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Trust in police has fallen, according to the newest survey, but what's behind the decline?

Trust in police has fallen, according to the newest survey, but what's behind the decline? https://t.co/t7tpcsYdhk #Newshub pic.twitter.com/OHBRtJ2o4M — Newshub (@NewshubNZ) June 29, 2023 Answers:   Who knows? pic.twitter.com/JTmOYHTC4d — MrsWiggley (@mrs_wiggley) June 29, 2023 Russia? — ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Godo Miyazaki; ๅฎฎๅดŽๆ‚Ÿ็ซฅ; ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต; ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ’‰;๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿš‰ (@GodoMiyazaki) June 29, 2023 ..It's a mystery pic.twitter.com/OvDIXJM0BJ — The Stylophobe (@Orb_Royberson) June 29, 2023

Mike's Minute: The economic chickens have come home to roost

  Mike's Minute: The economic chickens have come home to roost Mike Hosking Mike Hosking , Fri, 16 Jun 2023, 10:13AM As the economy sinks, the Government sinks with it. What a shocking week. We have officially been in recession. Don’t let them con you into the “technical recession" line. A recession is a recession and going backwards is going backwards. I have no reason to believe that in the past three months of April, May and now June things have changed. And I have no reason to believe the Reserve Bank is wrong when they forecast a recession, which, in this case, might prove to be a double dip recession in the latter part of this year. If that didn't smack you in the face with a dose of fiscal reality, about the Auditor General's report into the Covid reset of the Provincial Growth Fund, a programme devoid of any rigour and any checks as to where the money was going, what sort of jobs it was creating and whether or not it was a massive waste of money. Or you could l