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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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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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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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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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Israel-Gaza ceasefire call will not help until certain conditions met - National: The National Party is accusing caretaker Prime Minister Chris Hipkins of ...
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Israel-Gaza ceasefire call will not help until certain conditions met - ...
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Election 2023: All the latest developments on 12 October: It is the final face-off in the battle of the Chrises with TVNZ's televised debate ...
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Election 2023: All the latest developments on 12 October
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Leaders’ debate #2, election 2023: the verdicts: Who came out on top in tonight’s leaders’ debate? Here are our debate watchers’ verdicts.
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Leaders’ debate #2, election 2023: the verdicts
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Campaign marred by assault, home invasion: Condemnation of assault on Labour MP and home invasion and threat against Te Pāti Māori candidate
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Campaign marred by assault, home invasion
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Election 2023: Live updates on 5 September - Campaign trail heats up: National Party leader Christopher Luxon is speaking to media as he campaigns in central ...
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Election 2023: Live updates on 5 September - Campaign trail heats up
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Labour leader Chris Hipkins announces party's five-point economic plan: Chris Hipkins has announced a policy to invest $100 million into the Venture Capital Fund ...
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Labour leader Chris Hipkins announces party's five-point economic plan
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Chris Hipkins ordered to apologise for breach of Official Information Act: Chief Ombudsman rebukes PM's office for delayed release of Auckland flooding ...
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Chris Hipkins ordered to apologise for breach of Official Information Act
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Hipkins turns his eye to crime in Hamilton: During a tour of Hamilton, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins vowed to deliver a ratio of one police officer for every 470 ...
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Hipkins turns his eye to crime in Hamilton
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School building projects face delays and cost blowouts: An Auckland high school where leaks have been falling on students' heads for years is among those that ...
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School building projects face delays and cost blowouts
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Final Covid-19 restrictions banished as experts assess future approach: The PM denied the move was linked to the upcoming election.
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Final Covid-19 restrictions banished as experts assess future approach
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NZ PM urges release of Papua hostage six months after kidnapping: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has called again for the immediate release of Phillip Mehrtens ...
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NZ PM urges release of Papua hostage six months after kidnapping
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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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Allan was reportedly found about 500m from the crash site, while her car remained at the scene. Full details: 🔗 tinyurl.com/nzhkiriallanlatest
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NZ could lose ‘hundreds’ of police officers to Queensland - Police Association: A campaign set up for Australia to poach NZ officers is a 'real risk'.
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NZ could lose ‘hundreds’ of police officers to Queensland - Police ...
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Labour’s makes election offer to new parents, the jury continues deliberation in the trial of Lauren Dickason and football fans rate the New Zealand FIFA ... Show more   tinyurl.com/59mz4348
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#UPDATE : New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has reassured the shooting "appears to be the actions of one individual" and that there is not ... Show more   nine.social/gUk   #9News
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So this is how the story ends: Our leaders have frozen the future of Aotearoa’s political economy in its stagnant, unequal, unjust ...
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So this is how the story ends
Quick Glance: Tax Prep Companies Shared Personal Data with Meta and Google
  • Tax prep companies shared personal data with Meta and Google without customer consent, potentially violating privacy laws.

  • Information such as names, addresses, emails, and tax deductions were shared for targeted advertising and AI training.

  • The companies were careless with data and did not understand how it would be used by the tech firms.

  • After investigation, all three companies stopped using Meta's tracking pixel.
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"This is the information that we are able to share so far. The offender was armed with a pump action shotgun. He moved through the building site ... Show more   www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/494104/watch-live-pm-speaks-after-two-killed-gunman-dead-in-auckland-cbd-shooting
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PM finally hits right note on tough-on-crime talk: It took three days but Chris Hipkins, with the help of his Justice Minister Kiri Allan ...
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PM finally hits right note on tough-on-crime talk
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Hipkins changes tune on youth crime as pressure builds: Three months out from the election the Prime Minister’s tone on youth crime is quickly changing from the ...
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Hipkins changes tune on youth crime as pressure builds
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Watch: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins gives briefing on Auckland shooting deaths: The Prime Minister says the whole nation is mourning after this morning's ...
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Watch: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins gives briefing on Auckland shooting ...
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New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the FIFA Women's World Cup soccer tournament would go ahead as planned after a shooter killed two people in ... Show more   reut.rs/3NZ275k
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Auckland shooting: Hipkins says questions remain, further investigations under way | Live Updates
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Auckland shooting: Hipkins says questions remain, further investigations ...
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National claim a leaked Labour tax policy, police take to the sky in the search for missing real estate agent and global boiling is here as the earth’s ... Show more
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Nearly 2000 Kiwis apply for Australian citizenship since 1 July rule change: Almost 2000 New Zealanders have applied for Australian citizenship ...
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Nearly 2000 Kiwis apply for Australian citizenship since 1 July rule ...
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Police halt investigations into offshore scams, National announces $500 million road transport policy and Kiri Allan and Michael Wood back on the tools in the ... Show more   bit.ly/43yXBjr
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PM explains mistake at youth crime announcement: A mistake in the Government's crime announcement happened because there were originally two options on the ...
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PM explains mistake at youth crime announcement
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Antony Blinken’s Endgame for New Zealand: There is still time for the U.S. to influence the trajectory of New Zealand’s foreign policy. 
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Antony Blinken’s Endgame for New Zealand
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Hipkins in China: Swimming in the deep end: The “boy from the Hutt” has pinched himself at every turn from Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to the iconic Bund ...
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Hipkins in China: Swimming in the deep end
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Antony Blinken’s Endgame for New Zealand: There is still time for the U.S. to influence the trajectory of New Zealand’s foreign policy. 
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Antony Blinken’s Endgame for New Zealand
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DOC boss confirms poor relationships in Minister Kiri Allan's office: The head of DOC has confirmed a staffer stopped working in Minister Kiri Allan's office ...
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DOC boss confirms poor relationships in Minister Kiri Allan's office
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Hipkins changes tune on youth crime as pressure builds: Three months out from the election the Prime Minister’s tone on youth crime is quickly changing from the ...
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Hipkins changes tune on youth crime as pressure builds
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New Zealand PM Hipkins to visit China, meet President Xi Jinping: New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Monday he would visit China from June 25 to 30 ...
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New Zealand PM Hipkins to visit China, meet President Xi Jinping
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A solemn day in a shaken city: Both major party leaders put politics to the side as they responded to the shooting on Auckland’s Queen Street
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A solemn day in a shaken city
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Michael Wood on last chance after embarrassing day for Chris Hipkins : Chris Hipkins wasn't sure whether Michael Wood would get his job back before election ...
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Michael Wood on last chance after embarrassing day for Chris Hipkins
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Michael Wood on his final straw with the Prime Minister, it’s D-day for Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown and Prince Harry leaves nothing off limits in his second ... Show more   https://tinyurl.com/3xt3j9s2   #FOCUS

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Watch: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, Health Minister Ayesha Verrall speak at post-Cabinet press conference
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Watch: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, Health Minister Ayesha Verrall speak ...
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Watch: PM Chris Hipkins speaks after Cabinet meeting: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is speaking to media after this week's Cabinet meeting. Watch live.
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Watch: PM Chris Hipkins speaks after Cabinet meeting
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Retail crime: $11m added to Fog Cannon Subsidy Scheme to help businesses: Crime looks to become a key issue ahead of the general election in October.
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Retail crime: $11m added to Fog Cannon Subsidy Scheme to help businesses
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Why did we give $140m to a shady Australian corporate? Because we have no choice: The Glenbrook steel deal is horrible – but entirely necessary.
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Why did we give $140m to a shady Australian corporate? Because we have no ...
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Why did we give $140m to a shady Australian corporate? Because we have no choice: The Glenbrook steel deal is horrible – but entirely necessary.
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Why did we give $140m to a shady Australian corporate? Because we have no ...
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At Least 6 Dead After Fire At New Zealand Hostel: New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins described the fire as “an absolute tragedy."
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At Least 6 Dead After Fire At New Zealand Hostel
Quick Glance: Crews Reopen Plumpton Road After Large Trailer Fire
  • A large trailer fire caused a road closure in Plumpton, which was reopened after three hours of work by locals and firefighters.

  • Fire crews from Penrith and Lazonby stations were called to Plumpton Road at 7:26pm on May 13, where a large amount of straw bales were on fire.
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Timeline of a tragedy: Wellington’s Loafers Lodge fire in pictures: When fire first broke out, nobody could imagine the horror that would unfold.
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Timeline of a tragedy: Wellington’s Loafers Lodge fire in pictures
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Body of New Zealand schoolboy found following cave tragedy: New Zealand police said on Wednesday they had recovered the body of a teen killed during a “tragic” ...
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Body of New Zealand schoolboy found following cave tragedy
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Prime Minister Chris Hipkins' calendar marked with overseas trips: The prime minister has announced a series of upcoming overseas trips, which he said would ...
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Prime Minister Chris Hipkins' calendar marked with overseas trips
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PM Chris Hipkins reacts to the findings from the IPCA investigation into the Parliament protest while on a visit to Auckland's Chelsea Sugar Factory ... Show more   https://bit.ly/3UNEAY0   #FOCUS

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Week in Politics: For Labour's sake, Nash must go: Analysis - The Stuart Nash scandal has the potential to damage Labour's election chances ...
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Week in Politics: For Labour's sake, Nash must go
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Hipkins to hop across the ditch, Luxon makes the India pitch: The prime minister's visit to Australia will inevitably focus attention on our role in the ...
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Hipkins to hop across the ditch, Luxon makes the India pitch
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Police Minister Ginny Andersen vows to focus on community safety: Ginny Andersen, who was named in the role yesterday, says she will be working every day to make ...
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Police Minister Ginny Andersen vows to focus on community safety
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Hipkins loses sight of his no-distractions policy: The Prime Minister has undone any credit he’d earned for his swiftness in getting Stuart Nash out of the ...
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Hipkins loses sight of his no-distractions policy
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Ginny Andersen named new Minister of Police: Ginny Andersen will be the new minister of police, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says.
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Ginny Andersen named new Minister of Police
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Nash's poor judgment only half the story: The Prime Minister has acted swiftly to get Stuart Nash out of the police portfolio, but he’s only dealt with half ...
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Nash's poor judgment only half the story
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Week in Politics: National puts on a family-friendly face: National's childcare policy, how much the government is paying consultants, an inquiry into bank ...
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Week in Politics: National puts on a family-friendly face