Collected stories - 1 November 2021 to 1 March 2022
Newshub
The Government has a "legal duty" to ensure all Kiwis have a decent home, the Human Rights Commission says.
RNZ
Changes to the Resource Management Act making it easier to build houses in the country's biggest cities has passed its final reading in Parliament with cross-party support.
It's hoped the bill will enable tens of thousands of homes to be built in the next five to eight years
Newshub
"The Opposition doesn't support public health protections."
Māori Television
Covid restrictions meant only a small amount of Ngāti Maniapoto iwi members were able to make it to Parliament today as the Ngāti Maniapoto treaty...
RNZ
Complaints flooding in to the Human Rights Commission has led to a campaign urging New Zealanders dial down the anger and hostility over Covid-19 and vaccines.
Māori Television
Just when you think Christmas cheer would wash over Parliament, allegations of bullying and verbal abuse are raring their ugly heads in the National Party....
Newshub
"Look, some councils don't agree with where we've landed."
Stuff
Christopher Luxon has won his party an immediate bounce in a poll – but at the expense of ACT, not Labour.
Stuff
OPINION: In a clear concession that the Government has become gravely sensitive to the public disquiet encircling these reforms.
RNZ
An event organiser in the region says the government decision is a blow after so much hard work by local organisations to increase vaccination rates.
NZ Herald
Delayed party for Auckland has northern neighbour envious - but local businesses fuming.
Newsroom
New Zealand forestry waste is the bright hope of biofuels, as the heat goes on overseas use of corn and palm oil crops.
Newshub
"It's a vision. It's a line in the sand."
Newshub
"I don't think this Government cares about farmers and the rural communities."
Stuff
While Cabinet is meeting to review traffic light settings at 4pm, a Covid modeller says it won't be clear until next week what impact the new system has had.
RNZ
Jacinda Ardern says the country has only been in the traffic light system for 10 days and is still in a period of transition.
RNZ
It's decision day for Auckland, with a possibility the city moves to orange traffic light settings, as case numbers fall and vaccination rates rise. We canvassed Aucklanders to get their views.
Newsroom
A former Parliamentary staffer who felt bullied by then-MP Nick Smith says the Parliamentary Service promised to support him - and then abandoned him.
The Standard
New Zealand is seeing a strong, business-led recovery. But what will we do with this success?
Stuff
OPINION: Christopher Luxon’s anti-abortion views speak volumes about a disdainful attitude to women.
Stuff
OPINION: There was nothing hard about the questions media asked Christopher Luxon - that's why he aced them.
Newshub
Epidemiologist Michael Baker warns the move will "almost certainly" result in more infections, serious illnesses and deaths.
NZ Herald
Ardern tells the Herald to check in on housing, health, climate change and trade in 2022.
Stuff
OPINION: Christopher Luxon has seemingly buried the dog-whistle and instead talks standard boilerplate centre-right rhetoric.
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