Mar 31, 2023
New Zealand MP Marama Davidson has addressed the "harmful and false narrative" that trans people are "one of the biggest risks" to women.
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New Zealand MP Marama Davidson has addressed the "harmful and false narrative" that trans people are "one of the biggest risks" to women.
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"I know we're not in the van any more, we're under a roof, but it still feels the same because it's not our home," she says, clearly exhausted. "I don't know what is going to happen and I don't want to lose any more of my kids."The government social agency, Work and Income New Zealand or WINZ, paid 1,300 dollars (US $935) for her first week in the motel. They will recover this money by deducting 10 dollars (US $7) a week from her weekly 358 dollars (US $258) single parent's benefit for the next two-and-a-half years. Two thirds of her weekly benefit is deducted before she sees it, to cover existing unpaid fines and loans, leaving her with just 120 dollars (US $85) a week for food for the family and petrol for the car. WINZ hasn't billed her for the subsequent five weeks she has stayed in the motel on the condition that each week she demonstrates that she has been trying to find a private rental. Alisia shows me a handwritten list of houses that are for rent. But most, she says, are out of her price range and some attract as many as 70 applicants."Most landlords and agents are just picky now. They are taking on full-time workers instead of [social benefits] beneficiaries. I feel discriminated against," she says.In May, New Zealand's government announced that it was making 41 million dollars (US $30m) available to pay for 3,000 emergency housing places such as Alisia's motel unit.There's been confusion over the new policy - and over who will end up paying for the accommodation. There are reports that some families are running up debts as high as $50,000 with WINZ for their emergency housing, with little ability to ever repay the loans.
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New Zealand politics: how political donations could be reformed to reduce potential influence
New Zealand politics: how political donations could be reformed to reduce potential influence
Author: Simon Chapple / Source: The Conversation
In the aftermath of the controversy surrounding former MP Jami-Lee Ross and opposition National party leader Simon Bridges, discussions have focused on possible reforms of political donations in New Zealand.
My colleagues Bryce Edwards and Michael Macaulay have raised the issue of taxpayer funding of political parties. So too has Minister of…
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