To pay for recent flood damage Grant Robertson has to decide on what proportion of this will be paid by new debt, what proportion by reallocation of expenditure, and what proportion by special tax levies. Is an Australian style levy under consideration?
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• New Zealand confirmed in a lighthearted tweet that everyone in the country on census night will need to submit personal information to the government including Harry Styles, the British pop star who will be there for a concert. When asked by local entertainment magazine Coup De Main whether Styles would have to do the census next Tuesday along with the rest of the country, Stats NZ , the official data agency, said on Twitter that those who needed to be counted on the night included "tourists, visitors, and former members of One Direction," the 2010s boy band that catapulted Styles to fame. Now touring Australia, Styles is slated to perform at a stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, on Tuesday. Like millions of other people in New Zealand that day, he must fill out a form with questions including the number of stories in his home, whether he has a disability and his smoking habits. New questions this year relate to gender, sexual identity and "variations of sex characte