[ad_1] What is the problem? Many millionaires are paying taxes at a lower rate than the lowest income in the country. We found this out in a Treasury report (which you can read below), which attempted to measure how wealth is distributed. The key takeaway: 42 percent of the richest …
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[ad_1] Pete Nikolaison / Stuff The winner of multiple Golden Shears open titles, Rowland Smith, won’t have a chance to add another title to his record this year. Shearers and “Wimbledon of Shearing” organizers say it was “heartbreaking” to have to pull the pin heading into the Wairarapa exhibit this …
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[ad_1] More than 70,000 community tests for Covid-19 have been conducted in the Greater Auckland area since the Valentine’s Day outbreak, which has infected 15 people in two weeks. That’s more than 4 percent of the city’s population receiving a swab since February 14. Nearly 4,000 of those tests were …
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[ad_1] Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has defended the payments made to those forced to self-isolate that are below the minimum wage, saying that “they were never supposed to have a full right.” Ardern, speaking after it was revealed that two of the most recent community cases had gone to work …
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[ad_1] A passenger who flew from Auckland to Queenstown earlier today was taken directly from the plane to hospital in an ambulance, with “mild flu-like symptoms.” The person flew on Air New Zealand flight NZ611 this morning, along with what Queenstown Airport General Manager of Community and Corporate Affairs Sara …
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[ad_1] Police arrested a 28-year-old man for an alleged stabbing in Alexandra last week. A man who allegedly stabbed a 22-year-old man in Alexandra last week turned himself in to police. Police said they arrested the 28-year-old man after he turned himself in on Monday morning. He appeared in Queenstown …
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[ad_1] OPINION: The government narrative that it is okay for Auckland to close twice in a fortnight because other countries are making it harder is utter nonsense. We will always tell ourselves that another lockdown is fine if we keep comparing ourselves to the worst countries affected by Covid, especially …
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[ad_1] On a night when he announced his presence on the world heavyweight scene by coming face to face with Joseph Parker, Junior Fa’s manager revealed the staggering blood loss he suffered and led to the biggest fight of his career. . While worrying a frustrated Parker on several fronts, …
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[ad_1] OPINION: There is an old saying: you have to be cruel to be nice. Perhaps it is time for the powers that be to consider it. For starters, criticize willful rule breakers, prosecute them according to the law, and show kindness to the majority of the people in this …
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[ad_1] Rosa Woods / Stuff The SPCA is unable to hold its largest annual fundraising event due to Covid-19 restrictions. Pictured are SPCA puppies Dil and Lillian in 2019. The SPCA is disappointed by the cancellation of its largest annual fundraising event. The animal welfare organization had planned its annual …
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