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Top Five Contenders Who Could Join ACT leader David Seymour in Parliament
Top Five Contenders Who Could Join ACT leader David Seymour in Parliament
Aug 02, 2020

Recent political polls have the ACT Party sitting pretty on 5 percent meaning leader David Seymour could bring along five new friends to Parliament. Last night’s 1News Colmar Brunton poll has support for Labour at 53 percent, National at 32 percent, NZ First at 2 percent, and the Greens at 5 percent

City Councillor Stands By Decision To Not Sign Agreement
City Councillor Stands By Decision To Not Sign Agreement
Politics   -   Aug 02, 2020

Invercargill City councillor Nobby Clark won’t be moved and he won’t be bullied into signing any non-disclosure agreement either. “There is a much wider need for the community to be informed… when you are talking about major projects over the next five years, there needs to be a debate about that,”

National Selects Joseph Mooney for Southland
Politics   -   Aug 03, 2020 National Selects Joseph Mooney for Southland

The National Party has selected Joseph Mooney to stand in the Southland electorate for the 2020 General Election. Joseph Mooney is a senior trial lawyer and has built his own law practice in the Southern region. “I’m very excited to be selected as National’s candidate for Southland and I’ll be hitti

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National Selects Joseph Mooney for Southland
National Selects Joseph Mooney for Southland
Politics   -   Aug 03, 2020

The National Party has selected Joseph Mooney to stand in the Southland electorate for the 2020 General Election. Joseph Mooney is a senior trial lawyer and has built his own law practice in the Southern region. “I’m very excited to be selected as National’s candidate for Southland and I’ll be hitti

Top Five Contenders Who Could Join ACT leader David Seymour in Parliament
Top Five Contenders Who Could Join ACT leader David Seymour in Parliament
Aug 02, 2020

Recent political polls have the ACT Party sitting pretty on 5 percent meaning leader David Seymour could bring along five new friends to Parliament. Last night’s 1News Colmar Brunton poll has support for Labour at 53 percent, National at 32 percent, NZ First at 2 percent, and the Greens at 5 percent

City Councillor Stands By Decision To Not Sign Agreement
City Councillor Stands By Decision To Not Sign Agreement
Politics   -   Aug 02, 2020

Invercargill City councillor Nobby Clark won’t be moved and he won’t be bullied into signing any non-disclosure agreement either. “There is a much wider need for the community to be informed… when you are talking about major projects over the next five years, there needs to be a debate about that,”

Covid-19 Document Dump: Budget Blowouts, Transit Visas, Social Costs
Covid-19 Document Dump: Budget Blowouts, Transit Visas, Social Costs
Aug 01, 2020

The government massively underestimated the number of people who would be returning to New Zealand – and the cost of keeping them in managed isolation, according to documents released today. Hundreds of documents related to the government’s pandemic response were released this morning. They included

Latest One News Poll Puts Labour at 53, National at 32
Latest One News Poll Puts Labour at 53, National at 32
Jul 31, 2020

The One News Colmar Brunton poll released tonight has support for Labour at 53 percent, National at 32 percent, NZ First at 2 percent, and the Greens at 5 percent, and ACT is at 5 percent. The New Conservatives and Māori parties were each on 1 percent. On those results, Labour could govern alone. La

National Announces Scheme to Encourage New Businesses
National Announces Scheme to Encourage New Businesses
Jul 30, 2020

National is planning to launch a new scheme if elected into government that will offer cash incentives for New Zealanders who have lost their jobs due to Covid-19 to start their own businesses. The BusinessStart policy would give successful applicants $30,000 through KiwiSaver savings, tax credits a

UK Based Kiwi’s In Race To Get Home With Visas Set To Expire – How Southlander’s Are Stuck?
UK Based Kiwi’s In Race To Get Home With Visas Set To Expire – How Southlander’s Are Stuck?
Politics   -   Jul 24, 2020

Potentially thousands of UK-based New Zealanders are in a race to get back to New Zealand, with their visas set to expire in the coming days. The UK’s Home Office granted all overseas nationals an extension to their visas until 31 July – but with that date just a week away, New Zealanders in the UK

PM’s Announcement of $100m Southland Recovery Package Scuppered by NZ First
PM’s Announcement of $100m Southland Recovery Package Scuppered by NZ First
Jul 23, 2020

The Prime Minister’s plan to announce a roughly $100 million recovery package for Southland, in the wake of the likely closure of the Tiwai Smelter, was scuppered by New Zealand First at the eleventh hour.   RNZ understands, as a result, there will not be any specific amount of money allocated to th

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