> ## 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 – 4 December 2020 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-4-december-2020/ - Published: 2020-12-03T19:15:01.000Z - Updated: 2020-12-05T00:26:10.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38 **Climate change** Peter Dunne: [It is now stand and deliver time for Labour on climate change](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=99204c8167&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rachel Thomas (RNZ): [Carbon neutrality by 2050 requires taking a financial hit – economist](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=055847cfc2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: [ACT calls on MPs to give up unlimited domestic flights in bid to cut carbon emissions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a32f9a4bcc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 1News: ‘[The next step is action’ — Greenpeace pushes Govt following climate emergency declaration](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=88dcdb1e22&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Maori TV): [Climate change won’t wait for politics](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=722e1ea6ac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Phil Smith (RNZ): [Climate specifics in a general motion](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8810eaf1f1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Govt told to go further with plans for electrification of public sector car fleet](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a3e5e41416&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Farrar: [Labour’s climate emergency policy was first announced by them in 2007](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7fc5e33d64&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Chris Bishop urges Kieran McAnulty to give up his ‘gas guzzling’ ute](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ae7d82b5ed&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kerre McIvor (Newstalk ZB): [Government has a long way to go in convincing us to go green](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4b51869735&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [Climate alarmism gets us nowhere](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9b287ca7bd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Point Of Order: [Back to the future: Ardern govt refashions a 2007 commitment to make the state service carbon-neutral](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1695d675a0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Gavin Evans (Business Desk): [Public sector emission targets ‘not achievable’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2bfc2eccf0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Joel MacManus (Stuff): [Wellington will have fully electric bus fleet by 2027](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b09f9b7dbe&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Wellington creating new carbon sink with up to 28,000 trees to be planted](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=770448c591&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Westpac assesses climate-related lending risks](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9cf583a500&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Westpac reveals billion-dollar risk of climate change to its borrowers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=562b29bf58&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Union calls for expansion of school funding for coal boiler transition](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1cc8bbc49b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Parliament, Government, and election** Matthew Hooton (Herald): [Who will lead us if our leader won’t?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0b2138ab9f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): [Confusion, chaos and delay: Inside story of the Labour-NZ First government](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1f5c00d880&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Henry Cooke and Kate Newton (Stuff): [Election 2020: How New Zealand split its votes – and caused two upset wins](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ddea0a165d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Chris Knox and Claire Trevett (Herald): [How Labour voters handed Green MP Chloe Swarbrick Auckland Central](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=67c0399271&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Chris Trotter: [Looking For “The Drummer”](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8a076d57c1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Maori Party leaders aspire to transform Aotearoa for the better in maiden speeches](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3fbb463dbd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi challenges Labour’s target for Maori share of public service contracts](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4293f980f0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [A pebble in your shoe’ – Maori Party’s Rawiri Waititi’s promise to be unapologetic voice for Maori](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cad75d7469&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heta Gardiner (Maori TV): [Maori Party leaders make fiery maiden speeches in Parliament](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=10da1ca7da&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rosalie Willis (Herald): [New ?taki MP Terisa Ngobi delivers maiden speech in Parliament](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e6edf839df&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=32236ca9c6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Farrar: [Select Committees composition](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=530be89549&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing; monetary policy** RNZ: [Record number of people waiting for social housing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e2784f02d2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgia Forrester (Stuff): [The housing crisis: What’s happening, and where are all the affordable homes?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=460c4e76c6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Robertson and Orr may remain pals, but they are not on the same page on housing](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1259826058&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Gareth Vaughan (Interest): [RBNZ to research the impact of loose monetary policy on wealth & income inequality](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=78cbaa36f7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Miriam Bell (Stuff): [Up and away: First home prices outpace rest of market](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e5c6ef97fb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Catherine Harris (Stuff): [Strength of building boom may help bring house prices down](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6054dd30e7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Greg Ninness (Interest): [New dwelling consents hit 14 year high](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=531731232c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bryce Wilkinson (Herald): [NZ in grips of a double feature housing horror story](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c47fdc2a88&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Catherine Harris (Stuff): [Strength of building boom may help bring house prices down](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ef5ba4d080&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brent Melville (Business Desk): [Housing stock hits $1,460b as prices, consents ramp up](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9ad8d0de7f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Jenny Ling (Herald): [Our Hidden Homeless: Former meth addict stresses importance of wraparound services](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5b63f2dabf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern turns sods on new Tara-Ika subdivision in Levin](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a324154f5c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Vita Molyneux (Newshub): [Damp, draughty houses putting people in hospital – Asthma New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3f9faeb927&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Health** Alexa Cook (Newshub): [Growing calls for the Government to increase emergency ambulance service funding](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f3158365a4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Alice Angelon (RNZ): [Health board leaders ask minister for earlier ‘heads up’ on finances](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c882cdda59&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jane Patterson (RNZ): [Pharmac probe unlikely to examine commercial details – Little](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=707b616da4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Government promises independent Pharmac review after Labour MPs veto Health Select Committee inquiry](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e0b2680b6f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [National Party applying pressure on new Health Select Committee](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=57373cb794&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Debbie Jamieson (Stuff): [Bowel cancer screening programme pushing symptomatic patients to back of the queue – specialists](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a14257bdb7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Susan Strongman (RNZ): [New Zealand should end restraint use in mental healthcare – psychiatrist](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a128c7cf1c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katarina Williams (Stuff): [Maori and Pasifika ‘definitely disadvantaged’ over BMI fertility treatment requirement](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ce765b28e9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rowan Quinn (RNZ): [Girl, 3, with crumbling teeth couldn’t be treated immediately](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7ee62dd5f2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lois Williams (RNZ): [Departing surgeon says DHB not giving West Coasters the care they deserve](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d6a84ae741&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brittney Deguara (Stuff): [Celebrating Matariki holiday between June and October could ease pressure on hospitals, study finds](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a60f2fab05&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [Editorial – Drug testing is a matter of safety and common sense](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0fd21c568f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Taxation** Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Tax as proportion of GDP below the average in NZ and falling, OECD reports](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eb2444e3a4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [MPs have signed off on new 39% top tax rate](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1c19d00ff2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [Government’s new 39 per cent top tax rate bill made law after vote in the House this morning](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3265e74a36&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Greens, National and ACT speak out against new tax law over loophole and privacy concerns](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=37dfab8600&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Victoria Young (BusinessDesk): [IRD needs power to unpick convoluted affairs of the rich](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7d282d2b8c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Economy and work** Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [Roll back minimum wage increases, NZ Initiative urges](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a941736968&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Esther Taunton (Stuff): [Pandemic perfect time to bring in four-day week, pioneer says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=75885d7de6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kathy Errington and Peter Wilson (Newsroom): [Higher wages: If not now, when?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=60b8b81493&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jason Walls (Herald): [‘A period of pay restraint:’ The Government to send expectation letter to SOE bosses](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e1497fa36c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [The Government is $5 billion better off than expected, as Covid-19 economic bounceback continues](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fc26f97202&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brent Edwards (NBR): [Ardern’s personal responsibility for reducing child poverty](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=14f899d78a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) 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=74ebd2ad86&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [New government procurement target to support Maori economy post-Covid](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cc9914a95e&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=783fbd329a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Melanie Carroll (Stuff): [Covid-19 was a positive experience for some NZ boards, according to IoD survey](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=df7fdd0b4f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Gray (Herald): [Under FLP, the Reserve Bank will pay banks to borrow if OCR goes negative](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4024a3517f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Rob Stock (Stuff): [Proposal to make retirement villages share capital gains with residents](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f04df31694&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Christina Persico (Stuff): [Taranaki youth facing employment struggles despite ‘hard graft’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0f7fe060a0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Andrea Fox (Herald): [Import frustrations and costs rise for NZ businesses as global freight jam worsens](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5045ec4c35&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Tamsyn Parker (Herald): [Who pays when the banks shut up shop?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b0a24e41b2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Keith Woodford (Interest): [Regenerative agriculture is not redundant but can be misguided](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4c0b83a93d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Herald Delotte Top 200** Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): [Pressure makes a diamond](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b8d88fcdd5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tim McCready (Herald): [Deloitte Top 200: Covid-19 provides impetus for fundamental change](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=50b3f254d7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [NZ’s top business leaders crowned at Deloitte Top 200 awards](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=22ad6b6339&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Lee Gray (Herald): [Deloitte Top 200: Maori business rises to challenge](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6b7b39b029&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Natalia Rimell (Herald): [Deloitte Top 200: SkyCity wins Diversity and Inclusion Leadership award](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bbf98660d3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Duncan Bridgeman (Herald): [Deloitte Top 200: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare named Company of the Year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5b92734505&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Covid** Rachel Sadler (Newshub): [Coronavirus: Nearly half of New Zealand’s virus-related deaths had no other health conditions – Ministry of Health](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8ac41b63a3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Harry Lock (RNZ): [Managed isolation hotels being overbooked – Hipkins](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e3b373c63a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [No hope of Pacific travel bubble before Christmas – Hipkins](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eca99ca396&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [We’re dawdling while Australia’s open for business](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3dcb721ee9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Jacinda, where is the vaccine?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=af999af3a6&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Health experts offer speculation about Covid-19 vaccine rollout](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eed141bc42&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): [Vulnerable elderly clamouring to be first in line for COVID-19 vaccine in New Zealand](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=68d5736f23&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins urges patience over vaccine roll-out in NZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=08ac9463d5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** David Farrar: [Maori wards are not the same as geographic wards](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=48b50a8748&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Te Ao Maori News): [Petition wants urgent law change to allow Maori wards to be established uncontested](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8f0c0166db&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sophie Cornish (Stuff): [Social harm cost of crime at small central Wellington park reaches almost $15m over seven years](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fd0fd6c0ce&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Robin Martin (RNZ): [Council considers changing Maxwell township’s name back to P?karaka](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1c286c3843&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Auckland Council development agency Panuku’s blow-out in staff earning over $100,000](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1a17b421dc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Damian George (Stuff): [Wellington City Council considers loan scheme for earthquake-prone buildings](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2c9c32df73&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff: [City centre master plan a test of public imagination](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d4390fd72b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Anthony Fowler (Herald): [How does Auckland’s drought measure up?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e7be04fb4c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Hundreds of earthquake strengthening deadlines to expire in Wellington](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8809b9516e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Justice and policing** Graeme Edgeler (Democracy Project): [New Zealand’s worst law](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=77f38fc742&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Phil Pennington (RNZ): [‘Regulation gap’ for facial recognition technology, law expert says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=31abd5f1aa&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) George Block (Stuff): [Police facial recognition: new study calls for greater oversight in NZ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fdcf24d6ef&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ben Strang (RNZ): [Hate crimes: Almost half complaints to police wrongly downgraded](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aded5a7cf4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Stuff’s apology to Maori** Carmen Parahi (Stuff): [Our Truth, Ta Matou Pono: Newsrooms need to reflect the voices of society not the bias of their news bosses](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bc6b038f30&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sharon Brettkelly (Newsroom): [Why ‘sorry’ matters](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5a64a4349c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Karl du Fresne: [Stuff’s racist history](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ef51afa32a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **China; International relations and trade** Matt Burrows (Newshub): [The New Zealand MPs leading global calls to hold China to account over ‘bullying’ of Australia](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9422b9a148&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Louisa Wall joins international call to support Australian wine in China stoush](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b47299f987&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Royal Commission into terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques** Kurt Bayer (Herald): [Christchurch mosque shootings Royal Commission report: Calls for dedicated minister to oversee response](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e063794896&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tom Peters (WSWS): [New Zealand inquiry suppresses evidence about fascist terror attack](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b6c22c7d00&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Education** Simon Smelt (Stuff): [Why more kids are wagging school](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=12cd08f1a5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) 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=f433c7b382&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brent Melville (BusinessDesk): [Hipkins won’t intervene on Auckland Uni’s sweet Parnell deal](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=82e1fd8aaf&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Other** Diana Clement (Interest): [Government de-encryption move puts client data at risk](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6ed823ceb3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Alison Mau (Stuff): [Urgent effort needed to tackle sexual harm, discrimination in music industry, action group says](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=edb5ed4d3d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Laura James (1News): [New Zealand becomes more self-sufficient with waste management after Auckland recycling facility upgrade](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e6d9defcee&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Áine Kelly-Costello (RNZ): [Another media reframe needed to include disabled perspectives](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1bc2b5dc1a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Hinenui Wano-Bryant (Stuff): [The ‘Naki’ and cultural erasure through the words we speak](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=16059eb3d4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [NZ chief censor backs new call for child abuse crackdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=004b8c6426&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Karl du Fresne: [The curtain of secrecy around abortion](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e2eee9d7a0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)