'There are no exemptions. Just eat it.'

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · Mar 17, 2025 · 8m

Long stories shortest: David Seymour has denied a request from a Christchurch school and any other schools to be exempted from the Compass school lunch programme, saying the contract must be obeyed. Christopher Luxon’s net approval rating in his first year as PM is vastly lower than those of Helen Clark, John Key and Jacinda Ardern. Chris Bishop is (rightly) incensed that a consent for an 11-storey office building next to Karangahape Road’s new rail station has been rejected because it would change the character of the area.

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