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# Daily News Roundup – 5 November 2020
- URL: https://goodoil.news/daily-news-roundup-5-november-2020/
- Published: 2020-11-04T19:15:01.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-04T19:44:21.000Z
- Author: General
- Tags: COVID-19, Election 2020, Media, News, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

**US election and NZ**  
Newshub: [US Election: What a Donald Trump victory would mean for Jacinda Ardern](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b714fcb142&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Audrey Young (Herald): [Time for Jacinda Ardern to take charge of the US relationship](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aaf5dfc2fe&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Jason Walls (Herald): [US Ambassador says decision won’t change relation between the countries](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=919657bdb2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): [Donald Trump picked up momentum – but still a nail-biter](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=be5e410428&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Zane Small (Newshub): [From ‘great mates’ to trading COVID-19 barbs: How the Donald Trump-Jacinda Ardern relationship unfolded](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c03b2e9cd3&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Regardless of outcome, US presidential election will impact NZ – here’s how](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6420331a85&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Liam Dann (Herald): [Markets point to Donald Trump win – and heavy political reality for NZ leadership](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fc44588566&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
  
**New Government**  
Claire Trevett (Herald): [The licence of Jacinda Ardern’s cast-iron grip on power](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c30dfe939e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
RNZ: [Top-ranking Pacific MP to continue welfare reforms, jobs recovery in NZ amid pandemic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=a42f912a04&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Mike Hosking (Herald): [Two weeks in and new Government is missing in action ](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c63fc0201e&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)(paywalled)  
  
**Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta**  
Carrie Stoddart-Smith (RNZ): [Carrie Stoddart-Smith: Nanaia Mahuta’s appointment returns legacy of tipuna to foreign policy](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/429847/carrie-stoddart-smith-nanaia-mahuta-s-appointment-returns-legacy-of-tipuna-to-foreign-policy?ref=goodoil.news)   
RNZ: [Who is Nanaia Mahuta?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=55079f81d8&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Belinda Feek (RNZ): [Author Olivia Pierson’s offensive comments about Nanaia Mahuta’s moko kauae: The backlash](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e3016689f4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dita De Boni (NBR): [Mahuta a departure from all previous foreign ministers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0779f58006&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Zane Small (Newshub): [Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta accepts moko kauae ‘will be something of a curiosity’ as author Olivia Pierson faces backlash for labelling it ‘uncivilised’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=64593efda4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Housing**  
Bernard Hickey (Stuff): [Bank boss doesn’t like housing boom, so why not do something about it?](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b9ead27afa&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [Judith Collins flirts with ACT’s Reserve Bank house price policy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=708e489ba5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): [‘Gripped by FOMO’: Frustration continues for buyers as property market stays strong](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d26241a87d&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): [Economists divided over when home lending restrictions will come back](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=99af3fb782&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Anne Gibson (Herald): [Auckland house prices break $1m barrier: new Barfoot & Thompson data out](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=241267b8ce&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Brent Melville (BusinessDesk): [Auckland cuts housing shortage estimate by a quarter](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=79287baad9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Skara Bohny (Stuff): [Nelson’s council-owned community housing bought by K?inga Ora](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=24c2bb0597&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Stuff: [RNZ host tears into Property Investors’ Federation over ‘ridiculous’ comments on first home buyers](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3d15c2c7fe&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Insurance Council issues stark warning over Wellington’s spatial plan](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=18ad5f4311&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Georgina Campbell (Herald): [Wellington spatial plan called a ‘childish wish for housing’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=523d4eaf0f&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Eric Crampton: [Renting sucks](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f9a06ed90c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Economy and work**  
Bernard Hickey (Stuff): [Fulton Hogan subsidy highlights how Covid-19 response making rich richer](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9ebcd22e35&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
NBR: [Fulton Hogan pays big dividend after tapping wage subsidy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dfca51c8a1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): [New tax rate would hand top 3% nearly 25% of income tax bill](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=eda4960e49&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Richard Harman: [The debate we didn’t have](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=26ac57f025&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Melanie Carroll (Stuff): [Record jump in jobless rate to 5.3%, but NZ set to avoid unemployment disaster](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=8ec085deb7&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Liz Kendall (Stuff): [Almost three-quarters of lost jobs are women’s, here’s why](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=ff99b03bf4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Unemployment rises to 5.3% in the September quarter](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2c92c02d56&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Zane Small (Newshub): [ACT warns unemployment ‘will only get worse’ as 37,000 job losses prompts benefit boost plea](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=c9a7bdd243&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Herald: [How NZ compares to US, Aus and China in unemployment figures](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=653d9b8df9&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Inflation effect adding to post-Covid inequalities, Stats NZ data suggests](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=e38af8e9ea&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Peter Griffin (BusinessDesk): [David Clark, tech minister: trying to be positive](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=45ff313b9b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
  
**Covid**  
Nick Wilson and Michael Baker (The Conversation): [New Zealand needs a ‘traffic light’ system to stop COVID-19 creeping in at the border](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=9771ec10d1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Judith Collins joins calls for formal review into Government’s handling of Covid-19 crisis](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=67b35a1c44&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Karl du Fresne: [A striking change of editorial tone](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=30d64e9639&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [New Zealand Nurses Organisation calls for ‘urgent review’ after two nurses test positive for Covid-19](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d1e3eb6170&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tim Cronshaw (Herald): [Nurses call for urgent review into Covid hotels](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=aea302b072&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Dotcom Extradition ruling**  
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): [Supreme court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited – subject to a judicial review](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=60fb3088ec&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Dan Satherley (Newshub): [Kim Dotcom ruled eligible for extradition on 12 of 13 charges, but thrown a lifeline](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=4674675138&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Sam Hurley (Herald): [Kim Dotcom’s US extradition case stalls, Supreme Court calls for further arguments over copyright allegations](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fecfb38ef4&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
RNZ: [Kim Dotcom MegaUpload case: Court ruling paves way for extradition, but subject to judicial review](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=0c3ebcea72&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Parliament and elections**  
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): [National Party reshuffle coming next week, as Collins says Shane Reti is safe – but no one else](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=1ee73ff7f2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Liam Ratana (RE:): [Meet your new Maori MPs](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=08b52e5c2b&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Parmjeet Parmar (Herald): [Why National thought it could win the 2020 election](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=6dc58135e1&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news) (paywalled)  
  
**Local government**  
Brad Flahive (Stuff): [Super City splitters: The groups that wanted to break away from Auckland Council](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3a592c4b92&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Tom Hunt (Stuff): [Young Wellingtonians plea to councillors: don’t sell Shelly Bay](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=b0ec5a300c&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Marcus Anselm (RNZ): [Digital divide in Wairarapa’s local democracy](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=f2b9210eec&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Health**  
Louisa Steyl (Stuff): [Mental health waiting lists grow in wake of pandemic](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=dac22d64c0&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): [Maori infant vaccinations drop 5% from April to June – Ministry of Health](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=2d13f2bc56&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Environment**  
Steve Urlich (Stuff): [Government ignores own state of the environment report](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=28f929fab2&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): [Ng?i Tahu takes the government to court over water: ‘Now is the time to act’](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=90da54f9c5&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Transport**  
Todd Niall (Stuff): [Auckland Light Rail: New Minister committed but neutral on type of system](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=3bf5d92a81&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Nikki Preston (Herald): [$5bn rail tunnel seen as solution for North Shore traffic woes](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=39b010dc79&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
  
**Other**  
Al Williams (Stuff): [Protesters picket in Timaru as livestock carrier arrives](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=d3ad349175&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
1News: [Protests greet arrival of one of world’s largest cattle ships in Timaru](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=cbf2ac9aee&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
Mark Quinlivan and Matt Burrows (Newshub): [‘Completely inappropriate’: Stats NZ under fire for ‘oranges’ Facebook post](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=5e4562e631&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)  
John Braddock (World socialist website): [New Zealand to legalise euthanasia following referendum](https://democracyproject.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c73e3fe9e4a0d897f8fa2746e&id=fac994b573&e=6e01c7a847&ref=goodoil.news)