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Police are now able to confirm the name of the woman who died in a crash on State Highway 6, the Kingston Garston Highway, Kingston on 22 August.
She was 34-year-old Hayley Shannon Purcell from Queenstown Lakes District. Our thoughts are with her family at this difficult time. An investigation into the crash remains ongoing.
This isn’t news, but the National-led coalition is mounting a sustained assault on Treaty rights and obligations. Even so, Christopher Luxon has described yesterday’s nationwide protests by Maori as “pretty unfair.” Poor thing. In the NZ Herald, Audrey Young has compiled a useful list of the many, many ways that Luxon plans to roll back the progress made here over the past 40 years in race relations... 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
“The new Government’s plan to expand oil and gas exploration is as dangerous as it is unscientific. Whatever you think about the new government, there is simply no mandate to trash the climate. We need to come together to stop them,” says James Shaw. More
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
