Welfare advocates are criticising the hurdles and traumatising questions women are facing to be refunded thousands of dollars wrongly taken from their benefit.
Menendez-March is particularly unhappy woman often have to talk about the moment of their child s conception with a case worker as part of their review.
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In April last year, the government scrapped the sanction that docked $28 a week from sole parents - mostly women - that didn t name the other parent.
Exemptions to the now-scrapped sanctions included family violence concerns, the pregnancy being the result of sexual violation and insufficient evidence to establish who the other parent is.
The Green Party is putting forward a motion calling for MPs to recognise the right of Palestine to self-determination and statehood. But it's likely to fail.
Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 12:48 pm
The representative body for New Zealand Jewry condemns
the inflammatory comments and inaccurate statements made by
two Green MPs in recent days, which risk stoking
antisemitism and endangering Jews in New Zealand, as we have
seen around the world in the last few days.
Following
Saturday’s anti-Israel rally, Green MP Ricardo Menendez
March posted on Twitter and Facebook photographs of himself
and other Green MPs with the caption “From the river to
the sea, Palestine will be free”.
This slogan is
used by Hamas, the Islamist group that governs Gaza whose
charter calls for the elimination of Israel and murder of
But Swarbrick now also owns an apartment on Karangahape Rd, central Auckland, with her partner. The purchase of the property was completed in early February, days after the period covered by the pecuniary interest. A Green Party spokesperson said there was nothing remiss in the apartment not being included.
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The owner of a Lower Hutt villa wants to save his old home from demolition after selling the property to a developer. He is offering it for free to whoever can take it away. “Every member of parliament must make an annual return each year as at 31 January. Chlöe Swarbrick did not own property at this date any changes to Chlöe’s pecuniary interests thereafter will be declared in the next register of pecuniary interests.”