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1w ago
In a move Labour says is a "massive vote of no confidence" in the Disability Issues Minister, further decisions about disability changes will need to go to Cabinet ..read more
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1w ago
The voters of Taieri got their money’s worth out of local MP Ingrid Leary this week, at least in terms of time taken up speaking in Parliament ..read more
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1w ago
The government has announced a plan to make it easier and cheaper for builders to use overseas building products by loosening rules ..read more
Otago Daily Times Online » Politics
1w ago
The government has announced a plan to make it easier and cheaper for builders to use overseas building products by loosening rules ..read more
Otago Daily Times Online » Politics
1w ago
Councils that brought in Māori wards without polling residents will need to hold one - or scrap the wards they had set up, the government says ..read more
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2w ago
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is doubling down on his comments likening Te Pāti Māori statements to Nazi Germany - and is promising to say more on the subject later today ..read more
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2w ago
New Zealand First leader and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has compared Labour’s use of co-governance to "race-based theory", as seen in Nazi Germany ..read more
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2w ago
South Dunedin’s favourite son Grant Robertson said farewell to Parliament last night with a thoughtful speech which took his audience from Carisbrook to Hillside and back again ..read more
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2w ago
All governments make decisions with "imperfect information", but Grant Robertson says his experience during the Covid pandemic was an "extreme sports version of that ..read more
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2w ago
Labour leader Chris Hipkins admits his party’s Auckland light rail and KiwiBuild policies were “undeliverable” when proposed ahead of the 2017 election ..read more