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𝔻𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝕠𝕟 𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕠𝕟𝕖: 𝕋𝕖𝕒𝕞 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕒𝕝𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕪 𝕚𝕟 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕒𝕪 𝕚𝕟 𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕥𝕨𝕠 𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕤 𝕀𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕓𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕨𝕠 𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕤 𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕌𝕊 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟. 𝔻𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕕 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕚𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕪𝕖𝕥. 𝔹𝕦𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕪 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕝𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕪 𝕚𝕟 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕒𝕪. I t’s been less than two weeks since the election, but we can see Donald  Trump  and the GOP moving rapidly in their efforts to take sweeping authoritarian control of our government and give enormous power to the president. Let’s be clear first, and just completely vaporize the media narrative: Trump didn’t get a mandate, much less a landslide. He will, according to estimates, win the popular vote by 1.5% after all votes from California are counted. Kamala  Harris  will have won more of the popular vote than Hillary Clinton (who of course won the popular vote against Trump). Winning the seven battlegr

𝕍𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕟 ℝ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔸𝕦𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕟 𝕓𝕣𝕠𝕒𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕊𝕪𝕕𝕟𝕖𝕪 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕒𝕦𝕝𝕥 𝕍𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕟 ℝ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕓𝕣𝕠𝕒𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝔸𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕁𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕊𝕪𝕕𝕟𝕖𝕪 𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕕 𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕒𝕦𝕝𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕖𝕩𝕦𝕒𝕝 𝕥𝕠𝕦𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕗𝕗𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕧𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕘𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 N SW Police have arrested veteran broadcaster Alan Jones following an investigation into alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences spanning two decades. In a statement NSW Police said Child Abuse Squad detectives executed a warrant at the 83-year-old's luxury Sydney apartment at Circular Quay about 7:45am. . . The State Crime Command's Child Abuse Squad established Strike Force Bonnefin in March to investigate a number of alleged indecent assaults and sexual touching incidents between 2001 and 2019. What I'd just say to you @dbseymour is, was this gu

𝕄𝕠𝕣𝕖 ℙ𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕔 𝕊𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕎𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕡𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕔 𝕤𝕖𝕣𝕧𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕛𝕠𝕓𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕓𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕒𝕤𝕥 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣, 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕓𝕚𝕘 𝕔𝕦𝕥𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 - 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕛𝕠𝕓𝕤 𝕤𝕒𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕖𝕩𝕙𝕒𝕦𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜𝕝𝕠𝕒𝕕. A t the beginning of the year, Finance Minister Nicola Willis outlined a plan to reduce annual public service spending by $1.5 billion, asking all government departments to identify savings. It came amid tough economic times, and followed a 34 percent rise in the number of public servants under the former Labour government, between 2017 and 2023. Nearly 40 organisations were  given a specific target . . . But the impact of the government's belt-tightening has reached far wider than that. RNZ's tally of jobs gone so far - or proposed to go -  sits at more tha

𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡'𝕤 𝕤𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕞 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕠𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝔸 𝕤𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕞 𝕠𝕗 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕠𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕓𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕔𝕒𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕤𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝔸𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕚𝕤𝕠𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟. I t may be horrific and redefine the world order. Or it may be underwhelmingly bluster over substance. But US President-elect Donald Trump's second term will certainly be disruptive. And even the most severe American isolationism - the greatest amount of doing little - will likely herald significant change. We really know staggeringly little about Trump's foreign policy. He said he likes it that way. We know he's against wars that drag in America. He  seems fond of dictators, or at least strongmen. He likes what he sees as good deals and destroys what he thinks of as bad ones. He dislikes American allies that he thinks take advantage. He doesn't believe in global w

  Review into school construction cost $112K Former National Party Minister Murray McCully. Photo: AFP The government spent $112,000 getting a review done into how schools are built. Former National Party Minister Murray McCully delivered the report in June and it was publicly released last month. The original budget was for three reviewers, but in the end it used only two. McCully and Mark Binns were paid $94,000 in consulting fees for the 50-page report. Another $18,000 was spent on travel and accommodation. The report recommended greater use of prefabricated classrooms and the creation of an entirely separate agency to oversee school property. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/533308/review-into-school-construction-cost-112k  

𝕀𝕥'𝕤 𝕌𝕊 𝔼𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝔻𝕒𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝔸𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕒 𝕗𝕒𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝕒 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝔸 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕚𝕘𝕟 𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪 𝕦𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕧𝕒𝕝 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕥𝕤 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝕌𝕊 𝔼𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝔻𝕒𝕪 𝕒𝕤 𝔸𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕤 𝕕𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝔻𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕕 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕎𝕙𝕚𝕥𝕖 ℍ𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕠𝕣 𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕧𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕂𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕝𝕒 ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕆𝕧𝕒𝕝 𝕆𝕗𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕖. V oters faced a stark choice between two candidates who have offered drastically different temperaments and visions for the world's largest economy and dominant military power. Tens of millions of Americans cast early ballots — voting by mail or in person prior to today. Those voting on Election Day mostly encountered a smooth process around the country, with isolated reports of some hiccups that regularly happen, including long lines, technical issues and ballot printing errors. Harris, the Democ