Megan Woods

Liquidation of oil firm’s parent narrows options for government declare, says Minister. The government has put on ice a $350m fund to help property developers as a result of it isn’t needed. If potential it is strongly recommended to specify in your request which portfolio your request pertains to. Hon Dr Megan Woods is a Christchurch local, and has been the Member of Parliament for Wigram since 2011. Following the 2017 election, Megan was sworn in as a Minister of the Crown with portfolio obligations together with the Greater Christchurch Regeneration, Energy and Resources, and Research, Science and Innovation. Her grandmother launched her to the game, they usually watched it on TV collectively when she was little.

The deal secures New Zealand enough doses of the drug for 750-thousand folks. The New Zealand authorities has announced its first settlement to purchase a Covid-19 vaccine. Early results of a big-scale trial run by American drug firm Pfizer show its Covid-19 vaccine appears to be more than 90 p.c effective.

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“I look on the job I even have now as one of the best job I’ll ever have. It’s the ability to vary issues, and that is an absolute privilege,” she says, for as soon as the smile dropping from her face. Woods was a member of the Alliance Party from 1999 until 2002, when she joined the breakaway Progressive Party. She was involved in a number of of Jim Anderton’s re-election campaigns. She contested the Christchurch Central electorate in the 2005 general election and came fourth, receiving 1077 votes (three.2% of the citizens votes). As the celebration obtained just one.2% of the party vote, she did not enter Parliament that year.

The authorities has reached an in-principle agreement to purchase doses of a Covid-19 vaccine for the entire population. Home ownership rates have hit a 70 year low and those working in housing are under no circumstances surprised. The government is underneath pressure for having housed simply 12 households beneath its Progressive Home Ownership Scheme, because it launched seven months ago.

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The system nonetheless isn’t good, but the streamlining of returning New Zealanders into resort and quarantine services has meant that, with the exception of escapees, cases of Covid-19 are routinely caught at the border. Community transmission has not been seen in the nation in additional than ninety days. The New Zealand authorities’s Covid-19 response has been internationally praised, and our demise toll is the bottom within the OECD.

• “He gave the impression to be this magical determine in my childhood, that if something went wrong, they went to Jim, and he mounted it.
• You need to get out, get on their doorsteps, onto their avenue corners and make yourself as accessible as possible.” Woods says she never loses sight of the fact that she is the elected voice of Wigram.
• The system nonetheless isn’t good, but the streamlining of returning New Zealanders into hotel and quarantine services has meant that, excluding escapees, cases of Covid-19 are routinely caught on the border.
• “I look on the job I even have now as the best job I’ll ever have.

Megan Woods doesn’t appear to have taken a moment to replicate on that. Shortly after I go away her, a family of five escapes from isolation in Hamilton, and she issues an announcement. The following morning, a Saturday, she fronts up to a presser concerning the escapees where, for the primary time, you possibly can see her positivity slip somewhat.

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