Politics

Former New Zealand First MP Barbara Stewart has died at the age of 72. Audio

The agreements focus on anti-corruption efforts and labour standards across the region, along with increased international tax cooperation.

Frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become Mexico's first woman president in an historic win, exit polls suggest.

The Budget set aside $200m for flood resilience infrastructure, including stopbank improvements.

Psychiatrists are disappointed they won't get the 13 additional psychiatry registrar places National had committed to.

Opposition parties were able to delay the government passing three bills overnight under urgency.

A youth advocate is not giving up on their campaign to lower the voting age, despite the government ruling it out.

Christopher Luxon will make his first visit to the Pacific as prime minister this week.

The media minister says a proposed law to get Google and Facebook pay for local news is not dead, but this week a Parliamentary committee and its government MPs did not support it. The government’s…

Long-running bid to make big tech pay for news hits a snag - so what happens next?; stories based on stats sliced from surveys; shock horror over incomplete houses.

Budget Day in photos: Facts, attacks, stories, protests, pantomime and proclamations.

Opinion - Relief over a boost for Whaikaha is tempered by disappointment that flexibility for individualised funding was not restored, Chris Ford writes.

Opinion - This Budget, like many before it, is convenient for today but stores up problems for future generations, Shamubeel Eaqub writes.

After the Budget Debate begins, it's usual to go into urgency to progress some government bills quickly through the House, or as is the case so far this year - not so quickly.