Factbox: New Zealand parties clash over COVID-19, economy, taxes and housing

- New Zealand holds a general election on Oct. 17, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s centre-left Labour Party holding a wide lead over the centre-right main opposition National Party.

New Zealand placed the most significant restrictions on public movements in modern history in the initial phase of the coronavirus outbreak by closing its borders, imposing self-isolation and shutting down most of its economy to contain the spread of the virus. It aims to create 11,000 jobs in regional New Zealand to restore the environment, including cleaning up waterways to allow safe swimming.

Climate change, a key issue in the election, has pitted the parties against each other on policies on oil and gas exploration - National wants to lift a ban on exploration and seeks “responsible mining”.The government, in which Labour is joined by the smaller New Zealand First party, announced in May a record NZ$50 billion in spending to revive the pandemic-hit economy, saying it would help businesses hire at least 40,000 who had lost their jobs or seen their working hours reduced.

National promises short-term tax cuts worth about NZ$4.7 billion to revive the economy. The party says its temporary tax relief would put more than NZ$3,000 – nearly NZ$50 a week – into the pockets of average earners over the next 16 months. National would spend NZ$800 million more on the health sector during its term and promises faster elective surgeries and more money for cancer treatments.Ardern says her government would create a NZ$350 million fund for residential housing plans and reform decades-old laws in the sector to speed up approvals.

Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)

At least for for New Zealand there is a light at the end of the tunnel. In not so many weeks scott brown will depart for his sinecure milking the new england school of law.

I'm with the noble woman leader who showed touching solidarity with the Muslim victims of the Islamophob terror attack on the Christchurch mosque, March 15th, 2019. Showed great integrity, righteousness and sympathy, basic human values, that are much needed in these trying times.

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Nobel prize?

Can i get one another one of those mosque movies please? 4k would be nice...

Dont they have like one of the lowest infection rates? Whats to debate? Its working.

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New Zealand is just postponing the inevitable with Covid. It's gonna come.

It seems so complex. :(

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