TL;DR: The six newsey things that stood out to me as of 6:46am on Saturday, March 16.
Andy Foster has accidentally allowed a Labour/Green amendment to cut road user chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles, which the Government might accept; NZ Herald Thomas Coughlan
Simeon Brown has rejected a plea from Westport for flood protection funding; Westport News via RNZ Lee Scanlon
Most water contractors report having projects cancelled, paused or deferred because of the Government’s funding freeze after repealing Three Waters;
Andrew Hoggard has back-tracked on his ‘ignore the SNA’ edict to councils, which was branded illegal as ‘lawmaking by press release’; RNZ Kate Green
Japan is set to end its decades-long negative interest rates policy; and,
Mortgage rates here are set to stay higher for longer as US inflation is staying higher for longer.
Plug-in-hybrid lawmaking
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