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The Immigration Minister was shouted down at a rally of unhappy migrants today, as he revealed he couldn't give them the answers they were after in their bid to loosen border restrictions.

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The Ministry of Health is warning the team of five million to prepare for a new norm even when most of the population is fully vaccinated and the borders start reopening to more low risk countries.

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The Southland Charity Hospital is another step closer to reality with the issuing of building consent to get construction under way.

Consent was approved yesterday, just in time to mark late cancer… Read more Audio

A top public health professor says New Zealand will need to change its Covid-19 elimination strategy as our borders open to more high-risk countries.

Today the Prime Minister outlined expectations… Read more Video, Audio

New Zealand has been accused of selfishly overbuying Covid-19 vaccines in a WHO-commissioned report.

It also called out the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and the EU for securing enough vaccine to cover… Read more Audio

A year after ministers were warned emergency housing was posing a risk to public safety in Rotorua, the government is moving to clean up the problems.

It will directly contract motels for emergency… Read more Audio

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One in five children are living in households where food can run out, and one in three are living in houses that are unaffordable for their whānau.

That's the bleak picture painted by the latest… Read more Audio

The six people charged in relation to a donation made to the Labour Party allegedly offended between March 2017 and March 2018.

The Serious Fraud Office charges allege the donors' identities were not… Read more Video, Audio

UN officials are warning violence between Israelis and Palestinians could be escalating towards a full scale war.

In the past couple of days, Palestinian militants have fired more than 1,000 rockets… Read more Video, Audio

New Zealand families separated by the Covid-19 pandemic are crying out to know when they might be able to reunite.

In a speech titled 'Reconnecting to the World', the Prime Minister offered no… Read more Audio

An Auckland property company which took millions in taxpayer funds to house the homeless has left the IRD and landlords out of pocket after going into liquidation.

Silverfern property services… Read more Audio