Bill English says $1.8bn of "low quality" spending will be redirected education, health and law and order in next month's Budget.

Metiria Turei's Member's Bill to protect schedule four land has been drawn out of the ballot.

The Govt is adding another $1.8bn in spending cuts to the $2bn already announced over the next four years, Bill English has announced.

A report on child witnesses in criminal courts has identified concerns about the systems aimed at protecting them.

Auckland commuters will be among the first to be called on to pay more for KiwiRail services under a 10-year turnaround plan.

Authorities arrested two North Koreans for allegedly posing as defectors to South Korea.

On the face of it there is something risible, if not absurd, about any sentence with "New Zealand" and "financial hub" in it.

George Thomson and Helen Wilson ask why the Government is lagging on smokefree car laws.

Australia's Opposition Leader says cutting the dole for people under 30 would reduce the need for skilled migrants to staff mines.

The PM says the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous people that NZ signed up to overnight will have no practical effect, but Rodney Hide disagrees.

Murray McCully says a structure planned for Queens Wharf is "most assuredly not a tent."

National has agreed to support the contentious UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.