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Why axing kickstart is act of bad faith
Keeping silent about axing the $1000 kickstart payment for new KiwiSaver members, isn't a broken promise, strictly speaking, writes Audrey Young.
Keeping silent about axing the $1000 kickstart payment for new KiwiSaver members, isn't a broken promise, strictly speaking, writes Audrey Young.
Russia had a shirtless President, Australia had Tony Abbott in budgie smugglers, and now Prime Minister has added to the catalogue with a shirtless snap.
Thursday's Budget will be judged just as much by what is missing from the document as by what it actually contains.
Prime Minister John Key today rejected claims by Labour leader Andrew Little that National had been dishonest with voters last election.
Act leader David Seymour has criticised the Government for not supporting a version of the Regulatory Standards Bill.
Next week's Budget will outline plans by the Government to develop its own land holdings in Auckland in a bid to boost supply.
Foreign Minister Murray McCully has taken Shane Jones, David Shearer and Winston Peters with him for his trip to the Cook Islands, where he is holding talks.
Andrew Little says John Key should have acted sooner to address any potential conflicts of interest involving a Minister whose brother faces child indecency charges.
The petition comes as the Salvation Army said it fed 9.5 per cent more people last year in its Midland region than it did in the year before.
Prime Minister John Key has announced $3 million more funding for a cycleway in Northland on his first visit to the region since National lost the Northland byelection
National criticised the Labour Party for "cronyism" when it was in Opposition, but a check through appointments shows National heading the same way.
Just as Labour governments are prone to cater to even the more extravagant wishes of trade unionists, so their National counterparts can find it difficult to resist the over-the-top whims of....
Prime Minister John Key believes a surplus is still possible but the Government will not deliver a slash-and-burn Budget to get one.
Former management consultant James Shaw says those who peg him as a "Blue Green" open to helping National form a government have it wrong.
The Prime Minister was quick to "rip up" the Government's intended reform of the Resource Management Act after the Northland byelection. Suspiciously quick.
Winston Peters cut a swathe through the wealthier parts of the Northland electorate in Saturday's byelection, securing the most votes in the National bastion of Kerikeri and matching the number cast....
Winston Peters' victory is an astonishing achievement. He cleaned out National. He cleaned out Labour, writes Rodney Hide.
It surely does not get much better than this for Winston Peters, writes John Armstrong.
NZ First leader Winston Peters has delivered National a humiliating bloodied nose in the Northland byelection, with a majority of 4,012 votes after the counting.
Provincial New Zealand wants to shake down the Government for some of the largesse offered to Northland with its byelection promise of new bridges galore.
Prime Minister John Key is relying on National voters flocking to the polls and Labour voters staying home to win the Northland byelection.
What a madcap couple of months. The Northland byelection campaign has had all the infantile pranking, ill-discipline and personal baggage of an Auckland airport carousel at Maadi Cup time. Here, from....
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is the Bear Grylls of national politics. He knows every survival trick going, writes Claire Trevett.
National's Northland candidate, Mark Osborne, has defended his work for a community centre he set up which is now under review by the Far North District Council.
The Government was asked to reaffirm its commitment to upgrade Northland bridges after comments by Finance Minister Bill English caused confusion in Parliament today.
This is what scrabbling for survival looks like. It's a lazy Sunday in Mangawhai and there are a lot of National Party people about.
A narrow win is about as good as it is going to get for John Key next Saturday night after the votes have been counted in that day's Northland byelection, writes John Armstrong.
National MP Shane Reti initially defended himself against bullying claims, but later apologised.