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How can Barbara Edmonds possibly manage to balance the books with ‘treats’ for just about everyone. It can’t be done, which is the message Nicola Willis is running with.
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National wants $604m more for medicines, paid for mostly by a 10 per cent aid cut with the Pacific protected. In May its own budget turned down Pharmac’s request of about $800m and gave it $54m.
The Battle Over the Waitangi Tribunal
When the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process was introduced by Norman Kirk’s Labour government in 1975, it was framed as a means of dealing with ongoing injustices. The Waitangi Tribunal was established as a permanent commission of inquiry to investigate contemporary claims that the Crown had breached the Treaty.