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Trend to health privatisation 'means we're effectively paying twice' - union
7 Mar 2025The Health Commissioner's reset plan for Health NZ will still go on under new Board. Audio
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Brand new deputy high commissioner steps up after Goff's sacking
7 Mar 2025Guergana Guermanoff has only been deputy since January, and will represent New Zealand in the UK until a replacement is found.
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Chris Hipkins' speech fails to impress National's Chris Bishop
7 Mar 2025National says Labour's reshuffle and leader Chris Hipkins' state of the nation speech is all platitudes, no policy.
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Gene technology changes: What you need to know
18 Mar 2025Explainer - The current GMO regime is out of date, experts agree. But proposed changes sideline Māori, some say. Audio
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Brown announces major overhaul of health
7 Mar 2025Changes include "partnering" with the private sector and reinstating a board.
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What was actually wrong with what Phil Goff said?
7 Mar 2025Explainer: The UK High Commissioner's case is not an example of the coalition looking to get rid of a Labour appointee, Giles Dexter writes. Audio
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MP gets big promotion in Labour reshuffle
7 Mar 2025Tangi Utikere has moved up seven spots and picked up the Local Government portfolio as Chris Hipkins announces a new 'economic team'.
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Goff should have been warned to 'pull your head in' - Helen Clark
7 Mar 2025The comments the High Commissioner made in London were not a sackable offence, the former prime minister says.
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NZ's part in solving Ukraine's satellite problem
8 Mar 2025Satellite companies could plug the gap left by Trump's abandonment of Ukraine. Audio
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Labour rules out electorate deal with Te Pāti Māori - Māori Queen says 'good luck'
7 Mar 2025But Willie Jackson admits one contest is posing a problem: who should take on Te Pāti Māori's Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke?
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Seymour apologised after student burnt by lunch, principal says
7 Mar 2025The student at Ilminster Intermediate School was left with second degree burns to his legs, the principal says. Audio
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Peters says sacking Goff was 'regrettable', expert says it's justified
7 Mar 2025The government may have acted quickly over worries on how Donald Trump might respond, a law professor says. Audio
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The frustrated principal who wants school lunches
7 Mar 2025"Is the food going to the right people? These people that are so complaining, are they the ones that really need the food?" asks an intermediate principal.
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MPs prepare to brave the response to congestion charging
6 Mar 2025Parliament kicked off this week with the first reading of a bill trying to improve something everybody hates - sitting in traffic.
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Government promises to further drop bowel cancer screening age
7 Mar 2025"We want to go further, we want to match Australia." Audio
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'You're not able to free think' - Peters sacks Goff over Trump comments
6 Mar 2025The foreign affairs minister says as UK High Commissioner, Phil Goff was acting as 'the face of New Zealand' and had to be sacked after comments about Donald Trump.
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Who is Phil Goff, sacked NZ High Commissioner to the UK?
6 Mar 2025Will Goff's time as high commissioner prove a disappointing end to a 44-year political career, or a minor detour on his lengthy resume?
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Urgent debate on Bayly resignation: Prosecution and defence
6 Mar 2025Parliament began its week with an urgent debate on an opaque ministerial resignation - in this ersatz trial, theories were plentiful.
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Practice guidelines for midwives 'too broad' - MPs
6 Mar 2025A draft version of the scope of practice released for consultation in 2022 replaced the words "woman" and "mother' with "whānau".
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Renaming of Te Arawhiti, Office for Māori-Crown reflects smaller role
6 Mar 2025The new name "reflects the significant changes in our responsibilities", its interim chief executive says.
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Brown appointed prominent gas lobbyist against official advice
6 Mar 2025A top government minister personally added a fossil fuel lobbyist to the shortlist of candidates to help govern the country's main energy-saving agency. Audio
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Reserve Bank governor's mystery resignation - what happens next?
6 Mar 2025'These things happen' was all the chair of the Reserve Bank really had to say about the sudden departure of governor Adrian Orr, writes Gyles Beckford. Audio
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NZ's plan to stave off US tariffs
6 Mar 2025Potential tariffs on exports to the United States are concerning, the trade and investment minister says, but he is confident NZ's trade diverse enough to weather the worst. Audio
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One school fails to prove it's teaching reading, writing and maths an hour a day
6 Mar 2025One of 11 schools found in breach of government requirements to teach reading, writing and maths for an hour a day has yet to prove it complies with the rule.
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