Newshub
Currently, dental care is only free in New Zealand for those under 18-years-old.
RNZ
The economy has come through the initial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in better shape than expected but faces a tougher and longer road to full recovery, according to the Treasury.
Stuff
Those looking for a new job may find it tough for a few years yet.
Newshub
Unemployment is expected to peak at 7.8 percent in the next two years.
Newshub
But Grant Robertson believes New Zealand is still doing relatively well.
Newsroom
Voters get a two-hour look at former Air New Zealand chief Christopher Luxon in a candidates' debate for the Botany seat that should carry him into Parliament and the National Party's future. Tim Murphy watched him in action.
Newshub
"This whole country is driven off the theft of MÄori assets."
Stuff
The finance minister has signalled big Government is here to stay as NZ looks down the barrel of its worst-ever three months of GDP growth.
Newshub
"That is a nod to the elite part of town".
RNZ
Jami-Lee Ross is pinning his hopes of getting back into Parliament on the fortunes of Billy Te Kahika in the Te Tai Tokerau seat. The disgraced former National MP announced that he won't be standing in Botany - the seat he's held since 2011. Ross' Advance New Zealand Party teamed up with Billy TK's controversial Public Party - and their electoral fortunes now depend on them getting either five percent of the vote, or the northern Māori seat. RNZ reporter Katie Doyle and visual journalist Dan Cook headed to Botany to find out what voters there think.
Stuff
Trade and Export minister David Parker says industries calling for more overseas workers to be brought into New Zealand during Covid need to look at other options.
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Corporations should also be paying more in taxes, the majority told TVNZ’s Vote Compass tool.
RNZ
Covid-19 is front and centre in the run up to this year's election, and the outliers striving for a place in Parliament want to make radical changes to the pandemic recovery plan, while others don't want one at all.
Stuff
Party's new $600m education policy mostly confirms or expands on work already started in Government.
Stuff
New Zealand financial institutions will be made to report on climate change-related risk, the Government has announced.
The Spinoff
Too much news? Welcome to the only round-up you need. Mōrena and welcome to another week. Another week of what, you ask? It doesn't matter, another week is enough at this point. Labour's Tax Policy – NO Labour and tax. Like two magnetic south poles, they will never connect. For days, finance mi
Newsroom
Advance NZ says it wasn't responsible for the appearance of far-right YouTubers.
Newsroom
Two minor parties have an outsized number of billboards around NZ, but will it amount to anything?
Newsroom
The Finance Minister has expressed his surprise at the disconnect between councils and government but a local government expert says it's nothing new.
Newshub
He said his focus was on running the Advance NZ campaign.
RNZ
National is promising an extra $1.9 billion for education over four years, with a focus on learning support, teacher aides, and new special character schools.
The Spinoff
Three surveys show the prime minister still has the public’s support, ahead of today’s announcement about whether the country will shift alert levels. As health experts cast doubt on the chances of a move to alert level one this week, New Zealanders remain confident in our political leadership du
RNZ
National is pledging to upgrade roads and bridges around the lower South Island as well as exploring the feasibility of commuter rail between Dunedin and Mosgiel.
Newshub
Governments must be prepared to help people, write Sarah Duffy, Michelle O'Shea, and Patrick van Esch for The Conversation.
Newshub
Parliament is a really challenging place but also a huge place of opportunities, he says.
