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Michael Fletcher on the entrenched failings of our Covid-19 welfare response.
The coming recession will bite less hard with a temporary tax on the well-to-do, says Simon Chapple.
New Zealand Public Television's offers a wide-ranging conversation with Mike Joy as part of their lockdown coverage.
"Be kind", Jacinda Ardern likes to tell New Zealanders. But her government does not seem very interested in kindness towards our 300,000-plus pre-COVID welfare beneficiaries, notes Michael Fletcher.
The government's freshwater plan ignores expert advice and sets the stage for the ongoing decline of New Zealand's water quality, says Mike Joy.
The government's decision to deny long-term unemployed the higher Covid-19 beneficiary rate may make it politically easier to raise core benefits, suggests Max Rashbrooke
