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"Update: Serious crash on State Highway 1, Ohaeawai"
Police can now confirm an incident on State Highway 1 in Ohaeawai was not a crash.
It has since been established that the vehicle had pulled over as the driver suffered a medical event.
The person has since died.
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Well that didn’t last long, did it? Mere days after taking on what he called the “awesome responsibility” of being Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon has started blaming everyone else and complaining that he's inherited “economic vandalism on an unprecedented scale” - which is how most of us would describe his own coalition agreements, 100-Day Plan, and backdated $3 billion handout to landlords... More
Public Housing Futures: Christmas Comes Early For LandlordsNew CTU analysis of the National & ACT coalition agreement has shown the cost of returning interest deductibility to landlords is an extra $900M on top of National’s original proposal. This is because it is going to be implemented earlier and faster, including retrospective rebates from April 2023. More
Green Party: Petition To Save Oil & Gas Ban
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PSA: MFAT Must Reverse Decision To Remove Te ReoMFAT's decision to remove te reo from correspondence before new Ministers are sworn in risks undermining the important progress the public sector has made in honouring te Tiriti. "We are very disappointed in what is a backward decision - it simply seems to be a Ministry bowing to the racist rhetoric we heard on the election campaign trail," says Marcia Puru. More
