On today's episode, the leader of the opposition, Labour's Chris Hipkins, says the threshold for intervention at the Wellington City Council hasn't been met yet, the number of beneficiaries being sanctioned has dropped under the government's new traffic light system, a general manager at Palmerston North Hospital told a thousand people on a WhatsApp channel that Indian nurses had to stop using their language in any public space at work, legislation giving family violence survivors the power to quickly dissolve abusive marriages is expected to pass with unanimous support on Wednesday, and it is three weeks until Americans go to the polls to choose a new President.
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