RNZ
The Transport Minister has told truckies he won't grant their wish to carry heavier loads, saying it will wreck roads and cost too much to fix.
RNZ
Analysis - National and New Zealand First are again at odds over the India trade deal, this time over what a briefing says about migration, but they do agree it will remain secret - for now.
Critics say the real cost is the strain on the Māori-Crown relationship.
NZ Herald
Pharmac Minister David Seymour is calling on the drug-buying entity to use more artificial intelligence, which he argues won’t compromise the “human touch”...
Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
One of the most closely watched contests in Māori politics is shaping up in Hauraki-Waikato, where Labour candidate Kingi Kiriona is seeking to reclaim a seat that dramatically shifted away […]
RNZ
Winston Peters has criticised the India Free Trade agreement at its first reading, saying National has "covertly" changed course on migration settings for Indians.
Tama Potaka had previously described the bill as the biggest change to conservation management in decades.
RNZ
National is promising to offer New Zealand households another way to put solar power on their homes, if it's re-elected.
The party says just 3% of New Zealand homes have solar power, far behind Australia and the US, and wants to fix that with cheap loans and fewer consents.
RNZ
Explainer: Conservation Minister Tama Potaka says the Conservation Amendment Bill doesn't include a plan to sell great swathes of conservation land.
More than 180 years after the original Nelson Tenths promises were made, Parliament has passed the first reading of legislation returning 3,000 hectares and $420 millio
Stuff
Jones kept a private driver on standby to take him to meetings in Toronto but the receipts suggest his accommodation was right next door to the conference he was attending.
NZ Herald
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is vowing to scrap the Government’s major health and safety reforms, saying the legislation that is expected to have...
Iwi and environmental groups warn the Conservation Amendment Bill could enable disposal and privatisation of conservation land, undermining Treaty redress and Hauraki mana whenua.
RNZ
After 10 years, five leaders and a name tweak, the Opportunity Party is on the cusp of making it into Parliament for the first time.
NZ Herald
The coalition Government is meeting most of its mental health targets yet at a regional level, some areas covering the country’s largest hospitals are...
Stuff
Labour MP Phil Twyford has revealed that officials mislead the education and workforce select committee earlier this year.
Stuff
NZ First leader Winston Peters says the National Party is acting in “desperate” ways due to poor polling, after its campaign chair referred to NZ First and ACT as squabbling siblings who needed the oversight of their parents.
Speaking to Breakfast's Tova O'Brien, the pair sparred about how soon the tax would have to be paid and what happens with any inherited second or investment properties.
RNZ
The majority of New Zealand voters oppose selling public conservation land, a new poll has found, and politicians who support it could lose votes.
NZ Herald
"An inheritance tax is about the cruellest thing a state can impose on a grieving family". Video | Ryan Bridge TODAY
RNZ
Four of the government's nine key targets risk not being met, the latest update shows.
National's coalition partners have responded after campaign chairman Simeon Brown likened coalition dynamics to parents managing misbehaving children.
NZ Herald
National is promising to make KiwiSaver compulsory for all New Zealand workers, while also supporting parents by providing a government contribution while...
RNZ
The Green Party is proposing a suite of new taxes, including taxes on wealth, inheritance, and corporations, which the party said would "tackle inequality and corporate greed".
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