[ad_1] A government announcement to set aside $ 45 million for a barge facility in the Eastern Cape has been labeled “strange” and unwanted. Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones said Saturday that the government had in principle approved an allocation of up to $ 45 million from the Crown Infrastructure Partners …
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[ad_1] Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had a rough morning in Dunedin during her television interviews. The squawking of seagulls, the ringing of bells, and speeding by traffic made television interviews difficult for both of them. Breakfast and The AM Show on Tuesday. Ardern is in Dunedin as part of his …
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[ad_1] The outgoing head of Auckland Council’s Watercare company says the political and media focus on his $ 775,000 salary was the last straw in his decision to resign. Raven Jaduram said that the media attention on her salary, in a time of unprecedented drought, was something neither Watercare nor …
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[ad_1] This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and republished with permission. Renters are bracing for an increase in living costs when the freeze on rent increases comes to an end next week. This is after the Commerce Commission had to warn real estate investors that they might be at …
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[ad_1] National Party leader Judith Collins has been immortalized in a tattoo depicting her as the Bond girl from New Zealand. The piece was created by Morrinsville tattoo artist Dave Mouat of Famous Dave’s Tattoo Studio for a man he described as a great national supporter of Te Aroha. “He’s …
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[ad_1] The Labor Party has promised to spend an additional $ 600 million over the next four years to increase the salary of child care teachers if it is reelected next month. The promise to “work towards pay parity” between kindergarten teachers and teachers from the rest of the early …
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[ad_1] Supplied Singapore’s TraceTogether tokens are a similar concept to CovidCards, but Singapore has chosen to implement the idea in a different way. Fifteen days after businessman Sam Morgan criticized the Health Ministry for not understanding the potential of ‘CovidCards’, Singapore has begun issuing similar contact tracing devices to all …
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[ad_1] Helping thousands of foreigners stranded here by Covid-19 has cost close to $ 7 million in the last 10 weeks. Chilean Constanza Capurso is among 6,100 people assisted through the Visitor Care Manaaki Manuhiri program that provided her with food vouchers and helped pay the rent for her apartment …
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[ad_1] A man who murdered a North Canterbury student and buried her in a shallow grave, placing the hood of an old car and a dead cat on top of his crude resting place, has been denied parole. Julie Sands, 14, disappeared from Rangiora on Anzac Day in 1992. Ziggy …
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[ad_1] New Zealand finance companies will be forced to report on climate change risk, climate change minister James Shaw announced. The policy will force some 200 large financial organizations in New Zealand to disclose how exposed their businesses and investments are to risk related to climate change. Any Crown bank, …
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