Collected stories - 1 March 2023 to 31 May 2023
RNZ
Kindergarten teachers say this week's strike will be the first time they have joined their primary and secondary colleagues in walking off the job.
Newshub
Figures from the National Party show there were 292 retail crime incidents every day in 2022.
The prime minister defended co-governance of water assets on Q+A, but said decisions are yet to be made on the arrangement's future.
NZ Herald
It's the first time the celebration of the rainbow community has been held since 2021.
Speaking on Q+A, the Prime Minister said he didn't have official advice to back this view. His own ministers said it would lead to a "significant" emissions increase.
It comes after the organisation released numbers that showed emergency department wait times as being much shorter than they actually were.
the Guardian
Disaster has given opportunity to show decisive leadership but issues raised by climate change could be a political landmine
She beat out Camilla Belich, who was considered the favourite of the party establishment but wasn't a local of the electorate.
Newshub
After a tumultuous week, Ayesha Verrall sat down for an extended interview with Newshub Nation.
RNZ
Consultants and contractors are a favourite punching bag for opposition parties - of all colours - and National is just the latest to land a solid blow, leaving Labour off-balance. The numbers show public service spending on consultants and contractors has recently surged, and the prime minister has largely left it to the sector's watchdog to defend that. In this week's Focus on Politics Deputy Political Editor Craig McCulloch drills into the public service consultant and contractor numbers, the policies and politics.
Newsroom
Political parties are falling over themselves to provide solutions to our truancy rates. Aaron Hendry explains why we need to move away from viewing schools as simply educational institutions - and how.
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Newshub reports: The Health Minister is in another political neutrality mess after Te Whatu Ora paid for a puff profile of her in a southern newsletter. Dr Ayesha Verrall - who sacked the chair of Te Whatu Ora last week for not being politically neutral - has called the piece an "inappropriate use of public
Stuff
ANALYSIS: In one short week politics went back to normal, while also doing a bit of time-travel back to late last year.
RNZ
PM doesn't expect there will need to be a law change to allow police to continue to photograph and take fingerprints of young people, after fierce criticism.
Stuff
OPINION: What’s problematic for the Prime Minister is that he ferociously opposed National’s use of consultants while Labour was in Opposition, only to see enormous increases in consultancy invoices.
Stuff
But they say it's not all black and white as the issue becomes a hot button topic for this year's election, with National pledging to make big spending cuts.
RNZ
The Health Minister has ordered an advertisement she features in to be taken down, following questioning from National.
NZ Herald
The Health Minister sits down for a chat with the NZ Herald's Thomas Coughlan.
Newshub
But he said it will "happen from time to time".
RNZ
Friday means Morning Report's weekly political panel. This week Newshub's Political Editor Jenna Lynch, joined RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson.
NZ Herald
Te Whatu Ora to re-investigate whether community nurses are missing out.
Newsroom
To recapture the momentum it lost through its summer silence, National must now complement its childcare tax rebate policy with more announcements over coming weeks, says @honpeterdunne
Māori Television
Labour has regained the lead in the Taxpayers' Union political poll for the first time since March last year – but it wouldn’t have enough MPs to form a...
NZ Herald
Watercare has bolstered Labour's Three Waters argument.
RNZ
Labour has overtaken National in the latest Taxpayers Union-Curia poll but would be unable to form a government on the numbers.
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RNZ
Parliament changed a long-standing rule this week and will now leave the counting of votes to the experts. It turns out MPs just aren’t that good at counting.
The Conversation
As she prepares to deliver of her valedictory statement to parliament, Jacinda Ardern will be remembered as an outstanding prime minister – though perhaps not for reasons of her own choosing.
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