> ## 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 – 5 March 2021 - URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-5-march-2021/ - Published: 2021-03-04T19:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2021-03-05T19:59:48.000Z - Author: General - Tags: Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14 **Covid** Chris Trotter: [Atavistic urges](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6b14621734&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Matthew Hooton (Herald): [Lockdown 4 sparks Jacinda Ardern’s wrath](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3083a8ff2e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Peter Dunne: [The government urgently needs to upgrade its Covid19 strategy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c2cb4815f5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Morrah (Newshub): [Information contradicting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on KFC worker came from Ministry of Health](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6d42cc1274&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Emile Donovan (Stuff): [The Detail: NZ’s Covid-19 communications response has been hailed the world over, but is that shine beginning to fade?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cff6aa2d87&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Stuff Editorial: [Cracks in Covid-19 communication](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ba8be4f71d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Damien Venuto (Herald): [Has Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern lost the room?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fc18d75bd4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) TVNZ: [Dr Bloomfield says Auckland lockdown decision pinned on remaining gym contact tests](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0f61e49dd8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Jamie Morton (Herald): N[o new cases means ‘reasonable chance’ lockdown worked](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=acad4fb3ff&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): [Government made a mistake putting Auckland into level 3](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=451492c290&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rowan Quinn (RNZ): [NZ should stay at level 2 for longer if Auckland restrictions ease – Covid-19 data modelling expert Shaun Hendy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6e01ffff84&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Thomas Manch (Stuff): [Ministry of Health to hire private firm to roll out saliva testing of border workers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e8c9a11544&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Glenn McConnell (Stuff): [These TikTok videos suggest young people do listen to Ashley Bloomfield](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c6ee717d0e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brent Edwards (NBR): [Is government suffering Covid-19 fatigue?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ab58261450&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Brittney Deguara (Stuff): [Lack of new cases could mean a move down alert levels, but ‘risk doesn’t go to zero’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fdc290b7bc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Auckland’s freedom could hang on 85 Covid test results](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=11333e7e2b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Dr Bloomfield on vaccines, lockdown & his alternative career choice](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ad6d5e6567&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Crystal Wu (Newshub): [Dr Bloomfield unsure why Papatoetoe High school students refused to take a test](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=bd3bec696e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) George Block (Stuff): [Auckland cluster family’s undisclosed lodger was door-to-door salesman](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1df3aa3b3a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Simon Plumb and Edward Gay (Stuff): [Government facing questions over Malaysian MP’s trip to NZ to visit family](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=514a0b97ed&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) TVNZ: [Under fire after leaving Auckland on eve of lockdown, Hannah Tamaki reveals she won’t be taking Covid-19 vaccine](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a27c961349&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mina Kerr-Lazenby (Stuff): [Hannah Tamaki says she will refuse vaccine despite assurances it will help curb spread of virus](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e85c045e16&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Brian Tamaki responds to criticism after leaving Auckland on eve of lockdown](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d91629ac42&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) TVNZ: [Mayor Shadbolt says Tamakis not welcome in Invercargill after couple’s lockdown flee](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2db95bc8a2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald Editorial: [Icy response to minister in Glacier Country sign of times](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a6988b458b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Covid: Vaccines** Stuff: [Ministry of Health to hire private firm to roll out saliva testing of border workers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3d1d2ae81d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [South Auckland vaccination should start soon after border workers – academic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=33732a5737&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) TVNZ: [Peeni Henare confident Maori, Pasifika will be targeted in Covid vaccine rollout](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e3ddb6efd5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Torika Tokalau (Stuff): [Pfizer vaccine proving the most effective but Pacific ‘could miss out’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=681e511a3b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Housing** Richard Harman: [Robertson is asking for it](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6bed4d5a4d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Financial Times: [Editorial – Central banks cannot solve a housing crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=67046da5e9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Adrian Orr frets over soaring asset prices as ASB warns more people low on cash](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a970a14f2d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr: ‘Absolutely a question mark over house prices’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=64a675d514&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Liam Dann (Herald): [Adrian Orr warns of housing bubble risks but says Reserve Bank stimulus settings must stay](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=abf7aaafed&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Brent Edwards (NBR): [Reserve Bank ponders its impact on housing market](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=515a55a883&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [‘Gale force’ economic warning: what 1% rise in mortgage rates would mean](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b459a8fee3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rebecca Howard (Business Desk): [RBNZ must consider housing but it’s more about financial stability](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b3388ca344&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Herald: [Financial Times opinion: Central banks cannot solve a housing crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0b43488de1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Zane Small (Newshub): [Housing crisis: Financial Times swipes at Government for using Reserve Bank as ‘convenient scapegoat’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a3d6a090d4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Geraden Cann (Stuff): [Pensioner reliant on temporary support to make rent as housing market shuts out retirees](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=28d0dc44f0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Ethan Te Ora and Mandy Te (Stuff): [Is Wellington a lost city for first home buyers? Economist says city ‘unattainable’ for those on modest incomes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5302fb080a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Miriam Bell (Stuff): [Sales records in more than 300 suburbs smashed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ca3279da16&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Treadwell Gordon (Whanganui Chronicle): [Let’s Talk Law with Treadwell Gordon: Changes to the Residential Tenancies Act 1986](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e2e7f8962c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Local government** Bernard Hickey (Stuff): [Hit by unfair debt rules, councils are cracking under financial pressure](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=31c12453ef&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Harry Lock (RNZ): [Wellington City Council proposes one-off rates increase of 13.5%](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8b5e6df987&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Phil Quin (Stuff): [We should welcome dissension and debate within local council](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4d4a17b95d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)s Damian George (Stuff): [Wellington Mayor Andy Foster in U-turn over partial library building privatisation and reducing collections budget](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=148faec127&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Wellington Mayor Andy Foster backtracks after Central Library controversy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=39b1a24ea1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Harry Lock (RNZ): [Wellington librarians upset and angry over council decisions](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5222e8529e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [‘Let’s Get Wellington’ transport plan under scrutiny](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5da2573918&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mandy Te (Stuff): [Wellington City Councillor to propose removal of $76 million ‘loan’ for airport’s seawalls at Long Term Plan committee meeting](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c73e45732e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Wellington City Council pulls the plug on $76 million loan for airport](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9c83a80f61&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bernard Hickey: [Dawn chorus: An invidious and unfair debt lid](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ac62e0ff59&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Katy Jones (Stuff): [Library decision commits city to millions in flood defences, lobbyists say](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8370e3b0ca&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Newstalk ZB: [Chris Lynch: Council owned company’s rebranding is financially reckless](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=371121a6c2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Herald: [Christchurch council employees report lack of transparency, bullying in survey](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=17b5b97aeb&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Otago Daily Times Editorial: [Role for ratepayers associations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=454b88acbd&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Logan Savory (Stuff): [Invercargill city councillor Ian Pottinger says new media protocol isn’t needed](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4a697855ef&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Waatea News: [Maori on councils doesn’t mean Maori perspective](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f87ccef4f1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Waatea News: [Kaipara to consider Maori ward](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3d2fbaa1c4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Auckland** Bernard Orsman (Herald): [Auckland Council plan rate rises of up to 23 per cent for thousands of homes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=baf7a1f78a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): [Project Auckland: A Swan emerges from the cones](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=60ceb97aac&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Barnett (NZ Herald): [Project Auckland: Time to turn Auckland on its head](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8bcf0a6d04&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Bill Bennett (Herald): [Project Auckland: After the pandemic we need a smarter city](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4df767e294&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Graham Skellern (Herald): [Project Auckland: A new agenda for T?maki Makaurau](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aa824d5231&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Foreign affairs and trade** Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Long-sought USA trade deal derailed by elections, says former ambassador](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=741b9f7148&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Environment, climate change** Brian Fallow (Herald): [Cutting farm emissions – without cutting farm output](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=307c1f0ed7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Amber Allott (Stuff): [Lawless’ high seas undoing New Zealand’s seabird conservation efforts](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8062b70f70&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Maori Party** Joel Maxwell (Stuff): [Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi apologises after deleting tweet on ‘archaic Caucasians’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ca4780c7ca&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [Maori Party MP Rawiri Waititi’s tweet about Pakeha being ‘archaic species’ was ‘made by someone else’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b982268f97&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) David Farrar: T[he MP’s tweet the media won’t report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b28cb9f677&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Planned Erebus memorial** Jean Bell (RNZ): [Erebus memorial protest ‘hugely distressing’, says family member of victim](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1a5f891942&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Waatea News: [MP wants hui to calm Erebus memorial row](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5e4a4277bc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Waatea News: [Orakei back Erebus memorial in rohe](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d75f977f10&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Economy and work** Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [Government’s move to limit immigration a mistake](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b2886fd598&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Brent Edwards (NBR): [Fair pay legislation likely to be introduced this year](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d0d596e218&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Bonnie Flaws (Stuff): [Apple growers pulling out trees because there are not enough pickers for harvest](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=977180d666&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tamsyn Parker (Herald): [WFH or WFO? How Kiwi businesses are handling the shift change](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4465c39b9b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Government accounts continue to outperform forecasts, up $3.1 billion from December forecast](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1ba0cd464f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) RNZ: [Government’s deficit of $4.4b, $3b less than forecast](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c9173c9db1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Michael Reddell: [No idea apparently, probably not much interest](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b4b8ae7937&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Tamsyn Parker (Herald): [ASB boss Vittoria Shortt warns: ‘We are not out of the woods yet’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=13d79881e2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) **Health** Corazon Miller (TVNZ): [Pharmac swapping epilepsy drugs ‘cannot be discounted’ as a cause of deaths — neurologist](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=51b28a6504&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Guyon Espiner (RNZ): [Epilepsy medication switch may have contributed to deaths – neurologist](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8d0dad2b6e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Esther Taunton (Stuff): [Tobacco tax revenue plunges as Kiwis kick the habit](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b9d74611b7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Seni Iasona & Rosie Gordon (Newshub): [Generous philanthropist funds brand new children’s hospital in Wellington](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=693357130b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Online threat to Christchurch mosques** RNZ: [Man charged with threatening to kill after arrest over threat to Christchurch mosques](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f129a01d41&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) **Other** Henry Cooke (Stuff): [‘Dead rat’ regurgitated? Repeal of Waka Jumping law looks possible as Labour mulls position](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0991eb14aa&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kurt Bayer (Herald): [Afghan interpreter who volunteered with Kiwi troops: ‘NZ is leaving me to face death’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7ae6ce5e25&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) Karl du Fresne: [An assumed right of veto?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=7ba3c6e696&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Maja Burry (RNZ): [Live animal exports decision coming soon – Agriculture Minister](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3aa3b34220&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Colin Peacock (RNZ): [NZME pulls racist article and bans Bassett](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b25b270f99&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kelly Jensen (Northland Age): [Response to Michael Bassett’s \`Racism on a grand scale’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=efeb29a227&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sarah Trotman (Herald): [Courage needed to challenge bias and harassment of women](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1df00bb64e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled) ODT: [Editorial – Menstrual products in schools](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9730ec4d8a&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Kym Hamilton (Stuff): [Overcoming inequities in cricket](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5a81286d45&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Zane Small (Newshub): [New Zealand’s first transgender MP Georgina Beyer says Government ‘dithering’ on changing sex on birth certificates](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=de0feeb997&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Vita Molyneux (Newshub): [Jacinda Ardern opens up on self-care, motherhood in new magazine interview](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=618a355655&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): [Cancel culture’s arrogance is out of control](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9a52823a31&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Sam Stubbs (Stuff): [Is Rocket Lab our Sputnik moment?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1115d890dc&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Peter Sara (Otago Daily Times): [Use our Treaty to create the best for all its signatories](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6b69beccb3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): [The old boys in blue, policing by consent](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=071ec56362&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)