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A top official advises 'deep breaths' on potential NZ involvement in Aukus, as military budgets and capabilities face scrutiny
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Christopher Luxon talks about job losses and the confronting report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care
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Finance Minister Nicola Willis is promising tax changes ahead for charities.
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Why it’s unlikely the Govt will abandon its urgent law to restrict Māori coastline rights, despite the Supreme Court finding in its favour
It comes as about 36,000 nurses, midwives and other health workers walked off the job in an eight-hour nationwide strike over staffing and pay levels.
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The Defence Minister says China “changed the game” by firing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into the Pacific amid what she says is a worsening...
"This change ensures that transport policies have democratic legitimacy and democratic accountability," the Transport Minister says.
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The government is introducing "significant reforms" for the city's transport policies.
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Public sector impartiality and the impact of budget cuts on government departments came to the fore as the new commissioner faced questions
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Associate Health Minister David Seymour has confirmed Pharmac will review its decision to fund Mylan-branded HRT and cut Estradot.
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Neither Pharmac Minister David Seymour nor board chairwoman Paula Bennett are expressing confidence in chief executive Sarah Fitt as the agency comes under...
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Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop has inked his intention for users of new infrastructure to cover more of the costs to avoid leaving the Government with...
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Social Development Minister Louise Upston is hoping an additional 10,000 job seekers receiving one-on-one support will help reverse the growth in the number...
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The senior ministers brought up "setting precedents and being careful about what we commit to", according to new documents.
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A fossil fuel body is warmly praising the government's "no nonsense" draft emissions plan and calling for a sustainable aviation group to be scrapped.
The battle for the next election starts now.
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The coalition wants to divide NZ along ethnic and economic lines, Chris Hipkins says, and he wants to be the leader who brings it together.
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The Stockton mine is hoping for a fast-tracked 25-year extension, as historic damages are costing the Crown more than it earns from all coal mine royalties
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Live - Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins is speaking at the party's annual conference in Christchurch.
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If elected, Labour will build the new Dunedin Hospital to the level that was promised at the 2023 election before the coalition Government said it would...
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The former Labour minister has returned to Labour after taking a year off, but says it's not her "intention" to run again.
However, the PM said there had been frustration created "by some pretty horrendous decisions" made by the previous government.
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But the party is also focussed on jobs, healthcare and education, he says.
The PM claims the controversial Fast-track Approvals Bill is well suited to Queenstown "because in fast-growing regions of the country, and this is...
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Speaking at the Labour Party annual conference, Willie Jackson criticised the coalition leaders for their respective roles in the Treaty Principles Bill.
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