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A document dump related to Budget 2021 has revealed officials warned that increasing the benefit won't make a difference for two-fifths of poverty-stricken kids.
Beneficiaries got a $3.3 billion bump in the Budget, which saw the Government go beyond recommendations made two years ago by the Welfare Expert Advisory Group, to increase benefit levels to help reduce poverty.
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OPINION: Should we change the name of New Zealand to Aotearoa?
This is really simple for me - no.
It won't happen, it shouldn't happen, and if it did, there would be an uproar.
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Read more: Duncan Garner: Should we change the name of New Zealand to Aotearoa? No - and here's why
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Holly crap... I actually agree with him... it can be both... just don't get offended if I call it New Zealand and I won't if you want to call it Aotearoa.
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Welcome Canada frigate HMCS Calgary sails into Auckland today behind HMNZS Taupo. The visit is in strict compliance with the NZ Government’s Maritime Border Order. Crew cannot disembark without negative COVID-19 tests & are symptom-free for 14 days.
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Read more: HMCS Calgary sails into Auckland
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The Government will be developing an unemployment insurance scheme along with Business NZ and CTU to prepare for the future of work.
The public will be able to consult on an "ACC-style" unemployment insurance scheme later this year that would provide 80 percent of income for people who may be made redundant or lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
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Read more: ACC-style redundancy insurance scheme announced
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Work on the largest and most complex construction project ever undertaken by the Ministry of Defence and New Zealand Defence Force is picking up pace, with the foundations laid and piles drilled for the new Base Ōhakea.
When complete, the new base will be home to No. 5 Squadron and their four new Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon aircraft.
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Read more: Foundations laid for landing of NZDF’s newest aircraft
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The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is continuing with the steady renewal of its main operational land vehicle fleets, notifying industry of its intention to replace the army’s unprotected Pinzgauer Light Operational Vehicles with new utility platforms.
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Read more: NZ moves ahead with light vehicle replacement
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Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta says she spoke to former Prime Minister Helen Clark about the evacuation of a UN official infected with COVID-19 from Fiji to New Zealand.
But she's insisting that conversation did not influence the decision to bring the patient to New Zealand, which she says was made at a ministry level.
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A preponderance of evidence proves the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic leaked from a Chinese research facility, said a report by US Republicans released on Monday, a conclusion that US intelligence agencies have not reached.
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