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'A distraction': Stuart Nash dumped from US trade trip after crude comments
18 Sep 2025Nash had been set to join Immigration Minister Erica Stanford and other delegates on a trip to promote the government's new "golden visa".
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Nicola Willis rejects calls to resign as finance minister
18 Sep 2025Former Finance Minister Sir Roger Douglas and Auckland University's Robert MacCulloch say Willis is 'sending New Zealand bankrupt'.
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Health minister blames union for failed pay talks
18 Sep 2025A 48-hour strike by 5500 senior hospital doctors will go ahead next week after their union spurned Health NZ's latest pay offer.
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Golriz Ghahraman privacy probe continues
18 Sep 2025The privacy commissioner has spent eight months looking into a matter involving the former Green MP, and is not finished yet.
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75% of voters support rates cap: poll
18 Sep 2025An overwhelming majority back the government capping council hikes, the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll has found.
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Kāinga Ora to sell its most valuable state house
18 Sep 2025The century-old house on the edge of Ponsonby and Herne Bay needs constant repairs, the agency says.
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Willis points to global turmoil as economy shrinks sharply
18 Sep 2025"The economy had been growing strongly ... but suddenly had the stuffing knocked out of it," the Finance Minister says.
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Watchdog to stop tracking if public servants working from home
18 Sep 2025The latest data shows public servants, on average, work from home 0.85 days per week, down slightly from a previous survey.
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Where the public stands on capital gains tax
18 Sep 2025The latest RNZ-Reid Research poll shows voters are much less firm in their positions than politicians seem to be. Audio
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Europe wouldn't allow police surveillance like NZ's, lawyer says
18 Sep 2025The most significant challenge yet to the police's growing use of a private number-plate spotting network is being mounted.
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'Bit gimmicky': McClay criticises council's 'nitrate emergency'
18 Sep 2025Canterbury Regional Council, known as Environment Canterbury (ECan), carried a motion to declare a nitrate emergency at its final meeting on Wednesday. Audio
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Government needs more RIS - Regulations Ministry
18 Sep 2025"The finding that a significant number of proposals were missing impact analysis spans multiple years," one of the ministry's bosses says.
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DOC takes down possum-shooting video after complaint
18 Sep 2025The video shows a woman on her front porch shooting a possum in a tree.
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New Zealand's seat at a table made of BRICS
18 Sep 2025BRICS is shifting the weight of global power, and one expert says it might be time New Zealand changes alliances.
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Question time’s push and pull of politics and process
17 Sep 2025Question time is known for quick quips and the potential for gotcha moments, but MPs are constantly testing the boundaries of the rules.
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'We need to work together': Health Minister shrugs off frosty reception at nurses' conference
17 Sep 2025Dozens of delelates at the Nurses Organisation annual conference turned their backs on Simeon Brown during his speech.
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Peters scolds Seymour for 'talking out of his field' on Palestine
17 Sep 2025Winston Peters told reporters David Seymour had "no authority" to make a statement on his party's position on recognising Palestine.
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Tāmaki Makaurau by-election: Oriini Kaipara extends majority in final count
17 Sep 2025The final result shows Te Pāti Māori's Kaipara extended her majority over Labour's Peeni Henare by 500 votes.
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Govt 'will not respond' on latest accusation of genocide in Gaza
The NZ government says the International Court of Justice is the appropriate body to determine whether Israel is committing genocide.
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'Talent rose to the top': Shane Jones named NZ First deputy
17 Sep 2025New Zealand First's defacto deputy Shane Jones has been awarded the official title by his caucus colleagues.
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Minister breached rules by passing on tobacco industry-friendly paper
17 Sep 2025But the inquiry has still not revealed who wrote the 'mystery document', which claimed nicotine was no more harmful than caffeine.
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Spring is here, but politics is stuck in winter
17 Sep 2025Analysis: The disenchantment turns up in nearly every aspect of the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll. Audio
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'Comically absurd': RMA reform minister Bishop slams Eden Park concert limits
17 Sep 2025But he insists his review of the rules will be balanced, with local community consultation. Audio
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Why one MP only spoke to journalists in te reo Māori this week
17 Sep 2025Other political parties have weighed in, with one saying it was creating an "exclusive bunch" of Māori.
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