Simon Watts

The Climate Change Minister, Simon Watts, has just announced a cross party inquiry will be conducted by the Finance and Expenditure Committee into climate adaptation. Audio

This week’s sitting of Parliament began with two finance bills that have deadlines attached. Audio

From April 1 landlords will once again be able to claim tax deductions for interest on residential investment properties.

In effect, this means interest expenses are offset against taxes paid on… Audio

New Zealand's climate change minister says the commitment to "phase out fossil fuels" is primarily about coal, rather than gas. The International Energy Agency says current emissions reductions… Audio

The coalition Government says it will repeal the ban on offshore oil and gas exploration.

That's despite the United Nations saying the world is on track to produce around 110-percent more fossil… Audio

With less than two weeks to go, this election is heating up - but so is the climate.

Our first big target for reducing emissions is set for 2030 - just seven years away. New Zealand has pledged a 41… Audio

You can change the badge on a Lada, but it's still a Lada.

That's how National Party leader Christopher Luxon describes the rebranded three waters reforms announced by the government on Thursday.

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Many of the nation's mayors were interested listeners at the weekend when the National Party announced what it would replace Three Waters with.

In addition to confirming it National said it would… Audio

The National Party says Wayne Brown and his team have come up with much better plan for the country's three waters and it spells the end of the Government's unpopular proposal.

Auckland mayor Wayne… Audio

The country's water services could be privately managed under the Three Waters shake-up despite the Government's commitment against privatisation.

The reforms would allow services to be contracted… Audio

In the week after a big party conference you might expect that the themes raised in Parliament would often match the talking points from that event. You would be right. Audio

The contentious Three Waters plan includes a pricey IT project which officials say could cost $500 million - but the opposition fears it will be even more.

The project will need to link up the… Audio

The government is forging ahead with its Three Waters reforms and says it's time everyone else got on board.

It means drinking, waste and storm water systems will come under four massive water… Audio

ACC staff say they are battling overwhelming caseloads, huge backlogs and are some are so stressed they're regularly crying in the stairwells.

It comes after a $74 million restructure to improve… Audio

Every Wednesday - give or take - we introduce you to a first term MP, someone new to parliament and this week it's turn of National Party MP for the North Shore electorate Simon Watts. Audio