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Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi hopes to protect those most at risk with the bill.
Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi hopes to protect those most at risk with the bill.
The allegations were made after a Labour Party summer camp at Waihi last February.
Sometimes things go beyond the political. They get personal: These are Parliament's feuds.
COMMENT: The Government showed how sneaky it could be on sensitive issue this week.
Group pledges to test in court whether Maori have native title in water.
The foreign-buyer ban has cut bidders for top-end homes by up to 80 per cent, agent says.
Victim feels ministry is more concerned with protecting itself than him.
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COMMENT: Jacinda Ardern is no longer taboo and Simon Bridges is capitalising on it.
"Lovely to have a baby in the House, and what a beautiful one," tweeted Gareth Hughes.
Simon Bridges called the planned unit an 'illegitimate screwing of the scrum'.
COMMENT: Hardly a week passes when Labour does not announce more money for a problem.
Radio host told his contract will be terminated if he makes similar comments ever again.
COMMENT: The challenge to the voting ban was two battles rolled into one.
Megan Woods has added KiwiBuild and Labour's 2020 campaign to an already big workload.
Sexual abuse victims are waiting two months or more for counselling as demand soars.
The party initially dismissed bullying complaints about a Labour staffer in March.
COMMENT: Thankfully new appeal won't be another navel-gazing exercise.
Labour Party president Nigel Haworth says Labour has "behaved absolutely appropriately".
COMMENT: Getting an answer out of Jacinda Ardern is like getting blood out of a stone.
The victim says Labour has learnt nothing following the review of the summer camp.
Labour is reviewing its processes after sexual harassment complaints about a party staffer
PM won't confirm exact number and says investigation a party matter.
National is a broad church, and on abortion the pews are particularly far apart.
COMMENT: Ardern is a darling internationally - but people overseas don't vote here.
New machines mean 1200 cancer patients won't have to travel to main centres for treatment.
COMMENT: Ardern's inexperience on vexed Māori issues is discomforting.
Govt has smashed its targets for state housing. But the queue for them just keeps growing.
Up to 100,000 rentals are still not insulated, and tenants are taking the issue to court.
COMMENT: Who would argue that the funding of drugs is a bad idea?