The VP and cabinet can do it for him.
Based on the current figure of 2.65 million UK cases, and that NZ's lockdown resulted in the R value for Covid being 0.2, it would take 4 incubation cycles to get below 10,000 cases (if that's their goal), which would be 8 weeks. That's a long time to ...
Early releases are decisions for the Parole Board, so the minister and department have no discretion there. In general, there is limited discretion other than for the judge at sentencing, so Sensible Sentencing et al have no real quarrel with the minister ...
Nicely said. I'd be inclined to say that any market for necessities of life inherently has the potential for market failure due to not everyone having the funds to participate in said market, but housing tends to be the big issue since it costs so much ...
How is this the "deliberate fault of the minister"? Our system is generally set up to separate departmental operational matters from the ministers - while I'm sure he's aware now, what evidence is there that he knew anything more than the prison needs ...
The prison is being replaced, but the prison population is too large to close the old prison until the new one is operational. The minister has already pushed a lot of initiatives to get Corrections releasing as many people safely as legally possible, so ...
There's not really any such thing as straightforward, or at least, not in anything to do with employers. Employers have to be compliant with employment and immigration law and financially sustainable, all of which are potential speedbumps, and for the main...
See my answer to LPrent about the acceptance of incomplete applications, and forms and guides are about as accessible as it's possible for them to be given the complexity of the subject matter. It's definitely the case that verification of documents, ...
These are good ideas although they are mostly in place already. Incomplete applications generally aren't accepted – the concept of what INZ refer to as lodgement requirements has been part of the system since 1991 and these are currently set out in the ...
Ignore residence delays, they were caused by the NZ residence programme (number of resident visas the government wants granted in a 2 year period) being much lower the number of residence applications actually made and there being no legal ability (until ...
A reduction in international travel looks essential to me and international tourism should be first cab off the rank in that.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/1-news-colmar-brunton-poll-judith-collins-slips-further-labour-maintains-big-election-lead Labour up from election night, not a lot of change otherwise. Jacinda up as preferred PM, Judith down, Chris Luxon ...
Unbelievable is right, particularly all the nonsense around the return of international tourism as the saviour of the economy. Now would be an excellent opportunity to wean ourselves off it permanently.
Depends on the design, but social insurance would normally have a minimum payment, so even if someone is not paying into it, or has never paid into it e.g. a student who is between school and university and has never been employed, would be paid the ...
Simplicity is the main reason for UBI over GMI - easier to actually operate and design systems around. If one takes the view that the net outcome is the important one, not the distribution to get there, then the tax is not a purchase, just a simpler ...
I'm a big proponent of anything that provides for adequate support for a decent life, and consider that UBI, GMI, UBS and various social insurance and welfare models could all be designed to provide for that. Even the current system could be made to work ...
Land tax would work fine if applied to all property but if it excluded the family home, it would be a lot less effective.
GMI and UBI are really just ways of presenting the same idea, but agree that the Greens GMI was superior to the TOP UBI for the reasons stated. It's not that difficult to make them look the same, but GMI is probably easier to get people to buy into since ...
GFC caused banks to tighten the screws on mortgage lending significantly at a time when finance companies and other non-bank mortgage lenders were going under, so a lot of forced sales when there weren't as many qualified buyers.
A lot of the decisionmaking was done at the Cabinet level, so it was correct for a Cabinet Minister to be present to explain those decisions and answer questions about them.
Kainga Ora (formerly HNZ) is still responsible for building state houses and is building thousands each year. W&I's job with them is assessing whether people meet eligibility criteria for a house.
Working Holidays are an outcome of reciprocal agreements with other countries, so we could scrap them, but that would probably result the end of the equivalent schemes, so instead of competing with foreign workers, they would compete with young NZ workers ...
Hard to say - I surmise that international education has less migrant employment because a lot of it is via NZ institutions (schools, universities and polytechs) with NZ teachers and educators. Obviously there are also private training establishments (PTEs...
Tourism is a high portion of our GDP, but I think it helped that more than half was domestic tourism anyway, as stated we have had a lot of our own international tourists become domestic tourists (my wife and I did 2 weeks around Northland after our ...
The same argument could be made about 2012 with a similar margin of votes and percentage of popular vote, but that was seen as a decisive victory to Obama.
Agree, it's a sizeable margin in the end.
I posted this elsewhere but may as well copy it here too... https://www.votespa.com/About-Elections/Pages/Counting-Dashboard.aspx is the Pennsylvania election reporting dashboard. According to that, there are 9,091,371 registered voters, of whom 4,229,163 ...
I think John Key's succession plan was to hand over to Bill English a year early and leave it there.
Accountability of ballot papers issued and for statistical and analysis purposes later.
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How do you define housing affordability? I.e. which measure/indicator?
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