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• Source:  Future changes and historic payroll mistakes are among the targets of more than $2 billion in new education spending in today's government Budget. The biggest areas of new spending also included new school property and catch-up funding for polytechnic courses. Source: istock.com By John Gerritsen of rnz.co.nz The four-year total included $1.7b on school and early childhood education and $470 million on tertiary education. The biggest areas of new spending also included...

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• Source:  An elderly man has been sentenced to four and a half months home detention for the attempted murder of his wife in a suicide pact. File picture. Source: istock.com Matamata man Roy Morton, 82, pleaded guilty in the High Court at Hamilton. He attempted to kill his wife and himself on two occasions after she suffered a debilitating stroke in October last year. He claimed that even though his wife was unable to verbally communicate with him he knew from her gestures that ...

Close Ad China’s Communist Party opens social media as new front in long war to shape global public opinion • Source:  Associated Press China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media. China's rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retweeted Chinese diplomats and state media tens of thousands of time, a seven-month investigation found....

• Source:  The amount of money the Ministry of Social Development has paid out to help people on benefits or low incomes with car repairs has tripled in the last six years. A car being repaired. Source: istock.com By Sarah Robson - rnz.co.nz Official figures, obtained by National, show that in the year to March, MSD spent $33.6 million helping people pay for car repairs with almost 50,000 grants, loans and advances. In 2016, that figure was $11 million, for 22,500 payments. Auck...