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Te Pāti Māori to hold own hearing after boycotting Privileges Committee
3 Apr 2025Te Pāti Māori says it will hold its own "alternative independent hearing". Audio
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Cook Islands PM says a new constitutional agreement with NZ needs to reflect increasing independence
3 Apr 2025Mark Brown has recently been caught up in a bitter dispute with New Zealand over agreements he signed with China.
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Government consulting with Māori landowners over changes to governing legislation
2 Apr 2025The proposed changes are aimed at boosting Māori economic development.
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Why your next pay could be a little smaller
It's part of a raft of changes that came in on 1 April.
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Petition supporting change to volunteer firefighters ACC eligibility reaches 30,000
6 Apr 2025The petition calls for volunteer firefighters to get the same ACC coverage and benefits as their paid colleagues.
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Govt to allow bigger granny flats to be built without consents
5 Apr 2025It's part of changes to be introduced to make it easier for people to build standalone dwellings on their properties.
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'Completely irrelevant': Safety expert critical of minister's workplace 'myths'
4 Apr 2025"The things that she is recommending won't actually do anything much to address critical risks." Audio
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Complaint over teaching tikanga Māori in law schools rejected
4 Apr 2025But the select committee also put a limit on how much cultural education was required.
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The parliamentary processes behind the missing submissions story
4 Apr 2025Public submissions potentially ignored and unrecorded were a focus this week. We background how the process usually works and what will happen now.
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Labour, Te Pāti Māori lose ground - new poll
4 Apr 2025Labour and Te Pāti Māori have lost support, the latest Taxpayers Union-Curia poll suggests.
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NZ officials get clarification on Trump's new tariffs
The flat 10 percent duty being applied to US imports will apply on top of any existing tariffs, but there are some exceptions.
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Minister announces who will fill roles leading te reo Māori revitalisation
3 Apr 2025Tama Potaka announces role appointments and reappointments.
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Committee calls for Treaty bill to be scrapped
4 Apr 2025Parliament's Justice Committee has recommended the Treaty Principles Bill go no further, but David Seymour says he is not giving up.
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New laws needed for high-risk offenders, Law Commission says
The country needs an entirely new set of laws to manage high-risk offenders safely and more humanely, the Law Commission says.
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Aerospace Centre puts forth business case to government
The National Aerospace Centre that has struggled to get customers has sent its new business case to officials.
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'I'm trying to save the ship': What happened when the Manawanui grounded
4 Apr 2025"We'll get in our liferafts and we'll survive," the captain told the crew as the navy ship grounded in Samoa, the full transcript shows.
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Manawanui crew were under-trained, ship not up to task - report
4 Apr 2025A damning report explains how the disaster on a Samoan reef happened, including a full transcript of the dramatic night.
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Staff crying in office over 'horrendous' restructure
Kāinga Ora is proposing to axe hundreds of jobs during its second round of restructuring.
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'Nobody was calling them out': Goff doesn't regret Trump comments
4 Apr 2025Phil Goff was sacked as High Commissioner to the UK over the criticism, and says he would do it again. Audio
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From Shakespeare to Adolescence: what English texts should students study?
This week, the Ministry of Education released a proposed list of suggested texts for New Zealand school students.
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Pupil off to dentist after biting into plastic in school lunch
4 Apr 2025A Palmerston North school wants to change school lunch providers after a child bit into a hard piece of plastic in their lunch. Audio
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Third of emergency housing applications being rejected by MSD
4 Apr 2025The Ministry of Social Development is declining more than 90 emergency housing applications a month because people have "caused or contributed to their immediate need". Audio
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Hospital's faulty pipe upgrade marked as complete, when it wasn't
4 Apr 2025Health New Zealand has admitted it marked an upgrade to faulty pipes at Auckland City Hospital as complete when in fact it was not.
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Top marks for education authorities from minister
4 Apr 2025Erica Stanford says her main agencies have improved since she gave them dire satisfaction ratings last year.
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