Collected stories - 1 September to 30 November 2021
Stuff
OPINION: Once this lockdown is over, the Government needs to be challenged far more on what happens next.
Newshub
The Director-General of Health received an explanation from Dr Siouxsie Wiles.
RNZ
The government has announced a second round of the Covid-19 Resurgence Support Payment. Watch the latest media briefing here.
Newshub
"It is an authority to spend, not a target for spending."
Newsroom
The Prime Minister has the communication skills to give New Zealanders confidence we can start soon to reopen our economy and country, but needs to employ them soon, writes Peter Dunne
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Infamous Day: Tomorrow, 11 September 2021, is the twentieth anniversary of the New York and Washington terrorist attacks. Think of the prel...
RNZ
Building product manufacturers are gutted at the limit of 100 staff being approved to restart in Auckland's lockdown despite a national materials shortage putting home builders in limbo.
Stuff
OPINION: It is a given in the PR manual that if negative information has to come out, it is better for you to reveal it yourself and do so all at once.
Newsroom
Chris Bishop and his fear he potentially fuelled vaccine hesitancy.
RNZ
The plan to reopen New Zealand to the world with a risk-based border has not changed in light of the Delta variant, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says, but there may be some delays.
Stuff
After years of legal action and two appeals, Colin Craig has been told he can't challenge a High Court ruling that he sexually harassed his press secretary.
Stuff
The prime minister has announced the first of two deals intended to keep the pace of vaccinations high throughout September.
NZ Herald
The Government will review the economic response to the pandemic.
The Standard
On Monday of this week David Seymour received a roasting after posting a confidential Health code that was to be used by Waitakere Whanau to receive priority vaccination slots. He has now doubled down on his effort and claimed that prioritisation is wrong.
Newsroom
A group of leaders named in a letter to a Cabinet Minister alleging irregularities in the Māori Council election say their names have been used without permission and against their wishes
Newshub
Keep up-to-date with the latest here.
NZ Herald
Seeing how quickly Delta can spread has 'changed the game', Covid-19 Minister says.
Newsroom
The confusion over how Parliament should operate with Wellington in Level 2 highlights the difficulty of a boundary between Level 4 and Level 2.
Stuff
OPINION: The intentions and consequences of changes to hate speech laws have not been clearly explained.
RNZ
Iwi health providers in Taranaki say vaccination clinics solely for Māori are essential to close the gap with non-Māori vaccination rates.
RNZ
When New Zealand faces a security issue the major political parties often co-operate, focusing more on solutions than blame, as this week demonstrates.
NZ Herald
What exactly is plaguing the National Party? And would another leadership change help?
Newsroom
The Government is offering big money to the biggest opponents of its water reforms, to relinquish control of their water networks – but the process is characterised more by cock-up than conspiracy.
Stuff
Chris Hipkins says the Government’s bold “reopening” plan for the world will have to be completely reworked in light of the Delta outbreak.
RNZ
Rapid antigen testing would have been useful in the case of the Middlemore patient who has Covid-19, National Party leader Judith Collins says.
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