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WEBThe 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.
Politics - The Standard
WEBNational 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 a time when it is ...
Daily review 10/10/2024 « The Standard
WEB3 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).
How New Zealand Reconnects With the World « The Standard
WEBFeb 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 …
Economy - The Standard
WEBWritten 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.
2020 - The Standard
WEBDec 31, 2020 · Parihaka. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:09 am, December 30th, 2020 - 8 comments. A post reflecting on the history of the Parihaka settlement, how local Taranaki Iwi were treated appallingly by the Crown and the Government, and how the settlement amount paid is but a miniscule amount of the damage actually caused.
health - The Standard
WEBBy: mickysavage - 9:24 am, July 30th, 2024 - 26 comments. Senior medical figures have questioned the accuracy of what the Government is saying about the health crisis in Northland. And in an example of unbelievably bad timing it has been revealed that the Goverment put aside $216 million to fund a exise duty reduction for Phillip Morris.
Daily review 06/04/2022 « The Standard
WEBApr 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 was responsible for – which are considerable.
national - The Standard
WEBSep 1, 2016 · National plan for 2000 extra Kiwis in prison per year. Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 9:01 am, September 17th, 2024 - 20 comments. The government plans to put up to 2000 more Kiwis behind bars by 2034 at a potential cost of up to $1.2bn per budget in today’s money.
International – The Standard
WEBBy: nickkelly - 8:52 am, May 2nd, 2024 - 2 comments. According to Zoopla, the average monthly rent in London as of April 2024 is £2,121. Council tax, internet, water and energy bills are usually on top of this and have increased significantly in the last two years. The average monthly income after tax is £2,902.50.