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We have Wayne Brown’s texts to the boss of AT. They’re exactly what you’d expect: 'WTF is this?' wrote Wayne Brown on September 14 last year ...
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We have Wayne Brown’s texts to the boss of AT. They’re exactly what you’d ...
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Surplus in 2027 'not achievable' on current forecasts – Willis: The finance minister also wouldn't promise that the tax cuts delivered in the ...
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Surplus in 2027 'not achievable' on current forecasts – Willis
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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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Watch live: Christopher Luxon holds post-Cabinet meeting update: Follow as the Prime Minister faces questions as Labour talks tax and the economy goes into ...
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Watch live: Christopher Luxon holds post-Cabinet meeting update
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Labour urges greyhound racing ban, offers bipartisan support: Labour MP Rachel Boyack has rejected suggestions Labour's internal ructions were what prevented a ...
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Labour urges greyhound racing ban, offers bipartisan support
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Kāinga Ora crackdown: Government's move cruel, Greens say: Evicting more people from state housing is ignorant to the consequences of poverty, the Greens say ...
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Kāinga Ora crackdown: Government's move cruel, Greens say
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When the facts change, Nicola Willis should change her mind: The value of a pyrrhic victory for the Government on tax cuts is not worth the price New Zealanders ...
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When the facts change, Nicola Willis should change her mind
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'Are these the first steps towards abolishing the ministry?' - Carmel Sepuloni: Opposition MPs and unions are criticising a proposal by New Zealand's Ministry of ...
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'Are these the first steps towards abolishing the ministry?' - Carmel ...
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Recession could lead to brain drain, employment minister Louise Upston says: Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston has admitted New Zealand ...
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Recession could lead to brain drain, employment minister Louise Upston ...
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Luxon’s budget problem is not going away: Every week that passes seems to tighten the fiscal noose for Christopher Luxon and co – a noose, moreover ...
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Luxon’s budget problem is not going away
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Transport Minister Simeon Brown is reversing what he called “nanny state” regulations to slow motorists down.
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Crunch time looms as Air Force 757s costs blow out: The cost of maintaining the Defence Force's ageing Boeing 757s is four times more expensive ...
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Crunch time looms as Air Force 757s costs blow out
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We got it wrong on disability announcement - Minister Penny Simmonds: "I absolutely accept that we haven't been clear enough," Minister for Disability Issues ...
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We got it wrong on disability announcement - Minister Penny Simmonds
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Media minister Melissa Lee says interviews would have been 'boring': Melissa Lee says she received advice from the prime minister's office, but the decision to ...
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Media minister Melissa Lee says interviews would have been 'boring'
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PM Christopher Luxon's tobacco 'talking points' contradicted official advice: The Prime Minister's office circulated 'talking points' on tobacco for his ...
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PM Christopher Luxon's tobacco 'talking points' contradicted official ...
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Tax cuts: Economist says government should focus on getting back to surplus: The government says it still intends to deliver tax cuts by July ...
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Tax cuts: Economist says government should focus on getting back to ...
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Transport Minister Simeon Brown told the Herald the terms of reference for this assessment are yet to be finalised.
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Experts to education minister: 'Please explain': Education experts want a meeting with Erica Stanford after she called their teacher training ...
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Experts to education minister: 'Please explain'
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Audrey Young: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon handles China spy challenge well: OPINION It is difficult to see how Prime Minister Christopher Luxon could have ...
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Audrey Young: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon handles China spy challenge ...
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What about Auckland? Council pushes back on new Govt transport plan : Councillors in Auckland are hoping a submission supporting some and opposing other aspects ...
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What about Auckland? Council pushes back on new Govt transport plan 
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Govt will need more public service cuts to fund tax plan: Services which might traditionally be considered frontline, like Customs, are potentially up for cuts ...
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Govt will need more public service cuts to fund tax plan
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On-site at the Bynderwyns, Transport Minister Simeon Brown revealed the Government wants to get the new road under construction as quickly as possible. #HeraldPremium
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Live politics updates: Kāinga Ora crackdown, changes to plug-in charges: Christopher Luxon failed to answer if he would resign, instead saying there were 24 ...
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Live politics updates: Kāinga Ora crackdown, changes to plug-in charges
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Auckland mayor Wayne Brown had no power to halt transport projects: The mayor had no authority to tell Auckland Transport to immediately stop projects funded by ...
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Auckland mayor Wayne Brown had no power to halt transport projects
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Police Minister Mark Mitchell responds to 'insulting' police pay offer: When asked whether he would accept the offer, as a former police officer ...
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Police Minister Mark Mitchell responds to 'insulting' police pay offer
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Simon Bridges to chair Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency: Former National Party leader and transport minister Simon Bridges has been named as the new chairperson ...
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Simon Bridges to chair Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
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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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Christopher Luxon defends more funding for Ruapehu ski fields: David Seymour, who previously criticised the "gravy train" of funding, says the coalition is ...
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Christopher Luxon defends more funding for Ruapehu ski fields
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Government agrees to slash road user charges for plug-in hybrids: The government has agreed to the suggestion from the opposition that was initially voted ...
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Government agrees to slash road user charges for plug-in hybrids
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Auckland Transport to be stripped of planning powers: The transport minister says he will work with Auckland Council to give it the power to set its own ...
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Auckland Transport to be stripped of planning powers
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Education minister vows to close yawning equity gap: New Zealand has long struggled to achieve the unachievable – to narrow the chasm between the highest and ...
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Education minister vows to close yawning equity gap
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‘It’s alarming’: Imam to tell PM of fears about firearms law changes: Al Noor mosque’s imam Gamal Fouda will have a private meeting with Prime Minister ...
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‘It’s alarming’: Imam to tell PM of fears about firearms law changes
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Recent figures don't make for good reading for Kiwis. #HeraldPremium
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Social media agency's $320k bill for National's campaign advertising: Christopher Luxon fronted quirky social media videos produced by renowned agency Topham ...
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Social media agency's $320k bill for National's campaign advertising
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Govt's tobacco 'talking points' contradicted official advice: Ministers repeatedly insisted smokefree legislation passed by the previous ...
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Govt's tobacco 'talking points' contradicted official ...
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We’re spending billions of dollars to make traffic worse: Simeon Brown just announced the most anti-driver transport policy in recent memory.
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We’re spending billions of dollars to make traffic worse
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The Prime Minister was asked if the Government can afford to give tax cuts to middle- and low-income New Zealanders as he promised during the election ...
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29-year-old to appear in court after two killed in Gisborne mass brawl stabbing: Police have revealed more details about what led to a 100-person brawl while a ...
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29-year-old to appear in court after two killed in Gisborne mass brawl ...
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Luxon has been hosting Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Wellington today, signing a suite of trade and education agreements with Vietnam on Monday ... Show more
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Experts to education minister: 'Please explain': Education experts want a meeting with Erica Stanford after she called their teacher training ...
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Experts to education minister: 'Please explain'
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Inside the drafting of Christopher Luxon’s ‘cut-and-paste’ Waitangi speech: Documents released through the Official Information Act give a behind-scenes look at ...
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Inside the drafting of Christopher Luxon’s ‘cut-and-paste’ Waitangi speech
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Debacle for Simmonds avoidable: It is something which befalls every new government, and every new Cabinet minister lives in dread it will be them — being the ...
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Debacle for Simmonds avoidable
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Road pricing debate shrouded in smoke and (rear-view) mirrors: Opinion: With a huge funding gap confronting the Transport Agency, it is high-time we shifted to a ...
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Road pricing debate shrouded in smoke and (rear-view) mirrors
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You can hear the clink of glass as you walk down the chalky lane. They're hitting the bottle, literally, up in the hills between Stanhoe and the Creakes ... Show more
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Disability Ministry 'days' away from spending all its money: What can and can’t be purchased by disabled people or their carers has been slashed in an ...
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Disability Ministry 'days' away from spending all its money
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Getting our money lending laws right: Law makers tread a tricky tightrope when it comes to getting money-lending rules right.
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Getting our money lending laws right
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New Zealand PM Chris Luxon Invited to Visit China Amid Aukus Tensions: New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has been invited to visit China as Beijing ...
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New Zealand PM Chris Luxon Invited to Visit China Amid Aukus Tensions
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New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon plans to make a first trip to China as premier, his foreign minister said Tuesday after talks with Beijing’s top ... Show more
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Gone By Lunchtime: An untimely case of entitleditis: Christopher Luxon's bad call was soon corrected by the moral compass of the nation: talkback radio.
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Gone By Lunchtime: An untimely case of entitleditis
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TVNZ to make announcement about future tomorrow, staff told: Staff have been told to watch their inboxes.
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TVNZ to make announcement about future tomorrow, staff told
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We’re spending billions of dollars to make traffic worse: Simeon Brown just announced the most anti-driver transport policy in recent memory.
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We’re spending billions of dollars to make traffic worse
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The Week in Politics: More controversy, more surprises: Analysis - Christopher Luxon gets a roasting, when is a tax not a tax, and there's another debacle ...
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The Week in Politics: More controversy, more surprises
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Transport Minister proposes fuel tax increase for 2027: Simeon Brown is proposing a fuel tax increase of 12 cents to hit in 2027 - the same amount Labour ...
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Transport Minister proposes fuel tax increase for 2027
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Brownlee bars student journalists from parliament press gallery: The speaker has revoked the press pass for the Aotearoa Student Press Association ...
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Brownlee bars student journalists from parliament press gallery
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Law change opens the door to overseas investment in NZ build-to-rent: Such housing is common overseas and the Housing and Associate Finance Minister wants to ...
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Law change opens the door to overseas investment in NZ build-to-rent
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When you hear the people sing: The Prime Minister’s u-turn over taking an accommodation allowance is in stark contrast to his administration’s determination not ...
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When you hear the people sing
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Watch live: Christopher Luxon announces health targets to cap off 100-day plan: Christopher Luxon and Health Minister Shane Reti are announcing "five major ...
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Watch live: Christopher Luxon announces health targets to cap off 100-day ...
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Housing Minister Chris Bishop has announced a series of first steps to end the large-scale use of emergency housing.