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@lemmy.nzhttps://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/526568/stores-fear-loss-of-business-under-auckland-s-new-liquor-curfew
Some South and West Auckland liquor stores fear they could lose up to 40 percent of their business under new liquor sale rules.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/08/28/pensioner-refuses-to-pay-horrendous-council-rates/
Liz Whiteside, 71, has written to all seven regional councillors and chief executive Darryl Lew, taking them to task over soaring rate bills.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/524828/pressure-on-power-companies-to-act-as-energy-woes-mount
Action is desperately needed as power companies profit while growing numbers of manufacturers and households power down, commentators say.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/abuseincare/522917/how-colonisation-created-the-state-care-to-prison-pipeline
First Person - When he walked into the prison yard for the first time as a teenager, having never been there before, Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena already knew most the men in there.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/350328314/government-workers-are-giving-themselves-payrise-cashing-annual-leave
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/521229/retail-spending-slump-nearly-surpassing-80s-sharemarket-crash
The current spending plunge is the worst in decades, data shows.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/06/auckland-city-missioner-calls-on-kiwis-for-support-as-government-funding-for-food-providers-slashed.html
"This is a problem throughout our country."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350299282/employment-dispute-costing-tvnz-nearly-6000-day-total-cluster-says-union
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/06/police-commissioner-andrew-coster-floats-tighter-alcohol-regulation-as-trade-off-to-reduce-estimated-7-8b-harm-from-booze.html
Police estimate the harm from alcohol to be about $7.8 billion a year.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513353/building-wall-not-enough-to-stop-sea-level-rising-research-says
New research suggests even building a giant wall in the sea would not be enough to stop sea level rise stemming from two crucial Antarctic glaciers.