The Hoon around the week to Aug 19
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā for paying subscribers in the last week included:
* Reports emerging that hundreds of migrants on new Accredited Employer Work Visas paid as much as $30,000 for their visas, only to find no work and ending up stranded in overcrowded rentals. Eventually, after weeks of denial, Immigration Minister Andrew Little launched a ministerial inquiry into Immigration NZ’s operation of the scheme, effectively throwing the ministry under the bus over Labour’s rushed loosening of migration…
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