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Chris Hipkins says sick children shouldn't be at school: Labour leader Chris Hipkins says sending children who are unwell to school has consequences for everyone ...
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Chris Hipkins says sick children shouldn't be at school
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Senior Labour MP ordered to take down ‘gross’ social media posts: Peeni Henare has deleted cartoons he reposted ridiculing government ministers David Seymour and ...
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Senior Labour MP ordered to take down ‘gross’ social media posts
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School attendance plan unambitious, raises health concerns - Labour: Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the government's school attendance target is hardly ...
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School attendance plan unambitious, raises health concerns - Labour
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MPs pay not a decision for politicians - National, Labour: National and Labour leaders are united on MPs' pay rises, each saying it is - and should be - decided ...
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MPs pay not a decision for politicians - National, Labour
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Steve Braunias: The secret diary of ... Lonesome Cowboy Chris Hipkins: OPINION: In the lonely streets of Dodge, hopeless cowboy Chris Hipkins ain’t worth a damn ...
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Steve Braunias: The secret diary of ... Lonesome Cowboy Chris Hipkins
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Bishop morphs from 'everywhere man' to 'Mr Fixit': Boy from the Hutt and senior minister Chris Bishop is a familiar face to many ...
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Bishop morphs from 'everywhere man' to 'Mr Fixit'
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Hipkins admits Labour 'too slow' to respond to retail crime concerns: The former prime minister believes his party's failings on retail crime ultimately cost it ...
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Hipkins admits Labour 'too slow' to respond to retail crime concerns
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Budget Policy Statement shows coalition promises don't add up - Labour, Greens: Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the delay to announcing the Budget allowance ...
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Budget Policy Statement shows coalition promises don't add up - Labour ...
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Labour's Chris Hipkins says Disability Minister Penny Simmonds should be sacked: Labour is doubling down on criticism of the minister's handling of disability ...
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Labour's Chris Hipkins says Disability Minister Penny Simmonds should be ...
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Chris Hipkins' first major speech as Opposition Leader.#FOCUSLIVE
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Public 'ready to be convinced' about capital gains tax - inequality expert: Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the party will take a new tax policy to the next ...
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Public 'ready to be convinced' about capital gains tax - inequality expert
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Chris Hipkins might just be the one to make a wealth tax work for Labour: After ruling out a number of taxes at the last election, the Labour leader now says all ...
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Chris Hipkins might just be the one to make a wealth tax work for Labour
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Labour leader Chris Hipkins concedes Labour didn’t do enough to address public concerns about unruly state housing tenants as the current Government cracks ... Show more
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Watch live: Labour leader Chris Hipkins speaks from Polyfest: The Labour leader faces questions as he visits the festival in Tāmaki Makaurau.
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Watch live: Labour leader Chris Hipkins speaks from Polyfest
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Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins speaks to the media live from Brackenridge.#FOCUSLIVE
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Watch live: Tax question hangs over Labour as Hipkins looks to rebuild: The party's annual retreat has started with Chris Hipkins targeting the government ...
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Watch live: Tax question hangs over Labour as Hipkins looks to rebuild
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It's time for Labour humility not defensiveness: Opinion: Though Willie Jackson's blustering defence of the Labour government was admirably loyal to ...
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It's time for Labour humility not defensiveness
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It's time for Labour humility not defensiveness: Opinion: Though Willie Jackson's blustering defence of the Labour government was admirably loyal to ...
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It's time for Labour humility not defensiveness
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Labour caucus retreat a lot different from a year ago: Labour heads into caucus retreat expecting a quieter time than last year.
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Labour caucus retreat a lot different from a year ago
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Christopher Luxon to speak to Winston Peters over Nazi comments: Luxon says he doesn't agree with the comments, and he's calling on all political leaders to tone ...
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Christopher Luxon to speak to Winston Peters over Nazi comments
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Smokefree generation law scrapped by coalition government: Labour leader Chris Hipkins unleashed a fiery speech in the debating chamber, saying the change would ...
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Smokefree generation law scrapped by coalition government
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Christopher Luxon won’t claim $52k accommodation allowance, to repay $13,000 amid Labour claims of ‘hypocrisy’
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Christopher Luxon won’t claim $52k accommodation allowance, to repay $13 ...
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In pictures: Polyfest 2024: The cultural festival celebrating Māori and Pacific Island nations is underway at Auckland's Manukau Sports Bowl.
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In pictures: Polyfest 2024
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Chris Hipkins on why Labour didn't fix the PM's planes: The Labour leader says the Defence Force's Orion and Hercules had to be replaced first.
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Chris Hipkins on why Labour didn't fix the PM's planes
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Rego cost rises 'can't be a broken promise' - Minister Chris Bishop: Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop has defended not campaigning on the increase to vehicle ...
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Rego cost rises 'can't be a broken promise' - Minister Chris Bishop
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Forced reshuffle gives Labour a chance for much-needed refresh: As Grant Robertson steps aside, his successor hits the ground running in a show of confidence for ...
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Forced reshuffle gives Labour a chance for much-needed refresh
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Chris Hipkins speaks from Parliament on the sudden death of Efeso Collins. Video / RNZ#FOCUSLIVE
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Who is new Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds?: Mana MP Barbara Edmonds is taking over as Labour's finance spokesperson from Grant Robertson ...
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Who is new Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds?
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#BREAKING | Chris Hipkins’ popularity has taken a significant blow since last year’s general election. 🔗 tinyurl.com/25xzurvm
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Immigration mistakes made as pressue went on post Covid - Chris Hipkins: Labour Party leaders admits politicians put pressure on officials to speed things up ...
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Immigration mistakes made as pressue went on post Covid - Chris Hipkins
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1News-Verian political poll: Labour gains slightly, Chris Hipkins plummets: The latest 1News-Verian poll has ACT and NZ First losing one seat each ...
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1News-Verian political poll: Labour gains slightly, Chris Hipkins plummets
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Grant Robertson to retire from politics and major Labour reshuffle announcement.#FOCUSLIVE
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Yup, say voters, just like we told you: Polling in 2024 is strikingly similar to the election night result – but there are a few other morsels to chew on. 
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Yup, say voters, just like we told you
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What Labour must do to reclaim its core support - Matthew Hooton: OPINION Labour’s current top two, Chris Hipkins and Carmel Sepuloni, might think their best bet ...
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What Labour must do to reclaim its core support - Matthew Hooton
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National extends lead in latest Talbot-Mills poll, Chris Hipkins falls: National is extending its lead over Labour , with support for the party lifting two ...
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National extends lead in latest Talbot-Mills poll, Chris Hipkins falls
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Opposition told to regroup, fight the coalition: The opposition has been told not to lick its wounds for too long, so it can join the fight against the new ...
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Opposition told to regroup, fight the coalition
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#OPINION Note to Chris Hipkins and all other politicians: Please don’t call me ‘non-Māori’. I’m not a ‘non’. 🔗​ tinyurl.com/mv65cdxx
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Chris Hipkins and Labour taste irrelevance - Thomas Coughlan : OPINION As he took what is probably the first real holiday of his adult life ...
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Chris Hipkins and Labour taste irrelevance - Thomas Coughlan
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The Kiri Allan story: 'This job really pushes you to your limit. Spiritually, physically, mentally. It’s a very uncomfortable environment.'
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The Kiri Allan story
Quick Glance: The Journey of Kiri Allan
  • Kiri Allan stepped down from her positions and returned home to reflect on her political future.

  • According to Chris Hipkins, Allan was experiencing 'extreme emotional distress' at the time of the incident.

  • Jacinda Ardern appointed Allan, who won the East Coast electorate in 2020, as the minister for conservation and emergency management.

  • Allan was on a mental health break following a personal relationship crisis when Hipkins returned to New Zealand.
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Rātana 2024: Coalition will take NZ backwards, Hipkins warns: Labour's Chris Hipkins believes the coalition govt will “take New Zealand backwards” in ...
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Rātana 2024: Coalition will take NZ backwards, Hipkins warns
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'Sometimes you lose' - Chris Hipkins reflects on 2023: Two months on from Labour's election-night shellacking, leader Chris Hipkins still cannot pinpoint what ...
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'Sometimes you lose' - Chris Hipkins reflects on 2023
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Year in Politics: The year of three prime ministers and a swing to the right: Analysis - Three prime ministers and two radically different governments - 2023 saw ...
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Year in Politics: The year of three prime ministers and a swing to the ...
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Police seeking missing man last seen in Middlemarch : Police and family have concerns for a missing man who was last seen in Middlemarch on Friday evening ...
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Police seeking missing man last seen in Middlemarch
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Chris Hipkins was warned about asking questions about Luxon’s wife during a heated head-to-head in Question Time. 🔗 tinyurl.com/luxonwifequestiontimenzh
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Even the Taxpayers' Union is calling for Luxon to pay the money back. 🔗 tinyurl.com/luxontereonzh
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The oddest news RNZ covered in 2023: It was a year in which Aotearoa had three prime ministers, two of them named 'Chris', so the bar was set very high.
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The oddest news RNZ covered in 2023
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Hipkins: 'We were swimming upstream the whole way through the year': Chris Hipkins accepts his government 'well and truly lost the ability to ...
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Hipkins: 'We were swimming upstream the whole way through the ...
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'Bigoted lefty shill': Winston Peters fires up as Acting PM: Winston Peters - in the role of Acting Prime Minister - has responded with insults and accusations ...
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'Bigoted lefty shill': Winston Peters fires up as Acting PM
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A bunch of outlandish political predictions for the year 2024: Shock retirements, even more shocking comebacks, and leadership changes galore ...
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A bunch of outlandish political predictions for the year 2024
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Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon trade barbs from unfamiliar seats: Hipkins used his first speech of the 54th Parliament to accuse the new government of ...
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Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon trade barbs from unfamiliar seats
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Chris Hipkins opens up on what went wrong at the 2023 election: There had been a strange sense of foreboding as early as January, on the day he was sworn in as ...
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Chris Hipkins opens up on what went wrong at the 2023 election
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Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins reveals new shadow Cabinet: Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the new Labour line-up is "going to hold the coalition of chaos to ...
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Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins reveals new shadow Cabinet
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Chris Hipkins announces shadow Cabinet.#FOCUSLIVE
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Gaza ceasefire debate: Opposition pleas for stronger statement largely rejected: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has continued with National's approach in ...
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Gaza ceasefire debate: Opposition pleas for stronger statement largely ...
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Labour leader Chris Hipkins said the Government is dancing dangerously close to endorsing conspiracy theories during his shadow Cabinet line-up announcement.
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Labour just revealed its new line-up and some senior figures are missing 🔗 tinyurl.com/mthrabyz