The hoon for the week that was to April 22
TLDR: This week’s news in geopolitics and Aotearoa’s political economy covered on The Kākā for paying subscribers included:
* Council staff in Wellington going rogue on their council, quietly reinserted 797 villas into the Council’s district plan, despite express instructions from Council after a heated debate and vote last year that character zones stopping building be cut by 72%; Monday’s email
* A law change designed to tighten the number of free carbon credits allocated to major polluters could instead allow them to emit more carbon for free; Tuesday’s email
* The IRD confirmed the…
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