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2 days ago · Only 12% of women say good job and 59% bad job. Of those who voted Labour a few months ago, only 44% say the Govt is doing a good job and 33% a bad job – so 1 in 3 Labour voters have already turned. Keir Starmer has -38% net approval, Rachel Reeves -34%. An an A to F rating, 45% give them E or F and only 15% an A or B.
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Mar 8, 2023 · Retail crime doubled in four years February 10, 2023. Minimum Wage Increase – Employee Impact February 10, 2023. Remember how he was a reformed man! February 9, 2023. A rare article focusing on boys’ education February 9, 2023. Shortage of Workers January 25, 2023. Productivity incentives November 24, 2022.
After 30 years, there is hope | Kiwiblog
After 30 years, there is hope. Two new laws will be developed to replace the Resource Management Act (RMA), with the enjoyment of property rights as their guiding principle, RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Parliamentary Under-Secretary Simon Court say. “The RMA was passed with good intentions in 1991 but has proved a failure in practice.
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Oct 12, 2024 · Joel McManus writes:. There are three options being considered, but the one that has garnered the most interest is the long tunnel, running all the way underneath the Wellington city centre.. The investigation has cost $1.6 million so far, which is not an unreasonable amount of money to spend during the early stages of a multibillion-dollar city-building project.
Experts confirm Kiwis can legally return home | Kiwiblog
On the 17th I exclusively blogged the story of a Kiwi family who got home without an MIQ booking by transiting through New Zealand, and exercising their right to stay. The Herald confirmed this story on the 20th.. On the 19th I ran a guest post from Tudor Clee who spelt out why and how New Zealand citizens have a legal right to enter New Zealand, and …
Where all the stories celebrating the increase numbers of Māori in ...
Nov 29, 2023 · The Luxon Cabinet has seven Ministers (out of 20) who are Māori. This is a huge 35% of Cabinet. The Hipkins Cabinet that left office had only five Māori Ministers, or 28%. So where are all the stories celebrating this? Or is there so little publicity around this, because the Māori in the Luxon Cabinet
A good candidate for Three Strikes | Kiwiblog
1 day ago · Ricky James Mullen, 30, was sentenced in the High Court in Timaru today by Justice Graeme Pankhurst on charges of attempted murder, male assaults female and breaching a protection order. He was jailed for seven years and four months. This would have got him a strike as it occurred in 2013. Sadly Labour and Greens abolished the three strikes law ...
This is a concern - Kiwiblog
Oct 12, 2024 · But this story from the Herald is a concern: Two members of a committee tasked with ensuring assisted deaths complied with the law say the oversight process was so inadequate they would not have known if someone had died wrongly. The former End of Life Review Committee members said they were “extremely concerned” about how little ...
How is Kiwibuild going? | Kiwiblog
Apr 5, 2022 · Labour’s promise of 100,000 affordable Kiwibuild houses was their most iconic 2017 policy. How are they doing, nearly halfway through their second term. They promised that by now they would have built 24,000 houses. They have in fact delivered 1,304 which is 5.4% of what they promised – so they have underdelivered by 94.6%.
Kiwiblog’s 2022 Predictions
Here’s my 20 predictions for this year, which I’ll score at the end of the year. Peeni Henare will not be Minister of Defence by the end of 2022. There will be a by-election in 2022. NZ First will record at least 4% in at least once public poll. By the end of 2022 (after five years) the Government will not have achieved even 5% of its ten ...