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Today on The Spinoff: Nurses’ ‘soul destroying’ working conditions, Dunedin’s new Kmart and how to host the ‘inflation is over’ party of your dreams.
“Yesterday might just prove one of the most momentous days in the history of news media in New Zealand. A little after 9am, National switched from a policy of deep scepticism towards the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill to embracing it. Media minister Paul Goldsmith says he chose this path to ‘ensure that New Zealanders continue to have access to our stories and our music in an ever more cluttered media landscape’. Act remains staunchly opposed, and has invoked the coalition’s ‘agree to disagree’ clause – but the fact the bill was brought forward by Labour’s Willie Jackson means it should easily pass.
So what’s changed – and what does it mean?”
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