Luke Malpass05:00, May 05 2021
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Grant Robertson praises the resilience of the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic in a pre-budget speech on May 4.
ANALYSIS: Several years – or arguably decades – after its intellectual heydey, the Government has introduced a new policy “implementation unit” modelled on something very similar used by Tony Blair’s New Labour Government in the UK. Stuff broke the story on Tuesday that Minister of Finance Grant Robertson will be in charge of setting up the new unit within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to help the Government meet its priorities on infrastructure, child-wellbeing, climate change and housing affordability.
Still gambling with our future
Still gambling with our future
11 Mar 2021
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Every generation remembers their football team’s kit from their childhood – was the Newcastle United you remember sponsored by Northern Rock? Virgin? NTL? For children these days, however, the team they watch weekly is emblazoned with ‘Fun88’, a betting company. And the chances are the team they are playing against is also sponsored by a gambling firm.
Over half of the teams in the top two tiers of English football have gambling sponsors on their kit.
1 Columnist Owen Jones reported that a four-year-old boy was so influenced by this phenomenon that he named his teddy bear ‘Betway’ –the shirt sponsor for West Ham.
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