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National's unveiled its blue book of brilliance, outlining a plan to make New Zealand a top performer in education.

Reading, writing and maths would all have to be taught for an hour each day in… Video, Audio

Are our children failing, or is the education system failing them? National's revealed it will rewrite the school cirriculum if it gets into government.

It follows recent pilot NCEA tests of year 10… Video, Audio

The National Party wants set specific skills that must be learnt in each year of primary and intermediate school as part of its proposed education policy.

The opposition says it would rewrite the… Audio

The National Party says it will rewrite the New Zealand Curriculum if elected, in an attempt to ensure every child has the basic reading, writing, maths and science skills needed to set them up for… Audio

Junior Minister and MP for Hutt South Ginny Anderson has replaced Stuart Nash as police minister. She entered Cabinet in February this year. So what did Parliament think of a fresh face being… Audio

The 55th National Concerto Competition took place over the weekend, featuring three of New Zealand's top young pianists. The winner of the career-launching $10,000 first prize was Yuzhang Wu, a year… Audio

Response to recent climate disasters was the focus as the National Emergency Management Agency appeared before the Governance and Administration Committee for its annual review. Audio

National's deputy leader Nicola Willis talks to Lisa Owen about Labour Minister Stuart Nash losing the police ministerial role.

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Bryan Crump speaks with pianist and National Concerto Competition 2023 finalist Yuzhang Wu. Audio

The National Party has welcomed the roll back of some of the government's policies, but says the roughly $1 billion in savings touted is a drop in the bucket.

Much of the savings made from slashing… Audio

National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis is pleased to see the government's climate policies dropped in its latest spending reprioritisation.

Willis said the policies were not efficient enough, and… Audio

Last night's 1 News Kantar Poll was bad news for the National Party and particularly its leader Christopher Luxon, who just 17 per cent of people said was their preferred Prime Minister down a massive… Audio

New data released by National shows retail crime is up by almost 40 percent compared with 2022. 

There is now an average of 292 retail crimes recorded each day. 

Police say the data is skewed… Audio

National is keeping the heat on the government over the rising spend on contractors in the public service.

But its scattergun approach in the fraught health sector has shot wide of the mark with both… Audio

Some health professionals are describing Te Whatu Ora's data on emergency department wait times as "gobbledygook", saying the authority is either fudging the numbers, or has made a huge error.

One… Audio

The emergency department crisis is resulting in paramedics caring for patients in public spaces.

Auckland Hospital's emergency department was so full on Monday night it turned away six ambulances… Audio

Kirsten joins Kathryn to look at the songs that have been turned into a rallying cry for people, or are more well-known than the official national anthems of a particular country. She shares some… Audio

National is keeping up the offensive over the millions government departments spend on consultants and contractors - highlighting the number who worked on now abandoned projects.

It made for some… Audio

The Government's hit the brakes on making emissions reductions its top transport priority, saying Cyclone Gabrielle has changed everything.

It had wanted in its three-year plan to reallocate some of… Audio

After days of gruelling talks which went into overtime, more than 100 countries have agreed on a treaty to protect the high seas.

The legally binding pact, 15 years in the making, is crucial to an… Audio

Reducing the cost of childcare is National's big pitch to voters so far this election year.

Chris Luxon used his State of the Nation speech yesterday to promise to help families earning up to… Audio

A Wellington mother says childcare is too expensive and she's giving the thumbs up to the National Party's plan to make it more affordable for low and middle income families.

Families who qualify for… Audio

While National's solution to the Three Waters problem may please the councils steadfastly opposed to the government's plan, it remains plagued by a financial fishhook. 

But, as journalist Bernard… Audio