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Former Labor leader Bill Shorten has been given the portfolios of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Government Services in Labor's new-look shadow ministry.

Parliament has passed legislation to bring in a $35 international visitor levy to fund conservation and infrastructure.

The House is sitting under urgency to consider bills related to the Government's Budget 2019 announcement this week. Here's how urgency works.

Deadbeat Dads are the only ones getting a tax cut this year, according to the National Party.

The biggest win for Māori in the Wellbeing Budget is a boost of $80 million for Whānau Ora over four years, Māori correspondent Leigh-Marama Mclachlan writes.

The government has put mental health spending at the centre of its first Wellbeing Budget, including rolling out a new frontline service.

Solomon Islands needs twice the number of hotel rooms currently in the country if it's to reach its annual target of 60,000 visitors by 2025, the tourism authority says.

Vanuatu is looking at developing a port with China on Pentecost, one of the Pacific country's northeastern islands.

The Cook Islands government is reviewing the role and resourcing of its increasingly busy consulate in Auckland.

Boat builders in Fiji are aiming to have 100 traditional canoes built by Christmas as part of a plan to decarbonise and promote eco-tourism and sustainable fishing. Audio

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An Otago Great Ride has received a $6.5 million boost to expand the trail and tourism benefits in the region.

Opinion - Disappointed voters and small parties - some with extremist views - could disrupt the Queensland poll in Australia's general election today, writes Tim McDonald.

Paul Francis used to be a train driver and then a country cop but he has gone back to what he absolutely loves. He's set up his own tourism venture, Awakeri Rail Adventures, which allows him to spend…

A Fijian family involved in an international climate case has been told they have no right to go to court to challenge the EU's climate target.

The South Pacific Tourism Organisation says 2.14 million people visited the Pacific last year - a two percent increase on 2017.