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Ardern on KiwiBuild: 'The pace isn't as quick as we would like'
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern fronts media in her first post-Cabinet press conference of the year where discussions included the KiwiBuild target and recent report into life insurance companies. Video
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PNG's most wanted criminal has connections, says police
The escaped prisoner Tommy Baker is likely using his connections to remain at large, police in Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay province say.
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Venezuela sanctions sends shockwaves globally
The Trump administration's sanctions on Venezuelan oil, aimed at driving President Nicolas Maduro from power, sent shockwaves around the world, triggering higher global oil prices and angry responses…
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Week in politics: Government takes a hit as year kicks off
Having to reveal a politically-damaging failure like the inability to meet the KiwiBuild target wasn't the best way for the government to start 2019, writes Peter Wilson.
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Focus on Politics: KiwiBuild or KiwiBust?
KiwiBuild was supposed to be the coalition government's answer to the housing affordability crisis, but it has hit the rocks before the end of its first year. Housing Minister Phil Twyford this week… Audio
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Building industry not surprised KiwiBuild won't hit target
Building industry experts say news the government won't hit its 1000-home KiwiBuild target isn't surprising, and here's why. Audio
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All eyes on Jami-Lee Ross's return to Parliament
Embattled Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross has promised to steer clear of the conduct he was involved in last year. Audio
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Housing crisis: 'There are no unemployed builders' - Hipkins
Audio 22 Jan 2019Government dithering has been blamed for the latest abysmal house affordability figures. The annual Demographia International Housing Affordability report shows that all of the country's major… Video, Audio
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The big issue: Housing
The Panelists are joined by Mark Graham of the Building Guide and Emma McInnes of Women in Urbanism Aotearoa to talk about the hosuing crisis. What's going right, what's going wrong and what needs to… Audio
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Trump throws 'tantrum' over wall funding
In what Democrats called a "temper tantrum", US President Donald Trump has stormed out of a meeting over funding for a wall along the Mexican border and seeking an end to the shutdown of the…
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Oval Office address: 'Trump has appealed to fear, not facts'
Democrats moved swiftly to condemn US President Donald Trump's televised address on border security, accusing him of stoking fear and holding the country hostage.
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Trump demands funding to end border 'crisis' in TV address
In his first televised Oval Office address, US President Donald Trump has talked of a growing humanitarian crisis at the southern border and has called on Congress to fund the wall.
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Trump to use first televised oval office speech to address wall 'crisis'
US President Donald Trump is set to argue that an immigration "crisis" requires his long-promised wall along the Mexican border.
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Trump to visit Mexico border
US President Donald Trump plans to visit the US southern border on Thursday, leaving Washington for the first time since partial federal shutdown began 16 days ago.
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Elizabeth Warren announces challenge to Trump in 2020
US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a liberal firebrand who has taken on Wall Street and traded barbs with Donald Trump, has announced a challenge to the Republican president in 2020.
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Tenants evicted over meth test still paying debt
People are still paying Ministry of Social Development for the debt they incurred for emergency accommodation after they were kicked out of their Housing New Zealand homes over dodgy methamphetamine… Audio
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Move to alleviate Far North housing crisis
A Northland housing provider wants to relocate hundreds of homes from Auckland by Christmas next year to solve the crippling housing crisis in the Far North.
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Housing provider wants to move hundreds of homes from Auckland
Audio 21 Dec 2018A Northland housing provider wants to relocate hundreds of homes by Christmas next year from Auckland to solve the crippling housing crisis in the Far North. Ricky Hougton from He Korowai Trust wants… Audio
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He Korowai Trust in Kaitaia to house whānau over Christmas
Audio 21 Dec 2018He Korowai Trust in Kaitaia is at the coalface of the housing crisis in the Far North and will house many whānau over the Christmas holidays. The trust runs out of a renovated hotel and has nine… Audio
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Jeremy Corbyn denies 'stupid woman' jibe at Theresa May
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has denied calling Theresa May a "stupid woman" during Prime Minister's Questions.
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Theresa May sets January date for MPs' Brexit vote
British MPs will vote on the UK's Brexit deal in the week beginning 14 January.
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Mental health issues, online gaming causing rise in teen truancy
More young people are skipping school or refusing to enrol at all because of mental health problems and excessive online gaming.
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Girl who died at border wasn't in medical distress, family says
A young Guatemalan girl who died after she and her father were detained by US border agents was in no medical distress when they arrived and had received adequate food and water on their journey, her…
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Wheeling in the Ride Share Revolution
Could we be on the cusp of a new way of living, a major shift in how we build our cities and where we live and whether we can stop global warming? Bernard Hickey literally puts his life on the line to… Audio
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Solving urban homelessness with manaakitanga
Two and a half years ago, Te Puea Marae in Mangere made headlines when it opened its doors to what turned out to be hundreds of homeless people in Auckland, in the midst of the city's housing crisis… Audio
