Collected stories - 1 March 2023 to 31 May 2023
Stuff
A political PR expert also reveals to Newsable a tactic he uses to help politicians - the strategic use of swear words
Stuff
The Oppositon leader promised an immediate turnaround of the country's fortunes, in a speech which traversed the party's long list of priorities should it win the election.
Newshub
The two came on Newshub Nation for a full-length election-year debate
NZ Herald
The National Party deputy came out swinging at the Party’s Northern Region Conference.
Newsroom
An allegation of voting fraud in Otāhuhu during Auckland's local body election leads to a demand the mayor front up with evidence.
Stuff
OPINION: The prime minister has further sharpened Labour's message in the lead in to the Budget. The two Chrises are rhetorically converging on the centre.
Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has thrown five years of political work on the bonfire. In a pre-Budget speech yesterday, Mr Hipkins flagged a no-frills Budget balancing fiscal restraint with funding the basics including […]
Last year, the Government allocated $75 million over four years to help with homelessness, but only $900,000 has been spent so far.
RNZ
Analysis: Australia's citizenship deal, the Green Party's Kerekere row drags on and evidence the wealthiest pay tax at a lower rate than the rest of us renews the capital gains tax debate.
Newshub
Things got tense on AM this morning.
NZ Herald
Absentee property owners who used their properties four weeks a year blamed for shortage.
RNZ
An economist is predicting Labour could end up borrowing more than it planned for this year's Budget given the "immense competing interests" it is facing.
Newsroom
PM Chris Hipkins' economic focus will not be on extracting more tax from wealthy ageing moguls, but increasing productivity from young workers
Newshub
"There's absolutely no need for the change."
Stuff
Workers are living out of cars, tents and bunking with mates - and some are less than impressed with National's plans to shake up housing policy.
Newshub
"It's not right for households to be tightening their belts if the Government doesn't too."
A property investor has backed the policy, saying it's based on truth.
RNZ
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has ruled out an additional levy to pay for the recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland floods, and says the upcoming Budget will be "no frills".
The Standard
With the release by David Parker of a report showing that the wealthiest New Zealanders pay tax at much less than half the rate of other Kiwis is it time to again debate the virtue of a comprehensive Capital Gains Tax.
Stuff
ANALYSIS: Fairness questions aside, the economic case for additional taxes is getting stronger.
Cutting the bottom tax rates and introducing a capital gains tax is once again an option.
Stuff
Chris Hipkins will use a pre-Budget speech to deny that Labour will create new taxes, following a report showing the tax rate paid by NZ's wealthiest.
The National leader said "it's not the wealthy that are the problem".
Newshub
Parker said he's got the courage to fix the unfair system, but just not today.
RNZ
Revenue Minister David Parker says the report shows a "large differential between the tax rates ordinary New Zealanders pay on their full income compared with the super-wealthy".
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RNZ
Parliament changed a long-standing rule this week and will now leave the counting of votes to the experts. It turns out MPs just aren’t that good at counting.
The Conversation
As she prepares to deliver of her valedictory statement to parliament, Jacinda Ardern will be remembered as an outstanding prime minister – though perhaps not for reasons of her own choosing.
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