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ACT leader uses campaign launch to slate government's Covid-19 response
The ACT Party is promising its biggest campaign in 15 years, as it fights for more seats in Parliament after September's election.
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The busy, busy Parliament
The year’s half gone, but Parliament is just about done. Done what, you ask? We consider how much and what the 52nd Parliament has achieved. Audio
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The busy, busy Parliament
The year’s half gone, but Parliament is just about done. Done what, you ask? We consider how much and what the 52nd Parliament has achieved.
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Tourism starved Cook Islands takes out bank loan
The Cook Islands government has drawn down on a $US10.3 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to help finance its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Question Time for 30 June 2020
TODD MULLER to the Prime Minister: Does her Government have a strategy for ensuring appropriate standards are in place to detect, track, and trace new cases of COVID-19 so that New Zealand’s border…
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Graham Adams: A euthanasia referendum in a pandemic
No one could have predicted the End of Life Choice referendum would be held against the backdrop of a deadly global pandemic, Graham Adams writes.
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Election 2020: Act Party list released
The voice of opposition to firearms law changes - Nicole McKee - could be a MP after the September election, having won a high place on the Act Party list.
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New book examines assisted dying ahead of 2020 referendum
Later this year New Zealanders will be able to cast their vote on whether euthanasia should be legal as the long-debated End of Life Choice Bill goes to referendum. Journalist Caralise Trayes… Audio
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Tobacco law changes will see stricter border rules from next week
Tweaks to tobacco laws will see stricter rules at the border from next week and it is hoped that will help snuff out cigarette smuggling and tobacco tax evasion.
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Who else could be NZ Health Minister?
If David Clark vacated the job of Health Minister, who could or would want to slide into a set of shoes that have made a few missteps?
It's no secret the Opposition's gunning for the minister to be… Audio
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Prisoner voting bill passes in chaotic night at Parliament
Prisoners serving a sentence of less than three years will now be able to vote in September's general election.
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Parliament returns to normal service
Like us all Parliament has been slowly, inexorably returning to normal service. This week included two quite novel events - at least novel recently. Video, Audio
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Parliament returns to normal service
Like us all Parliament has been slowly, inexorably returning to normal service. This week included two quite novel events - at least novel recently.
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Double ACT? Seymours see more Seymours in politics
The ACT Party has announced David Seymour as its Whangārei candidate in the 2020 election, but not the David Seymour you are thinking of. Audio
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ACT's newest candidate - David Seymour, yes another one
The ACT Party has announced David Seymour as its Whangārei candidate in the 2020 election, but it's not the David Seymour you are thinking of.
A Whangārei businessman, and namesake of the party's… Video, Audio
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Resort owner calls for Cook Islands bubble with NZ
A resort owner in Rarotonga is calling for New Zealand to reopen travel to the Cook Islands, before opening up to Australia. Audio
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David Seymour backs calls for Cook Islands bubble
David Seymour is calling for Kiwis to be allowed to go to the Cook Islands, as the risk of either country exporting Covid-19 to each other drops.
The Cook Islands has never seen a case of Covid-19… Audio
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Sticking to knitting 'not the best phrase to use' - Goldsmith
National MP Paul Goldsmith concedes it was not the best choice of words to tell Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to "stick to her knitting" after she expressed anger over job cuts at The Warehouse.
The… Video, Audio
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Question Time for 3 June 2020
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Dr DUNCAN WEBB to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic?
TODD MULLER to the Prime Minister: Why isn’t…
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Judith Collins 'sick of being demonised' for her ethnicity
Tensions flared over race relations again today at Parliament, with National MP Judith Collins saying questions about treaty partnership and government procurement were "stupid".
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ACT Party hopeful Epsom 'strategy' will continue
ACT's David Seymour isn't expecting the new National leader to make a public declaration supporting his hold on the Epsom seat.
Over consecutive elections National's candidates have avoided actively… Audio
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Weighing the odds: Simon Bridges v Todd Muller
"[Todd] Muller is no Jacinda Ardern," but after a second disastrous poll for National, will Simon Bridges still remain leader? Political experts around the country debate. Audio
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David Seymour on National Party leadership stoush
In four hours the National party MPs will decide who will lead it into the September election.
But is there enough time to stage a comeback from the grim numbers in last night's poll?
On top of… Audio
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Seymour welcomes possibility of third ACT seat in Parliament
The 1 News Colmar Brunton poll shows Labour at 59 percent and National at 29 percent.
While it was all bad for National, it's a different story for ACT who is up at around two percent.
Leader David… Video, Audio
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National Party cries foul over Budget $20b blank cheque
A $50 billion Covid-19 rescue package poured out of the Crown coffers yesterday when the Government revealed its rebuild plan - but it's the $20 billion dollar blank cheque that's got the Opposition… Audio
