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Finance Minister Nicola Willis says 97,500 families received a payment from National's key election promise, Family Boost. It had expected 130,000 families to benefit.
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The National leader came very close to saying he won’t form a governing arrangement with Opportunity - with his office later confirming it “amounted to a formal ruling out”
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The National leader came very close to saying he won’t form a governing arrangement with Opportunity - with his office later confirming it “amounted to a formal ruling out”
NZ Herald
Labour’s candidate for the South Island seat of Selwyn, Nick Moody, has pulled out of the election race. The party said Moody had withdrawn as a candidate to...
RNZ
The immigration minister has refused to release the document that NZ First leader Winston Peters claims would show the government "covertly" changing migration settings for Indians.
A Greens member’s bill would make it easier for professional and volunteer firefighters with occupational cancer to receive ACC support.
Some districts are close to a deal. Others have walked away entirely. Here's where every part of the country stands with two weeks to go.
RNZ
The Green Party have unveiled their election manifesto to a packed-out annual general meeting at an auditorium in south Auckland.
Greens launch election campaign slogan, propose one-year pause on AI data centres and unveil manifesto calling for reform to public finance system, rejecting local govt rates cap proposal
NZ Herald
The National Party has promised to gradually extend paid parental leave from 26 to 30 weeks by 2029 if re-elected. The change would begin with an increase to...
RNZ
MPs returned to Parliament last week after a two-week recess. Plenty awaited them, including the first Members' Day in almost two months.
RNZ
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson says the party is determined to return to the government benches, ahead of its annual general meeting.
NZ Herald
A government decision to scrap Mana Whakahono-ā-Rohe agreements has halted or disrupted 11 iwi-council partnership processes across the Horizons region....
RNZ
When MPs return to Parliament after a two-week break, the first day or so in the debating chamber can involve a surprising amount of catch-up on the endless business awaiting attention, and on rejuvenated arguments and debates, as well as on not losing ground in the inch-by-inch battles over procedural interpretation. Some of the catch-up is official business, some is tactical and some is political.
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Christopher Luxon hit Feilding to escape the ‘Wellington bubble’, but a mother with a disabled child said he failed to listen to her struggles.
RNZ
The ACT Party is accusing Labour of "manufactured outrage" after it complained about new candidate Paul Henry's participation in a risqué radio game.
RNZ
National MP Katie Nimon says decency has prevailed and women are vindicated following Stuart Nash's resignation as a New Zealand First candidate.
RNZ
The Prime Minister says Stuart Nash should publicly apologise to an MP he labelled "lazy" for taking parental leave, but stopped short of condemning Shane Jones for other derogatory language.
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New Zealand military personnel will continue serving with a United Nations peacekeeping mission in a country that has endured years of civil war, political instability and humanitarian crises.
NZ Herald
New Zealand First minister Shane Jones says Stuart Nash’s resignation following backlash over his recent comments is a “sensible” move to prevent the saga...
RNZ
Stuart Nash says a private message he sent became a "significant distraction", leading to his resignation as an NZ First candidate.
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Hipkins says Nash’s resignation exposes Luxon’s leadership, accusing the PM of ignoring Shane Jones’ controversial remarks.
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A leading advocate for ending sexual violence says New Zealand should move immediately to strengthen its sexual consent laws, arguing that delaying reform until after the election risks prolonging uncertainty […]
RNZ
The government is set to make clear the future of residence options for parents of migrant New Zealanders.
NZ First candidate was "channelling the manosphere," says Christopher Luxon in response to Nash's remarks about an MP's maternity leave.
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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