Bernard's Pick 'n' Mix for Monday July 9

Scoop on Jian Yang's former chief of staff sacked for accessing files from Corrections; Why a Kiwi doctor became a truck driver; The move to nature positive; Thomas Coughlan on housing density

TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Monday, July 9, the top six links elsewhere I’ve spotted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so are:

1. Scoop: Probation officer sacked for snooping is linked to alleged spy Jian Yang. Corrections dismissed Xu Shan over his unauthorised accessing of hundreds of offender files. Now, Stuff can reveal his high-powered link. Stuff’s Paula Penfold

2. Feature: Kiwi doctor swaps medicine for truck driving NZ Herald’s Cherie Howie

3. Ross Gittins column in SMH: If you care about your offspring, you should support ‘nature positive’

4. Analysis: Thinking outside the shoebox: How small is too small for an apartment? RNZ’s Phil Pennington

5. Thomas Coughlan column in NZ Herald-$$$: Housing policy leaves anti-density backers nowhere to run

6. Andrea Vance column in Sunday Star Times-$$$ Is rebooted fast-track a law written by the Government’s cronies?

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