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PM’s Post Cabinet Press conference 30/04/18
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern attended the Post Cabinet press conference today. Ardern made no major announcements, simply outlining her week ahead and opening up the floor to questions.
Video:
The Prime Minister’s Week Ahead
Tues – House Resumes for 4 week session including budget 17 may
Weds – Attending NZQA Top scholar awards
Thurs - Will be meeting with Sheik Abdullah – Foreign Minister of the UAE and delivering a pre-budget speech to a Business NZ lunch
Friday – Announcement in relation to the housing crisis alongside Minister Twyford
Saturday – Speaking at the Labour Party Auckland regional conference
Questions to the PM included:
• the free trade agreement with The UAE;
• the demise of the non-nuclear agreement between UAE and Iran;
• fuel pricing and the BP pricing revelations;
• the Auckland regional fuel tax;
• The backdown over pre-election commitments to lower GP visits by $10
• Whether the Government will consider reviewing Budget responsibility restraints
• The Dunedin Hospital rebuild
Joseph Cederwall
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Joseph is Co-editor of Scoop and Editor of The Dig. Joseph is an editor, writer, and social entrepreneur with an interest in open and participatory media and business models. In 2019, Joseph founded The Dig. Joseph has qualifications in law and anthropology and previously practiced as a lawyer in the Immigration and Human Rights field. He is now applying this background to the practice of ‘reverse anthropology' using a framing of indigenous worldviews to deconstruct the dominant worldviews and cultural myths of Western society. Joseph has a longstanding interest in the commons, participatory democracy, social justice, and human rights. He was a co-founder, and founding Director of ActionStation Aotearoa - now NZ's largest online movement-building organisation. Joseph is also a Director of Freerange Publishing Cooperative, and a long-time contributor to Enspiral - a non-hierarchical collective of freelancers and ventures dedicated to collaborative business practice and purpose-driven enterprise. He lives in beautiful Taranaki and enjoys watersports, permaculture, tai chi, music, and being in nature.
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