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Govt keeping eye on calls for Sikh activists 'referendum' in Auckland
25 Oct 2024The issue assumes significance with potential repercussions for New Zealand-India relations, which have seen a major up-tick in recent months.
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Kids are feeling record benefit numbers
25 Oct 2024As the number of people on the benefit soars, some are warning job losses can mean more than just less income.
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Government to review fire safety provisions in Building Code
The full review - the first in over a decade - comes 18 months after five people died in a blaze at Wellington's Loafers Lodge. Audio
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Watch: PM speaks from CHOGM in Samoa
24 Oct 2024Christopher Luxon has landed in Apia for CHOGM, and visited the Operation Resolution headquarters.
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Richard Prebble joins Waitangi Tribunal
24 Oct 2024Since leaving Parliament, the former ACT leader had provided pro-bono advice to Māori trusts, hapū and iwi.
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How many media jobs have gone, and where?
24 Oct 2024Cuts continue at most of the country's major media outlets and there is a warning new legislation could be a killer blow for many.
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'Horrified': Regional council fumes at government
24 Oct 2024One councillor says it's a "significant undermining of local democracy".
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Government passes RMA changes to freshwater
24 Oct 2024Among all the government's resource management changes, the Fast-track Bill has received the bulk of attention. This week, a less traversed but equally significant bill from that suite became law.
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Bayly complainant condemns minister's behaviour in unredacted letter
24 Oct 2024"I did not dedicate five years of my life to the NZDF only to be belittled by an ambassador of the very government I served."
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Nicola Willis asks public servants for their 'best and boldest ideas'
24 Oct 2024The finance minister has implored public servants to bring new ideas to the table, while acknowledging she was "asking a lot" at an "unsettling" time.
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'Series of failures': Watchdog slams Oranga Tamariki, again
24 Oct 2024Peter Boshier said the agency didn't appropriately respond to reports of abuse against pre-school and primary-aged children.
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$80m spent on redundancies since government took office
24 Oct 2024On ministry alone has paid out nearly $15m with another $21m across the sector still expected. Audio
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'Middle finger to localism' as freshwater plan blocked
24 Oct 2024A last-minute amendment was a 'specific attack on the Otago Regional Council', who can no longer pass planned freshwater protections.
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Police Minister rejects claim police raid on gangs 'state-sponsored terrorism'
24 Oct 2024The raid was part of the police's bid to stem organised crime and Te Pāti Māori's response was "emotive and ridiculous", Mark Mitchell says. Audio
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Health minister eyes immigration changes for healthcare staff
24 Oct 2024The government is looking at changes to immigration policies that had rolled out the welcoming mat for healthcare workers.
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Stalking is not uncommon in New Zealand, and it isn't a crime
24 Oct 2024The Detail: A new bill to criminalise stalking could be here by the end of the year. Here's what it might look like.
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How the Commonwealth could pressure the US over Gaza
24 Oct 2024Climate change, the Middle East, and the importance of small nations on the world stage are being picked as major talking points for the Commonwealth meeting in Samoa.
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All parties support Samoan citizenship Bill
24 Oct 2024A Bill that aims to restore citizenship to a group of Samoans born between 1924 and 1949 is set to pass its second reading later this morning, with all parties saying they will vote it through. Audio
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Boris Johnson to speak at exclusive Auckland 'long lunch'
24 Oct 2024Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be the keynote speaker at an exclusive 'long lunch' event in Auckland this December, with tickets costing about $500 a head.
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'It's about a series of poor decisions' - Ministers defend criticisms
23 Oct 2024Government ministers have pushed back after the Wellington mayor accused them of "punching down" in their recent criticisms of her council.
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Medicines summit recommends more funding
23 Oct 2024The government has accepted the white paper that came out of the country's inaugural national summit on medicines.
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'We don't make excess profits' - Bank tells MPs $2b annual profit 'fair'
ANZ's top brass have pushed back against suggestions it's making too much profit.
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Advocates decry govt about-turn on exploited migrants
23 Oct 2024Immigration Minister Erica Stanford is changing the Migrant Exploitation Protection Work Visa, including removing people's ability to extend it.
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Nationwide protest against 'attack on workers' rights and conditions'
23 Oct 2024Workers aren't going to take the changes lying down, CTU president Richard Wagstaff says.
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