Collected stories - 1 November 2021 to 1 March 2022
Newshub
"There's no evidence to suggest that we would need to change the system we have."
"We were going into the unknown," the Prime Minister told 1News political editor Jessica Mutch McKay.
RNZ
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she wants to see house prices fall back from their record heights next year.
Stuff
OPINION: The Government is now leaning into Covid, but the transition from elimination to living with the virus has not, and will not, be straightforward.
RNZ
Analysis - Christopher Luxon goes head-to-head with Jacinda Ardern; the government unveils a new strategy to combat family and sexual violence; and a world-leading plan to ban tobacco sales is announced.
RNZ
The government has unveiled a roadmap to overhaul antiquated and inadequate conservation laws while stepping up plans to address long-standing problems in the short term.
Newsroom
Not great vibes in Parliament this week as Christopher Luxon fumbled the horse at his first Question Time rodeo.
Newsroom
ACT’s Nicole McKee says gang members are thugs who should be ostracised. The new MP and pro-gun advocate is sick of her law-abiding friends who own firearms being compared to gang criminals.
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Your Pathologies Are Not Wanted Here: In the face of Covid’s dangers, Pakeha New Zealanders have readily conceded the need to surrender many...
Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick says iwi want to keep their communities safe. ACT leader David Seymour says “thugs” are making up their own rules.
The Conversation
A royal commission of inquiry would take the politics out of assessing New Zealand’s pandemic response – and help safeguard future generations.
More than 100 Government, civil society, and private sector leaders from around the world have convened at the virtual White House Summit for Democracy.
Beijing has warned countries to “stop politicising sports” after Trade Minister Damien O’Connor’s comments on diplomatic boycotts of the Winter Olympics.
ZB
BusinessNZ has rejected the Government’s offer for them to play a role in the Fair Pay Agreements Scheme. Chief Executive Kirk Hope told Mike Hosking the p
RNZ
The bill represents a victory for trans, non-binary, intersex and takatāpui, and changes the process from a complicated one through the Family Court to a simple self-selecting administrative process.
Newsroom
Why a Shadow Cabinet matters, even with no power or standing in New Zealand, and how Christopher Luxon's should operate.
The Director-General of Health told the Waitangi Tribunal Cabinet preferred to take a different approach.
RNZ
The government's Covid-19 technical advisory group is considering whether to shorten the time between the second and third dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
Nurse shortages continue to hinder the Southern District Health Board’s efforts to achieve safe staffing requirements, despite its plans to do so...
Newsroom
Reframing political leadership beyond business acumen will help ensure all New Zealanders get what they need from government – not just get some people what they want, right now.
NZ Herald
Covid-19 Response Minister says he is confident that will change once its approved.
Stuff
The Government moved New Zealand into the traffic light system despite knowing it put unvaccinated Māori at risk.
Stuff
OPINION: Like John Key before him, Luxon has arrived in the job with a clear focus on winning back the political centre.
NZ Herald
Willie Jackson says his comment was directed at Act - not National MP Maureen Pugh.
Stuff
November advice from Dr Ashley Bloomfield saw no reason to keep Auckland's border in place once the traffic light system began.
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