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One of Labour’s most loyal and senior former staffers says there’s no need for Labour to ‘do a 2017’ and change leaders because of just one bad poll.
Stuff
Senior journalist Paula Penfold examines an NZ First candidate’s abortion claims against the law, official data and medical practice.
RNZ
Overworked Plunket nurses are facing an unprecedented workload amid the surge in winter illnesses and say the health care system is in crisis.
NZ Herald
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has made his foreign affairs adviser the Ambassador to Sweden. In his latest round of diplomatic appointments, Peters has...
A Cook Islands-descended Greenpeace spokesperson has hit back at Winston Peters after the Foreign Minister accused the environmental group of “pure racism” and “white colonialism”
Jessica Rowe, a former journalist and foreign policy officer who currently advises Social Development Minister Louise Upston, was confirmed as the party's candidate.
Peters' comments to Breakfast come a day after his party announced superannuation would only be available to citizens under its plan.
Newsroom
Rivals are setting strict boundaries on generative AI in campaign ads, while National rolls out content without defining a clear policy
NZ Herald
The Labour Party has dropped to its lowest level of support in a Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll since July 2024 with just 25.9%. It comes alongside Opportunity...
RNZ
A new rangatahi-led campaign is calling on young people to help deliver the biggest youth-voter turnout in Aotearoa's history.
NZ Herald
A protester disrupted a public meeting with NZ First deputy leader Shane Jones in Gisborne today. During Jones’ meeting, a woman got to her feet and began...
RNZ
The election campaign is heating up, with parties announcing a raft of new policies on Sunday, less than nine weeks out from the general election.
Peters said the campaign policy was about "economic fairness, and it is about putting New Zealanders first."
Stuff
The ACT Party would dismantle New Zealand’s headline climate goals and laws if in power and restore subsidies of up to 90% to some of the country’s largest emitters.
NZ Herald
General practices were given no formal warning before free flu vaccines were extended to under-5s, despite being expected to prepare for a surge in demand....
NZ Herald
The Green Party is set to launch its full election food and groceries policy at a Co-leader stand-up in Glen Innes. Video / NZ Herald
With just nine weeks remaining until election day, parties in most parts of the country were now permitted to put up their election hoardings.
RNZ
New Zealand First says it will be campaigning for conservation land to be opened up for economic development.
RNZ
ACT is promising to stop motorists' money being spent on roadside sculptures, cultural monuments and decorative artwork, saying fuel taxes and road-user charges should pay for roads instead.
NZ Herald
The Green Party claims the Public Service Commissioner is “out of step” with his predecessors for urging the main public service union not to display...
RNZ
Outgoing National MP Andrew Bayly is using his final days in Parliament to urge all parties to start raising the superannuation age from next term, warning further delay will make the eventual fix more painful.
RNZ
Opportunity party leader Qiulae Wong says New Zealand needs to rebuild its relationship with Māori, promising to restore changes to marine and coastal area law and repeal legislation that has stripped references to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
RNZ
As previously reported by RNZ, the select committee has recommended lifting the age of people move-on orders could apply to - along with a range of other changes.
NZ Herald
A cross-party committee of MPs has recommended the Government weakens its controversial move-on orders, including vastly expanding the reasons someone can...
RNZ
Social Development Minister Louise Upston cannot say whether the government will consider compensation for people whose benefits were wrongly suspended.
RNZ
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