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The Serious Fraud Office announced that it had charged two other people as part of its investigation into donations and loans made through the NZ First Foundation. No MP, worker or NZ First applicant has been charged and leader Winston Peters has said the component has been completely exonerated.
However, Peters has pledged to take legal action opposed to the OFS, arguing that the timing of the announcement so close to the election is deeply unfair to the party.
Meanwhile, National would rename the SSD “Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption Agency” and double its investment if elected next month.
In a series of fitness policy announcements, Labor said it would increase the emergency dental grant to $1,000 for low-income people, make all elementary and high school students have intellectual aptitude, and increase Pharmac’s investment by $200 million.
There have been two new instances of Covid-19, in controlled isolation.
The fugitive guy controlled to escape through the insulation with a sheet rope, who spent about 8 hours exploring other parts of Auckland on foot, he revealed.
Advance NZ has filed a court order against Mediaworks for the exclusion of Saturday morning’s exclusion from the small debate.
Public shipping would be loose across the country for children under 18 or over 65, and would be a value for students, as a component of the Greens shipping policy.
Stewart Sowman-Lund of Winston Peters’ press conference:
After a silent verbal exchange with Barry Soper of Newstalk ZB to find out if he had been stuck in traffic on the Auckland Harbor Bridge, Winston Peters waited for the clock to strike at five in the afternoon. This was the time the Serious Fraud Office officially revealed that Peters had not been charged for the donations to the New Zealand First Foundation (see update at 5pm). Addressing a crowded, not socially remote room, Peters said New Zealand First had been “exonerated” with all of its MPs, workers and candidates.
“We have been completely clarified, the recent National Party donation scandal,” he said, before claiming that the timing of the announcement represented an “error of trial at James Comey’s point,” a reference to the former FBI director’s resolve to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails days before the 2016 US presidential election.
“The OFS justifies the timing of its decision . . . a day before voting opened abroad,” Peters said.
NZ First has told its lawyers to take legal action in the Superior Court opposite the OFS, Mr. Peter, calling the investigation of the OFS unfair. He said he is taking legal action against the OFS for “honor and integrity and just action. “
The SFO is brief, but Peters was pleased with the clarity surrounding the exemption of the party and its parliamentarians.
“I’m sure I’m extremely happy that you’re happy to see me exonerated,” Peters told reporters with a smile as they left the room.
The Serious Fraud Office announced at five o’clock in the afternoon. that two other people had been accused of “deception” as a result of their research on the First New Zealand Foundation and donations and loans to the First New Zealand Party.
The OFS says:
The SFO filed a “deception” opposed to two defendants in the new Zealand First Foundation election finance case.
Defendants have a provisional call cancellation and cannot be called or known at this time. However, we note that none of the defendants are a minister, a current member of Parliament or a candidate for the next election (or a member of his staff), or an existing member of the New Zealand party.
The OFS has no comment.
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The guy who escaped controlled isolation through a sheet rope spent about 8 hours exploring other parts of Auckland on foot before returning to his hotel, said controlled head of isolation, Air Commodore Darryn Webb.
The guy left the Ramada Hotel on Sunday night and gave the impression on the CCTV images in Aotea Square at 1 a. m. Monday. From there, it went further, Webb said. Newmarket, Epsom, Onehunga and Mt Albert before returning to the assets on Federal Street. “
The type’s cloth rope, used to scale the 4-story drop from his window, learned for safety at the scene at 8:20 a. m. yesterday. The guy approached the hotel staff about 4 minutes later, prompting Guyy to assume he never left the hotel grounds at all.
The Serious Fraud Office is expected to publish the effects of its investigation into the NZ First Foundation at five o’clock in the afternoon. The OFS investigated whether the base had made donations and loans to itself and, if so, whether the invoices had been well reported.
NZ First frontman Winston Peters has convened a press convention to coincide with the release of SFO (see 2:30 p. m. ), and we’ll have main points here at The Spinoff at 5 p. m.
Advance NZ has filed a court order against Mediaworks for its exclusion from an upcoming debate, Stuff’ report.
Newshub will hold a small debate Saturday morning with Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson, Bill leader David Seymour and Maori co-leader John Tamihere. However, no Advance NZ representatives were invited to participate.
The party will be included in TVNZ’s multi-party debate, as co-leader Jami-Lee Ross is an existing MP. Newshub, however, followed the same criteria.
Ross, in a statement to Stuff, said Advance NZ had taken “urgent action” because the resolution to exclude the party from the debate would cause “serious harm. “
The Opportunity Party took TVNZ to the Supreme Court in 2017 after being excluded from its electoral debate and lost; however, conservatives (under Colin Craig) won TV3 three years earlier.
New Zealand leader Winston Peters has convened a press conference in Auckland tonight.
It is still known what stand-up is all about, as the press release sent to the media does provide some information, however, it is described as ‘important’.
We’ll be there and everything Peters reveals.
The Maori Party presented its Mana Motuhake policy in Waitangi, promising to create a separate Maori parliament if it reaches parliament next month.
The policy introduced through co-leader John Tamihere, who said it was a 25-year strategy, and that the party’s policies aimed to pull Maori out of social dependence and build a Maori middle class.
“We want to move from poverty to employment. Only we Maori can make that change,” he said.
In addition, the party would create a parliamentary commissioner from Waitangi who would be appointed jointly through tangata whenua and the Crown, return the land to iwi and make waitangi Court recommendations mandatory for the Crown.
Regional economies would “reboot” through the Green Party’s policy of making an investment in immediate intercity transport, co-leader James Shaw announced.
Public shipping would also be loose in the country for children under 18 or over 65, and partly valuable to students.
“Like us at Covid-19, we have an exclusive opportunity to rebuild our communities in a way that addresses the climate crisis and makes our communities healthier in the long run,” Shaw said.
The party’s 10-year plan, worth $13. 6 billion, is the ultimate bold transportation plan through a political party, Shaw said.
“We will attach our major cities with a new major investment in intercity passenger trains. This new network will reshape the way other people move around our country, making regions faster, less difficult, and bigger for the planet,” Shaw said.
“The exercise will bring thousands of people a day from Auckland to Hamilton, from Wellington to Masterton and Palmerston North, and from Christchurch to Rangiora and Ashburton, adding Dunedin and Timaru. “
A new crossing to auckland’s north coast is also a component of the Greens’ plan, as a $1. 5 billion “super motorcycle road fund” to create separate cycling routes between schools and travelers across the country.
Updated
There are now two new instances of Covid-19, either in controlled isolation. The last network case took place on September 25: a circle of relatives connected to the existing cluster.
Today’s new instances were on the same flight from the United Arab Emirates on September 23, but the two did not travel together, one from Pakistan and the other from Ukraine.
Both Americans tested after testing on the third day and were transferred to the Auckland Quarantine Center.
There are 18 other remote people at the Auckland community quarantine facility, which includes nine other people who tested positive for C0vid-19 and their circle of family contacts.
A user remains at Middlemore Hospital, isolated in a division.
Since August 11, touch seek has known 4,079 case touches, of which 4,079 have been touched and self-insulated or have completed their self-de-insulating.
The total number of assets is 55, with 29 imported into controlled isolation centers and 26 networkArrays. The total number of Covid-19 shown is 1,479.
Yesterday 3,636 tests were processed, bringing the total number of tests to date to 955,590.
The ministry reminds others to remain ‘attentive’ during school holidays
The Ministry of Health said Covid-19 “seizes any opportunity to spread” and that holidays are no exception.
People are reminded not to wait for an exam, even if they take a break. “If you are asked to take an exam . . . don’t wait to go home,” the ministry said.
The Ministry of Health will send its press on the Covid-19 in about 10 minutes.
Yesterday, there was no new case of Covid-19 and it has been 4 days since the last case on the network: a circle of relatives connect to the Auckland Mourning Group.
I will have all the news when it arrives.
Labor showed that it would increase the emergency dental grant to $1,000 for low-income people and open another 20 cellular dental clinics.
In addition, Labour’s is committed to doubling the number of cochlear implants that can be had, making all elementary and high school students have intellectual aptitude, and expanding Pharmac’s investment by $200 million.
“Our plan will strengthen the workforce of social staff, counselors, teachers, young staff, and psychologists who will move to schools to attend, help, and recover our schoolchildren by equipping them with skills that will help them for the rest of their years. lives,” occupational health critic Chris Hipkins said.
“One of the central objectives of a backward Labour government will be the deployment of our plan in the public fitness formula to provide high-quality services, minus DHB, increased concentration of equity, a Maori fitness authority that will focus on Maori fitness, a commissioner for elder care, and a public fitness company that will more strongly link the country’s 12 public fitness units.
The policy announced through Hipkins along Jacinda Ardern in Auckland today.
While pronouncing an increase in maternal intellectual fitness care capacity and the national launch of her school nursing initiative, Ardern explained that her mother had to stay in a Plunket space for a few days because she was a complicated baby.
“I think we’re going to look back at that time and say that’s when we started doing things for our intellectual health,” Ardern said.
“This will give mothers who might want a little more after having a baby for as long as they wanted. I was one of the difficult little children and my mother went into what was the equivalent of a Plunket space for a few days and a few nights. to get an additional fix
National has announced that it will rename the Office of Serious Fraud (SFO) and double its investment if elected month.
Chief Judith Collins said: “SFO takes very few prosecutions, not because there is no fraud, bribery and corruption in New Zealand, but because it does not have the resources to perform its task properly. “
It would possibly be intentional for this announcement to occur at a time when an announcement related to THES’s research on the New Zealand First Foundation is being made. The OFS said earlier this year that a resolution would be made before the election.
The SFO budget would accumulate at $25 million, Collins said, and would be called the Serious Fraud and Anti-Corruption Agency.
“We would replace the call of the workplace because New Zealand wants to better perceive the types of crimes for which it is guilty,” Collins said.
“The SFO will continue to paint throughout the Financial Intelligence Unit of the New Zealand Police, but will have the budget to make the paintings for which it was established in 1990. “
Here are our political leaders today:
With New Zealand initially virtually invisible in the most recent polls, it is conceivable that the Greens will exert maximum force on election night. not rule alone.
Green Party co-leader James Shaw told RNZ that everything is on the table after the next election. “One of the things we hear from people . . . is that they must make sure that the Labour Party has to communicate with someone and not be able to do so. “make the decisions on their own.
Shaw would not rule out targeting a green deputy prime minister, saying he is “not out of the realm of the possible. “However, anything outside the scope of the option would be a green coalition with National, and Shaw agreed that a vote for the Greens is a vote by a Labour-led government.
Every role imaginable in a government would be assessed on its merits and the numbers would be dropped on election night, Shaw said.
When asked why the Greens have recovered in the polls, while New Zealand First is leaving, Shaw said it reflects the party’s “balance sheet” for more than 3 years.
This morning he reports that Labor will announce an increase in the emergency dental grant for low-income people.
RNZ says the party will be dedicated to expanding paints and income source grant from $300 to $1,000.
The party’s fitness critic, Hipkins, had decided in the past to provide loose dental care, which was not a feature of National’s fitness plans before this month. Currently, loose checks must be up to age 18.
National’s policy provided an additional $30 million for service improvements, adding a toothbrush, toothpaste and a loose data package per year for children.
In addition, Labor is ready to promise more cellular dental clinics for school-age youth living in remote, hard-to-reach areas.
It’s not exactly the realm of live “elections” (although it fits into a politicized issue), but I think I would highlight this for all Auckland readers this morning. The Auckland Harbour Bridge is closed at any of the rush hour instructions due to strong winds at night.
Follow a twist on the fate of a main truck on the bridge more than a week ago.
The trucking company said the bridge lanes would reopen as soon as imaginable once the wind gusts subsided, and motorists are urged to stop travel or use the western outer highway.
If you can paint from home this morning and you’re affected by the bridge closure, I would.
Here came another ballot, and this tells the story of a very different parliament after the election compared to other recent ballots. The One News Colmar Brunton survey still has a long way to go for Labour with 47%, with the national survey passing 33%, suggesting that the vast hole is narrowing slightly. Act came here in third place with 8%, and the Greens followed him with 7%. Nowhere else within succeeding at the 5% threshold, with NZ First falling as low as 1%.
There is a significant detail to these figures: suddenly the Greens influence the Labour Party, as the Labour Party would have 59 seats, leaving them to a few of the majority, which would give the Greens the opportunity to give confidence and source to a minority Labour government, or to form a coalition with them.
But in crude political terms, that means strength. You will realize that I have recently insisted very much on the effects of the Green Party negotiations (so far they do not) rather than having a list of ”big priorities”, which come with problems such as tax and social welfare reform, its ocean coverage plan and housing policies. But it is exactly for this situation that it is very important to know what they intend to promote, and how much they intend to push, and as two of Stuff’s top senior politicians write, the Greens with the balance of force can simply replace the total dynamics of the race and inspire some national supporters who don’t like the Greens to switch to Labour to prevent them from entering.
For National and Act, there is still a long way to go before those figures seem enough to pass, but Act specificity has behaved well in recent surveys through the criteria they have endured over the past decade, and Radio NZ’s Jo Moir told how they discovered the change.
No new instances of Covid-19 have been announced. And for the first time in more than a month, the number of active imported instances exceeded those of the community.
A guy ran away from an isolation center on the fourth floor of an Auckland hotel in the morning. We think he tied several sheets in combination to get out the window.
Work has dropped by 47% and National has gone up 33% in the latest TVNZ/Colmar Brunton survey. The law is at 8% and the Greens are at 7%.
Labor has promised to negotiate a long-closing era for the Tiwai Point aluminum smelter in Southland, with effects on paints and site rehabilitation.
National has published its intellectual aptitude policy, promising to establish a ministry of intellectual aptitude and offer 100,000 loose counselling sessions to provide relief after Covid-19.
National also announced that it would provide tertiary service providers with $4,000 for each unemployed user who trained and returned to full-time work within a year.
Limited between Australia and New Zealand may reopen earlier than expected, according to reports from Australia.
Read yesterday’s specialty here.
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