Budget 2013: Warrant-of-fitness plan for state housing
Source: New Zealand Herald
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 12:27:12 -0700 | political-news
The Government has agreed to develop a warrant of fitness scheme to require rental housing to be warm, dry and safe. The scheme, recommended by an expert group appointed by Children's Commissioner Dr Russell Wills, will be tried out on...
Budget 2013: Government accused of surplus tricks
Source: New Zealand Herald
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 17:18:45 -0700 | political-news
The Government has promised deep cuts to ACC levies which could save the average worker up to $400 a year, but opponents say they do not go far enough and the high rates are artificially inflating the economy. ACC Minister...
Budget 2013: Family caregivers will get minimum wage
Source: New Zealand Herald
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-17 00:51:03 -0700 | political-news
Groups representing family carers are pleased that, after a long legal battle, the Government has at last agreed to make the payments but are also disappointed by some of the restrictions imposed. The Green Party, however, after hearing the associated...
Budget 2013: Peters' dizzy fake mouse upstages comical quips
Source: New Zealand Herald
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 12:27:09 -0700 | political-news
Devil beasts and fruit loops, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson and game show hosts all made guest appearances in the Budget debate yesterday, but all found themselves upstaged by a humble fake mouse. Labour leader David Shearer began the metaphorical...
John Armstrong: Something for everyone makes it hard to hate
Source: New Zealand Herald
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-17 00:51:02 -0700 | political-news
Bill English's effort is a liquorice allsorts kind of Budget...That makes it a hard Budget for National's opponents to criticise. For those on the right, there is the continuation of National's partial asset sales programme, with Meridian Energy next up...
Disappointment over Budget from Christchurch (Newstalk ZB)
Source: Xtra News
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 14:49:35 -0700 | political-news
Disappointment over Budget from Christchurch Scarlett Cvitanovich, Newstalk ZB May 17, 2013, 5:04 am There's disappointment yesterday's Budget failed to provide clarity on the Government's involvement in key infrastructure projects for Canterbury's rebuild. $303 million has been set aside...
Call for council to rethink stance on targeted road rates (Newstalk ZB)
Source: Xtra News
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 12:07:34 -0700 | political-news
Call for council to rethink stance on targeted road rates Carla Penman, Newstalk ZB May 17, 2013, 6:16 am A national quarry company says a new targeted road rates proposal has hit them off-guard. Aggregate and Quarry Associations of New...
Website launched to raise funds for sued couple (Newstalk ZB)
Source: Xtra News
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 22:50:58 -0700 | political-news
Website launched to raise funds for sued couple Adam Cooper, Newstalk ZB May 17, 2013, 6:26 am A website's been set up to help raise funds for a Nelson couple, who have been successfully sued for more than $1 million...
Hapless criminal faces time in jail
Source: New Zealand Infotech Weekly
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 11:45:45 -0700 | political-news
An 18-year-old is in custody after a disastrously half-baked robbery where just about everything went wrong. Raymond John Belsey's efforts to get some K2 synthetic cannabis are likely to bring a jail term at his sentencing in a fortnight. The...
Killer's alcohol request denied by Parole Board
Source: New Zealand Infotech Weekly
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 10:13:18 -0700 | political-news
A woman who killed two people by driving the wrong way along a Wellington motorway while on P has had a request to drink alcohol while on parole declined. Leah Wai Peneha, a disqualified driver, killed two people on State...
Funding shortfall 'has serious implications for hospital specialists' (Fuseworks)
Source: Xtra News
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 04:33:28 -0700 | political-news
Funding shortfall 'has serious implications for hospital specialists' Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, Fuseworks May 16, 2013, 10:28 pm "An estimated $150 million funding shortfall in the health budget has serious implications for public hospital medical specialists, who are already...
Fish fight back after slow season start (Fuseworks)
Source: Xtra News
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 02:47:24 -0700 | political-news
Fish fight back after slow season start Eastern Fish & Game, Fuseworks May 16, 2013, 7:47 pm If you needed evidence winter was just around the corner, local trout might be providing the confirmation...The Te Wairoa fish trap at Lake...
Search continues for missing West Coast man (Newstalk ZB)
Source: Xtra News
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 14:49:51 -0700 | political-news
Search continues for missing West Coast man Laura Heathcote, Newstalk ZB May 16, 2013, 9:06 pm The search will continue overnight for a West Coast man missing in King Country...The 63-year-old is from the West Coast but had been in...
Budget places Capital and Coast services at risk
Source: Scoop
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 02:23:33 -0700 | political-news
We have perhaps the most precarious financial position of any large DHB and have been forced to make services cuts for longer than most. Our DHB is likely to be particularly hard hit by this latest round of underfunding. "Dr...
Govt funding cuts for qualified ECE teachers gets support (Fuseworks)
Source: Xtra News
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-16 01:41:11 -0700 | political-news
Govt funding cuts for qualified ECE teachers gets support Attn! Marketing, Fuseworks May 16, 2013, 7:07 pm The New Zealand Home Early Learning Organisation is backing the Government's budget cuts to current ECE teacher grants that pay for teachers to...
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