4 days ago · The Herald reports:. The “doomsday clock” symbolising how close humanity is to destruction ticked one second closer to midnight Tuesday as concerns on nuclear war, climate and public health were jolted by US President Donald Trump’s return.. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which set up the clock at the start of the Cold War, shifted the clock to 89 seconds to midnight, the closest ...

1 hour ago · The Herald reports: Dunedin’s new hospital will be built on the old Cadbury factory site despite several “construction challenges”, Health Minister Simeon Brown confirmed today. The Government has also released details of the hospital’s scale, with Brown stating it will offer 351 beds, 58 emergency department spaces, 20 short-stay surgical beds and 22 theatres. ...

1 day ago · The RMA significantly added to the cost, complexity, timeliness and risk of house building in this country. And the real kicker is that the house building mentioned above has only happened, could only have happened, because the government has changed the law so that SHAs, Kainga Ora etc can skirt consent conditions in order to build more and sooner.

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The GDP data is bad - very bad. The economy has shrunk in the last two quarters. The question is why. There are two broad arguments. They are: This is due to the austerity regime of Nicola Willis and her savage public sector cuts This is due to the high interest rates imposed by the

Chris Bishop and Shane Jones announced: The 149 projects released today for inclusion in the Government’s one-stop-shop Fast Track Approvals Bill will help rebuild the economy and fix our housing crisis, improve energy security, and address our infrastructure deficit, Minister for Infrastructure Chris Bishop says. ... “While the independent Advisory Group …

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Chris Lynch reports: Senior members of New Zealand’s legal community have voiced “grave concerns” over the coalition government’s proposed Treaty Principles Bill, urging Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Attorney General Judith Collins to abandon the legislation. In a formal letter addressed to the Prime Minister and Attorney …