Welcome to The Spinoff’s Election Live on September 30, which presents the latest news about the 2020 election and other New Zealand news. The essential dates of the crusade are here. For everything you want to know about the hash referendum, click here. For the assisted dying referendum, click here. Discover the parties’ commitments to politics. Je am at stewart@thespinoff. co. nz 7:00 pm: what to do waiting for the moment of the leaders’ debate
Labour leader Jacinda Ardern and national leader Judith Collins will face off in the crusade leaders’ debate at 7:30 p. m. tonight on Newshub.
Last week’s debate at TVNZ was an unretrial issue, especially memorable for Collins’s now iconic “so-tlofa” observation and the general absence of any reference to some of the Maori.
Will tonight’s face-to-face, chaired by Paddy Gower and with a genuine live audience, unlike the audienceless affair led by John Campbell last week, bring more gossip?Spin-off deputy editor Alice Neville will take a look at it and bring you updates here, while editor-in-chief Tothrough Manhire will be among the audience on the most sensible path at Newshub headquarters, apparently with the “debt monster. “taxpayers’ union, see below parking your car nearby.
Google’s knowledge shows a significant increase in the number of other people in the United States now searching for the words “moving to New Zealand,” coinciding with the chaotic debate between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
According to TVNZ, it was sought more times during the two-hour debate era than at any time last week, and the increased interest came from Hawaii, Oregon, and Colorado.
– Toby Manhire (@toby_etc) September 30, 2020
Our video wizard Jose Barbosa has amassed the most productive reactions to the absolute shitty spectacle of this afternoon’s US presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, that Array ah, yes, just watch the video.
I was in the room when Winston Peters revealed that New Zealand first sued the OFS, and the 3 minutes it took him to start talking were the longest of my life.
Here, José Barbosa offers a review of Peters’ spirit for those 180 seconds.
Let’s get out of the U. S. presidential election and go home.
RNZ and Stuff head to court to verify and disclose the identities of the other two defendants through the Graves Fraud Office as a component of the NZ First Foundation’s donation investigation.
The two persons were appointed due to an interim call removal order, however, the SFO has shown that they are not members, applicants or members of the existing party.
The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden turned into chaos about 3 minutes after it began.
Moderator Chris Wallace took any of the applicants and started the discussion about Trump’s variety in the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett. However, very quickly, the debate led President Trump to communicate several times about Biden and the moderator.
Biden, as exasperated as the ones we were looking at, told the president to “shut up” and then encouraged him to “keep barking. “You can’t get it back.
– Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) September 30, 2020
The first presidential debate in 2020 will take place in about an hour. We’re going to have a policy here at Election Live and The Spinoff this afternoon, and you can sign in below.
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For the fifth consecutive day, no new Covid-19 network instances will be reported.
The Ministry of Health has announced a new case in controlled isolation: a user who arrived from France Singapore on 25 September tested positive during the third day of his stay in controlled isolation and was transferred to the Auckland Quarantine Centre.
There are 17 other remote people at the Auckland community quarantine facility, which includes nine other people who tested positive for Covid-19 and its circle of family contacts.
A user remains at Middlemore Hospital, isolated in a division.
Since August 11, the touch seek team has known 4,073 cases of close contact; they have all been touched and are lying down or have finished their self-de-insulation; that number has declined since then due to records known as duplicates in the system, the ministry said.
Currently, there are only 44 active instances in the country, of which 12 in the past were considered curated; of these, 30 are instances imported into controlled isolation services and 14 are network instances.
The total number of Covid-19 demos is now 1,480. Yesterday, 4,969 tests were processed, bringing the total number of tests to date to 960,559.
Yesterday I saw another day without a new Covid-19 network case It’s been five days since the last controlled isolation outdoor case: a circle of relatives touches that in isolation.
As reported via RNZ, this is the case similar to the Auckland cluster in the last two weeks.
The Department of Health will send your update around 1 p. m. and I’ll have all the main points for you here.
Early voting opens in New Zealand on Saturday, if eligible abroad, you can do so now in general elections and referendums.
If you are one of approximately 67,000 registered voters on a front overseas, the option is to download and print the ballots here and then upload them on the site.
In some countries, voting on the user in an electoral college will also be an option, however, “there will not be as many polling stations open to the public as usual, reflecting what is happening with Covid-19″. The scenario is another in each country and we will have to stick to local rules to ensure the protection of the electorate and staff,” the electoral director Alicia Wright said in a statement.
A complete list of polling places, data and here can be found.
A new ballot that appears the Labour candidate of the East Coast ahead of the National called it “doubtful” through the opposition.
The survey, published in the Rotorua Daily Post and commissioned through the Labour Party, placed Kiri Allan at just over 40%, to National’s Tania Tapsell at 35%. It is the first time in 15 years that a Labour candidate has voted before National. Seat.
However, this provoked a critical reaction from National Deputy Chief Gerry Brownlee, who was the survey method.
“The vote was conducted for the Labor Party through the debatable political research firm Community Engagement Limited,” Brownlee said.
“The Australian Sunday Telegraph revealed that Community Engagement Limited achieved a thorough vote in major marginal seats in last year’s Australian federal election, asking difficult questions about labour’s conflicting political parties to download the results of the fictional vote, which would then be broadcast in the media. “
Brownlee’s Labour Party had “serious questions to answer” if it used the push poll, which it described as a “questionable and coercive political tactic. “
“The Labour crusade is failing and leaking polls to verify that applicants cross the line is pretty desperate,” Brownlee said.
The ballot also showed Labour leading the party’s vote at the East Coast headquarters at 50%, with the time of the national seat at 31%.
Deputy Editor-in-Chief Catherine McGregor writes:
This time, four years ago, political neophyte Donald J. Trump opposed Washington veteran Hilary Clinton, and the night speech focused on Trump’s “birther” attacks on Barack Obama, Clinton’s “lack of resistance” and Trump’s tax returns.
Today (at 2 p. m. New Zealand time), when President Trump meets with former Vice President Joe Biden in the first of three presidential debates, the issues that will go back will come with the president’s reaction to the pandemic, Biden’s “lack of resistance” – and Trump’s tax returns.
The most recent challenge came to the headlines Monday, when the New York Times reported that he had acquired tax documents that Trump had long concealed, publishing a bomb investigation that revealed trump paid $750 in federal taxes during the first two years of his presidency, while using a debt of more than $421 million.
In fact, Biden will use the revelations as a stick to attack Trump for being disconnected from administrative staff and as a bankrupt businessman who failed with the U. S. economy.
Meanwhile, Trump’s side, having belatedly learned that lowering Biden’s expectations by portraying him senile is not a fair crusade strategy, now argues that a strong demonstration of his component today will be the result of performance-enhancing drugs, which are fueled by questions in advance. . , or by using a headset.
This new conspiracy theory emerged in a coordinated Facebook crusade today, and was temporarily amplified through Fox News, and then through trump’s crusade.
Today’s debate will last 90 minutes of ad interruption. The moderator is Chris Wallace, who works for Fox News but also gave Trump one of the most brutal bars of his presidency for a few months, and the topics of debate he chose are Trump and Biden Records, “The Supreme Court,” “Covid-19,” “The Economy,” “Race and Violence in Our Cities” and “The Integrity of Elections. “Wait for fireworks.
National promised that its transient tax reduction policy would allow New Zealanders to earn between $ 50,000 and $ 70,000 and another $ 3,000 in their pockets.
However, an IPA data verification report refuted this claim, stating that many middle-income people would get the same amount in exchange for the tax cut.
“To get advantages of the $3,000 in tax changes, a person would want to have a source of income of more than $62,640,” AAP said.
Using the National Party tax calculator, we decided that a user with a revenue source of $50,000 would have an overall tax savings of $893, while $60,000 would save $2,560.
Discussions about a national coalition have increased in recent weeks, with David Seymour’s party raising the polling station to the third highest party.
Yesterday, Judith Collins demonstrated that David Seymour could become deputy prime minister in a coalition imaginable. Today, however, it was debatable to gain advantages from the implementing law.
“We’re not going to move on to cutting the benefits for other people who can’t put food on the table, we’re not going to pass that one on,” Collins told RNZ this morning.
However, Collins warned that there were some problems on which either party may agree. “Especially around RMA reforms, around the release of homes, first of all to other people in the houses by permission of the personal sector to do their job,” he said. Says.
The Act Party introduced its fitness policy this morning, with Chief David Seymour calling for an independent Pharmac operating style and relief on the number of district fitness joints.
“Decisions made through Pharmac can mean life or death. Access to the right medications can make a difference in a person’s quality of life, whether they suffer from chronic pain or go to work. We have to get it right,” Seymour said.
“Pharmac’s style and operating framework were established 27 years ago and there has been no significant repositioning since.
He is also asking for relief in the “bureaucracy” in the fitness system, adding relief in the number of DHBs from 20 to six: 4 on the North Island and two on the south.
“This will save about $50 million a year on overheads that can be spent on care,” Seymour said.
“We would put into force a fully built-in national IT platform for health care purchases and the chain of origin. There are many PC and origin conflicts between too much DHB, which puts patient care at risk. We can do it faster and faster.
That’s where our political leaders are. Spoiler, everyone’s in Auckland:
Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins will face each other for the time being in the Newshub leaders’ debate tonight.
Two other votes follow: one that seems that Labour can govern alone, and another that seems to want that of the Greens. Neither vote saw a trace to force National.
Speaking at Newstalk ZB today, Collins warned Ardern that he opposes the “raise. ” There is a suggestion that Ardern may decide to go on the defensive in the debate tonight, after some more moderate functionality last week.
Collins asked Ardern to “correct the record” in his comments about the serious fraud office.
“Clearly there is a bit of history there with the Opposition Leader [Collins] and the OFS; as a former minister, his participation in SSD has led to job losses,” Ardern said yesterday. prompted Collins to say she was “disgusted. “
Meanwhile, a new ballot published by the NZ Herald showed that most respondents relied on Labor to manage the Covid-19 reaction and prevent the virus from entering New Zealand, yet more idea than National could simply rebuild the economy.
Winston Peters said it is “a law for New Zealand first and other programs for everyone else,” after announcing that tariffs had been imposed against two other people connected to the NZ First Foundation. Peters and the party had tried to prevent the announcement from coming out until the end of the election, in a movement that was rejected by the court.
He has now announced that he will take the Office of Serious Fraud to court on allegations that he has abused his legal powers (see more in the Bulletin).
Two other people have been accused of “obtaining by deception” in connection with donations to the First New Zealand Foundation. A minister, an existing member of Parliament or a candidate in the next election (or a member of his staff) is also not a current member of the New Zealand party.
Appearing on Newstalk ZB, Peters criticized the SFO’s resolve to announce his party’s resolution so close to the election, while national and labor investigations are still ongoing.
The SFO has already charged fees from the National Party’s donation investigation, with a trial date set for next year, however, an investigation into donations to the Labour Party in 2017 is ongoing.
“The timing of the opposite rates to the base is James Comey’s error of judgment,” Peters said at a press convention last night.
When asked if he shot himself in the foot for having a base in the first place, Peters said: “The base is the same design and structure . . . the base of the National Party. “
Just a few days before the start of the vote, we had an update on the serious fraud bureau’s investigation into the NZ First Foundation. Toby Manhire has also combined a cheat sheet with all the data we got at 5 p. m. last night, as the context of the problem The OFS has issued a statement, and I will quote it here in its entirety, because it is brief:
The SFO filed a “deception” opposed to two defendants in the case of electoral financing of the First Foundation of New Zealand. Fees were filed on September 23.
Defendants have a provisional call cancellation and cannot be called or known at this time. However, we note that none of the defendants are ministers, members of the current Parliament or candidate in the upcoming elections (or a member of their staff), nor is he an existing member of the New Zealand party.
The OFS has no comment.
At a press conference, NZ First frontman Winston Peters said the lack of fees they opposed in the party amounted to a total exemption from NZ First, and denounced the moment, saying it “raises serious doubts about the Serious Fraud Office. “He said NZ First’s lawyers would take the SFO to court on charges that he had abused his legal powers. He also insisted that the NZ First Foundation is absolutely separate from the party itself. “The general exemption for everyone in my party is clarity, and I’m satisfied with that, ” said Peters. Political editor Barry Soper told Newstalk ZB that the party had tried to prevent the SFO from disclosing the main points of the fees submitted until after the election.
The suggestion that the NZ First Foundation is absolutely different from the party is bold. The two base managers are Peters’ non-public lawyer, Brian Henry, and former New Zealand MP Doug Woolerton. Election law expert Andrew Geddis said last night at Checkpoint that the nature of the base was exclusive and that the base, in his opinion, was “created as a ghostly way to win donations and lead the party. “If I read Professor Geddis’ mind instead of paying attention to them, we published an article through him about The Spinoff.
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 were two new cases of Covid-19, in controlled segregation.
The fugitive guy controlled to escape through the insulation with a sheet rope, and spent about 8 hours exploring other parts of Auckland on foot, he revealed.
Advance NZ has filed a court order against Mediaworks for The’s exclusion from this weekend’s 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.
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