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Election 2023 headlines with summaries.
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Labour gets no significant donations from business
14 Sep 2023Since 2021, Labour has received zero substantial donations from business.
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NZ First returns to Parliament under latest 1News-Verian poll
13 Sep 2023National has gained in the latest 1News-Verian poll, with all other parties currently in Parliament losing support or staying steady.
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Raucous Northland debate crowd rails at Covid, te reo Māori mentions
13 Sep 2023Northland MP Willow-Jean Prime walked into the lion's den when she took part in an election debate in Kerikeri on Tuesday night.
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In pictures: Politicians visit a dairy, factory and 'The Love Shack'
13 Sep 2023With just over a month until the general election, Wednesday's highlights from the election trail included party leader's visits to a dairy, a factory and 'The Love Shack'.
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Labour announces training policy amid senior doctors' strike
An extra 95 doctors will be accepted for training from 2025 under a Labour policy announced on Wednesday.
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Election 2023 live updates: Labour pledges more doctors, ACT announces law and order policy
13 Sep 2023National's leader has been on a walkabout Papatoetoe this morning, Labour's leader announced the party's health pledge at Otago Medical School and ACT's leader outlined its law and order policy in…
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'More people should be in prison': Seymour promises tougher sentences for serious crimes
13 Sep 2023The ACT party's law and order policy also promises to disqualify gang members from holding a firearms licence and impose tougher sentences for crimes on vulnerable workers.
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Otago Polytech trades training school opens
13 Sep 2023Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has opened a new trades and engineering training centre for Otago Polytech.
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'This is not radical': Luxon rules out rethink on tax policy in light of larger deficit
13 Sep 2023The National leader is rubbishing any suggestion the party's tax cuts will be inflationary or are fiscally irresponsible. Audio
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Better ways than tax to bring down the cost of housing, electricity and groceries - Hipkins
12 Sep 2023In an in-depth interview, Labour leader Chris Hipkins discusses Labour's tax policy, Māori housing inequity, the cost of living and the climate crisis.
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'Choices have consequences': Govt taking careful fiscal approach for economy - Robertson
The opposition's plans would result in deep cuts to services, the Finance Minister says. Audio
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Moments during the campaign trail on Tuesday
12 Sep 2023Today's highlights from the campaign trail included protest, food and finances.
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Northland electorate poll predicts clear defeat for Labour's Willow-Jean Prime
12 Sep 2023The lower number of voters makes the poll less reliable - but the results show National's Grant McCallum 25 points ahead of the Labour incumbent.
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Parties slam Labour's 'mismanagement' but Hipkins says economy is 'turning a corner'
12 Sep 2023The opposition has hit out at government spending and borrowing after the pre-election economic and fiscal update but Labour says it shows the economy turning a corner.
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Live election updates: Hipkins 'pretty pleased' with PREFU
12 Sep 2023Labour leader Chris Hipkins says overall he is "pretty pleased with the picture" the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update shows.
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Election 2023: PREFU shows govt books in slightly better shape than expected
The economic outlook and government books are in slightly better than expected shape, but still face a challenging couple of years, according to pre-election forecasts issued by the Treasury.
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Swarbrick's bid to hold her seat, and her two challengers
12 Sep 2023Chlöe Swarbrick is confident she can be the first Green MP to hold a seat for a second term, but National's Mahesh Muralidhar and Labour's Oscar Sims have other plans. Audio
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National victory may lead to positive capital returns, report suggests
Businesses are cautious in the run-up to the election, although a large proportion wants a change of government.
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How a small West Coast town - important in Labour's history - feels about politics
12 Sep 2023Blackball played an important role in New Zealand's labour movement, with the 1908 miners' strike a foundation stone in the formation of the Labour Party in 1916. Audio
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Winston Peters unconcerned he might stir up anti-Māori feeling
12 Sep 2023The New Zealand First leader says he cannot understand why his latest comments on Māori not being indigenous are being contested. Audio
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Hipkins says it will be hard work to turn around party's poor poll result
12 Sep 2023A poll last night put Labour support at 26.8 percent. Leader Chris Hipkins says he takes responsibility for his party's worst result in six years. Audio
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Roads, petrol prices and kaimoana: Te Araroa on the election
12 Sep 2023First Up reporter Leonard Powell has taken a tour around the East Cape, to check what's on people's minds pre-election. In Te Araroa they're talking roads, petrol prices, and protecting kaimoana. Audio
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Labour promises free cervical screening, as new self-test rolls out
Labour is promising free cervical screening for ages 25 to 69. It coincides with the government rolling out an HPV self-test option from today. Audio
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Labour drops 5.5 points in latest Newshub-Reid Research poll
11 Sep 2023National and ACT could comfortably govern on the latest Newshub Reid-Research poll, which saw Labour drop to 26.8 percent.
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