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The government has yet to decide on the future of a bed tax for Queenstown.
The proposed fee would be a 5 percent charge applied to all short-term accommodation in the resort town.
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Read more: Government still considering Queenstown bed tax
- Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/161045-government-still-considering-queenstown-bed-tax.html
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Read more: The Cost and Benefit of Frigates
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In a recent Incline post titled ‘Where are the Frigates?’ Professor Robert Ayson notes, quite correctly, that the frigates currently undergoing refit in Canada represent ‘no small portion of New Zealand’s modest capacity to project military power.’ He then asks, ‘if New Zealand can have a period of months when it does without that capacity in its entirety, would the lights really go out if there were no frigates at all?’
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Read more: Keeping the Lights On: The Need for New Zealand to Increase Its Maritime Capability
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A large out-of-control scrub fire has shut a main road between Canterbury and the West Coast.
The fire broke out on conservation land at around 4:30am on Sunday and quickly grew into a raging monster. The blaze spread to both sides of State Highway 73 just west out of Springfield - a critical link between Canterbury and the West Coast.
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Read more: 'Ecological nightmare': Out-of-control scrub fire closes main Canterbury road
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/09/ecological-nightmare-out-of-control-scrub-fire-closes-main-canterbury-road.html
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Time was running out for Debra Stevens. But the 911 dispatcher didn't seem concerned.
"Somebody save me!" Stevens screamed as the water level crept up inside her car, which was stranded in floodwater.
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Read more: 'I'm going to die,' cried drowning US woman, as she was scolded by a 911 dispatcher
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/115449730/im-going-to-die-cried-drowning-us-woman-as-she-was-scolded-by-a-911-dispatcher
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Police in the US say five people are dead, including a shooter, and at least 21 injured by gunfire in a West Texas shooting on Saturday (Sunday NZ time).
"The active shooter was shot and killed at the Cinergy in Odessa," Midland police said on Facebook, referring to a cinema complex in the cities of Odessa and Midland. "There is no active shooter at this time."
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Read more: Five dead, 21 injured in Texas mass shooting
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/115444885/police-say-multiple-gunshot-victims-after-suspects-hijack-mail-truck-in-texas
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The Government has pledged an extra $60 million in funding for Pharmac to fund new medicines, including cancer treatments.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was alongside Health Minister David Clark at Auckland City Hospital on Sunday to reveal the Government's new national cancer action plan.
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Read more: Government announces an extra $60m in Pharmac funding and new cancer treatments
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/115444349/government-announces-an-extra-60m-in-pharmac-funding-and-new-cancer-treatments
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A drug-addled driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel before ploughing into an oncoming car, killing himself and two others, according to coronial findings.
Haydn David Clark, 20, who had a history of driving offences, had ingested methamphetamine and cannabis before he got behind the wheel of a Mazda on the night of April 19, 2018.
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Read more: Triple fatal Thames crash was 'tragically avoidable', coroner says
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115413043/triple-fatal-thames-crash-was-tragically-avoidable-coroner-says
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