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Federated Farmers water quality spokesperson Chris Allen says farmers are using a wide range of management techniques to reduce nitrate leaching in Canterbury.
Canterbury’s groundwater nitrate issue has been placed at the feet of the province’s farmers by environmental activists, but NADINE PORTER asks whether it s the farmers rather than the public that have been let down. It was 1994 when Chris Allen quit his long-term job as an Air New Zealand engineer and headed to Ashburton Forks in Mid Canterbury to become, of all things, a farmer. The farming climate he entered was fractured and bruised after the Labour government implemented tight monetary reforms to right an economy that had been bottomed out by former Prime Minister Rob Muldoon’s interventionist policies.
iPolitics AM: Liberals set to shut down debate on Senate rewrite of proposed changes to MAiD access laws ipolitics.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ipolitics.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Mar 11, 2021 6:02am Justice Minister David Lametti s proposed changes to the laws on access to medical assistance in dying is back on the House docket with Senate-initiated amendments. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
After failing to forge an all-party cross-aisle consensus to fast-track debate of the Senate-initiated rewrite of its proposal to change the laws for access to medical assistance in dying (MAiD), the minority Liberal government has laid the procedural groundwork to shut down the discussion as early as this afternoon.
Earlier this week, the government served notice that it was prepared to invoke closure on the motion setting out its recommended response to the amendments made by the Senate which would have the House accept some of the suggested changes, but reject others, including a provision that would allow for advance consent and
Claire Trevett: National s attacks water off a Mallard s back
16 Dec, 2020 03:12 AM
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Speaker Trevor Mallard made a statement before facing MP s questions over spending $330,000 of taxpayer money settling a defamation case against him.
Speaker Trevor Mallard made a statement before facing MP s questions over spending $330,000 of taxpayer money settling a defamation case against him.
Speaker Trevor Mallard has given, witnessed and demanded a fair few apologies in his political life so he should well know how to draft one. His apology at a select committee hearing for his 2019 comments linking allegations against a former Parliamentary staffer as rape was fulsome and bereft of conditions.
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