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Jones: 'NZ has to mine its way to the future'
TL;DR: The six things to note in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty in the past day to 8:36 pm on Monday, June 10 were:
* 20,000 protested against the Fast-track approval bill on Saturday in Auckland, but PM Christopher Luxon says ‘sorry, but not sorry’ about the need for faster development. Shane Jones says: “We have to mine our way to the future.”
* Jones announced a reversal of the Labour-Green ban on offshore oil and gas exploration and plans to water down cleanup rules.
* Analysis of official documents on the Government’s $2.9 billion of income tax cuts…
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