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Quick Hit: 284,000 Jobs by Masterplan
The Greens say their nearly $6 billion economic plan will create 284,000 jobs over four years. Treasury already forecasts 220,000 of them. Marama Davidson says what’s missing is “the masterplan”.
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Quick Hit: Unemployment Hits 5.7% and Winston Saw It Coming
Unemployment is at 5.7%, 174,000 people are out of work and long-term joblessness is the highest since 1994. Winston Peters says he told National and ACT to delay their tax cuts.
Quick Hit: Where National’s 2023 Voters Went
RNZ-Reid Research shows only 56.9 per cent of National’s 2023 voters still back the party. ACT and NZ First now hold 18.4 per cent of them.
Quick Hit: What NZ First Says It Delivered for Superannuitants, Checked
Winston Peters read out a list in Papakura. We checked it against the official record.
Quick Hit: Labour built the blob, and even 9,000 cuts won’t shrink it back
Department bosses have been told to model a 15 per cent staff cut. Even the 55,000 target leaves the public service bigger than the one Labour inherited in 2017.
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To Save the Environment We Need to Bring Back Plastic Straws
In 2023 we found out the paper straws have more ‘forever chemicals’ than plastic straws. While plastic straws have the teflon style (PFAS) ‘forever chemicals’ – the paper straws had even more of them.
Australia Dragged Back to GFC Days
Australians are now worse off than they were 18 years ago.
Greens Back Satire, Just Not About Themselves
The authority’s complaints board chair ruled the complaints settled on 30 October, without deciding whether the advertising code had been breached.