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The final hand is about to be dealt in the 2023 election, but it could still be some time before the players fully reveal their cards.

A round-up of news in brief from around the region.

There are three main objections to ACT's idea for a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi.

The incoming Papua New Guinea national MP for North Bougainville, Francesca Semoso, says "what you see is what you get".

Analysis - Coalition negotiations between National, ACT and NZ First are underway but next to nothing is known about them, and Winston Peters is called on to apologise for a "bizarre" tweet.

French home affairs and overseas minister Gérald Darmanin has announced new dates for his visit to New Caledonia, where he is planning to pursue crucial talks with political parties.

Analysis: The 2023 election saw a changing of the guard in Māori political representation with several verteran MPs losing their seats to members of the "kōhanga reo generation".

A round-up of news in brief from around the region.

Andrew Little has announced his retirement from politics - but not without taking a parting shot at the "sheer and utter ignorance" of the incoming government's views on the Treaty of Waitangi.

Christopher Luxon says he's been pretty unimpressed with the way government-forming negotiations have played out in the past - and he won't be commenting on the details of his.

The incoming prime minister says he wants to do coalition negotiations behind closed doors - differently to what he has seen in the past. Audio

Australian Indigenous leaders have called for a week of silence and reflection after a referendum to recognise the First Peoples in the constitution was decisively rejected by a majority of the…

The incoming prime minister says he has spoken to ACT Party leader David Seymour twice and will work with him "in a constructive way".

Australians have rejected recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the nation's first people in the constitution through the establishment of a Voice to Parliament advisory body.

The National Party will discuss strategy around forming a government this afternoon, after everyone has finished watching the All Blacks game, says campaign chair Chris Bishop.

Australia has decisively rejected a proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution, in a major setback to the country's efforts for reconciliation with its First Peoples.

Australians began voting on Saturday in a historic referendum, the first in almost a quarter of a century, to decide whether to recognise its First Peoples in the constitution.

A Papua New Guinean academic based in Australia says a 'No' vote outcome in the Voice referendum on Saturday will be a setback for Australia's people-to-people relations in the Pacific.