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The push for a smaller public service risks coming at a larger cost for New Zealanders
The government’s sweeping overhaul assumes AI, restructuring and job cuts can deliver a leaner, more efficient state. That is far from certain.
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The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a condemnation
COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose In 2015, the John Key government announced a cooperation agreement that would see NZ Aid pay for Cuban doctors to be taught English in New Zealand before their deployment to the Pacific Islands as part of the communist island’s Medical Brigades. Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that has
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India is a ‘country of countries’ – NZ business needs a regional strategy to make the trade deal work
Despite the promise of “1.4 billion potential customers”, India is a vast and complex market. No pan-India strategy can substitute for careful, focused planning.
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Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims brutal abuse ‘justified’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Nadda Osman Activists freed from Israeli detention following the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla have reported that they were subjected to physical and sexual abuse, say flotilla organisers — with at least 15 reporting sexual assaults, including rape. “At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets
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Rising rents and ‘death taxes’: why wild claims after the budget don’t actually make sense
Some budget commentators have missed the mark entirely. Let’s bust some myths and set the record straight.
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Game changers: how soccer’s mega-money era was sparked by a little-known Belgian athlete
An obscure Belgian soccer player arguably made a bigger mark on the world game than stars such as Diego Maradona and Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Mowing the lawn: the colonial ghosts haunting our suburban ritual
In this extract from his newly published essay collection, the author traces the imperial British origins of a quintessential Kiwi chore.
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Minor parties steal spotlight from Nicola Willis’ Budget
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand First’s Winston Peters and ACT’s David Seymour. RNZ Analysis – Much like every other political party in Parliament, New Zealand First isn’t really planning to use taxpayer money to buy back BNZ. The idea is a bold and bizarre one given the potential price tag of anywhere between $7…
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Labour and Greens say social housing shake-up will see public housing tenants evicted
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The opposition says the government’s social housing shake-up is “cruel” and will lead to more evictions of public housing tenants who will be “driven deeper into poverty”. But the finance minister has defended the move, saying it’s about fixing an unfairness where those…
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Turners profit dips on write-down despite record underlying result
Source: Radio New Zealand Turners Automotive Group. (File photo) RNZ / Nate McKinnon Car dealer and financier Turners Automotive has posted a slightly lower net profit after a goodwill write-down in its credit business masked a record performance across its divisions. Key numbers for the year ended March compared with a year ago: Net profit…
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Public Service Commissioner says job cuts ‘regrettable’ but sector needs reform
Source: Radio New Zealand Public Service Commissioner Brian Roche will be in charge of implementing the public sector changes the government announced on Tuesday. RNZ / REECE BAKER An overhaul of the public sector is a chance to modernise it and the associated job cuts were regrettable but a fact of life, thehe head of…
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How the government’s savings exercise will work
Source: Radio New Zealand One week from now, the government will open the books on its third Budget. RNZ One week from now, the government will open the books on its third Budget, the last of this term. So far, there has been a great deal of focus not on where the money might go,…