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The main opposition party rolls out its first major election policy since late 2025 - cheaper weekly bus and train fares focusing on the main cities
NZ Herald
A political feud is deepening over the Labour Party’s selection of Superintendent Rakesh Naidoo as a list candidate, after Labour’s police spokeswoman...
"Public transport should help people get ahead, not become a luxury people get priced out of," said Tangi Utikere, Labour's transport spokesperson.
NZ Herald
Labour is pledging to cap weekly public transport costs across the country to $20 in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and $10 for all other areas. The...
Te Pāti Māori says Pharmac's proposed diabetes medicine changes could create new barriers for Māori and Pacific patients, despite no modelling of Māori health impacts.
RNZ
A legal boffin who was consulted on the government's law change that would prevent companies from being sued over climate change explains his opposition.
NZ Herald
People could soon be able to “click and collect” their prescription medicines like they do with groceries. Associate Health Minister Casey Costello plans to...
RNZ
Leader Chris Hipkins confirmed the unveiling on Morning Report, after Kingi Kiriona - the party's new candidate for Hauraki-Waikato - hinted at 'tax relief' policies on Monday.
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Elliot Ikilei wants to shield the youth from leftist ideologies, resist academic influence and lead a return to ‘Judeo-Christian morality’. He talks to Fox Meyer.
The Energy Minister said the Government was working "through the detail" of how the facility will be paid for.
Stuff
Probe will assess whether Rakesh Naidoo passed on any sensitive information while considering a political run.
NZ Herald
Police Commissioner Richard Chambers believes it is “untenable” for superintendent Rakesh Naidoo to continue in his senior role within police after it was...
Stuff
He compared Labour’s selection process to the secretive Vatican conclave that elects popes.
RNZ
Labour has named 30 newcomers on its list as it heads into the campaign.
The Labour leader and party president Jill Day said the team would give New Zealanders "real choice for the kind of country we want to live in".
Stuff
The Government had initially proposed a “levy on electricity” to pay for the gas import facility intended to improve energy security in dry years.
RNZ
But the finance minister says there is "no hole in the government's accounts".
Under the most recent 1News Verian poll, Naidoo's ranking means he would be comfortably elected to Parliament as a list MP.
NZ Herald
Union-commissioned polling reveals more than two-thirds of New Zealanders think the quality of the public service is either no different or has worsened...
Paramedics will soon be able to prescribe patients medicine, Health Minister Simeon Brown said in an announcement today.
The US has approved a NZ$2.6 billion sale of five Seahawk maritime helicopters to New Zealand, after the government pledged to nearly double its...
A $10 million Government investment will support predator-free initiatives across Tāmaki Makaurau and the Hauraki Gulf, including Auckland's first urban mainland project.
RNZ
The Australian and New Zealand prime ministers met on Friday night in Noosa ahead of the annual leader's meeting taking place on Saturday.
NZ Herald
Government agencies are being urged to proactively release more information and use artificial intelligence to respond to information requests, as new...
RNZ
Luxon stressed New Zealand would raise the matter directly with China itself "nation-to-nation."
RNZ
Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill both successfully led hand-picked Cabinets that included their own fiercest rivals in order to forge a team of the most able.
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