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Four leaders and a phone

[ad_1] Election 2020 The leaders of the five main parties in Parliament shared a washed-out podium for the first time in the election campaign, with the exception of NZ First’s Winston Peters, broadcast live from his bus tour of the South Island. Tim Murphy reports. This was not a debate. …

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Labor Releases $ 1 Billion Welfare Reform

[ad_1] Labor has unveiled its billion-dollar social development policy, which would allow people who receive a benefit who work part-time to earn more and reinforce the flexible salary scheme. If re-elected, he would also reinstate an allowance for single-parent beneficiaries who go to college more than 10 years after removal. …

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New Zealand must be ‘proactive, not provocative’ in the face of the ‘delicate and dangerous’ situation with China: Simon Bridges

[ad_1] Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern also went to China last year and raised “the question of [human rights] directly “with President Xi Jinping. New Zealand has recently been a signatory to several joint statements calling on China for its practices and the Prime Minister highlighted Aotearoa’s stance on the issue …

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