Politics

It comes after a turbulent year, with the government pushing through numerous changes which have not always gone down well with teachers and principals.

Thirteen bills were put down to progress under urgency at Parliament last sitting block but numerous amendments and drawn out voting sessions threaten to slow the process down.

" We can do it right now, if Winston Peters is willing to walk the walk."

The coalition is set to announce major changes that could spell the end of regional councils, RNZ understands.

ACC says efforts to get long-term claimants off of weekly compensation is not about taking support away from people who need it. Audio

The government has sunk plans to station an open ocean tug in the strait long term.

Hipkins said Labour was working on its own KiwiSaver policy and it would be released in time. Audio

Documents seen by RNZ show many of the lessons Oranga Tamariki says it learnt a lot from the coalition's boot camp trial were identifed more than a decade ago and shared with the programme designers.

Unions who won an employment case for four Uber drivers in three different courts could find the ruling short-lived, with the introduction of new legislation

The government has signalled it's considering introducing legislation that would give police the power to issue move-on orders to remove unhoused people from Auckland's city centre.

The rare shutdown came after One Nation's Pauline Hanson entered the chamber wearing a burka and subsequently refused to leave after being sanctioned.