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Driving blind at higher speeds
Kia ora. Long stories short, here’s my top six things to note in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Tuesday, September 15:
* The Government’s faster speed limits will: kill more people; put even more drivers, pedestrians and cyclists in already-full hospitals; and increase emissions and other health costs, dozens of experts have told the Government.
* In scoop of the day, nurses working in chronically short-staffed hospitals say staff who go on leave, get sick or quit are not being replaced in many cases, RNZ’s Ruth Hill reports this morning.
* In deep-dive of…
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