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The Act Party wants to give principals the power to award high-performing teachers potentially thousands of dollars for their work.

Act leader David Seymour is pushing for a four-year parliamentary term, with Select Committees controlled by the opposition

Analysis - A benefit-boosting Budget with a narrow focus written by a majority Labour government has shown up the differences between political parties, writes Peter Wilson.

Analysis - Does Finance Minister Grant Robertson's Budget match up with the public's hopes and expectations? RNZ is here to clear it all up.

An advocate of the government's $85 million allocation to Dunedin rail wagon assembly plant says it will bring huge benefits to the country and has called ACT Party's criticism of the move… Audio

Budget 2021 dominates Parliament with the Government revealing where it plans to spend the country's money over the next financial year but the process to approve it doesn't change

The law allowing drug testing at festivals is set to expire in December but MPs are working on a bill to put in a permanent system

Explainer - More changes are in the pipeline for New Zealand's gun laws, but there have been so many since 15 March 2019 it can be hard to keep track. RNZ is here to clear it all up.

The ACT party has laid out its alternative vision ahead of next week's Budget, proposing to slash spending by $11.2 billion to both reduce debt and cut taxes.

Federated Farmers is disappointed dairy farm workers were not included in the government's plan to use empty managed isolation (MIQ) rooms to get more skilled and critical workers into the country. Audio

Power Play - The He Puapua report on how to better uphold indigenous rights was supposed to chart a new way forward but has become bogged down in the swamp of politics, Meriana Johnsen writes.

Iwi leaders say they're "hōhā" (fed up) with the Māori Health Authority being used as "a political football".

The government has released details around employers and unions setting minimum standards to implement the Fair Pay Agreements.

Concerns about the He Puapua report - on how to better uphold indigenous rights - are being dismissed by Minister for Māori Development Willie Jackson. Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the government has nothing to hide over a report commissioned on how to better uphold indigenous rights.

A 20-year plan to establish Māori sovereignty is political dynamite. It threatens the prime minister's reputation as open and transparent, Graham Adams writes.