The Chief Ombudsman will formally investigate claims that Ministry of Education staff tried to keep their dealings with Education Minister Erica Stanford’s office out of reach of the Official Information…
The Government has put its plan to merge New Zealand councils on hold until after the 7 November election, leaving mayors who rushed to meet its deadline angry about the…
Labour would spend about $4.3 billion building state houses and repairing schools and hospitals if it wins the 7 November election, a package it is pitching as a way to…
The 54th Parliament ended on 23 September with Luxon claiming stable government, Hipkins saying the coalition is out of time, and more than 60 bills lapsing before the 7 November…
New Zealand’s Resource Management Act is on its way out after 35 years. Parliament on Tuesday night passed the third readings of the Planning Bill and the Natural Environment Bill,…
Winston Peters says New Zealand will recognise a Palestinian state, and that the only open question is when. The Foreign Affairs Minister made the prediction on RNZ’s Morning Report on…
Shane Jones wants a law written just for fish farming, and officials told salmon company bosses on Monday that New Zealand’s salmon harvest could grow thirty-fold if the rules were…
Labour will not touch the tax rules that let residential landlords claim mortgage interest as an expense if it wins the election, leader Chris Hipkins confirmed on Monday, dropping one…
New Zealand First has released a 15-point health policy that argues the country is spending almost all of its health money on people who are already sick, and that the…
The Green Party would change commercial lease law so a rent review can lower rents as well as raise them, and give councils the power to auction a lease on…
National says a re-elected government would end screen and device use in early childhood centres, tightly limit screens in Years 1 to 3 and bring in a School Start Check.
About 2900 buildings will come off New Zealand’s earthquake-prone register, with Auckland removed from the system entirely.
Labour says it will create a new criminal offence of corporate homicide if it wins the 7 November election, with life imprisonment for individuals and fines of up to $10…
Opinion. National wants to split Pak’nSave from New World. Newswire argues the warehouses and trucks should be publicly owned, run at the lowest possible cost and open to every grocer…
ACT has promised to block any break-up of New Zealand’s big power companies and to let households sell the electricity from their solar panels to whoever pays the best price,…
Police in New Zealand will soon be able to order people to leave a public place for up to 24 hours after Parliament passed the Government’s move-on orders law under…
Retirement villages will have to repay departing residents or their families within nine months, and hand over 10 per cent of what is owed within four weeks, under changes the…
The Oranga Tamariki (Responding to Serious Youth Offending) Amendment Bill passed its third reading on Thursday night, giving the Youth Court power to send 14 to 17-year-olds to military-style academies.
New Zealand’s free trade agreement with India has passed into law, clearing its third reading 93 votes to 29 after Parliament put the bill through its final stages under urgency…
The cost of living is the biggest worry for Māori voters by a wide margin, and seven in 10 think the Government is doing a poor job of running the…
Councils will be able to charge developers a new development levy from 2029, and the Government will make its own departments pay it too, Housing Minister Chris Bishop has confirmed.…
National and Labour released rival grocery price policies within 40 minutes of each other, putting the supermarket aisle at the centre of the election.
A retired major general’s new report says New Zealand’s $12 billion defence rebuild runs out to 2040 and will need governments not yet elected to see it through.
National’s Nicola Willis told BusinessNZ’s election conference the party will campaign on bracket creep and the R&D tax credit, with detail after Treasury’s 29 September update.
The ACT Party would freeze the adult minimum wage at $23.95 an hour for three years and let employers pay workers under 20 a new training wage of 60 percent…
Labour has nudged ahead of National in a new poll, but the bigger story is how little support the two old parties now share between them. The Post/Freshwater Strategy poll,…
Immigration New Zealand has paused its $336 million visa processing overhaul after finding that the savings it promised Cabinet were overstated by $134 million, RNZ reported on Monday. The overstatement…
Labour would force employers to keep paying into their staff’s KiwiSaver accounts even when workers cut back or stop their own contributions, and would lift the minimum employer rate to…
The National Party says it would put a dedicated team of 50 police officers on Auckland’s trains, buses and ferries if it wins the 7 November election. It announced the…
The Government is putting $8 million into the Waitangi Treaty Grounds to help keep the Northland site open and look after its buildings. It is the latest in a run…