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网页Since taking office, the climate-denier National government has gutted agricultural emissions pricing, ended the clean car discount, repealed water quality standards which would have reduced agricultural emissions, gutted the clean car standard, killed the GIDI scheme, and reversed efforts to reduce pollution subsidies in the ETS - basically every significant ...
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网页By: Mountain Tui - 1:06 pm, August 14th, 2024 - 32 comments. When Luxon claimed $1000 a week of tax-free, taxpayers money for accommodation, because he didn’t want the 2 free properties he was offered, he said he was entitled to it. But according to the government, all beneficiaries now require harsher rules or risk having their entitlements ...
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网页Written By: Mountain Tui Date published: 9:01 am, September 17th, 2024 - 15 comments Categories: chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, crime, law and "order", paul goldsmith, same old national Tags: Emergency Housing, statistics The government plans to put up to 2000 more Kiwis behind bars by 2034 at a potential cost of up to …
news – The Standard
网页Youtube punishes Murdoch’s Sky News for pedalling Covid misinformation. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:44 am, August 3rd, 2021 - 38 comments. This will have the conspiracy theorists spinning. Youtube have stopped Murdoch’s Sky News Australia from uploading videos for the next seven days after the channel uploaded videos questioning Covid and advocating for the use of ...
local government – The Standard
网页2024年8月28日 · So much for Localism and Devolution. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:08 am, August 22nd, 2024 - 18 comments. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced that the Government will do away with Local Government’s obligations to consider the social, cultural and environmental implications of their decisions.
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网页A new Labour electricity policy. Written By: advantage - Date published: 10:19 am, September 9th, 2024 - 70 comments. Proposed policy for the Labour Party. New Zealand’s power system should empower the people in their lives and systems, secure electricity use and production for New Zealand in perpetuity, and make the electricity system serve New Zealand not the other way round.
Economy - The Standard
网页David Seymour’s Ministry of Regulation costs $80mn. By: Mountain Tui - 12:38 pm, August 22nd, 2024 - 17 comments. David Seymour’s new Ministry has 91 staff, including 3 Deputy CEOs who earn up to $348K each – more than Ministers. Seymour wants to use it as a vehicle to change how NZ makes laws and invokes Ruth Richardson in his vision.
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网页1:50 pm, September 4th, 2024 - 20 comments. Shane Jones has been getting into the news recently after his comment that High Court Judge Cheryl Gwyn was a communist made at a private meeting was revealed in the media. He has been called out by Judith Collins and Winston Peters but surprisingly not by Christopher Luxon.
International – The Standard
网页By: nickkelly - 8:52 am, May 2nd, 2024 - 2 comments. According to Zoopla, the average monthly rent in London as of April 2024 is £2,121. Council tax, internet, water and energy bills are usually on top of this and have increased significantly in the last two years. The average monthly income after tax is £2,902.50.
Good Again - The Standard
网页2021年10月28日 · COVID has reminded us how good New Zealand is, and we should remember how we were reminded. It will take years to figure if this government really has shifted what we can expect from the state; whether it is regaining a good measure of that strength so deliberately destroyed in the thirty years before 2017.