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· December 6, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Ricardo Menendez March has criticised the system as another layer of bureaucracy. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The Green Party is criticising the $8 million cost to...
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· December 5, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand An intimate ceremony filled with singing, tears and laughter marked the opening of a new Pacific student space at the University of Aucklands Te Herenga Mātauranga...
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· December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins (L) and Foreign Minister Winston Peters. RNZ/Calvin Samuel The government is putting $15 million towards a United States and NATO initiative to...
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· December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Housing Minister Chris Bishop (left) and Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka (right) taking questions at a Select Committee. Anneke Smith Housing Minister Chris Bishop is encouraging...
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· December 2, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Green Party climate change spokesperson Chlöe Swarbrick told RNZ it was “wishful thinking” that New Zealand could remain committed to Paris without buying carbon credits. RNZ...
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· December 2, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Climate Change Commission chief executive Jo Hendy. RNZ / Dom Thomas Relying on trees to offset New Zealand’s emissions years into the future is putting “a...
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· December 2, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, centre, with (clockwise from top right), former prime ministers Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins, Mike Moore, David Lange, Bill English and John Key....
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· November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Parliament’s Justice Committee has recommended the Electoral Amendment Bill be passed by majority, but suggested some amendments. RNZ / Nate McKinnon Parliament’s Justice Committee has released...
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· November 26, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Regional councils such as ECan may not exist for much longer, under new government plans. File photo. RNZ / Nate McKinnon While opposition parties agree more...
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· November 25, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand An example of the military style uniform the youth in the pilot will be required to wear. RNZ / Rachel Helyer-Donaldson Oranga Tamariki says it learnt...
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· November 25, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand More than 40 opposition politicians, community leaders, and organisations have launched an open letter calling to bin a proposed homelessness ban in Auckland CBD. Among the...
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· November 25, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Resources Minister Shane Jones. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Fossil fuel companies were given privileged, insider access to confidential drafts of legislation during a two-year campaign to...
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· November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand David Seymour, Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters. RNZ Analysis: New Zealand politics has long acknowledged a truth of coalition life – sooner or later, everyone swallows...
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· November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Health Minister Simeon Brown. RNZ / Mark Papalii The government is halting new prescriptions of puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria, saying “a precautionary...
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· November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Former Wellington mayor Tory Whanau RNZ / Mark Papalii Wellington’s former mayor says her plan to move across the ditch isn’t an abandonment of the city....
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· November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Health Minister Simeon Brown. RNZ / Mark Papalii The government is halting new prescriptions of puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria, saying “a precautionary...
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· November 18, 2025
Source: Aggregate and Quarry Association of NZ The quarry industry fears it may be the next target of a Green Party pledge to over-turn fast-tracked resource consents for mining. Aggregate and...
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· November 17, 2025
Source: New Zealand Minerals Council The Green Party’s announcement today that it will revoke fast-track mining consents is performative nonsense, says New Zealand Minerals Council chief executive Josie Vidal. “Today we...
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· November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Green Party-co-leader Marama Davidson. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The Green Party is pledging to revoke consents for any coal, hardrock gold, or seabed mining projects granted...
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· November 17, 2025
Source: Greenpeace Greenpeace Aotearoa is applauding the Green Party’s commitment to revoke any Fast-track consents, licences, or permits issued for coal, seabed, and hardrock gold mining projects, describing it as a...
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· November 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Ruminant BioTech aims to help solve the global methane emissions problem caused by ruminant animals. Supplied/Ruminant BioTech Technology, rather than taxing methane emissions, will be what...
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· November 11, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Their first vote in Parliament as independents was a procedural one. RNZ Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris have delivered their first votes as independent MPs from...
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· November 11, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Te Pāti Māori’s National Council has decided to expel Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris. RNZ/Liam K. Swiggs A former co-leader of Te Pāti Māori has expressed...
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· November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Te Pāti Māori co leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi announce the MPs’ expulsion. RNZ/Samuel Rillstone Te Pāti Māori’s decision to expel two of its MPs...
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· November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A sow in a farrowing crate. (File photo) Claudius Thiriet / Biosphoto via AFP MPs deliberating controversial changes to pig welfare rules will have less time...
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· November 9, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Greens Party’s new chief of staff Kevin Hague. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Former Green MP Kevin Hague is returning to politics to be the party’s new...
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· October 31, 2025
Source: Family First The new proposed version of the relationship and sexuality education (RSE) curriculum has just been released. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Education developed a draft framework...