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The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment thought the Government could hamstring NZ's research capability by ignoring the advice it commissioned.
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Act leader David Seymour says the tribunal has gone well beyond its brief.
RNZ
Industry groups helped develop several initiatives about alcohol harm - including one on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
RNZ
Nationwide protests are taking place today in response to the government's controversial pay equity law change.
NZ Herald
Act minister Brooke van Velden and several National MPs will face protests tomorrow as anger from union members grows after the Government’s changes to pay...
RNZ
Officials warned ministers of 'legal risks' if the government talked about its intentions to make changes to pay equity laws ahead of the new legislation being passed.
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says New Zealand "has been living beyond its means" ahead of the Budget later this month, which is expected to be tight after the finance minister cut about $1 billion from the operating allowance.
RNZ
More than half a billion dollars has now been spent on an axed project meant to deliver two inter-island ferries.
RNZ
Defence is one of the few sectors getting new money in the upcoming Budget.
It comes days after an urgent Waitangi Tribunal claim regarding the Bill was accepted, with claimants saying the Bill - if enacted - would breach Te Tiriti and cause significant prejudice to Māori.
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After initially arguing in favour of need-based interventions for Māori and Pasifika workers, a Crown entity has now changed course after complaints from a coalition partner and a ministerial intervention
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Act will not support a National Party member’s bill banning social media for under-16s , killing the Prime Minister’s hope for the bill to be adopted by the...
RNZ
The re-vamped scheme has been plagued by concerns about late, inedible, repetitive or nutritionally lacking lunches this year.
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The Government will today and under urgency seek to pass amendments to the Equal Pay Act, the law which prohibits employers from paying men and women different rates for the same work, in a move which will scrap all current pay equity claims and make it harder to raise a claim.
NZ Herald
The Government is planning a massive overhaul of New Zealand’s pay equity regime, which will make it more difficult for people to take pay equity claims ....
RNZ
Leaked documents suggest the $118 million programme will be axed 'effective from Budget 2025'.
There are multiple examples of Stanford using her personal email for ministerial business.
NZ Herald
The Government and Department of Conservation are seeking public feedback on the next stages of two major conservation strategies. Conservation officials are...
RNZ
The public service union is calling on the Auditor General to investigate proposed job cuts to Te Whatu Ora anti-fraud roles.
NZ Herald
A survivor of torture at the notorious Lake Alice psychiatric facility will appeal to the High Court today to challenge the Government’s new redress scheme .
Education Minister Erica Stanford said the tool was about putting parents back at the centre of their child’s learning journey.
RNZ
Winston Peters is proposing new legislation that will define the term "woman" as "an adult human biological female".
RNZ
Seymour has called for a smaller team of ministers, portfolios and departments.
NZ Herald
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has left the door open to means-testing for large Budget items, including Government KiwiSaver subsidies, as she looks to make...
Changes made in 2020 allowed prisoners serving sentences of less than three years to vote.
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