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People born on or after January 1, 2009 should no longer be allowed to buy ...
Tax breaks instead
No more smoke-free future generations - New Zealand scraps plan
Christopher Luxon has been officially sworn in as New Zealand's 42nd prime minister.
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Christopher Luxon, new ministers sworn in at Government House
Christopher Luxon, David Seymour and Winston Peters have signed a three-way coalition agreement ...
Luxon announces coalition, split deputy role for Peters, Seymour
Among a number of agreements made during talks ...
National on promise to introduce legislation on extending parliamentary term to four years
'It will save money'
The coalition agreements seen today reveal a "very confused and ...
Labour leader Chris Hipkins
'This is going to be a government that drives people apart'
Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza ...
Labour leader Chris Hipkins calls for a ceasefire in Israel Gaza conflict
Decision-makers, including the incoming government, are ignoring a major shift underway now - the imminent decline of the ...
NZ's yawning demographic divide
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has set his government's "number one" goal as "fixing the ...
Cuts loom large as Christopher Luxon government targets the economy
Outgoing Prime Minister Chris Hipkins reacts to the National, Act and NZ First coalition agreement.
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Inside the Exclusive Brethren during their affliation with Don Brash and National
'We prayed Helen Clark would fall out of a plane'
Brethren book
The National Party is accusing caretaker Prime Minister Chris Hipkins of ...
National
Israel-Gaza ceasefire call will not help until certain conditions met
The center-right National Party will form a government with two smaller parties ...
New Zealand shifts to the right, but only slightly by global standards
New Zealanders will today learn what the National, ACT and New Zealand First government will ...
Luxon pleased with coalition partners' 'massive alignment' on goals
Labour leader Chris Hipkins had taken a dig ...
Coalition talks
Chris Hipkins critical of time taken by Christopher Luxon to get Winston Peters, David Seymour deal
No MMP government has been defeated after one term but if the left is prepared to take the risk ...
Why we could see a 127-seat Parliament at the next election
Seeing how many of the National Party's first 100 days campaign promises have survived the coalition ...
Coalition numbers 'quite tight'
constitutional law expert
New Zealand First's Casey Costello isn’t the first to have a meteoric rise to MP and Cabinet minister on ...
From outside politics to inside Cabinet in a day
Power Play - The unique situation means ACT and New Zealand First are in direct competition for ...
Power Play
Three-way coalition could make for treble trouble
Billy Te Kahika is fighting to stay out of prison over a protest that flouted public ...
'I shouldn’t have to go to jail'
Billy Te Kahika fights prison sentence
Prime Minister Chris Luxon was sworn in on Monday — and strict anti-smoking ...
New Zealand's new government plans to roll back cigarette ban as it funds tax cuts
Listen to today’s episode of The Front Page to hear a bevy of birthday well-wishers including Chris ...
The Front Page
Where next for the Herald after 160 years?
The former government planned to ban the sale of tobacco to anybody ...
New Zealand ditches world-leading smoking ban as new government says priority is economy
Quick Glance: New Zealand Smoking Ban Reversal Sparks Health Expert Criticism
- New Zealand passed laws in 2022 to restrict and eventually ban cigarette sales to future generations.
- Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths in New Zealand, and the policy aimed to prevent young generations from picking up the habit.
- Health experts strongly criticized the sudden reversal.
- The announcement of the government's repeal of the laws shocked health experts who believed the policy would remain untouched.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) -- New Zealand's new right-of-center government was sworn in on Monday ...
New Zealand swears in new PM and center-right government
Coalition talks drag on, Chris Hipkins makes a subtle dig and calls for favourite getaway spot to be off limits in the latest NZ Herald headlines.
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The leaders of New Zealand First and ACT have briefly met, in a significant ...
NZ First leader Winston Peters, ACT leader David Seymour meet at Parliament
New Zealand's inquiry into how we handled the pandemic has already spoken to hundreds of people of all persuasions ...
The quiet inquiry
A high-ranking police officer who kneeled on a semi-naked woman at Parliament’s anti-mandate occupation is facing legal action with two protestors filing a ... Show more
As NZ First’s number three, Casey Costello could become a minister. Newsroom political editor Jo Moir looks at her path ...
The NZ First MP picked for a big future
With National's potential partners ACT and NZ First finally getting together in Wellington this week ...
Coalition talks pick up pace behind closed doors
Having successfully defied not just the Māori Party but the wishes of the Māori King for two elections ...
Rifts, toxic criticism, and surviving politics
The leaders of the main political parties have agreed to extend the current caretaker ...
Parliament
Current caretaker role to continue until new government formed
Rachel Boyack has been confirmed to have won the Nelson electorate by a margin of 26 votes.
Labour's Rachel Boyack confirms 26-vote win in Nelson recount
The peculiarities of New Zealand’s MMP system mean there will ...
Election 2023
The cost of Parliament’s three seat overhang MPs - and how only 29% is salary
On the home stretch of government negotiations Christopher Luxon’s two coalition partners are making use ...
Seymour and Peters battle it out in final leg of talks
Analysis: After a slow start, the coalition negotiations may be approaching the point ...
The Week in Politics
Coalition negotiations could be near the endgame
A compromise was reached within the Labour Party to quell dissent about the leadership ...
Inside Labour
The tax deal to seal Chris Hipkins another term as leader
This week the people who make the local stuff for our screens big and small urged the powers-that-be to tax ...
Producers pressure government to tax Netflix and co
National will deliver tax relief for lower and middle-income Kiwis ...
Christopher Luxon
National will deliver tax relief to lower and middle income Kiwis
OPINION Labour MPs made the right call in leaving defeated outgoing Prime ...
Matthew Hooton
Christopher Luxon faces three risks as coalition of chaos looms
With a government slowly winding its way to completion there are a series of things that need to take place before MPs ...
New government's sprint to Christmas
British Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch plans to attend a meeting of a major ...
UK's Badenoch to attend trans-Pacific CPTPP meeting on sidelines of APEC
The 21-year-old MP-elect is set to be New Zealand’s youngest lawmaker in 170 ...
New Zealand’s Youngest MP-Elect in 170 Years Is Maori and Proud—but Also Concerned
Advanced voting to fill Parliament's 123rd seat begins today in the Port Waikato by-election triggered by the death ...
Port Waikato by-election voting begins today
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins was given a rap over the ...
Chris Hipkins told off for mishandling request for texts between Jacinda Ardern and Meghan and Harry
At a time in Aotearoa when there are so many reasons to gather and protest, what role do the Police play?
What is The Point of a Police Presence at Protests?
Identified in Parliament House by their orange ...
In Canberra, lobbyists outnumber politicians three to one. Now there are growing calls for stronger regulation
As New Zealand First’s number three, Casey Costello could become a Minister. Newsroom political editor Jo ...
The NZ First MP Picked For A Big Future | Newsroom
It wasn’t that long ago that amphetamines and methamphetamine were legal in New ...
Robin Hyde, aka Iris Wilkinson, the NZ novelist who overdosed on amphetamines
In 2026, the party's tax policy could look quite different, leader Chris Hipkins ...
Capital gains tax conversation 'back on the table' for Labour
Chris Hipkins
Special votes have given Te Pāti Māori two more electorates, and the Greens an extra ...
Special Votes
National and ACT lose majority in largest ever Parliament
The leaders of New Zealand First and ACT have briefly met, in a significant ...
NZ First leader Winston Peters, ACT leader David Seymour meet at Parliament
Chris Hipkins has spoken out, saying he will continue on as leader and hinting at a recount in a key seat.
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Labour will be a “formidable opposition” as they work to ...
Special votes
Outgoing Prime Minister Chris Hipkins promises Labour will be ‘formidable opposition’
Analysis - New Zealand's new government will need to hit the ground running on foreign affairs ...
The foreign affairs puzzle facing New Zealand's new government
Asian lawmakers fail to increase their representation in the Beehive after matching the ...
Eight MPs of Asian descent to represent their communities in Parliament
Indian community's fears are confirmed by the announcement of the final results ...
National lacks Indian representation in Parliament for second consecutive term
ACT's proposed Treaty referendum would be "divisive and unhelpful" ...
National leader Christopher Luxon
Referendum on Te Tiriti would be 'divisive and unhelpful'
New Zealand remains aligned to its Five Eyes partners despite voting for a UN resolution ...
Hipkins
NZ vote on Gaza at UN consistent with longstanding position
Final results from New Zealand's Oct. 14 election released on Friday show the ...
New Zealand election results show National needs other parties to form government
There is a lot of work to be done and Parliament will need to run longer to get ...
Parliament summer close down period will be shorter, incoming PM Luxon says
A leaked internal email from Labour volunteers ...
Helen White’s team blames Labour leader Chris Hipkins for poor showing in Mt Albert election, leaked email shows
The official election results in the ...
Three weeks after the general election
New election results in New Zealand - conservative alliance but without a majority
Carlos Cheung, confirmed winner of the Mt Roskill electorate, wants more Asian ...
Chinese representation in Parliament likely limited to a single lawmaker
Outgoing Sports Minister spoke to French, SA presidents at RWC final in Paris.
Outgoing Sports Minister Grant Robertson proud of more women in sport
Incoming Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said he had made good ...
Incoming Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says negotiations with Act and NZ First progressing
First time Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand MP Fa'anānā Efeso Collins ...
'Bold Pasifika voice'
Fa'anānā Efeso Collins 'elated and humbled' to be in Parliament
NZ First leader Winston Peters has been a fixture of New Zealand politics for ...
The Front Page
What motivates Winston Peters to keep making political comebacks?
David Seymour is now speaking to media after the release of the final ...
Updates
Final election 2023 results released after special votes counted, ballots checked
Labour leader Chris Hipkins has revealed ...
Chris Hipkins reveals more details about partner Toni Grace, they met when she was an intern in his Remutaka office
Labour Party leader Christopher Hipkins spoke to the media after the final vote count was revealed.
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Article courtesy of E-Tangata: ...
The kohanga reo kids have arrived in Parliament and know how to use their voices
Editor at large Shayne Currie is on a two-week road trip ...
The Great New Zealand Road Trip
The ‘broken-down sheep farmer’ who became a national radio star
Thousands marched to Parliament to show their support for the people of Palestine ...
Israel-Gaza conflict
All the latest developments on 28 October
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