Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
How Aotearoa's political economy works
TL;DR: My top six things to note around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy on Wednesday, August 7 are:
1. Willis ‘does the right thing’ (after a political backlash)
OIA trail shows nothing done on cancer drugs for Budget 2024
This is a brilliant tick tock analysis via NZ Herald-$$$ from Derek Cheng of the OIA trail on the National-ACT-NZ First Government’s strange failure to include its election cancer drug promise in Budget 2024. It turns out PM Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis had decided it could wait until Budget 2025 and so nothing was done…
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