'Gone off script': Govt announces Waitangi Tribunal review, Opposition attacks 'bad faith' move
David Seymour says the tribunal needs to be put 'in its place'.
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Nationwide protests erupt over Government’s pay equity rollback
Protests across NZ today targeted the Government’s rollback of pay equity laws. The PSA says it impacts underpaid women in female-led jobs. Video / Jason Dorday, Mike Scott
Matthew Hooton: Desperate times call for bold measures
OPINION: Brooke van Velden’s pay equity move is just the start of the savings needed.
'Gut-wrenching': Fury as Hawke's Bay pay equity claims dropped
'Money is more important to them than women.'
Catfishing and strange approaches: Social media's a scary place for under 16s, parents say
'The big problem is the invisible stuff that we as parents don’t see or even know about.'
Watch: Luxon delivers pre-Budget speech amid scrutiny on pay equity changes
PM speaks as backlash against changes to the pay equity regime grows.
Audrey Young: 'Robbing Paula to pay Paul' – pay equity ambush will come back to bite Nats
OPINION: The way to address an unfair situation is not usually to increase the unfairness.
Just 0.3% of submitters support David Seymour's regulation law – why he's charging forward anyway
The Act leader believes social media campaigns led to 'totally off-topic' submissions.
'We're going to act like a real country': Judith Collins on NZ's $12b defence splurge
The Defence Minister says New Zealand is a 'small price-taker' from the world.
Social media ban: Act blocks National’s bid for Govt consensus on member’s bill
National want to replicate a ban that was passed by Australian lawmakers.
Who donated what? National tops list of political donations: Shane Jones' partner lends NZ First $119k
A number of MPs donated to their parties.
'Disappointed': Number of new cops who skipped swim test higher than first thought
Three wings or 349 police recruits missed swim exam. They're being sent back to the pool.
Seymour's vision for Tauranga's growth challenges
David Seymour addressed infrastructure and housing issues in Tauranga.
Treaty Principles Bill is dead and buried but our silent division is dangerous
OPINION: The Treaty debate highlighted splits in Aotearoa, showing deep cultural divides.
Audrey Young: 100 days down, 1361 to go – Trump’s blitz has barely begun
OPINION: Kiwis just got a hint of how much America's lurch to the right will cost.
Richard Prebble: Cut red tape faster and deeper
OPINION: The preschool review is a template but it is too little and takes too long.
Police Minister lays down the law and orders new swim test for 149 cop graduates
Two wings of police recruits weren't given a swim test due to a cryptosporidium outbreak.
Audrey Young's Minister rankings: The stars, the second-rate and those on notice
Three ministers excel and three ministers are on notice to improve.
NZ First vows action over Waitākere Ranges 'co-governance' plan
The Waitākere Ranges belong to all Aucklanders, says NZ First and Act.
Seymour sides with banks after 'disappointing' advice from Regulation Ministry
The ministry said banking rules were not out of line – Seymour and the banks disagreed.
'No interference': Minister on defensive after police announce audit over fitness test breaches
An audit will review applications over six months for further breaches.
Firearms Minister wants gun registry gone, review says she should keep it
Nicole McKee will campaign for her constituents but concedes she may not succeed.
Act ramps up pressure on National minister over ACC ‘ethnic outcome targets’
Circular dictates that the Govt's demand for public services be delivered based on need.
Seymour to pare back 'confusing' early childhood education regulations
The proposed changes include scrapping the need to acknowledge Māori as tangata whenua.
MPs visit Taiwan, meet President despite NZ not recognising it as country
'Taiwan and New Zealand share the universal values of democracy.'
Audrey Young: Both Luxon and Peters to blame for messy trade tiff
OPINION: Despite the PM's denials, the rift is real.
Why former ACT president claims his abuse trial was unfair
Tim Jago will appeal in June, claiming a miscarriage of justice.
Editorial: The many unanswered questions behind Seymour's Treaty bill
OPINION: The debate, it would seem, has only just begun.
Forget the Treaty Principles Bill, Luxon's first real crisis lands – and could be the making of him
Luxon has had the luck of being landed with a crisis that is right in his wheelhouse.
'It is done': Luxon rules out treaty bill policy for future coalitions
Luxon reflects on how the Act Party's bill created a 'very tumultuous period'.
'Bizarre binary cult': David Seymour wishes he was born 20 years earlier to tackle Treaty
The Act leader's Treaty Principles Bill was 'annihilated' yesterday.
Winston Peters turns 80: Why the Deputy PM is unlikely to quit anytime soon
Peters' birthday is one of the major political moments of the week.
Thomas Coughlan: The Treaty Principles Bill is buried – for now
OPINION: Parliament was pushed to breaking point by the Treaty Principles Bill.
'It hasn’t failed': Seymour defiant as Treaty bill voted down, hints at referendum
'What it has done is put an uneasy conversation on the table' - Act leader