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'My overall answer would be no': Pundit on whether Ardern's Govt is open and transparent


My overall answer would be no : Pundit on whether Ardern s Govt is open and transparent
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Ben Thomas and Jacinda Ardern.
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A political pundit says overall, the current Labour Government isn t open and transparent - despite portraying itself as being so.
Political commentator Ben Thomas comments come after a Radio New Zealand report earlier this week revealed that despite the Government saying before election 2020 it wouldn t give mining giant Rio Tinto a subsidy to prevent its Tiwai Point smelter from closing, it offered to cough up millions of dollars just months later.  ....

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Is Jacinda Ardern's Government open and transparent? 'My overall answer would be no' - political pundit


It s been a slow winding back of that transparency and each Government is worse than the one before.
He added the Government had been very good at not giving in to Rio Tinto. The company had received hundreds of millions of dollars in direct and indirect Government subsidies over the years, including a $30 million bailout under former Prime Minister Sir John Key.
Despite receiving that money, Rio Tinto announced plans to shut up shop last year at its Tiwai Peninsula facility, New Zealand s only aluminium smelter, because of high energy costs - but later reached a four-year agreement with Meridian Energy to keep it open until at least the end of 2024.  ....

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