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Tom Scott on housing

Written By: - Date published: 11:48 am, August 28th, 2015 - 20 comments
Categories: cartoons, class war, health, housing, poverty, tenants' rights - Tags: , , ,

Tom Scott in the Dom Post (via Bryce Edwards):

Scott-on-housing

20 comments on “Tom Scott on housing”

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  1. weka 1
    28 August 2015 at 12:30 pm

    Who is the guy on the left?

  2. greywarshark 2
    28 August 2015 at 1:03 pm

    That’s efficiency folks. Not-for-profit charities concentrate on covering costs so there is a small surplus. Government making a profit from providing necessities to needy citizens is a sort of oxymoron, out of gas.

  3. mary_a 3
    28 August 2015 at 1:49 pm

    As appalling as the situation is re children becoming sick and tenants dying, as the result of deteriorating state house conditions, this cartoon is right on the button. Summed up well by Tom Scott.

    • whateva next? 3.1
      28 August 2015 at 4:52 pm

      If Paula Bennet had her way they would be harvesting the mushrooms and making a business of selling them, using their kiwi ingenuity and “turning their lives around” just as she did???? Yeah right

  4. rhinocrates 4
    28 August 2015 at 2:54 pm

    Still waiting for Hoots to say again that this is a lifestyle that Henry VIII would have envied.

    …crickets…

    • lprent 4.1
      28 August 2015 at 4:10 pm

      Henry VIII died at the age of 55 (ie a year younger than I am now)

      This is a pretty accurate analysis of his life over the last decade. Any takers for the life of Henry Tudor Jnr?

      Late in life, Henry became obese, with a waist measurement of 54 inches (140 cm), and had to be moved about with the help of mechanical inventions. He was covered with painful, pus-filled boils and possibly suffered from gout. His obesity and other medical problems can be traced from the jousting accident in 1536, in which he suffered a leg wound. The accident re-opened and aggravated a previous injury he had sustained years earlier, to the extent that his doctors found it difficult to treat. The wound festered for the remainder of his life and became ulcerated, thus preventing him from maintaining the level of physical activity he had previously enjoyed. The jousting accident is also believed to have caused Henry’s mood swings, which may have had a dramatic effect on his personality and temperament.[137][138]

      The theory that Henry suffered from syphilis has been dismissed by most historians.[139] A more recent theory suggests that Henry’s medical symptoms are characteristic of untreated type 2 diabetes.[138] Alternatively, his wives’ pattern of pregnancies and his mental deterioration have led some to suggest that the king may have been Kell positive and suffered from McLeod syndrome.[140] According to another study, Henry VIII’s history and body morphology may have been the result of traumatic brain injury after his 1536 jousting accident, which in turn led to a neuroendocrine cause of his obesity. This analysis identifies growth hormone deficiency (GHD) as the source for his increased adiposity but also significant behavioural changes noted in his later years, including his multiple marriages.[141]

      • rhinocrates 4.1.1
        28 August 2015 at 4:53 pm

        I don’t think that Hoots is one for accurate historical knowledge – his chosen profession being to rewrite the past and he’s likely to be one who slept through most of his lessons at school anyway.

        For those who don’t know, a while ago well-known political commentator and shitstain Matthew Hooton declared from the comfort of a nice warm studio that today’s beneficiaries have lifestyles and amenities that would be the envy of Henry VIII, by which he meant a typical Renaissance monarch. He was quite aggressive in insisting that this was so.

        Lately, since news of the horrible conditions in which Housing NZ “clients” have been enduring, deaths by pneumonia and so on have emerged, he’s been peculiarly silent on the issue.

        Maybe he’s going to say that these people are getting sick and dying in strange underwater jousting accidents?

        Maybe he’s going to continue to insist that they should be grateful for the conditions that they enjoy?

        Maybe Hosking will come along and have something to say about the glass being half full, even if the water is cold, murky and disease-ridden?

        • southof40 4.1.1.1
          28 August 2015 at 11:17 pm

          “He was quite aggressive in insisting that this was so”

          From my experience whenever he’s least convinced that what he’s saying is true (or in this case relevant) he’s most aggressive and forthright. Week after week you can hear him on RadioNZ and when he starts getting in peoples face you can be reasonably sure he’s got his fingers crossed under the table.

    • mac1 4.2
      28 August 2015 at 7:00 pm

      So what were the conditions of Henry VIII’s time?

      Life expectancy was 30 years. Poverty was widespread, disease outbreaks common, living conditions were unsanitary and smelly.

      So, in a way, Hooton is right. Life is better than during Henry’s reign. Henry would have been treated for his conditions, his son would have probably survived and the world as we know it would have been different, in ways of which counterfactual history writers can only dream.

      But it does not excuse that our life expectancy, living conditions, health and safety are not what they should be in a world so much more advanced in knowledge, wealth, technology and communications.

      • rhinocrates 4.2.1
        28 August 2015 at 7:22 pm

        “But it does not excuse that our life expectancy, living conditions, health and safety are not what they should be in a world so much more advanced in knowledge, wealth, technology and communications.”

        Exactly, and yet over and over again the parasites are saying “Be grateful for what you have and admire me for what I have – things could be worse in North Korea/Hell/Venus” It’s smug, disgusting, shows a contempt for everyone else and a philistine contempt for the project of civilisation itself which is to make life better for all.

        • mac1 4.2.1.1
          28 August 2015 at 7:41 pm

          It’s the ‘admire me for what I have’ which is just so false. The idolising of falsity, Mammon, earthly pleasures and artifacts which is so shallow and pathetic. The lack of recognition of art, spirituality, intellectual excellence, the non-understanding of what it is that makes us human beings special, unique, and capable of so much.

          Indeed, the ‘project of civilisation’ is as you state so well. And it is galling that the people who have the power and resources just don’t get that; and worse, stand so belligerently in its way.

  5. George Hendry 5
    28 August 2015 at 7:28 pm

    So.

    It seems that , even though incredibly ill in his later years, Henry VIII still managed to survive nearly twice the contemporaneous life expectancy, thanks to an extraordinarily high standard of state-funded healthcare for the times.

  6. weston 6
    28 August 2015 at 8:52 pm

    what a great cartoon reminds me of the listner days when scot was king and his cartoons and excellent articles and editorials of a once dynamic magazine socked it to the government on a regular basis, printed on non highgloss paper u could wipe your arse with it or light the fire with it after a damn good read !

    • Barbara 6.1
      29 August 2015 at 8:13 am

      I quite agree, the Listener is now a lifestyle magazine and it’s the last straw for me, I am going to cancel my subscription, this week’s issue was full of gardening, cooking and media/film star rubbish. Everything in paper form is boring these days.

  7. gsays 7
    29 August 2015 at 8:13 am

    There are some things we shouldn’t profit from, housing is one of them.

    All the people with a property portfolio, receiving rents for sub standard dwellings will sleep a little sounder.
    Waking in their warm dry homes, knowing that housing for the most vulnerable is deliberately kept in a poor condition.
    Thus.making their dilapidated investment look
    good.

  8. vto 8
    29 August 2015 at 11:07 am

    This Housing NZ situation is the most appalling indictment on our society.

    bar none

    But at least the South Canterbury Finance investors got their shoddy investment back eh

    At least Rio Tinto could keep going eh

    At least the farmers got their $400m irrigation money eh

    At least Warner Bros got their deal eh

    At least more money was able to be given to private schools eh

    At least the highest income earners got a tax break eh

    . . . .

    We should all be embarrassed to the high heavens. The fact we are not is a further indictment on our society and how it is structured.

    Hopeless. Lazy evil.

  9. Smilin 9
    29 August 2015 at 11:35 am

    Housing is just another Ponzi scheme designed by those who never have to live there in state housing on a generational basis .
    The govt continues to show us how useless they are and actually admitting that they have no real desire to see things improve unless it is in the manner of the free market doctrine of progress, ie the end of socialism .

  10. Treetop 10
    29 August 2015 at 4:07 pm

    The state housing experiment is a total failure.

    WHY?

    It has distracted needy people from being housed, (a basic function of the state housing system).

    90 million will make no difference to a handfull of near term women living rough on Auckland streets who are due to give birth in several weeks.

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  • Coronavirus – Cuba shows the way
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  • Using privacy law to prevent the death penalty
    In 2018, El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey - two British citizens who had purportedly been stripped of their citizenship by the British government - were captured while fighting for Isis in Syria. The British government then conspired to hand them over to the US, and agreed to provide evidence ...
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    1 week ago

  • It’s Time For Disaster Socialism.
    Transformers: The disaster of the Great Depression was transformed into a new and fairer society by the democratic socialism of the First Labour Government. The disaster of the Covid-19 Pandemic offers a similar transformative possibility to the Labour-NZ First-Green Government. Seize the time, Jacinda! You will never have a better ...
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  • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #12, 2020
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19
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    1 week ago

  • Raise the Bar: 10 questions to ask your employer proposing redundancy
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    1 week ago

  • An equitable way to support business
    The Herald reports that the government is planning to lend billions of dollars to large businesses to keep them operating during the pandemic. As with mortgage relief, this is necessary: we need companies to stay in business, to reduce the economic damage and help things get restarted again when this ...
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    1 week ago

  • Hard News: Together Alone
    We're about to do something unprecedented as a nation. We hope that by taking this extraordinary action before a single life in New Zealand has been lost to the deadly novel virus we will save tens of thousands of lives. Our  lives. We'll do it together, in households, in isolation ...
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  • Why timing is everything: ‘A time to refrain from embracing’ starts today
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  • Dealing with the Covid-19 Tsunami.
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    PunditBy Brian Easton
    1 week ago

  • What about renters?
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  • Living within our means.
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  • Transparency and the pandemic
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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    1 week ago

  • ‘Overjoyed’: a leading health expert on New Zealand’s coronavirus shutdown, and the challengin...
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    1 week ago

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  • Funding certainty for sports through COVID-19
    National sports organisations have been given certainty of funding to ensure they can remain viable through the COVID-19 pandemic, Sport and Recreation Minister Grant Robertson announced today. “The global spread of COVID-19 has had a significant impact on sport and recreation in New Zealand, including the cancellation or postponement of ...
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    5 hours ago

  • Butchers now allowed to process pork
    Changes have been made to allow butchers to process pork, only for supply to supermarkets or other processors or retailers that are open, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has announced. “We carefully weighed the risk of allowing butchers to open their shops for retail customers, but the risk of spreading COVID-19 ...
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    17 hours ago

  • Essential workers leave scheme established
    Essential workers who take leave from work to comply with public health guidance are being supported with a leave scheme to ensure they will continue to receive income, say the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety Iain Lees-Galloway and Minister for Social Development, Carmel Sepuloni. A number of essential businesses ...
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    19 hours ago

  • Govt WhatsApp helps share COVID-19 information
    A Government WhatsApp channel has been launched to help make information more easily accessible and shareable in the fight against COVID-19. Govt.NZ, which is free to use on any mobile device, will carry information and news for the public, businesses, healthcare providers, not for profits and local government. It can ...
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  • Managed departure plan for stranded foreign nationals enables safe, orderly exit
    The Government has announced a plan to enable the safe, orderly exit of tens of thousands of stranded foreign nationals from New Zealand during the current COVID-19 Alert Level 4 restrictions, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters has said. “When we moved into lockdown a week ago, the ...
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  • Government delivers COVID-19 support to GPs and Pharmacies
    Health Minister Dr David Clark says the Government is delivering on its commitment to support general practice doctors and nurses, and pharmacies on the front-line of our fight against COVID-19. "For us to overcome COVID-19, we need community health services such as general practice and community pharmacy to step up ...
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    20 hours ago

  • Susan Thomas the new Chief High Court Judge
    Justice Susan Thomas has been appointed Chief High Court Judge, Attorney-General David Parker announced today.  She replaces Justice Geoffrey Venning who has resigned from the position.   David Parker paid tribute to Justice Venning, who he said had stewarded the High Court very capably over the last five years.   “On behalf ...
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  • Business Finance Guarantee – applications open
    Businesses can start applying to their banks for loans under the Business Finance Guarantee Scheme set up to support the New Zealand economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re moving quickly to protect New Zealand businesses, jobs and the economy during this unprecedented global economic shock,” Finance Minister Grant Robertson said. ...
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    2 days ago

  • Work starts on ways to fast-track consents to boost recovery from Covid-19 downturn
    Work is underway looking at measures to speed up consents for development and infrastructure projects during the recovery from COVID 19, to provide jobs and stimulate our economy.  Environment Minister David Parker said the COVID-19 pandemic is a serious global crisis that will have a wide ranging and lasting impact ...
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    2 days ago

  • Advance payments to support contractors
    Advance payments will be made to transport construction industry contractors to retain the workforce and ensure it is ready to quickly gear up to build projects which will be vital to New Zealand’s COVID-19 economic recovery, Transport Minister Phil Twyford announced today. He said keeping the workforce required to build ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Government seeks infrastructure projects
    The Government has tasked a group of industry leaders to seek out infrastructure projects that are ready to start as soon as the construction industry returns to normal to reduce the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford and Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones say. The Infrastructure ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • Health system scaled up to prepare for COVID-19
    Work to scale up the health system in preparation for COVID-19 was today outlined by Health Minister David Clark, as he reported back to the new Epidemic Response Committee. “We are well placed to contain the spread of COVID-19. We have taken early and decisive action at our borders, and ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • Essential media COVID-19 guidelines refined
    The Government is refining its COVID-19 essential business guidance to include the distribution of news publications for communities which are hard to reach. The Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media, Kris Faafoi, said the move was in recognition of the importance for New Zealanders who might be harder to ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • Supermarkets able to open on Easter Sunday
    The Government is ensuring supermarkets can open on Easter Sunday so we can buy groceries, but stay closed on Good Friday allowing workers to take a break. This provides a balanced approach and ensures we avoid large queues that two days closure may cause. “Supermarkets will be able to open ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • New Zealand defence personnel conclude mission at Taji
    Following the successful conclusion of the Building Partner Capacity (BPC) mission at Taji, New Zealand defence personnel are returning to New Zealand from Iraq, in accordance with the Cabinet decision made in June 2019, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Defence Minister Ron Mark announced today. “New Zealand is very ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • State of National Emergency extended
    The State of National Emergency to help stop the spread of COVID-19 has been extended for a further seven days, Minister of Civil Defence Peeni Henare said. The initial declaration on March 25 lasted seven days and can be extended as many times as necessary. “Since we went into isolation ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • Strong Govt books support ‘go hard, go early’ response
    New Zealand’s ability to go hard and go early in the fight against COVID-19 has been underpinned by strong Government finances and the growing economy heading into this global pandemic, Finance Minister Grant Robertson says. The Treasury today released the Crown financial statements for the eight months to the end ...
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    3 days ago

  • Christchurch Hospital Hagley ICU to open to support COVID-19 response
    Health Minister Dr David Clark says 36 new intensive care beds at Christchurch Hospital’s new Hagley building are being fast tracked so they are available for treatment of COVID-19 patients.   The Ministry of Health is working with contractor CPB and Canterbury DHB to enable access to the hospital’s ICU, ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago

  • Government supports Air NZ freight flights
    The Government has fast-tracked up to $1 million to help Air New Zealand move urgent freight to and from New Zealand, with the first flight to Shanghai leaving tonight, Transport Minister Phil Twyford announced today. Phil Twyford says it’s crucial that trade in vital goods such as medical supplies and ...
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    4 days ago

  • Tariff concessions on COVID-19 related products
    New Zealand will temporarily remove tariffs on all medical and hygiene imports needed for the COVID-19 response. Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker and Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi said today that the New Zealand Customs Service will apply tariff concessions to all diagnostic reagents and testing ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    6 days ago

  • Clarification of modification to wage subsidy scheme
    Minister of Finance Grant Robertson has clarified that the changes to the wage subsidy scheme announced yesterday mean that employers should be passing on the full subsidy to workers, except in the case where the person’s normal income is less than the level of the subsidy. “We still want employers ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    6 days ago

  • Face masks flowing to DHBs
    Medical face masks from the national reserve supply are now being distributed to District Health Boards, while at the same time local production is being ramped up. Yesterday more than 640,000 masks were sent to DHBS – that is an immediate two week supply, with more to follow in coming ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    7 days ago

  • COVID-19: Further steps to protect New Zealanders’ jobs
    The Government has made modifications to the wage subsidy scheme to ensure people don’t lose their jobs during the national lockdown. These changes will soften the impact of COVID-19 on workers, families and businesses, and position them to exit the lockdown and look to recovery, Finance Minister Grant Robertson says. ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    7 days ago

  • Tax relief for Mycoplasma Bovis farmers
    Farmers whose herds were culled in response to the outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis will be able to minimise the tax treatment of their income in some circumstances. Revenue Minister Stuart Nash says Cabinet has agreed to change the law. It means farmers may be eligible to spread their income over ...
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    7 days ago

  • $27 million for NGOs and community groups to continue providing essential services
    A $27 million dollar package, effective immediately, is being provided to social sector services and community groups to ensure they can continue to provide essential support to communities as we stay at home as a nation to stop the spread of COVID-19, Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni announced. “At ...
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    1 week ago

  • Statement on guilty plea of March 15 terrorist
    “The guilty plea today will provide some relief to the many people whose lives were shattered by what happened on March 15,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. “These guilty pleas and conviction bring accountability for what happened and also save the families who lost loved ones, those who were injured, ...
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    1 week ago

  • COVID-19 updates
    The Prime Minister is holding daily press conferences to update New Zealanders on the Government's response to COVID-19. Links to videos and transcripts of these updates below. These transcripts also include All of Government press conferences led by Director Ministry of Health's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield. 25 March: Live update from the Prime ...
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    1 week ago

  • Police numbers break through 10,000 mark
    Frontline Police numbers have broken through the 10,000 mark for the first time in history as officers step forward to keep the community safe during the COVID19 lockdown. “Two Police graduations in Auckland and Wellington in the past week have been conducted in unprecedented circumstances,” Police Minister Stuart Nash said. ...
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    1 week ago

  • Urgent tax measures for economic recovery
    Urgent legislation has been passed to support the package of economic and social measures needed to recover from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. “The COVID-19 Response (Taxation and Social Assistance Urgent Measures) Bill will cushion New Zealanders from the worst economic impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak,” said Revenue Minister ...
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    1 week ago

  • Further support for farmers and growers as drought persists
    From tomorrow, Government support for farmers and growers affected by drought will be expanded and extended across the country, with access to Rural Assistance Payments (RAPS) available throughout the North Island, parts of the South Island and the Chatham Islands, Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni announced. “These challenging conditions have ...
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    1 week ago

  • COVID-19: Temporary changes to Education Act
    Parliament has passed amendments to legislation that give the Secretary of Education stronger powers to act in the fight to limit the spread of COVID-19, Education Minister Chris Hipkins said today. “They are part of a suite of changes passed under the COVID-19 Response (Urgent Management Measures) Legislation Bill,” Chris ...
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    1 week ago

  • Canada, Australia, Chile, Brunei and Myanmar join NZ and Singapore in committing to keeping supply a...
    Canada, Australia, Chile, Brunei and Myanmar have joined forces with New Zealand and Singapore by committing to keep supply chains open and remove any existing trade restrictive measures on essential goods, especially medical supplies, in the face of the Covid-19 crisis.  Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker today welcomed ...
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    1 week ago

  • COVID-19: Rent increase freeze and more protection for tenants
    Immediate freeze on rent increases Tenancies will not be terminated during the lock-down period, unless the parties agree, or in limited circumstances Tenants who had previously given notice can stay in their if they need to stay in the tenancy during the lock-down period Tenants will still be able to ...
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    1 week ago

  • Working together to protect businesses and workers
    As New Zealand unites to lock-down in the fight against COVID-19, the Finance Minister is urging all businesses and workers to stay connected over the next four weeks. “We understand the extreme pressure many businesses are under right now. I know most business owners think of their workers as family ...
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    1 week ago

  • State of National Emergency declared to fight COVID-19
    A State of National Emergency has been declared across the country as the Government pulls out all the stops to curtail the spread of COVID-19. “Today we put in place our country’s second ever State of National Emergency as we fight a global pandemic, save New Zealanders’ lives and prevent ...
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    1 week ago

  • Prime Minister’s statement on State of National Emergency and Epidemic Notice
    Mr Speaker I wish to make a Ministerial Statement under Standing Order 347 in relation to the recent declaration of a State of National Emergency. Having considered the advice of the Director Civil Defence Emergency Management, the Minister of Civil Defence declared a State of National Emergency for the whole of ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • Deadline for domestic travel extended
    People needing to travel on domestic flights, trains and Cook Strait ferries to get home before the country moves into level 4 lock-down tomorrow night will be able to continue using the passenger services until midnight on Friday, Transport Minister Phil Twyford said today. Domestic passenger services, particularly ferries, have ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • Mortgage holiday and business finance support schemes to cushion COVID impacts
    The Government, retail banks and the Reserve Bank are today announcing a major financial support package for home owners and businesses affected by the economic impacts of COVID-19. The package will include a six month principal and interest payment holiday for mortgage holders and SME customers whose incomes have been ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • Government working to keep air freight moving
    Minister of Transport Phil Twyford has today announced details of the Government’s support package to keep key air freight moving and ensure New Zealanders retain access to essential goods during the four-week level 4 lockdown. “The Government is working with airlines and air freight operators to ensure New Zealand’s key ...
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    1 week ago

  • New Zealand moves to COVID-19 Alert Level 3, then Level 4 in 48 hours
    New Zealand moved up to COVID-19 Alert Level 3 – Restrict New Zealand to move up to COVID-19 Alert Level 4 – Eliminate, in 48 hours Two-staged approach to give people and businesses time to prepare  Level 3, from tomorrow Non-essential businesses must close All events and gatherings must be ...
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    2 weeks ago

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