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The best Government that money can buy. Written By: mickysavage Date published: 9:31 am, October 11th, 2024 - 31 comments Radio New Zealand has reported that $500,000 in donations to National, Act and NZ First were made by entities associated to those who had their projects included in the recently released schedule to the Fast Track Projects Bill.
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National is stuffing up health. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:02 am, October 8th, 2024 - 9 comments. The adding of extra costs to the Dunedin Hospital project to make it appear to be unaffordable, the reckless allowance for a tax cut for Philip Morris and the fudging of health figures to suggest there is a crisis all point to gross mismanagement of Health at …
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Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 12:38 pm, August 22nd, 2024 - 17 comments. David Seymour’s new Ministry has 91 staff, including 3 Deputy CEOs who earn up to $348K each – more than Ministers. Seymour wants to use it as a vehicle to change how NZ makes laws and invokes Ruth Richardson in his vision.
How New Zealand Reconnects With the World « The Standard
Feb 3, 2022 · Adding to the more than 17,000 critical workers who have already come to New Zealand since our borders closed. Our Working Holiday Schemes will also reopen in stages from step 2. Step 3 begins from 11:59pm Tuesday 12 April. Here we further extend our border extension to include a large international student cohort of up to 5,000 students for ...
Daily review 10/10/2024 « The Standard
4 days ago · Open mike 11/10/2024. Daily review 10/10/2024. Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, October 10th, 2024 - 10 comments Categories: Daily review - Tags: Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Local Councils Defy Central Government Agenda « The Standard
Aug 30, 2024 · 94% of councils that have voted vote to retain Maori wards. Many of them are National background Councillors and previously urged Central Government to not push ahead with the legislation. The forced local referendums are now expected to cost ratepayers and take away from Council workloads.
Te Pati Maori – The Standard
1 day ago · Where’s The Opposition? Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 11:36 am, October 13th, 2024 - 16 comments. Labour, Green Party and Te Pati Māori have been relatively quiet as the Coalition government move at breakneck speed to roll back laws and transfer wealth.
Daily review 03/05/2022 - The Standard
May 3, 2022 · Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Daily review 06/04/2022 « The Standard
Apr 6, 2022 · dare I ask what the weasel said? edit: ah, found it. ACT leader David Seymour bucked the trend, describing the execution of the response “I’m sad to see anyone who’s worked hard to serve the New Zealand public move on but I think we’ve got to be honest, he’s not Saint Ashley if you consider the failings of the department he …
Open mike 14/10/2024 « The Standard
1 day ago · Welcome to the August/September 2024 Economic Bulletin. In our monthly feature we provide an analysis of the gender pay gap in New Zealand for 2024. The mean gender pay gap was 8.9%, which is down from 9.8% in 2023. This meant that, on average, women will be “working for free” ... NZCTU By Jeremiah Boniface.