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Surely all these people losing decent paying jobs will have no impact on the economy right? Definitely not a recession right?

***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...

This is such a bizarre thing to have such a blow up over. I don’t use public transport, so I’ve never heard these announcements, are they really that bad?

cross-posted from: lemmy.nz/post/10239601...

The residents of an island in Northland are grappling with an unusual problem - they have too many kiwi....

A searing heat wave has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink.Mexico registered record-high temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, authorities said on Friday, amid a searing heat wave that has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink....

Woolworths has apologised to thousands of customers after mistakenly telling about 79,000 people they had won a competition....

More than 4000 people have already been laid off as a result of the austerity measures imposed by the NACTF government.

The national electricity grid operator is warning of possible insufficient power generation to meet households’ demand on Friday....

I am sure this will be super effective and will not cost any money at all.

More austerity for the government. Lucky for all the people who lose their jobs the government is going to make them go to seminars before they do on the benefit.

A super security and intelligence agency recommended four years ago and said to be “not too far away” last August, is under “active consideration” by Cabinet....

Add voter suppression to the list of disasters

In Parliament last Wednesday, Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said the government “will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori”....

A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Auckland after an elderly woman was viciously knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack in broad daylight on Sunday....

Wellington City Council have put plans to build a permanent cycleway in Brooklyn on hold after losing over half of its funding. Waka Kotahi was expected to fund 51 percent through the Transport Choices fund, however Transport Minister Simeon Brown confirmed there would be no funding for the project in December....

Jamie Arbuckle, the Marlborough councillor who became an MP, says he has settled into having two roles so comfortably he’s going to keep both salaries after all....

One Wellington peanut butter company has gone where no Kiwi food company has gone before....

She sounds absolutely unhinged, going into someone’s business just to pick a fight with them is straight up bullying behaviour.

International testing indicated New Zealand had more bad readers among its 10-year-olds than other developed nations, but the picture improved for teenagers....

Man, Wellington shop owners must dread seeing a green MP walk in the door at this point.

Corrections has spent over $305,000 on slushy syrup and maintaining frozen ice machines in the past six years....

Lol. Q3 here sets out what he (edit: allegedly) said (anything said in the House is protected by Parliamentary privilege)...

A New Zealand team has taken home gold at the Cheerleading World Championships in the US....