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Amid some in-House knitting drama this week, there was more speculation the knives are out for National Party leader Judith Collins. But doesn't National always have its knives out?
RNZ
Environmental activists say a new report shows the widespread destruction caused by intensive dairy farming, but DairyNZ says farmers environmental efforts are starting to have an impact.
Newsroom
The Housing Minister on the mistakes of KiwiBuild, filling the infrastructure gap, and helping renters.
Newsroom
Labour's signature policies are atrophying as the Government focuses on the Covid-19 pandemic and recovery. Peter Dunne asks if managing the virus will be enough to get Labour re-elected in two years.
Newsroom
The Government has come under fire for being slow to reform hate crime legislation, even after it was recommended by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the March 15 terror attack.
Stuff
Officials have inked a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars and the promise of closer ties with - and potential investment from - the world's biggest retailer.
RNZ
Power Play - Some of Labour's backbenchers did little to cover themselves with glory this week with their behaviour - a red flag for the still fresh majority government.
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ACT says the numbers are disappointing.
Newshub
Trevor Mallard said what occurred at the Health Select Committee was "not in compliance with the spirit" of Parliament's rules.
Newshub
The Government doesn't want to repeat the failings of National's Housing Infrastructure Fund.
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Megan Main told Breakfast employers keep their own systems to track of employees' tests.
Stuff
The response in Wellington to National's new $50k housing proposal is mixed, with one city councillor saying the policy is “removed from reality”.
Stuff
OPINION: Coup talk in National distracting just when Nats should be capitalising on huge gulf between words and action from Labour.
Stuff
A review into local government is taking shape, with an announcement expected in weeks.
RNZ
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the border security guard who had not been tested since last November lied to his employer First Security about the tests he was supposed to have had.
RNZ
The government has announced a ban on live cattle exports by sea, with a two-year period to phase out the trade.
RNZ
Jacinda Ardern says there is now an online defence framework for the online world that didn't exist before the Christchurch Call.
Stuff
National is pushing for councils to be incentivised to consent and see built as many new houses as possible – by $50,000 a pop.
Newshub
"It's all just chatter, it's all just rumour and speculation."
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The industry was thrust into the spotlight last September after a livestock ship capsized in the East China Sea after leaving Napier.
RNZ
The government's move to make it mandatory for all testing of border workers to be recorded in a central register is being derided as months too late.
RNZ
Health Minister Andrew Little has shot down calls for a swift overhaul of drug laws, saying any major change would first have to go back to a referendum.
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Mates in Construction says it is ready and waiting to support thousands of workers around NZ.
Stuff
Quarantine czar Brigadier Jim Bliss won't say the surveillance testing of managed isolation workers is happening every 14 days, as required.
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