Forget now 1.1.1
$700,000 seems a lot considering that the air force already owns the helicopters, so that s just fuel, maintenance, and maybe staffing (but that d be army pilots and police spotters? So already employed just reassigned). I do know from once living in rural parts near a usually tranquil growing area, those helicopters flying so low are really loud and annoying. Far worse than tourist flights which are at least on the way somewhere rather than circling for days over the same area.
Tricledrown 1.2
Police realise that alcohol meth etc are the dangerous drugs and targeting gangs is where resources should be focused.
The progressive fault lines facing New Zealand in 2021 and beyond
Feature
Despite a popular and unifying leader of the governing party, divisions both in policy and culture will test the progressive movement, writes Peter McKenzie.
‘I think we’re confused.” Marlon Drake is an organiser for the Living Wage Movement. His job takes him all over Wellington, trying to convince businesses to increase their minimum wages to $22.10. He works with churches, unions, political parties and charities; every facet of the progressive movement.
And right now, according to Drake, “The progressive movement is very confused about what it is, what its purpose it is, what it looks like, how it operates, who leads it – which person or what people.”
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Exactly 60 years ago today, Congolese national liberation leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Those responsible were most likely troops of a rival government acting on behalf of the Congo’s former colonial master, which had retained a presence in the Central African country. But there’s more to the assassination than initially meets the eye. There has been a gradual accumulation of credible evidence that the world’s post-WWII colonial superpower, the United States, along with its sidekick the UK, p
Charles Waldegrave: Raising minimum wage way for New Zealand to bring about inclusive growth, productivity
21 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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First Union members block the entrance to a supermarket at a protest for a living wage. Photo / Dean Purcell. Fi
NZ Herald
OPINION
A debate is brewing about inclusive growth, including lifting the minimum wage to the level of the living wage. The Helen Clark Foundation (THCF) and the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) state this will encourage investment in upskilling and productivity gains.
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The New Zealand Initiative (NZI) has immediately countered the claim by stating that increasing the minimum wage should be avoided. NZI senior fellow David Law has said such a move would have minimal impacts on inequality and would likely increase unemployment.