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The Govt's rollbacks on climate change spurred Qiulae Wong into politics, but how would the Opportunity leader approach the issue in November?
RNZ
The government's controversial move on orders legislation has passed its third reading in Parliament, under urgency.
National MP Greg Fleming says te reo Māori is like medicine. Although he doesn’t have any whakapapa Māori, he encourages everyone to learn.
Hauraki-Waikato MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke has drawn strong backing in the preferred Prime Minister stakes. That's according to the recently released Whakaata Māori–Curia poll.
RNZ
Labour promises to introduce a corporate homicide offence carrying a punishment of life imprisonment, if it's elected.
NZ Herald
The Government will not achieve its policy to add 500 extra police officers, finally admitting the target won’t be reached before the election despite...
Stuff
Proceedings in Parliament degenerated when MP Casey Costello raised a point of order regarding the use of the c-word by Debbie Ngarewa Packer. Tensions escalated, resulting in both Packer and then Willie Jackson being ordered to leave the chamber.
Stuff
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says she has lost confidence in the chief executive of Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
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Competition advocates are divided on whether creating nationwide Pak'nSave and New World groups would improve the grocery sector.
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Seven former conservation ministers from Labour, National and the Greens demand changes to a bill they say would upset decades of protection
Stuff
Three years after leaving Parliament, this former political leader is viewed more favourably than every current political leader tested in a new poll.
A new Whakaata Māori–Curia poll of 1,000 Māori voters puts Labour ahead on the party vote, while Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ranks second as preferred prime minister
RNZ
National's push to drive competition in the supermarket sector by breaking up one of the key players has drawn stinging criticism from the country's leading business groups.
Labour disputes all but one of the nine would be a new tax under a government it leads.
RNZ
Outgoing National MP Andrew Bayly has used his final speech in Parliament to set the record straight about his resignation, calling it one of the "most brutal experiences" of his life.
NZ Herald
The survival of National’s plan to split up Foodstuffs in future coalition negotiations remains uncertain as the three governing parties take potshots at one...
NZ Herald
For years we’ve been told that New Zealand’s supermarket sector isn’t competitive enough. With grocery prices top of mind for many voters, political parties...
RNZ
Major political parties have agreed more work needs to be done to protect children, as Barnardos warns that inaction will cost Aotearoa $450 billion by 2050.
The filing raises some tricky legal questions, including whether a company can legally trademark a name another organisation has just announced.
RNZ
National has made a supermarket break-up a key part of its election pitch, proposing to sever Pak'nSave from New World in a bid to drive down grocery prices.
The crackdown would target the big players in food, power, fuel, transport, telecommunications, banking and insurance.
Newsroom
While NZ First battled with its coalition partners, National and Labour presented a united front on infrastructure to a business audience.
A forty-strong horse convoy arrived in Wellington today with a petition that attracted over 50,000 signatures.
RNZ
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown is telling Local Government Minister Simon Watts to "butt out" of his council's democratic processes.
National’s Nicola Willis hints at policy around research and development tax incentive, Labour’s Barbara Edmonds says not making KiwiSaver employee contributions compulsory means people have flexibility to contribute as they can
RNZ
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