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RNZ
Opposition parties are condemning the government's plans to make hate speech a criminal offence and to introduce harsher penalties.
Stuff
Prime Minister's planned trade mission to Australia has been postponed due to the Covid-19 spread in New South Wales
the Guardian
Justice minister says allowing people to continue to spread hatred could lead to a repeat of mosque terror attacks
NZ Herald
Hate speech will become a criminal offence under proposed legislative changes.
Democracy Project
The NZ First leader claims Ardern’s government hid the radical report on Māori co-governance from him. Graham Adams reckons he will extract a heavy price for the betrayal. With the help of a largely dismissive media, concerns raised in April by David Seymour and then by Judith Collins over t
RNZ
The $20 billion spend-up on defence is the latest Covid-19 casualty, with a range of options to scale it down now before the finance minister.
The Standard
The details of a particularly brutal National Party caucus meeting that resulted in Todd Muller announced his pending retirement from Parliament have been leaked in detail to the Herald's Claire Trevett.
RNZ
Officials have told the government they are sometimes struggling to identify who needs to pay for their managed isolation stay.
Newshub
"Yes, absolutely," Jacinda Ardern said when asked if she was satisfied with the Ministry of Health's communication.
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Deceptively Solid Support: What Labour would like us to believe is that they are skating on a solid sheet of ideological ice, more that cap...
NZ Herald
Todd Muller admitted to his caucus that he was an unnamed MP quoted in a article.
NZ Herald
"Being [an MP] is a huge privilege, but it does come at a cost," former party leader says.
Newshub
The former National leader wants to prioritise his health and family.
Stuff
OPINION: National is about to make changes to the way the party works. But will it be enough to make the party electable?
The Standard
Oh dear. There is yet another story about yet another National MP in trouble because of their born to rule impulses. Update: the Herald has reported that the MP is Harete Hipango. These blue on blue attacks are getting out of hand.
Newsroom
Winston Peters and Jacinda Ardern are at odds over the highly controversial He Puapua report.
Stuff
Documents from the Ministry of Transport warn the emissions standards could push up prices, but Labour says those numbers are out of date.
NZ Herald
'[It is] an ideological vanity project that the majority of New Zealanders oppose.'
Stuff
A dance group is accusing the country’s national arts funding authority of unlawfully influencing a decision which saw it being denied public money.
Stuff
Minister Willie Jackson says his party didn't intentionally withhold the contentious report from Winston Peters.
1 NEWS
Collins' comments came despite criticism earlier this year that it should be wāhine Māori to lead the discussion.
Stuff
Andrew Little says he is considering a review of the Government's $1.9b investment after just five new acute beds added in two years.
The Spinoff
Winston Peters is up for the fight. A new president is ready to go. If NZ First can avoid the mire of the culture war and deliver a positive message, there's life in the party yet, writes Josh Van Veen, a NZ First supporter and former parliamentary researcher to Winston Peters. New Zealand First
Newshub
"We're expecting the pricing locally to have to go up to meet the price rises in Japan."
1 NEWS
What went on at Lake Alice's child and adolescent unit is before a Royal Commission abuse in care inquiry.
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