Except that famous one from Owen Glenn. Wait, NO, they never got that one did they !
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The world is going to be over run with extra ‘diplomats’ from NZ
I bags Stockholm. You can have Niue mini ...bugger forgot the ex shoe salesman from Wellington has that job.
Well done Winnie
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12047550
Even all those hundreds of millions won’t outspend China in the Pacific ...if that is Winnie’s objective.
Sad thing is as needy as the Pacific Islanders are after cyclones etc , there are plenty living here struggling day to day ….sad Labour don't see fit to put our own backyard in order first .
Labour said they would introduce an energy payment but in both your quoted links no actual timing was given. Also the tax rebate was a National bribe and was not part of any Labour budget so you have your head inthe clouds expecting a tax cut from April to June.
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Timing was given - it was very clear the money had been budgeted for the 2018/19 fiscal year. That obviously means the winter of 2018
To achieve this, in part Labour obviously had to increase the revenue side of the budget which meant putting my taxes up from 1 April 2018 from what they would otherwise have been
Its a tough one. Here we have NZ full of povurdy, homeless people, people who cant afford a house, sick people who cant afford doctors visits and old people freezing to death in winter. Maybe rather than giving students a free year of partying that money could have been given to the Islands.
Maybe a technicality but the government FY begins July 1st, so was there budget FY17/18 for subsidies to begin, I doubt it? Or was/it always aligned to budget FY18/19 beginning July.
Strangely, mothers Super payments went up a few dollars the past three fornights. Energy subsidy kicking in or something else?
Agree stoploss. Lets look after our own first. Why for example did previous Government give millions to the Clinton Foundation to strut around Africa for themselves and this Government has just given extra money to them after Hillary met Jacinda. What an absolute waste of taxpayers money
Heard Willie Jackson yesterday. Answering a question about the Labour shortage in the Hawkes Bay (?) Apparently all the unemployed people cant work because of housing issues, family and community responsibilities. Judith Collins shot back "but its OK for us to bring in Pacific Islanders". Shes quick, got to give her that.