RNZ
National's Penny Simmonds has commented on only eight of the 43 fast track projects she has been sent invites for.
RNZ
The prime minister says businesses are 'crying out for young people' as advocates decry the changes as a punishment.
NZ Herald
Family of Rana Hamida, Youssef Sammour, and Kiwi teenager Samuel Leason will speak with the Greens co-leaders at Ellen Melville Center in Auckland. Video / NZ Herald
Foreign Minister Winston Peters says he is continuing to work with Samoa on decisions around the ship and its future.
RNZ
"We love these young people," the prime minister says, but a youth advocate says they've never met a young person who doesn't want to find work.
NZ Herald
Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke has been recognised by Time magazine as one of “the world’s most influential rising stars”. Maipi-Clarke was aged...
New Zealand and Australia trade ministers vowed to deepen economic ties amid changes in the global market.
RNZ
It's announced a $42.8 million funding boost to go towards a 'Biodiscovery Platform'.
RNZ
RNZ understands an announcement is expected imminently.
RNZ
The plan will lift New Zealand's defence spending to more than 2 percent in the next eight years with the Defence Minister seeking to have New Zealand develop weapons for export.
RNZ
The Associate Health Minister has revealed he is pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in additional drug funding in next year's Budget.
Stuff
The PM has no qualms about how the Hipkins letter saga has played out and denies it was politically clumsy.
Members were sent an email acknowledging the allegations that had been made about "our movement with respect to its culture, leadership and constitutional compliance".
The Conversation
Cabinet papers are usually prepared by ministries with input from impartial public servants. The process over Palestine raises wider questions about transparency.
NZ Herald
Labour leader Chris Hipkins believes Te Pāti Māori appears to be a “long way away” from being ready for a role in Government as claims about the party’s...
Stuff
The cost of power is costing jobs and driving inflation. This is how the powerbrokers want to lower prices.
Newsroom
Analysis: If Willis' big fix for the energy market is to help gentailers finance new thermal baseload or firming plants, she's answering a question that nobody's asking, writes Jonathan Milne.
Penny Simmonds waded into a dispute involving farmers in the Manawatū – including the family farm of MP Suze Redmayne.
RNZ
Analysis - The recent energy announcement looks unlikely to give National a lift in the deadlocked polls.
NZ Herald
The Government will today deliver what it is framing as a “significant but surgical” response to New Zealand’s energy woes, following a lengthy review of the...
Hipkins says he doesn't believe a letter from Luxon asking him to commit to supporting offshore exploration is a genuine attempt at building bipartisan consensus.
Stuff
For decades, the pension age has been the elephant in the room and most politicians have just tiptoed around. Those who have dared touch it, have been stomped on by the electorate.
RNZ
Minister of Justice Paul Goldsmith said he was worried New Zealand was developing a "bespoke" legal system that incorporated concepts of tikanga Māori.
NZ Herald
Labour leader Chris Hipkins says his party would “very quickly” recognise Palestine as a state if Labour leads the Government after next year’s election....
Approximately 55% of quake-prone buildings would be removed from the existing system — about 2900 buildings.
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