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Daily News Roundup – 2 June 2020
National Party Andrea Vance (Stuff): Could middle-of-the road Muller come out a winner? Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Todd Muller’s first week not a complete disaster Bryce Edwards (Guardian): Todd Muller’s beige persona might not be a bad thing in the battle against Jacinda Ardern Audrey Young
Face of the Day
'NZ stand up': Parris Goebel calls for Black Lives Matter march in Auckland https://t.co/nybaVeplnM — Newshub ENT (@NewshubENT) May 31, 2020
Lower than Fake News
What does Fake News do when confronted with their own fake news? Well, they fake it, and by doing so descend from fake news to something lower. I know not what that may be called, maybe deep-fake-news or worse-than-fake, perhaps vandalised-news? Who knows? Maybe just
Daily News Roundup – 29 May 2020
Fresh water reforms, environment, conservation Richard Harman (Politik): Swimming together; the coalition agrees on freshwater reforms Collette Devlin (Stuff): NZ First claims win as Government softens freshwater reforms Jamie Morton (Herald): New Govt water reforms miss mark on nitrogen pollution, advocates say Science Media Centre: Action for Healthy Waterways – Expert
Daily News Roundup – 28 May 2020
National Party Tova O’Brien (Newshub): National sets up ‘intelligence unit’ to dig up info on political opponents during 2020 election campaign Claire Trevett (Herald): Todd Muller’s sink or swim introduction to Leader of Opposition (paywalled) Mark Longley (Newshub): Dear Todd, the honeymoon is over – welcome to political leadership
Daily News Roundup – 27 May 2020
Welfare Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Former Green Party leader Metiria Turei puts Government on blast over new payment scheme Stuff Editorial: Question marks over new relief package Thomas Manch (Stuff): Government defends unemployment payments, says it’s considering ‘social insurance’ RNZ: Welfare advocates not happy with Covid-19 umemployment benefit Sarah
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Daily News Roundup – 26 May 2020
Redundancy scheme Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Opinion: Unemployment payment scheme shows Govt knows benefits insufficient Rachel Sadler (Newshu): Auckland Action Against Poverty says Government’s Income Relief Payments create ‘two tiers of unemployed’ people Steven Cowan: Two-tier welfare David Farrar: Two tiers of unemployment benefit Craig McCullough (RNZ): Green Party
Boris Johnson Makes Calculated Move to Support Cummings
BREAKING NEWS Following on from the revelations about the senior advisor, Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson is fighting a rear-guard action to avoid sacking him. Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport appeared on the Andrew Marr show on the BBC this morning and gave an interview of toe-
Daily News Roundup – 25 May 2020
National Party leadership change – commentary, analysis Richard Harman (Politik): Adams’ return signals what really lay behind Muller’s campaign John Armstrong (1News): Todd Muller is capable and qualified despite uninspiring opening as National leader Claire Trevett (Herald): Anatomy of a coup: How Todd Muller felled Simon Bridges and who helped
