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419 jobs axed at Oranga Tamariki, 300 jobs set to go at ACC
26 Jun 2024Oranga Tamariki and ACC have confirmed they will axe roles to meet the government's required spending cuts.
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'Lives kept on hold for years': Plans to amend sentencing laws confirmed
26 Jun 2024Paul Goldsmith has announced the approach the government plans to take for requiring judges to hand down tougher sentences.
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Political parties not reading too much into latest poll
26 Jun 2024Political parties are largely unfazed by the results of the latest 1 News Verian poll, which showed a slight boost for the government, but small dips for the opposition parties.
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Hipkins suggests KiwiRail ferries still being built, contract not cancelled
25 Jun 2024The government is being "very cagey" about whether the previous order for the new ferries has been cancelled or not, the Labour leader says.
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Listen: Mata - Carbon Overload
25 Jun 2024Green MP Teanau Tuiono discusses the failure of the latest carbon credits auction. Then Shane Te Pou and India Logan-Riley look at the future of the ETS.
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60,000 sign petition calling for ban on live animal exports to be kept
The coalition government is keen to restart the trade with 'gold standard' rules to protect animal welfare.
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Support for National increases since Budget, 1 News Verian poll shows
25 Jun 2024The results would see the coalition government retain its hold on power.
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NZ First disagrees with Cabinet over Covid-19 inquiry
Winston Peters says the party disagrees with allowing the inquiry to continue as-is and with its current chair who, he says, risks a perception of bias.
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Luxon defends drug funding's effect on Budget, refuses to share total cost
25 Jun 2024Committing funding - from next year's Budget - is not unusual, the Prime Minister says.
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Survivors have 'been heard': Abuse in Care report handed to Governor-General
25 Jun 2024It is estimated between 110,000 and 255,000 people were abused in state or faith-based care from 1950 to 2019.
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Revised Three Strikes Bill proceeds to Parliament
When it becomes law it will help keep violent criminals off the streets, the Associate Justice Minister says.
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How far can NZ boldly go with the US Space Force?
25 Jun 2024Analysis - NZ is increasingly active in the US military's Space Force, but how bold can it be when America's moves to ramp up space capabilities are encased in anti-China rhetoric?
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Govt's cancer funding announcement a catch-up, clean-up job
25 Jun 2024Power Play - A boost in Pharmac funding will go a long way to rebuilding the dent in National's credibility and trust, but the damage could have been avoided in the first place.
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Live: 'Go as fast as you can' - PM on drug rollout
25 Jun 2024Christopher Luxon says the timing of access to the new drugs is for Health New Zealand and Pharmac to oversee.
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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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