Welcome to The Spinoff’s live updates for September 22, by Stewart Sowman-Lund. Say hello at stewart@thespinoff.co.nz.
Today's numbers There are 23 new community cases of Covid-19, all in Auckland. Of these, just one has not yet been epidemiologically linked. 80% of eligible Auckla
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Analysis - Harsh words from National s Judith Collins as the government announces Suhayra Aden can return to New Zealand, another big vaccine delivery clears the way for the programme to ramp up but will public response become a problem?
Judith Collins has described New Zealand s decision to take in Suhayra Aden as disappointing .
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The government announced on Monday that Suhayra Aden and her two young children would be repatriated to New Zealand, setting off a debate about what would happen after the woman who left Australia to follow Islamic State arrived here.
Aden is 26, she was born in Auckland and left with her family for Australia when she was six.
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Honest conversations .. Act New Zealand leader David Seymour speaks to a crowd of about 90 people in Oamaru on Saturday. PHOTO: REBECCA RYAN
“It’s a little bit like that great Michael Jackson song – all I want to say is that they don’t really care about us.”
At a public meeting in Oamaru on Saturday, Act New Zealand leader David Seymour said as rural New Zealand was facing an avalanche of new regulations, and feeling forgotten by the Government, more people were looking to Act for a “better way forward”.
Mr Seymour, who has overtaken National’s Judith Collins in the preferred prime minister stakes, has been attracting large crowds to public meetings, as part of Act’s 45-stop “Honest Conversations” tour.
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