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Author: Hamish MacLean

Nearly $12million in capital spending has been shaved off Dunedin’s draft budget as the Dunedin City Council faces a proposed 6.5% increase in the rates take.

Councillors will meet this week to consider staff budget proposals as the council enters the third year of the long-term plan for 2018-28.

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Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/spending-cut-65-rates-increase-proposed
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 So... it starts... more tax, but get less in return... well I can safely say I didn't vote for that...

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Author: Mara Pillinger

On Thursday, after delaying for an extra day of deliberation, the World Health Organisation decided not to declare the outbreak of pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus to be a PHEIC - a public health emergency of international concern.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/119058004/why-the-who-held-off-on-declaring-the-wuhan-coronavirus-a-global-health-emergency
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Personally, if you have been to China, and or been in area that has been infected... you go into quarantine... no ifs no buts... after 3 weeks, if you have no sign ok ...

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Author: MARTY SHARPE

It's a sweltering hot Sunday afternoon, Taradale town centre, Hawke's Bay.

A week ago bullets were flying here, a swarm of gangsters were brawling on the main road, shopkeepers ducked for cover and locals were fleeing the place as fast as they could.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/119053371/this-is-our-patch-its-not-their-patch-taradale-community-meets-over-gangs
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Author: Thomas Coughlan

The Government is set to announce one of the biggest infrastructure packages in New Zealand history with $12 billion worth of spending to be announced on week.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson will detail a list of projects up and down the country that will be funded, with a suite of roads, rail, and hospital upgrades expected to be on the list. 

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/119064149/government-set-to-announce-12b-infrastructure-splurge-with-a-lot-of-it-going-to-roads
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Author: Ben Heather

There is a high chance that deadly coronavirus will make it to New Zealand, but health officials are confident they can prevent an outbreak.

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay briefed media in Wellington about the risk of the virus arriving.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/119065220/600-passengers-screened-at-auckland-airport-for-coronavirus
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Author: RNZ

Fiji authorities are holding six Chinese travellers in quarantine as a precaution after they failed to gain entry to Samoa.

Samoa's government has confirmed the six were refused entry for not meeting strict quarantine requirements implemented on Friday.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/pacific-nations-on-alert-for-coronavirus-6-quarantined-in-fiji.html
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The Ministry of Health is stepping up measures to control the entry of the deadly coronavirus into New Zealand by dispatching public health staff to meet all incoming flights from China.

A flight from mainland China is due to touch down in Auckland tomorrow at 6.30am.

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/onenews/story/2020/01/26/health-minister-steps-up-precautions-announces-all-flights-from.html
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Author: Amber-Leigh Woolf

Public health staff will begin meeting flights from China from Monday as the coronavirus threat grows.

The move comes after criticism from National Party health spokesman Michael Woodhouse, who said the Government wasn't doing enough to detect it at Auckland International Airport.  

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/119049195/china-arrivals-to-be-checked-by-health-staff-amid-coronavirus-outbreak
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