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Treasury has a great cost-benefit calculator for big-spending projects - we just need to use it better
25 Aug 2025Analysis: What is the true value of a policy project? For governments tasked with improving citizens' lives while spending taxpayers' money responsibly, this is no mere academic question. It lies at…
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Morning Report live: Christopher Luxon talks house prices
25 Aug 2025The Prime Minister faces questions about global tariffs, the situation in Gaza and the housing market.
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Famine declaration will not speed up Palestinian state decision - Luxon
24 Aug 2025The Prime Minister has not confirmed whether New Zealand will recognise a Palestinian state.
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PM, Mayor and Transport Minister mark start of multi-million-dollar overbridge projects
24 Aug 2025Eight level crossings at Takanini and Glen Innes will be replaced with three road bridges and three pedestrian bridges.
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Lies, damn lies and parliamentary debate
24 Aug 2025Analysis - Mendacity is the bane of good debate. In Parliament both lies and claims of lies used to be naughty, but the floodgates may have opened on the latter.
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Thirty suppliers vie to deliver government's school lunch programme
23 Aug 2025Cabinet previously decided non-intermediate primary schools would join the coalition's cheaper $3-a-meal approach next year.
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Donald Trump not budging on trade tariff - Luxon
22 Aug 2025The Prime Minister says there's no suggestion the US President will budge on a 15 percent trade tariff for New Zealand exports.
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Gene tech bill delayed again; PM says 'it's complicated'
22 Aug 2025Parliament's health committee was supposed to report back on the legislation last month, but this has now been extended twice.
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Sport NZ urged ministers not to scrap sport transgender guidelines
22 Aug 2025But ministers did so anyway, citing the coalition agreement with New Zealand First.
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Secret official memo warns of damage to diplomatic ties
22 Aug 2025The advice was mistakenly released by the Ministry for the Environment.
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'It's been a failure right across the board' - Peeni Henare
22 Aug 2025Labour's Peeni Henare and Te Pāti Māori's Oriini Kaipara discuss the issues facing whānau in the biggest Polynesian city in the world.
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Youth social media ban: What could go wrong?
23 Aug 2025An Auckland-based criminologist is concerned New Zealand's proposed social media ban for under-16s will not work. Audio
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Public health group report calls for wealth tax, cross-party focus on wellbeing
22 Aug 2025The committee, led by a former Green MP, says its report aims to review progress in New Zealand health since 2000 and looks ahead to improvements needed out to 2040.
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NZ calls for 'immediate and independent' foreign media access to Gaza
23 Aug 2025However, it hasn't joined another international move condemning Israel's plan to expand its presence in the West Bank.
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Peters talks defence, trade with US Secretary of State
22 Aug 2025Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has spoken to his US counterpart about defence and trade this morning.
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Air Force chief says Boeing 757 replacements absolutely necessary
22 Aug 2025The planes account for a $620 million capital cost.
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Labour's Henare stands by gang-patch law repeal claim
22 Aug 2025His party has previously stated it would not repeal the legislation, if it became government.
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Israeli-made drones not ruled out by NZ Defence Force
22 Aug 2025The military had already sourced bomb-clearing robots from Israeli firm Roboteam before the Gaza conflict.
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Banking inquiry acknowledges it's no silver bullet for competition
The big four banks' focus on lower-risk activities like retail banking would usually see lower returns, but they actually had higher profitability than international peers, it found.
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Bill to ban protesting outside private homes passes first reading
21 Aug 2025But Labour, the Greens, and Te Pāti Māori opposed the bill.
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Peeni Henare 'mistaken', Labour won't repeal gang patch ban
21 Aug 2025Henare told the audience at a by-election debate his party would repeal the gang patch ban.
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Opposition's backbench overtakes National's on bills passed
21 Aug 2025Members' bills can come from any backbench MP. Usually successful government bills far outnumber opposition bills - but not this Parliament.
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Seahawks and Airbuses: Government reveals $2.7b planes and helicopters
21 Aug 2025Live: Judith Collins and Winston Peters have revealed the planes chosen to replace the Defence Force's ageing 757s, and a fleet of helicopters to be based on NZ's frigates.
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NZ facing toughest national security environment of recent times - report
21 Aug 2025Foreign interference, espionage, and online radicalisation threats have increased since last year, the Security Intelligence Service says. Audio
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