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Some major shifts here, greens pick up a lot of Labour's loss, but still a shift to the right.

I want to know what the defendant did.

Original title: Report analyses impact of street changes Linked report

Initial findings show that overall, retail spending has not been negatively affected by changes to street layouts.

Encouraging to see that this hasn't significantly affected consumer spend in these areas. Hopefully this would lead to less resistance to other such schemes in the future.

A biennial workplace wellness survey by Southern Cross Health Society and BusinessNZ showed the average rate of absence was 5.5 days per employee over the course of 2022.

It compared to a range of 4.2 and 4.7 days between 2012 and 2020, and was the highest on record since the survey began in 2012.

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Southern Cross chief executive Nick Astwick said Covid and the then mandatory seven-day isolation was a factor in the higher absences.

"But we also believe as we've moved the minimum leave entitlement from five days to 10 days, that's also contributed to an increase of leave," Astwick said.

"Some of the workforce - we don't know how much - but some of the workforce see the 10 days as an entitlement and so we were expecting to see an increase, and we have," Astwick said.

Though another thing to consider is that, at least in my jobs, when the 5 days were exhausted, you just ate annual leave days when you were sick - or you just brought the bug into the office.

So the change could be reflecting that 5 days was actually not enough (especially with young children who bring home minor illnesses frequently). The increase in average rates seems quite small given the doubling of the allowance.

There will be abuse, I'm not denying it, but allowing us to use sick-leave instead of annual leave so that we can actually get recreational time off seems a fair enough change.

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Always good to head up Mt Kaukau on a nice day. At 445m high you get great views over the city and harbor area, as well as over Makara and the South Island beyond.

It took me and my 4 year old about and hour and a half to reach the top (from the Clark Street track), but without kids I'd reckon it'd be more like 30 mins to an hour up.

https://wellington.govt.nz/recreation/outdoors/parks-and-reserves/outer-green-belt-reserves/mount-kaukau

Really? Trying to capture the NIMBY vote?

"When pressed, Luxon also said National hadn't carried out any "specific modelling" for how its housing plan would affect house prices."

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So I had a look at vote compass and my top three are Green, TOP and TPM

Bottom is ACT as expected.

Has anyone else looked at vote compass this year?

Even though Green lines up "best" with how I answered the survey, I still wouldn't vote for them. I find them too idealistically driven.

After all the snide and condescending comments they made on that post, they can't spell it themselves.

Such hypocrites.

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"extended warranties and care programmes are often "not worth the paper they're written on" because of the protections under the CGA."

I've been watching Taskmaster NZ and Creamerie and realized there's a whole untapped market of content I (🍁) must be missing.

Watching the way drones have been used in Ukraine has been fascinating, it's my belief that expendable unmanned drones of all sizes will play a crucial role in future conflicts, both as observation platforms and as munitions.

Ukraine has sunk or damaged a number of warships with their drone boats, and the Bayraktar played a key role in the sinking of the Moskva. They also damaged a number of aircraft far behind enemy lines with Australian made cardboard drones.

We should have a plan on how to use this technology, but even more important is that we have a plan to counter it should it be used against us.