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An Aucklander who spent six minutes at a store where a Covid-19 case was working had to wait nearly eight hours on the phone to get advice from Healthline.
Even if this item isn t correct in every detail it illustrates cracks in the Covid management policy widening. Are front-line workers being properly paid and rested? Are investigators really on top of their job keeping up with the urgency needed, that was shown earlier on? NZ can t afford to be complacent. Recently one student was phoned a number of times without success, and a visit to the house wasn t made. In the meantime the virus was being spread.
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I think it is a desperate attempt by Robertson to try and set up the RBNZ as the people who cop the blame for the shambles that this Government has been making of the housing market for the last three and a half years.
I suspect it will backfire on him (Robertson). Orr is far to smart to allow Robertson to get away with such a transparent attempt to pass the parcel.
Orr is quite likely to take it as an invitation to tell Robertson, publicly, what he thinks will be required to fix the housing situation. Nothing he proposes will be something the the RBNZ can do. Everything will be something that requires fiscal action by Robertson himself. It will be on the basis of If you don t do this it will get worse . What he will suggest is very unlikely to be acceptable to the Government but Orr can then continue in the future to propose that if the Government had only followed our advice…… etc .
School banking programs like Dollarmites are being banned in some state schools due to the idea children are vulnerable to marketing tactics. But our research shows this isn't always the case.
Commonwealth Bank s Dollarmites program and other school banking schemes will be banned from all schools in the Australian Capital Territory.
Politicians unanimously passed the decision in the Legislative Assembly on February 10 after an ASIC review found the programs did not help students learn as intended.
Labor, the Liberals and the Greens supported the ban which will come into effect from July this year.
Politicians unanimously passed the decision to scrap Commonwealth Bank s Dollarmites (pictured) program and other banking schemes in ACT schools
The banking regulator said the schemes didn t help students learn how to save money and claimed the banks ran them to attract new customers.