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Thursday’s Chorus: Record population growth without enough building or any real debate
TL;DR: Population growth from immigration of temporary workers to replace and supplement emigrating local workers rose to more than 2% in the last year, without nearly enough infrastructure built or planned for two decades at that level, and without any real debate just days before an election.
Meanwhile, the last polls before Saturday’s election showed a last minute rise in support for the Labour-Green bloc at the expense of National-ACT mostly, but with the centre-right still ahead by enough to win (just), with the support of New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters.
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