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The Star Thursday August 31 2023 4 NEWS Videos to watch starnews.co.nz/south-today-video Person dies at scene of e-scooter crash UC team back home after US mission Young riders jumping for joy at bike park Cathedral Square’s facelift on track Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz ‘They just smashed in one of the doors’ •From page 1 “I’m not sure if it was a civilian or somebody directly involved, they just smashed in one of the doors,” the pharmacy manager said. Alarms went off when the member of the public broke in. CCTV footage showed the person frantically searching for the equipment. “They didn’t go through shelves, just had a cautious peek around the store. There was no malicious intent as far as we can tell,” the manager said. Fire and Emergency NZ sent two units to the scene when they learned of the incident. Three St John ambulance vehicles also attended the accident. The intersection was blocked off to the public shortly after the crash SCENE: Police blocked the intersection of Linwood Ave took place. and Avonside Drive after the fatal crash yesterday. – NZ Herald PHOTOS: NZME The demise of the Mighty Mitre EXPORT QUALITY MEATS AT AFFORDABLE PRICES WWW.PRIMERANGEFRESH.CO.NZ Instore & Online 28 August - 3 September 303 COLOMBO STREET, SYDENHAM MON-FRI 8:45AM-6:00PM SAT 8:45AM-5:30PM SUN 8:45AM-5:00PM
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Thursday August 31 2023 The Star NEWS 5 National ahead in Labour-held Ilam • By Thomas Coughlan Opportunities Party) will make and Manji 18 per cent. in the seat. He is ranked 63, it into Parliament, with that The poll approached 400 meaning he will need to win NATIONAL IS way ahead in the party’s leader, Manji, respondents on August 23. The the seat to enter Parliament. Election Ilam electorate, according to a hinging its fortunes margin of error was 4.5 per cent Labour’s Pallet is ranked 51, so Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll. countdown on winning the seat. at the 95 per cent confidence she too would The poll showed the National TOP has not interval. have to win the October 14 candidate, Hamish polled above 5 per The race is considered wide seat to stay in Campbell, on 33 cent in any poll, open. Long-standing Parliament. per cent, followed usually polling half MP Gerry Brownlee, by Labour’s Sarah Raf Manji A leaked survey that. who lost the seat from the Manji Pallett on 15 per Manji represented the local to Labour in the ward in council and contested 2020 red wave, is Sarah the seat as an independent in not contesting the Pallett cent, and TOP’s Raf Manji on 14 per cent. Eighteen per cent of voters were undecided. Ilam is an important Hamish Campbell electorate this election, and will determine whether TOP (The 2017, when he won an impressive 23.3 per cent of the vote, finishing second. Excluding undecided voters, Campbell would get 43 per cent of the vote, Pallett 20 per cent, electorate this time around, having opted to run on the list only. National has selected Campbell, a newcomer, to run Gerry Brownlee campaign showed a very different result. Campbell was still ahead on 27.2 per cent, followed more closely by Manji on 23.4 per cent. Pallett was a distant third on 17.7 per cent. That survey picked random addresses in the electorate from the 2020 electoral roll, and interviewed 2591 voters (1339 male and 1252 female) between August 9-18. The Taxpayers’ Union-Curia Poll was released ahead of a debate in the electorate on Tuesday night. – NZ Herald Luxon, Willis unveil $14.6 billion tax cut plan • By Thomas Coughlan NATIONAL leader Christopher Luxon and finance spokeswoman Nicola Willis have unveiled a $14.6 billion tax cut policy – a far larger plan than expected. The party promises to pay for the plan with about $8.4b of cuts and $6.2b of revenue increases, including taxing foreign buyers (after National ends the foreign buyers ban for some homes), taxing online gambling, and raising charges on some visas. Luxon said the plan would target the “squeezed middle” by lifting income tax brackets to compensate for inflation. The party has called it a “back pocket boost”. The big change comes from shifting tax thresholds. This is an effective tax cut as it means people will have less of their income taxed at higher rates. The $14,000 threshold will rise to $15,600; the $48,000 threshold will rise to $53,500 and the $70,000 threshold will rise to $78,100. The plan does not significantly help people who are earning at the bottom end of the income scale with the bottom threshold raised by just $1600. However, the large adjustment to the $48,000 bracket will be significant for middle-income Christopher Luxon earners. Below $48,000, income is taxed at 17.5 per cent – this jumps to 30 per cent for income earned above $48,000. Shifting this threshold will lead to quite large savings for people earning above that threshold. Those changes will mean tax cuts to earners. Someone earning $60,000 will get an extra $50 a fortnight. A household on $120,000 without children would get $100 a fortnight and an average income household with children would get $250 a fortnight. A superannuitant couple would get $26 a fortnight. “New Zealand should be a country where if you work hard, you can get ahead. But after years of economic mismanagement by Labour, topped off by two years of rampant inflation, huge increases in interest rates, and a shrinking economy, most Kiwis are going backwards,” Luxon said. “Hope and help are on the way,” he said. – NZ Herald
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