Collected stories - 1 November 2021 to 1 March 2022
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Government documents reveal officials are increasingly alarmed by the seriousness of threats - and grasping for ideas on how to address the problem.
Stuff
OPINION: Christopher Luxon has gone from backbench MP to National Party leader in the space of a week.
Newsroom
National leader Chris Luxon didn’t get dealt an easy hand trying to select a shadow Cabinet with three former leaders in the mix. For the most part he’s promoted MPs based on talent but has also taken a few risks.
RNZ
Northland iwi say setting up roadblocks in partnership with police is crucial to help protect Māori communities in preparation of the Auckland borders reopening.
RNZ
The government has purchased 60,000 courses of Pfizer's oral antiviral medication to treat early infections of Covid-19, subject to Medsafe approval, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed.
It comes after new National leader Christopher Luxon revealed his new line up.
ZB
National has unveiled its new-look line up with big promotions for Chris Bishop and Erica Stanford, now ranked fourth and seventh. Bishop has been reunited
RNZ
Former leader Judith Collins has taken a tumble in the National Party rankings announced by new leader Christopher Luxon today.
Stuff
Christopher Luxon has demoted Judith Collins and several of her top MPs in his first reshuffle as leader of the National party.
RNZ
Jacinda Ardern says the first weekend in the traffic light system has received largely positive feedback.
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In A Word: The new Leader of the Opposition, Christopher Luxon, has very clearly chosen to reject the option of presenting a “flinty-faced”...
Newshub
"His lineup and who's in his top five will really reflect what his vision is for the party going forward."
NZ Herald
Over half of them are people who had been vaccinated overseas.
RNZ
Opponents of the bipartisan bill aimed at enabling housing blitzed the media over the past few weeks. Many of the reports failed to include relevant context and balancing opinion.
Stuff
OPINION: Everyone loves a winner - Chris Luxon has a short window to persuade people that's him.
Stuff
Our photographer's images captured the drama and intrigue as National Party leadership changed from Judith Collins to Christopher Luxon.
Stuff
OPINION: Voting is a better way to get MPs out of the Beehive than protesting, writes Kevin Norquay.
Newsroom
The select committee reported back at the last minute on a law that would allow apartment blocks throughout our biggest cities – but it's left any changes for back-room negotiations between Labour and National.
Stuff
OPINION: It's as if the past few years haven't happened for National. For now at least.
RNZ
Intensive care units and hospitals are getting a boost of hundreds of millions of dollars as the country moves to the Covid-19 traffic light system.
RNZ
Analysis - The traffic lights are switched on and New Zealanders are finding their way into the new Covid-19 era. The vaccination rate nudges 90 percent and National's new leader sets off a media feeding frenzy.
Aucklanders heading for their summer break up north will need to be vaccinated, or have proof they don't have Covid.
Newsroom
Chris Luxon might have a hard reset strategy for his party's dysfunction ready to go, but he hasn't quite figured out the nuances of the media spotlight. James Elliott on the new star of the National Party.
RNZ
The Deputy Prime Minister has hit back at claims that NZ is a divided nation over vaccinations, saying the numbers "simply do not bear that out". Watch the government's latest Covid-19 briefing here.
That's despite attempts to portray the country as divided, the Deputy PM said.
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