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Daily News Roundup – 3 July 2020
David Clark resigns as Health Minister Audrey Young (Herald): Ex-Health minister David Clark became a distraction to Govt focus on re-election (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): David Clark, the minister who took on an impossible portfolio and lost Jane Patterson (RNZ): Resigned: David Clark bows to inevitability Luke Malpass
Daily News Roundup – 2 July 2020
NZ First, fishing industry, light rail Michael Morrah (Newshub): Talleys hosted fundraiser dinners for NZ First, but denies that’s behind delay in fishing boat cameras Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Stuart Nash apologises to Winston Peters and Shane Jones over fisheries comments Conan Young (RNZ): Fishing industry unimpressed by Stuart Nash’
Daily News Roundup – 1 July 2020
Fishing industry Michael Morrah (Newshub): Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash blames pressure from NZ First for delay in fishing boat cameras in recording Herald: NZ First blamed for delay in fishing boat cameras by Stuart Nash in leaked recording Scott Palmer (Newshub): Winston Peters launches attack on Newshub journalist Michael Morrah
NZ Race Relations Roundup
Tuesday 30 June 2020 News: South Taranaki’s Parihaka community gets $14m from Provincial Growth Fund stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/121969410/south-taranakis-parihaka-community-gets-14m-from-provincial-growth-fu Warning over Northland tapu sites: Taratara Mountain sacred and off limits nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?
Daily News Roundup – 30 June 2020
Greens Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Taxing weath: a necessary step, or unachievable pipe dream? Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Greens’ wealth tax will appeal to Labour’s Left-wingers Richard Harman (Politik): Ardern shuns Greens’ wealth tax; Nats mount scare campaign Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Is the Greens’ poverty plan a flight of
Daily News Roundup – 29 June 2020
Election Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Elections are meant to be a contest of ideas, but 2020 is in danger of being hijacked by the intolerant mob Bryce Edwards (Guardian): We are in a period of great political volatility – the New Zealand election is far from decided Audrey Young (Herald): National is
Same Old, Same Old
Prof Worzel Once upon a time in an earlier more innocent age, it was a common ploy in sales and marketing circles to offer ‘more for less’. But in the post-corporate age where many are faced with the dilemma of, ‘What can I give the person with everything?’ Modern