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'Most egregious attack on worker rights in decades' - CTU
25 Jun 2024MBIE is calling for feedback on private contractor rights, as four Uber drivers fight to be recognised as employees - with holiday pay, sick leave and other entitlements. Audio
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Some new cancer drugs available in next three months
25 Jun 2024However it could be more than a year before all the newly-funded treatments are on the market, the Heath Minister says.
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Willis responds to ferry decision criticism after ship runs aground
One of the KiwiRail shareholding ministers says there are good reasons for the InterIslander ferry service to stay in government hands.
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Fears new young offenders category will label troubled teens for life
24 Jun 2024The government's plans are not the answer to reducing youth crime, and won't build safer communities, the Chief Children's Commissioner says.
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Electoral Commission refers Darleen Tana to police
24 Jun 2024The suspended Green MP has been referred to the police over an election advertisement published in May 2023.
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Cancer drugs promise: Government confirms $600m extra for Pharmac
24 Jun 2024The government has confirmed $604m in extra Pharmac funding, to cover "up to 54" new medicines including 26 cancer treatments.
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Watch: PM, Health Minister admit flaws in cancer drug comms
24 Jun 2024Christopher Luxon and Shane Reti have acknowledged they communicated the cancer drugs policy poorly.
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NZ embeds itself in US Space Force as it talks up threats
24 Jun 2024US documents show Aotearoa is increasingly aligning itself with America's big push to bring allies into its defensive and offensive space plans.
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'No evidence' government's boot camp plan will work - critics
24 Jun 2024Christopher Luxon says it's time for a "different approach" - but it's been slammed as a "punitive" plan that will harm children.
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Government still hasn't slashed enough public service jobs - David Seymour
23 Jun 2024The ACT Party leader says NZ previously got by just fine with fewer public servants.
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'I'm sick of it, Kiwis are sick of it' - Luxon announces new crime measures
23 Jun 2024The government has put forth new efforts to tackle youth crime and gang activity, as well as a dramatic increase in police for some cities.
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Job seekers now required to attend a seminar after six months on the benefit
24 Jun 2024The change is part of the government's wider "reset" of the welfare system.
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Golriz Ghahraman to be sentenced over shoplifting
24 Jun 2024The former Green MP will be sentenced for stealing nearly $10,000 worth of clothing.
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KiwiRail board chair David McLean quits
23 Jun 2024The government has said the timing is not related to the recent grounding of the state-owned enterprise's ferry Aratere.
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Transport Minister raised alarm over ferry maintenance
22 Jun 2024The government was "highly unimpressed" with KiwiRail's ferry maintenance standards, Simeon Brown said earlier this week.
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Call for more meningococcal vaccines to be included in Pharmac funding boost
22 Jun 2024The current vaccine approach is "patchy at best" and "ultimately ineffective", Meningitis Foundation says.
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Christopher Luxon gets a 'C' on Japan trade trip
22 Jun 2024Power Play - The trade mission was overshadowed by a distraction for which the prime minister has only himself to blame.
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It really has been 'scrutiny week' for the government
21 Jun 2024Analysis - The PM's plane breaks down, but Luxon tries to keep things rolling, while MPs face tough questions at home, Peter Wilson writes.
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Former Green MP Keith Locke dies, age 80
21 Jun 2024Locke, known as a human rights and anti-war advocate, was in Parliament from 1999 to 2011.
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'A pylon should not just fall down' - Energy Minister
21 Jun 2024Simeon Brown has ordered the Electricity Authority to review the Northland outage.
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Fast Track bill has more supporters than opponents - poll
21 Jun 2024A Taxpayers Union-Curia poll suggests more New Zealanders support the government's fast-track bill than oppose it.
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Education Ministry staff 'constantly in tears' during 'unfair' job loss process
22 Jun 2024The redundancies have been an "emotional rollercoaster", workers say, with flip-flops on decisions and managers ill-informed of changes.
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Cabinet to consider Pharmac boost for promised cancer drugs
21 Jun 2024Cabinet ministers will consider a major cash injection for Pharmac after backlash from cancer patients, RNZ understands.
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Green MP OK'd migrant on fruit-picker visa for job in husband's bike shop
21 Jun 2024Green MP Darleen Tana has been stood down since initial allegations of migrant exploitation at her husband's bike business. Now a worker's messages raise fresh questions.
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