NZ Herald
The Government is draining its $450 million “emergency savings account” to help fund further delays to increases in fuel taxes and road user charges. It is...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said a 5c per litre rise would instead begin in 2028, backed by a $1.476b top-up to the National Land Transport Fund.
RNZ
An economist is warning a welfare change that would see thousands of youth lose access to unemployment benefits, would bring significant long-term impacts.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins said currently New Zealand-trained nurses looking for work had no option but to seek employment overseas.
Newsroom
After years of trying to work with the coalition Govt, its critics are giving up on cooperative planning reform and hoping for a change in govt
NZ Herald
The Labour Party is vowing to introduce a bill that would require retirement villages to repay residents who have left their facilities within three months...
NZ Herald
A key deadline for making a decision on delaying next year’s 12c hike to fuel taxes and an equivalent hike to road-user charges will pass today. Earlier this...
He argued Māori health providers themselves had told Labour that direct funding mattered more than the structure.
RNZ
ACT has announced plans to impose a nationwide daily bag limit of 10 shellfish if elected, as part of their wider plan to rebuild fish stocks and protect vulnerable marine environments.
NZ Herald
National is promising to lower compulsory student loan repayment rates for university graduates who stay in New Zealand, while increasing annual interest and...
Newsroom
Analysis: Although it was hardly mentioned, Te Pāti Māori's shadow loomed large as the Labour Party launched its campaign to retake the Māori seats.
NZ Herald
The mana and pride of Labour and Te Pāti Māori is on the line as the battle for the Māori seats heats up. Te Pāti Māori is trying to tighten its grip on the...
RNZ
Labour is pledging to spend $21 million a year on Māori-led trades training if elected into government.
Community consultation on the removal of free travel at peak times starts next week.
RNZ
As the election nears, politics gets increasingly frantic and aggressive. Question Time has frequently dissembled into a sideshow of attack, obfuscation, rhetoric and hyperbole with information seldom emerging.
RNZ
Thousands of youths across the country are set to lose access to unemployment benefits, after a welfare bill passed into law under urgency on Friday night.
Prime Minister stands by his statement to Parliament that it had not happened, saying it was correct at the time.
RNZ
After 12 years and multiple stints in both government and opposition, National Party MP for Whāngarei Dr Shane Reti has farewelled Parliament.
Two MPs said goodbye and the days blurred into one as urgency ruled the week.
Political parties are being urged to act as one in four tamariki Māori experiences material hardship and New Zealand falls behind its poverty targets.
Stuff
Funeral directors want bigger Government grants to help families pay for funerals, warning New Zealand’s decades-old death-care system has failed to keep pace.
RNZ
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Social Development Minister Louise Upston both told Parliament no one's benefit was cut following a law change that swamped ministry officials with paperwork - but that is exactly what happened.
RNZ
As the remaining weeks of the 54th Parliament tick over, MPs who have decided to step back from politics have their chance to farewell their colleagues and Parliament as an institution in the form of a valedictory statement.
"New Zealanders simply cannot afford an extra 22 cents a litre on their fuel bills every time they fill up the car," says Chris Hipkins.
RNZ
The ACT party wants to allow people to make tax-free profits from cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, as long as they hold onto it for more than a year.
RNZ
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