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Job cuts: Proposal for 79 roles to go at airports, ports: Workers from teams such as boarder operations, intelligence and compliance service delivery are on the ...
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Job cuts: Proposal for 79 roles to go at airports, ports
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#WATCH | Chris Hipkins has hit out at the latest round of cuts at Customs and the Department of Internal Affairs.
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New Zealand Passport system upgrades lead to longer processing times: The government target for processing passports is 10 days but the current wait-time ...
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New Zealand Passport system upgrades lead to longer processing times
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Pessimistic public servant eyes move overseas: A public servant forced to reapply for her role says competition in the job market means she will look for better ...
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Pessimistic public servant eyes move overseas
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Minister 'not convinced' Fire and Emergency needs further levy boost: The Internal Affairs Minister is asking Fire and Emergency to prove it needs a further ...
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Minister 'not convinced' Fire and Emergency needs further levy boost
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Department of Internal Affairs announces cuts, winds up water reform teams: Twenty-eight jobs will be cut at the Department of Internal Affairs' National Library ...
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Department of Internal Affairs announces cuts, winds up water reform teams
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The makers of NZ’s most popular shows talk about what’s going wrong with TV: What do those in charge of our biggest production companies think about the looming ...
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The makers of NZ’s most popular shows talk about what’s going wrong with ...
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Smaller agencies cutting deepest into staffing, data to date shows: Smaller agencies are making deepest cuts as they look to save costs, RNZ data shows.
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Smaller agencies cutting deepest into staffing, data to date shows
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Taxes – what's happened and what's in store?: An array of tax changes have already affected many taxpayers this year, and there’s more to come | ...
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Taxes – what's happened and what's in store?
Quick Glance: Gender Pay Gap in UK Supermarkets and Income Impact
  • UK supermarkets are closing gender pay gap, with Morrisons experiencing a rise.

  • Ocado and Lidl show the most improvements, while Morrisons has the largest gap.

  • Hourly pay differences are reported by government service.

  • Equality initiatives and workplace improvements at M&S and Co-op.
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Women set to bear brunt of Tertiary Education Commission losses - union: The government agency overseeing universities and polytechnics is cutting 28 roles ...
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Women set to bear brunt of Tertiary Education Commission losses - union
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Public sector job cuts: Department of Internal Affairs may shed 28 staff, Ministry for Pacific Peoples to cut 63
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Public sector job cuts: Department of Internal Affairs may shed 28 staff ...
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Ministry of Health proposes 134 job losses: And the Ministry of Social Development is also calling for mass voluntary redundancies.
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Ministry of Health proposes 134 job losses
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Job cuts at MBIE double in size to 286 roles: Up to 286 staff will now be dropped at MBIE, while dozens look set to lose their job at the heritage ministry.
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Job cuts at MBIE double in size to 286 roles
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Wellington job market already tough before public sector redundancies: Some say they have already been struggling to find work, even before an influx of ...
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Wellington job market already tough before public sector redundancies
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Premier House report recommends $33m refurbishment for 'dated' building: If big decisions are not made about the building, a "significant piece of our heritage ...
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Premier House report recommends $33m refurbishment for 'dated' building
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Public submissions to the Covid inquiry closed on Sunday. What happens next?: About 11,000 people gave their thoughts during the consultation stage ...
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Public submissions to the Covid inquiry closed on Sunday. What happens ...
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Access to banking proving to be one of fintech's biggest roadblocks: Getting bank accounts - and managing to keep them - is constraining innovation in New ...
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Access to banking proving to be one of fintech's biggest roadblocks
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More than two million child sex abuse files found in man's possession: A Westport man with a history of obtaining child sex abuse material is again facing ...
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More than two million child sex abuse files found in man's possession
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Internal Affairs boss warns staff not to leak: DIA chief executive Paul James sends a directive to staff, as the Govt weathers a wave of leaks from the public ...
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Internal Affairs boss warns staff not to leak
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Access to banking proving to be one of fintech's biggest roadblocks: Getting bank accounts - and managing to keep them - is constraining innovation in New ...
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Access to banking proving to be one of fintech's biggest roadblocks
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Volunteer fire brigade expected to return Head Hunters donation after complaints: The minister for internal affairs has now weighed in.
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Volunteer fire brigade expected to return Head Hunters donation after ...
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NZ teen arrested with trove of violent, sexual and terrorist content: The case is part of a pattern, globally and in New Zealand, of minors being radicalised ...
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NZ teen arrested with trove of violent, sexual and terrorist content
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Upgrades badly needed for PM's residence - Heritage NZ: Premier House, the official house kept for the prime minister, is in a dishevelled state partly as a ...
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Upgrades badly needed for PM's residence - Heritage NZ
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Premier House: 'Significantly cheaper' to demolish, rather than renovate: The real estate agent says it would be far more financially viable to knock the Prime ...
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Premier House: 'Significantly cheaper' to demolish, rather than renovate
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Online harm: 'Children don't know where to go for support': Aotearoa is falling behind in protecting children from online harm, says a group wanting wider and ...
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Online harm: 'Children don't know where to go for support'
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NZ teen arrested with trove of violent, sexual and terrorist content: The case is part of a pattern, globally and in New Zealand, of minors being radicalised ...
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NZ teen arrested with trove of violent, sexual and terrorist content
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Teens charged over scams that sent millions of texts to New Zealanders: Police say up to $100,000 may have been stolen from some victims, with millions of ...
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Teens charged over scams that sent millions of texts to New Zealanders
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SkyCity to face civil proceedings filed by Department of Internal Affairs: The company says the proceedings relate to alleged non-compliance with anti-money ...
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SkyCity to face civil proceedings filed by Department of Internal Affairs
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Govt agencies cut insurance, maintenance, cleaning and security: Insurance leader warns against public belt-tightening: 'The risks are getting greater'
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Govt agencies cut insurance, maintenance, cleaning and security
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Local government financial crisis: Local Government Minister Simeon Brown says he's firming up new ways to fund water services for cash-strapped councils – ...
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Local government financial crisis
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Internal Affairs loses pokie relocation court case: An anti-pokie lobby group has won its case in the High Court, with a declaration the Department of Internal ...
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Internal Affairs loses pokie relocation court case
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Essex charity being investigated as £200k 'loaned' to its Chief Executive: An EssexLive investigation has uncovered financial payments between the Colchester ...
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Essex charity being investigated as £200k 'loaned' to its Chief Executive
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Government mulls expanding inquiry into Covid-19 response: The government is consulting on whether the economic cost of lockdowns and vaccine will be considered.
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Government mulls expanding inquiry into Covid-19 response
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Sorry, but you can't call your baby Fanny. Here are some others that got rejected.👶 🔗 tinyurl.com/37k374b4
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‘Declined’: NZ bans indecent baby name: A list of baby names which parents were blocked from using last year has been released by the New Zealand government ...
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‘Declined’: NZ bans indecent baby name
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The most rejected baby names of 2023: A child may be a king or queen in their parents' eyes, but not on paper, according to officials.
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The most rejected baby names of 2023
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After New Zealand banned the 'classic' name Fanny last year, what other baby names do you think should be banned? #9News 👶 READ MORE: nine.social/wV9
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Eight people charged in crackdown on Hawke’s Bay gambling sector: A "network of corruption" has been operating in the Hawke's Bay gaming machine sector ...
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Eight people charged in crackdown on Hawke’s Bay gambling sector
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Government births, deaths and marriages IT project halted: The Department of Internal Affairs has stopped the $150m plan that aimed to take key data into cloud ...
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Government births, deaths and marriages IT project halted
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Aaron Hutton will be released into a small New Zealand community. 🔗 tinyurl.com/kiwipedonzh
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Man arrested over Te Whatu Ora vaccine data breach: Police have arrested a man accused of leaking large amounts of Te Whatu Ora vaccination data online.
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Man arrested over Te Whatu Ora vaccine data breach
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Watercare rejects ‘unachievable’ Three Waters costings : If the years wasted on the previous government’s out-of-favour Three Waters reforms have achieved one ...
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Watercare rejects ‘unachievable’ Three Waters costings 
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Racial bias expected in government's new Identity Check: A Māori oversight group expects instances of racial bias to come through in a new government-run ...
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Racial bias expected in government's new Identity Check
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The art of giving: What separates charities that simply give generously from those that help people most?
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The art of giving
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Facial recognition: Government rolls out new tech despite racial bias concerns: A recent MSD report calls the level of racial bias in the technology "unknown" ...
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Facial recognition: Government rolls out new tech despite racial bias ...
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‘Complete disregard’: Charities condemn Barclays over frozen bank accounts: More groups come forward to describe how shutdown suddenly left them unable to pay ...
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‘Complete disregard’: Charities condemn Barclays over frozen bank accounts
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New online technologies putting Kiwi kids at risk of sexual abuse: Law enforcement agencies say offenders are hiding identities behind encryption and anonymising ...
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New online technologies putting Kiwi kids at risk of sexual abuse
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Govt facial recognition system to have more tests after low success rate: The Identity Check system is aimed at becoming the primary way New Zealanders verify ...
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Govt facial recognition system to have more tests after low success rate
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Internal Affairs agrees collective pay deal for water services that may never exist
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Internal Affairs agrees collective pay deal for water services that may ...
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Concern Three Waters plans flush public money down the loo: Newsroom has obtained Internal Affairs' painstakingly modelled 300-page infrastructure spending ...
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Concern Three Waters plans flush public money down the loo
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Shopmobility Newport is being forced to close down this week: A charity that helps shoppers with mobility issues is being forced to close down at the end of this ...
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Shopmobility Newport is being forced to close down this week
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Charity Of The Year: Nominate your local charity to win £1k!: Charity Of The Year - Nominate your local charity to win £1k .
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Charity Of The Year: Nominate your local charity to win £1k!
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Internal Affairs agrees collective pay deal for water services that may never exist
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Internal Affairs agrees collective pay deal for water services that may ...
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Three Waters boss recruits staff as other executives read the writing on the wall
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Three Waters boss recruits staff as other executives read the writing on ...
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The policy that doesn’t exist: Attention: Have you seen these missing policies?
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The policy that doesn’t exist
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Quick Glance: SkyCity applies for suspension of casino licenses in New Zealand
  • The regulatory authority has applied to suspend SkyCity Entertainment Group's casino licenses at all three venues in New Zealand.

  • SkyCity Casino Management holds the licenses for the Auckland, Hamilton, and Queenstown casinos.

  • The application was made under the New Zealand Gambling Act of 2003 following a complaint by a former customer to the department in February of last year.

  • The company did not indicate this move when announcing its annual result, but emphasized increased host responsibility and the use of technology to identify problem gamblers.
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More than $13m in cyclone funds will not be touched until 2024: The Cyclone Gabrielle Appeal Fund will not be open for applications until early next year ...
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More than $13m in cyclone funds will not be touched until 2024
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Ambitious tech project partnering US giant and govt agency founders: A confidential government project with a big US tech firm was aimed at sparking "government ...
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Ambitious tech project partnering US giant and govt agency founders
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Mulligan's golden throat to announce Surrey winners: The next big winners in New Zealand literature are about to be announced
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Mulligan's golden throat to announce Surrey winners
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Week in Review: National's Nicola Willis would tax online gaming, but that will just drive punters to gambling websites based in tax-friendly jurisdictions ... Show more
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Government IT upgrades locked in ahead of pledged contractor spending cuts: The big winners so far are giant American corporations, cashing in on a push towards ...
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Government IT upgrades locked in ahead of pledged contractor spending cuts
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Election 2023: Taxing unregulated gambling is easier said than done: Nicola Willis needs to be careful to not drive punters to websites based in tax-friendly ...
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Election 2023: Taxing unregulated gambling is easier said than done
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Three water chief executives claim salaries despite roles being disestablished: A trio of veteran public servants are being paid up to $2.4m between them ...
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Three water chief executives claim salaries despite roles being ...
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More robust gambling harm reduction measures needed, support services say: Casino operator SkyCity had over a quarter of a billion dollars wiped off its market ...
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More robust gambling harm reduction measures needed, support services say
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‘Illegal’ TV gambling adverts difficult to address: The Department of Internal Affairs has come out hard on free-to-play gambling ads.
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‘Illegal’ TV gambling adverts difficult to address
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Passport wait times approaching levels seen just after border reopening: Despite plans to fix long wait times for New Zealand passports, the situation is the ...
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Passport wait times approaching levels seen just after border reopening