Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Canada & Australia stood up to Trump. When will NZ?
Briefly, in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Monday, May 5:
* When will our PM and Foreign Minister stand up to publicly express support for our long-time and close allies Australia and Canada in opposing Donald Trump’s talk of annexing Canada and his tariffs on allies without justification or sense? See more in today’s feature article below.
* Christopher Luxon has pledged to more-than-double defence spending to 2% of GDP, setting the scene for more than $20 billion of real cuts in health, education, housing, transport and welfare spending to shrink the…
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