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TAX CUTS, PUBLIC SERVICE CUTS
Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): In Whose Best Interests?
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Planned cuts to the public service so far won’t even wind back the last six months of expansion - Public Purse (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Will tax cuts make up for the end of cheap public transport?
Kirk Hope (Post): Tax relief need not break the bank (paywalled)
Glenn McConnnell (Stuff): Science, environment and Commerce Commission on the public service chopping block
Rachel Thomas (Post): Health cuts: Vaping regulation team ‘about to lose some sheriffs’ (paywalled)
RNZ: NZ public service job cuts: what we know so far
Glenn McConnnell (Stuff): Public service job cuts: What ministries are proposing
Rebecca Bull (Newshub): Government slammed over Environment Ministry job cuts for putting 'tax cuts ahead of the environment'
Felix Desmarais (1News): Job cuts: Environment ministry seeks voluntary redundancies
RNZ: Ministry for the Environment asks for voluntary redundancies
Anna Whyte (Post): Ministry for Environment opens up voluntary redundancies (paywalled)
Fiona Rotherham (NBR): Callaghan Innovation spends $173,000 on rebranding as 30 jobs cut (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Callaghan Innovation aims at jobs amid cost pressures, ageing buildings (paywalled)
Monique Steele (RNZ): 'Shaky' times for scientific research with decade-long Our Land and Water challenge set to end
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): The Detail: Measuring poverty just got harder
Newshub: Labour, Greens slam Government's public service targets for 'punching down'
Asher Wilson-Goldman (Spinoff): Step up to the redundancy rollercoaster
Terry Baucher Interest): Te wiki o te tāke - Taxes, transfers, and net benefits
GOVERNMENT TARGETS
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): John Key era policies are back but Prime Minister Chris Luxon’s no Key when it comes to popularity
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour MP shares moving cancer anecdote as Government moves ahead with more rigid public service targets
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon confirms health-related beneficiaries will be part of 50,000 benefit cut target
Felix Desmarais (1News): Govt reveals targets — including 50k people off benefit by 2030
RNZ: Government's targets: 'Where is the action behind these?'
Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): Government releases nine new targets for health, crime, employment, education, housing and climate change
RNZ: Government sets nine targets in health, crime, social support, education, climate
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon sets nine ‘ambitious’ targets for public services (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (NBR): Luxon makes like a CEO with public service targets for 2030 (paywalled)
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