PM Luxon admits a trust gap with Māori amid divisive Treaty debates, touts phonics-led education gains and private engagement, prioritizing outcomes over symbolism to rebuild confidence.
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The associate police minister has announced a new cross-agency plan to combat criminal networks.
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Waatea Team Posted On December 20, 2025
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In a sit-down interview with RNZ, the New Zealand First leader discusses the year that's been and the upcoming election.
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Public Trust executives told the Government that vulnerable people were struggling to pay new fees for the auditing of their finances and that help was needed, official documents reveal.
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Minister of Justice Paul Goldsmith appointed Stephen Rainbow and Melissa Derby in August 2024.
NZ Herald
A new report reveals how some iwi groups feel forced to take legal action or repeatedly remind the Crown to uphold its settlement commitments. The report,...
NZ Herald
The Waitangi Tribunal wants local government to enable shared decision-making or other forms of collaboration with iwi and hapū. It wants the Government to...
Former Te Pāti Māori lawyer and prominent Treaty activist Tania Waikato will stand as a candidate for the Green Party in next year’s general election.
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New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is preparing an “answer” intended to silence speculation about whether he’d govern again with Labour as questions...
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Health NZ’s procurement systems failed so badly that an independent reviewer could not verify whether conflict of interest checks or basic due diligence were ever carried out before $1.7m was awarded to a single supplier.
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The Green Party says they’ve made “major changes” to their selection processes before the 2026 general election. This follows the ousting of disgraced MP...
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The Government will sell the debt it holds in Chorus, Finance Minister Nicola Willis has confirmed. She said the money raised from the sale will be “invested...
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The leaders of New Zealand’s parliamentary political parties have delivered their final speeches of the year. The adjournment debate wrapped up the...
The Bill ends same-day voter enrolment, bans prisoners from voting, allows for larger anonymous political donations, and clarifies the ban on giving out food at voting places.
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Waatea Team Posted On December 17, 2025
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Buildings under three storeys and in towns with under 10,000 people will not need strengthening, remediation or warning notices.
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Labour’s Barbara Edmonds says Treasury’s latest economic update shows the “Government have lost control of the economy” but repeatedly refrained from saying...
Transport Minister Chris Bishop said subsidies would drop from 75% to 65% from July 1, 2026, blaming unsustainable rising costs.
A bill returning one of New Zealand’s most historic sites to Māori is due to be passed by Parliament on Wednesday, ending a 20-year quest by Northland iwi Ngāpuhi.
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The ACT leader made the comments in a sit-down interview with RNZ reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead.
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That's up from the $60.4b record set this year.
RNZ
The Commission is due to hand over the first National Infrastructure Plan to ministers by the end of the year.
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In its penultimate sitting block of the year, Parliament was in urgency debating 12 bills, but the most controversial were among the last.
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The last election saw Labour's six years in government come to an end, and Hipkins returning to the opposition benches just 10 months after becoming prime minister.
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We look at the government's nine key goals and see what it's achieved so far.
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