards campaigner Andrew Judd: Systemic racism at heart of debate](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a3ce4add98&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
David Farrar: [An e-mail sent to Regional Councillors](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c9223c166b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): [Rangit?kei District Council in trouble again for breaching environmental rules](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1e7b6a9aeb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Guled Mire (Stuff): [Wellington’s potential will stay unlocked if it doesn’t include diverse immigrant voices](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8a22d7c6b1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**International relations and trade**  
Audrey Young (Herald): [Questions over Five Eyes being used as public tool of diplomacy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4c9677a927&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): [New Zealand’s surprising relationship with the Middle East](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=35e9c474cd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Nevil Gibson (NBR): [World role beckons but government doesn’t care](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b8241186a6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
  
**Health**  
Bridie Witton (Stuff): [Major health service shakeup fast-tracked, will take two years — new health minister Andrew Little](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4a9c5006c9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [New Health Minister Andrew Little promises to fast-track reforms of the health sector](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9db1c4571b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Health Minister Andrew Little promises Maori Health Agency, fewer DHBs before next election](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d559f3edbb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Andrew Little watching St John ‘very closely’, but holding off nationalising it for now](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=395eaf12ca&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Ian Powell: [Foot and mouth by health unions not smart](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1895209a29&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Troels Sommerville (Stuff): [‘Bicultural approach needed’ to address foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Maori](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=71d38bc6b0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dianna Vezich (Newshub): [Endometriosis labelled ‘health crisis’ in New Zealand with hospitals declining GP referrals](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ee424c32f1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Media**  
Mark Stevens (Stuff): [Our Truth, Ta Matou Pono: Stuff’s day of reckoning](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cc87d3b3c2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Stuff: [Stuff’s charter; a brave new era for NZ’s largest media company](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f1c12b73f2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): [Our Truth, Ta Matou Pono: The Press’ bias has failed Maori](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eb7116c299&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Stuff apologises for its coverage of Maori issues](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a3a1b0b025&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Colin Peacock (RNZ): [News as a social enterprise?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=16f6271165&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Education**  
Katy Jones (Stuff): [Teacher aides celebrate pay equity, and wish same for others](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=46cea3736b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Josephine Franks (Stuff): [Marked Absent: Counting the cost of Covid-19 on school attendance](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b326b5e148&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Polytechs bulging as record numbers sign up for apprenticeships](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=94fe7c04aa&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Other**  
Damian Rowe (Stuff): [National food network delivers to Christmas food parcels to New Zealand’s most isolated communities](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3b618ce59f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Lifting the lid on the rise and rise of organised crime in NZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7d5e815935&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Wayne Brown (Stuff): [Is it still possible to have a grown-up conversation about the RMA?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=376309af89&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Global crisis not required to have safer, quieter streets – study](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f7e8907b4a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Felix Desmarais (RNZ): [Transport Minister commits to bilingual signs by the end of term: ‘It’s a priority’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=22a8f03ac8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Felix Desmarais (Herald): [NZ to have bilingual traffic signs by 2023, Transport Minister says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=af16c50757&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [America’s Cup whistleblowers feared for their safety: ‘We’re no traitors’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cc3a275710&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Hamish Rutherford (Herald): [America’s Cup whistleblowers Tom Mayo and Grant Calder say they feared for their safety after Grant Dalton branded them ‘spies’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8be471730a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Danielle Clent (Stuff): [Mass chicken deaths: ‘No excuse’ for investigation taking so long – welfare group](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=38d3d4b9af&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jamie Morton (Herald): [New analysis reveals New Zealand’s 150-year climate transformation](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6508993e2b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Deena Coster (Stuff): [The continuing cost of the $486k betrayal of a Taranaki hap? by one of its own](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=be80996955&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Jared Savage (Herald): [Gangland: Herald reporter Jared Savage’s new book on the evolution of organised crime](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3c4fa79781&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Khylee Quince (Stuff): [A trip down the rabbit hole of New Zealand settler history](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b13fc984e5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Talei Anderson (RNZ): [Is Basketball NZ doing enough for Maori and Pasifika?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=38332deeec&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Kirsty Lawrence (Stuff): [What police don’t want you to know about new unmarked highway patrol vehicles](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cb695a362d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)