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Budget 2025 a betrayal of working people
Source: Etu Union E tū, Aotearoa’s largest private sector union, is condemning Budget 2025 as a direct attack on working people, particularly women in frontline care and community services. The...
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E tū welcomes defeat of Treaty Principles Bill
Source: Etu Union E tū, New Zealand’s largest private sector union, welcomes the overwhelming defeat of the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill in Parliament yesterday. The bill, which...
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Budget 2025 boosts primary care funding
Source: New Zealand Government Health New Zealand will deliver a significant increase to primary care funding following investment in Budget 2025, Health Minister Simeon Brown says. “Primary Care is critical...
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Security – Sensible Sentencing Trust Slams Police for Dangerous Shift in Shoplifting Investigations
Source: Sensible Sentencing Trust The Sensible Sentencing Trust is appalled by the disturbing reports that New Zealand Police have issued a directive to staff to avoid investigating shoplifting cases under...
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Post-Budget speech to Auckland Business Chamber
Source: New Zealand Government It’s a pleasure to be invited here today by the Auckland Chamber for my first post-Budget speech. The Chamber is the peak body for the Auckland...
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Minister to Singapore for defence and digital government meetings
Source: New Zealand Government Defence and Digitising Government Minister Judith Collins will this week attend a range of defence and digital government events in Singapore. “Experience has taught me well...
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Speech: Barbara Edmonds Post-Budget
Source: New Zealand Labour Party Oute fa’atalofa atu ma le fa’aaloalo Malo le soifua maua ma le lagi e māmā Thank you for the warm welcome this morning, it’s always...
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Release: David Seymour’s Bill harms our people and environment
Source: New Zealand Labour Party David Seymour’s Regulatory Standards Bill would take New Zealand backwards by making it harder to protect our people and the environment. “This Bill favours corporate...
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Release: More cuts to come for health
Source: New Zealand Labour Party National has made a choice to cut women’s pay and rob future generations of Kiwisaver contributions to make its Budget add up, but without enough...
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ASB – Optimising rural land use could add tens of billions to New Zealand economy, new report shows
Source: ASB Improving productivity by 10% through land use change could deliver $10 billion in value to the economy. Mixed revenue streams from diversifying farm systems key to driving value...
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Energy sector releases blueprint for NZ’s energy strategy – BusinessNZ
Source: BusinessNZ New Zealand’s energy sector has rallied around a secure and affordable vision for a sustainable energy future, and is calling on Government to adopt its perspective as part of...
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Advocacy – More Government Double Standards on Palestine and it Greenlights Escalating Genocide – PSNA
Source: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is accusing Foreign Minister, WinstonPeters, of blatant double standards and giving it the green-light for its escalatingattacks on Gaza. PSNA...
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Water Quality – National direction changes expected to advance dangerous ACT ideology at expense of the health of NZers and environment
Source: Choose Clean Water – Tom Kay Government changes to national direction relating to the country’s resource management, expected to be announced this week, will advance ACT Party extreme ideologies...
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TEC Board Chair and Deputy Chair appointments
Source: New Zealand Government Vocational Education Minister Penny Simmonds has announced the appointment of Dr Alan Bollard CNZM as Chair and Mr Robin Hapi CNZM as Deputy Chair of the...
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Farmers and growers to reap rewards
Source: New Zealand Government Farmers and growers will have faster access to new agriculture and horticulture products because innovation drives success, says Regulation Minister David Seymour, Environment Minister Penny Simmonds...
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Strengthening ETS Market Governance
Source: New Zealand Government The Government is strengthening the market governance of New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “A credible ETS is our most...
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Pharmac proposes to fund more medicines for melanoma
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is consulting on a proposal to fund more medicines for melanoma, a type of skin cancer, from 1 June 2025. The medicines are: pembrolizumab (branded as Keytruda)...
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Pharmac funds new oral contraceptive pill
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac has decided to fund a new progestogen-only oral contraceptive pill called desogestrel (branded as Cerazette). Melissa Copland, Pharmac’s Clinical Lead–Medicines Management, says desogestrel will be funded for...
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Pharmac’s plans to improve access to asthma inhalers
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is seeking feedback on a proposal to make it easier for people with asthma to access a type of inhaler. “We’re proposing two changes, which would make...
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Pharmac to fund medicines for blood cancers, inflammatory bowel disease, eczema and arthritis
Source: PHARMAC More New Zealanders will have access to medicines for blood cancers, bowel diseases, eczema and arthritis, following Pharmac’s decision to widen access to four medicines for six health...
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21,000 would benefit from proposed changes to New Zealanders access to contraceptives
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is consulting on a proposal that would make it easier for thousands of New Zealanders to access contraceptives. Pharmac’s Clinical Lead – Medicines Management, Melissa Copland, says...
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New work-based learning model
Source: Tertiary Education Commission Last updated 21 May 2025 Last updated 21 May 2025 Print Share The Minister for Vocational Education has announced the government’s decision to introduce an industry-led...
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Changes to the vocational education and training (VET) system
Source: Tertiary Education Commission Last updated 21 May 2025 Last updated 21 May 2025 Print Share In December 2023, the Government announced its intention to disestablish Te Pūkenga | New...
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Implementation – final-year Fees Free
Source: Tertiary Education Commission On this page: Claiming Fees Free entitlement From 2026, after completing their first eligible provider-based qualification or work-based programme, learners will log in to myIR to...
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From finger pricks to freedom
Source: PHARMAC Life was admin heavy “Life was just admin heavy. I was doing injections every day and testing my blood sugar at every meal, so I was ecstatic when...
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Schedule rule changes will improve continuity of cancer care
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is proposing a change to the Pharmaceutical Schedule rules, which if agreed, would give New Zealanders with cancer greater continuity of care. Pharmac is consulting on a...
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Pharmac funds and widens access to melanoma medicines
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is funding more medicines for people with skin cancer (melanoma), from 1 June 2025. The decision includes widening access to pembrolizumab (branded as Keytruda) and funding dabrafenib...