Saturday, November 29, 2025

Politics

Another 5200 health workers vote to strike

More than 3500 mental health nurses and assistants and public health nurses as well as 1700 policy, advisory, knowledge and specialist workers have voted to strike on...

New life-saving bypass machines for Auckland

Cardiothoracic patients from across New Zealand will benefit from eight new state-of-the-art heart and lung bypass machines at Auckland City Hospital, Health Minister and...

Bayly: Why your voice matters

By MP for Port Waikato Andrew Bayly Each parliamentary term, the Parliamentary Service and the Office of the Clerk (the two organisations that support...

Party leaders poke fun at each other with Halloween jabs

New Zealand’s political leaders have used Halloween as an opportunity for a round of light-hearted online sparring. The National Party kicked things off with a...

Labour pitches Medicard for 3 free GP visits, CGT to fund it

Labour has today unveiled plans for a new Medicard offering every New Zealander three free GP visits a year, funded through a targeted capital...

New Zealand enhances practical co-operation with Iceland

New Zealand and Iceland are deepening co-operation in the areas of working holidays, taxation and geothermal energy, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “New Zealand...

Teachers from Franklin attend rally at Aotea Square

  Rallies around New Zealand are underway as joint union strike action continues today. In Auckland, the rally began at 12pm at Aotea Square and will...

Former Prime Minister Jim Bolger passes away

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger has died, aged 90. A statement publicly released this morning, October 16, from his family, says he died...

Elation, now knuckle-down time for Auckland Mayor and councillors

PJ TAYLOR has asked Auckland Mayor-elect Wayne Brown and Franklin councillor-elect Andy Baker how they felt after civic voting results were made public, and...

New legal protections for Hauraki Gulf

Conservation Minister Tama Potaka says Parliament’s passing of the Hauraki Gulf/Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act has ushered into law a “bold new era of...