Shock in New Zealand as Green party MP Efeso Collins dies after charity run
Devastated colleagues and friends pay tribute to Collins as a ‘passionate advocate’ and a champion of fairness and equality New Zealanders, including leaders from across...
Category : New Zealand politics
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives New Zealand’s new government will scrap...
New Zealand Labour shed votes to the right but also the left – the price of a progressive policy bonfire
The party’s supporters feel like it got a kicking from everyone. After a dire result, analysts pointed to its inability to meet its lofty aspirations...
Some of Jacinda Ardern’s legacy in New Zealand is safe. A lot of it isn’t | Henry Cooke
Housing, workplace and some benefit reforms on the chopping block as centre-right National-led coalition forms government The most common and cutting critique of Jacinda Ardern’s...
‘A very welcome thing’: New Zealand cabinet reaches gender parity for first time
Including ministers outside cabinet, there are now more women in country’s executive than men New Zealand has reached gender equity in its government cabinet for...
New Zealand foreign minister to visit counterpart in China
Nanaia Mahuta says she will raise concerns over Ukraine and human rights issues as well as ways the two countries can cooperate New Zealand’s foreign...
New Zealand scraps transport emissions reform to fund welfare increase
Clean car upgrade scheme among measures to be cut but PM Chris Hipkins denies government is abandoning climate ambitions New Zealand’s government is dumping a...
New Zealand MPs warned not to use TikTok over fears China could access data
House speaker tells all parties not to use the app on parliamentary devices over data security fears New Zealand MPs have been warned off using...
Ardern’s Labour party slips to second in New Zealand polling for first time since pandemic began
Jacinda Ardern remains preferred prime minister but her party records worst polling since 2017 amid Covid surge and rising living costs For the first time...
