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You have to move fast in a crisis, but too much of the Government's policy has been circumventing proper process, with poor results
Stuff
ANALYSIS: Labour has got light rail over the line in Cabinet, now it needs to get ready to actually build the project.
The Conversation
Deportations of non-citizens living in Australia not only tear families apart, they ignore the fact a person has already paid for their crime.
Stuff
A raft of significant tax changes and alterations to income on Thursday will leave some people better off and others possibly scratching their heads.
RNZ
Government health ministers will receive their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine over the next two weeks.
RNZ
The National Party says only Immigration New Zealand-approved laboratories should be able to provide pre-departure Covid-19 tests for people travelling from overseas.
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Newshub
Labour will finally fulfill a 2017 election promise this Thursday, when the minimum wage increases to $20 an hour.
Newshub
The Pike River Family Reference Group said it now accepts official advice.
Newshub
It doesn't bode well for National leader Judith Collins.
RNZ
Feedback closed yesterday on the Climate Change Commission's draft proposal to make Aotearoa carbon neutral by 2050 - with complaints the plan goes both too far and not far enough.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has told this afternoon's media conference that the minimum wage will increase to $20 an hour on April 1. She said...
RNZ
The Opposition is calling on the Finance Minister to specifically rule out any move to cap rent rises.
Newshub
Megan Woods told Nicola Willis to read-up on documents that haven't even been published yet.
The Employment Contracts Act is 30 years old and the country still hasn’t recovered, even as it prepares for the next major employment upheaval,...
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The Spectre Haunting The New Zealand Initiative: “The worst of Muldoonism is back in New Zealand politics. It is a morass of ad hoc interve...
RNZ
Palliative care specialists fear health practitioners with as little as six hours online training could end up providing euthanasia for patients who would have wanted to live if they had proper care and pain relief.
Newshub
All in all, the housing announcements look set to fuel greater wealth inequality, writes Bryce Edwards for RNZ.
RNZ
A squadron of investors and economists blitzed the airwaves following the government's big housing announcement, often drowning out other voices.
The Standard
Media has been abuzz with comment about how last election Grant Robertson has backtracked on a promise on not extending the bright line test. Should politicians stick to their pronouncements no matter what? Or should they change their minds if circumstances demand a change in course?
1 NEWS
Interim CEO Sir Wiri Gardiner is looking to make serious changes, saying nothing is off the table.
RNZ
The National Party wants answers over how a coding error in a covid vaccination booking system exposed the details of hundreds of patients.
RNZ
The Security Intelligence Service says it has found a person in New Zealand who is working for a foreign state's intelligence services.
RNZ
Auckland councillor Chris Darby says a legal challenge against the $1.4 billion Mill Road project by climate change advocates All Aboard Aotearoa is a sign of what's to come.
1 NEWS
Grant Robertson says the Government’s policies are a bid to "tip the balance" in favour of first home buyers.
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