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The week the mask came off an Austerity Government, revealing front-line job cuts
TL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:
* The National-ACT-NZ First’s budget cuts are now clearly biting into front-line services and staff across the hospital and welfare system, contrary to promises made before the election that tax cuts would be paid for by painless ‘back office’ cuts to spending;
* Unfortunately and often tragically, the spending cuts and various politically-driven (ie evidence-lite) decisions are storing up future deaths, accidents, pollution, emissions debts, hospital admissions and…
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