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OPINION: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern scrupulously avoided the 'm' word and the 'p' word in her press release on child poverty rates.
Stuff
The Government's progressive home ownership scheme, announced in the wreckage of KiwiBuild in 2019, has housed just a dozen families.
RNZ
Te Pāti Māori has called for an urgent ministerial inquiry into the treatment of inmates, following a judge's ruling that prisoners at Auckland Women's Prison were treated in an "inhumane" and "degrading" manner.
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Police Minister Poto Williams says National is showing its true colours and lack of support for police, after MP launches attack on the police commissioner.
1 NEWS
Lucinda Baulch is due to be released from Wellington's Grand Mercure hotel today.
RNZ
Environment Minister David Parker says New Zealand will continue to follow WHO guidelines on nitrate levels in the water despite international research finding much lower levels could still cause colorectal cancer.
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By Richard Harman - February 23, 2021
RNZ
The Covid-19 Response Minister says the government had to weigh up two competing strands of advice, before deciding to make masks mandatory on public transport.
Stuff
Jacinda Ardern's accusation Australia abdicated its responsibilities by cancelling the citizenship of a woman linked to Isis is only the latest incident that demonstrates how strained trans-Tasman relations have become.
Stuff
EDITORIAL: The ... half-hearted proposal comes at precisely the wrong time, coinciding with the start of Covid-19 vaccinations in New Zealand.
Newshub
"I question whether there's any value-add."
1 NEWS
“New Zealand is recovering quicker than most advanced economies," the credit ratings agency said.
Pundit
If you were out and about in Auckland this weekend, you would have seen the level 2 is almost non-existent now. It’s further proof Labour faces a challenge this year in managing the public mood
Pundit
If you were out and about in Auckland this weekend, you would have seen the level 2 is almost non-existent now. It’s further proof Labour faces a challenge this year in managing the public mood
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By Richard Harman - February 22, 2021
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Cantabrians survived an event which by rights should not occur in anyone’s lifetime, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
RNZ
A survey has found seven out of 10 New Zealanders believe the government should increase income support for those on low wages or not in paid work.
1 NEWS
Australia revoked the citizenship of a woman detained at the Turkish border this week.
Newshub
"Broadcasters and journalists don't always get it right."
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Suhayra Aden, 26, and her two children were detained at the Turkish border while trying to enter from Syria. She is alleged to be a terrorist belonging to the Islamic State.
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CEO claims he was told the foundation couldn't criticise the Government because it accepted government money.
RNZ
A union for doctors and dentists is warning all DHBs are at a tipping point, caused by entrenched short staffing, and underfunding.
Bassett,Brash&Hide
In the last couple of days, poverty and inequality have been in the news. Yesterday, Simon Wilson wrote in the Herald about the Salvation Army’s latest State of the Nation report, released two days earlier. That report told us that last year 23,000 more children were living in benefit-dependent households than the yea
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Claimants should have a much improved experience of the Earthquake Commission after another large scale disaster. Or so it says.
RNZ
Parliament's privileges committee has found a National Party ad featuring a Labour MP talking about health supplements did not break the rules around satire.
RNZ Summer
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