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Listen: Jacinda Ardern - What Govt is doing about rural bank closures


Listen: Jacinda Ardern - What Govt is doing about rural bank closures
2 Mar, 2021 11:45 PM
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo / Mark Mitchell
The Country
The Government has been concerned about rural bank closures for some time Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.
Yesterday, South Wairarapa mayor Alex Beijen presented Parliament with a letter signed by 32 provincial mayors, calling for a formal enquiry into the effect bank branch closures had on their communities.
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The Government had noticed the trend occurring even pre-Covid, Ardern told The Country s Rowena Duncum.
We were seeing closures, particularly in rural isolated areas where banks were making individual decisions which were leaving some communities with banking services at a huge distance. ....

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Without the handbrake what should this Government do?


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mickysavage - Date published:
9:52 am, January 1st, 2021 - 112 comments
Happy new year everyone.
Saionara to 2020 and welcome 2021.  May it be even better.
Today is the day MPs will start to think about the year ahead.  With a stonking mandate and a possible once in a lifetime event, a majority MMP government what should it do?
Simon Wilson has written this very prescient slightly tongue in cheek article published in today’s Herald thinking about the subject.  It is a must read.
As he says why not cancel a few motorway projects, they will become irrelevant as we head towards a post carbon post car society anyway.  Why not build light rail now, feed the circular economy by using the powers of the state to fund local projects, improve education, and reduce poverty by making sure that everyone has enough to live on. ....

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