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AG Reminds Institutions Of Legal Obligations

Friday, 26 July 2024, 6:37 pm | New Zealand Government

Attorney-General Judith Collins today reminded all State and faith-based institutions of their legal obligation to preserve records relevant to the safety and wellbeing of those in its care. More >>

Charter Schools To Remove The Rights Of Teachers

Friday, 26 July 2024, 1:02 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

The coalition Government is driving to dismantle our public school system and instead promote a privatised, competitive structure that puts profits before kids, Labour education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. More >>

Appointments To The Sports Tribunal Of New Zealand

Friday, 26 July 2024, 12:20 pm | New Zealand Government

These four appointments ensure that collectively the Tribunal will continue to have excellent and relevant knowledge and skills, including an appropriate mix of governance experience, sports law, sports participation and administration. More >>

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Government Upgrading Rail Services For Commuters In The Lower North Island

Friday, 26 July 2024, 11:45 am | New Zealand Government

It’s a great day for those who live in the lower North Island region, because our Government is investing over $800m to upgrade commuter rail, says MP for Ōtaki Tim Costley and MP for Rangitīkei Suze Redmayne. More >>

Employers And Payroll Providers Ready For Tax Changes

Friday, 26 July 2024, 11:28 am | New Zealand Government

New Zealand’s payroll providers have successfully prepared to ensure 3.5 million individuals will, from Wednesday next week, be able to keep more of what they earn each pay, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Revenue Minister Simon Watts. More >>

Indonesian Foreign Minister To Visit

Friday, 26 July 2024, 9:32 am | New Zealand Government

Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, will visit New Zealand next week, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. More >>

Te iwi Māori Will Not Stand For Another Foreshore And Seabed

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 8:01 pm | Te Pati Maori

In 2004 te iwi Māori rallied against the Crown’s attempt to confiscate our coastlines and moana with the Foreshore and Seabed Act. This led to the largest hīkoi of a generation and the birth of Te Pāti Māori. 20 years later, history is repeating ... More >>

ACT Welcomes Restoration Of Test Under Customary Marine Title

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 7:02 pm | ACT New Zealand

These proposed changes will enable the legal recognition of Māori customary rights while protecting the legitimate interests of all New Zealanders in the marine and coastal area. More >>

Transport Minister Thanks Outgoing CAA Chair

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 4:49 pm | New Zealand Government

“On behalf of the Government, I want to thank Ms Fredric for her service in the important role of Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority.” More >>

National Disgrace For Children In Poverty

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 4:47 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

"Lifting children out of poverty is the moral obligation of any good government. This one clearly doesn’t have any,” Carmel Sepuloni said. More >>

Test For Customary Marine Title Being Restored

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 4:07 pm | New Zealand Government

As part of National-New Zealand First coalition agreement, the Government has agreed to propose legislation which will ensure these tests for applications directly with the Crown or through the Courts are upheld as originally intended. More >>

Te Pāti Māori Acknowledge The Need For Fundamental Change In State Care

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 4:00 pm | Te Pati Maori

The report notes that New Zealand’s care system is fundamentally broken beyond repair. Survivors want to see transformational change to ensure the end of state-sponsored abuse. More >>

Government Quietly Waters Down Child Poverty Targets

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 2:48 pm | Green Party

“The Government has watered down our child poverty targets by stealth, a decision that will plunge thousands of children into material hardship,” says the Green Party’s spokesperson for Social Development, Ricardo Menéndez March. More >>

Opposition United In Bad Faith Over ECE Sector Review

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 12:59 pm | New Zealand Government

Issues with affordability and availability of early childhood education, and the complexity of its regulation, has led to urgent calls from the sector to conduct a review. The review is currently underway and taking public submissions. More >>

Opposition Parties Unite To Protect ECE

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 10:23 am | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour, the Green Party and Te Pāti Māori are uniting to stop the Government’s dangerous changes to the Early Childhood Education sector. The Government’s Regulatory Review of ECE is being rushed through, with a Bill to be proposed in October that will negatively affect our youngest tamariki. More >>

Kiwis Having Their Say On First Regulatory Review

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 10:17 am | New Zealand Government

After receiving more than 740 submissions in the first 20 days, Regulation Minister David Seymour is asking the Ministry for Regulation to extend engagement on the early childhood education regulation review by an extra two weeks. More >>

National Jumps On Labour’s Trains

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 9:59 am | New Zealand Labour Party

National is so short on ideas it is now announcing Labour’s rail announcement from a year ago, Labour transport spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. More >>

Government Upgrading Lower North Island Commuter Rail

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 7:13 am | New Zealand Government

The Coalition Government is investing $802.9 million into the Wairarapa and Manawatū rail lines as part of a funding agreement with the NZTA, KiwiRail, and the Greater Wellington to deliver more reliable services for commuters in the lower North Island, ... More >>

Government Acknowledges Torture At Lake Alice

Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 4:18 pm | New Zealand Government

The Minister responsible for coordinating the Crown Response to the Abuse in Care Inquiry, Erica Stanford, says throughout the 1970s patients at Lake Alice were given electric shocks without anaesthetic, as well as painful and immobilising paraldehyde ... More >>

Govt Must Listen To Experiences Of Abuse Survivors

Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 4:15 pm | Green Party

This five-year inquiry involved painstaking collation of stories from people who have experienced grave mistreatment in care. We as a country have a duty to ensure this inquiry wasn’t in vain. More >>

Another Step Forward For Survivors Of Abuse In Care

Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 4:10 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

We owe it to survivors to closely read this report, to hear the human stories behind it and work through the recommendations made. More >>

PM Speech To Parliament – Royal Commission Of Inquiry’s Report Into Abuse In Care

Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 4:07 pm | New Zealand Government

It is important that, as a country, we bring to the surface and understand the hard truths of what happened so we can try and move forward together. More >>

Government Acknowledges Courageous Abuse Survivors

Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 4:04 pm | New Zealand Government

The report made 138 recommendations which the Government will now consider alongside the 95 recommendations from the interim report which was released in December 2021. More >>

Paid Parental Leave Improvements Pass First Reading

Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 11:16 am | New Zealand Government

Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden says a bill that has passed its first reading will improve parental leave settings and give non-biological parents more flexibility as primary carer for their child. More >>

Rebuilding The Economy Through Better Regulation

Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 11:00 am | New Zealand Government

Two Bills designed to improve regulation and make it easier to do business have passed their first reading in Parliament, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. More >>

‘Open Banking’ And ‘Open Electricity’ On The Way

Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 10:31 am | New Zealand Government

New legislation paves the way for greater competition in sectors such as banking and electricity, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly says. More >>

Half A Million People Use Tax Calculator

Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 10:25 am | New Zealand Government

With a week to go before hard-working New Zealanders see personal income tax relief for the first time in fourteen years, 513,000 people have used the Budget tax calculator to see how much they will benefit, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis. More >>

HNZ Exposes Minister Spinning In Freefall

Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 4:58 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Health New Zealand contradicted the Government’s spin that back-office bureaucracy is the cause of overspend in the public health system. More >>

Accelerating Northland Expressway

Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 3:25 pm | New Zealand Government

The Coalition Government is accelerating work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei as part of its Roads of National Significance programme, with an accelerated delivery model to deliver this project faster and more efficiently, ... More >>

Govt Must Act On Israel’s Illegal Occupation Of Palestine

Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 1:33 pm | Green Party

“The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion couldn’t be more clear: Israel has breached international law over decades of incursions and illegal settlements on Palestinian land. More >>

Sir Don To Travel To Viet Nam As Special Envoy

Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 12:46 pm | New Zealand Government

Sir Don was Deputy Prime Minister from 1990-1996, Foreign Minister from 1990-1999 and Commonwealth Secretary-General from 2000-2008. Sir Don leaves New Zealand today and will return this weekend. More >>

Backing Mental Health Services On The West Coast

Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 12:14 pm | New Zealand Government

This new build will improve the quality of specialist mental health services here on the West Coast by providing a modern space that support contemporary models of care. More >>

NZ To Advance Relationships With ASEAN Partners

Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 12:12 pm | New Zealand Government

“ASEAN plays an important role in supporting a peaceful, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific,” Mr Peters says. More >>

NZ Support For Sustainable Pacific Fisheries

Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 11:04 am | New Zealand Government

New Zealand is promoting increased regional co-operation to counter changing patterns attributed to climate change, which will force a large proportion of tuna stocks out of the exclusive economic zones of some Pacific countries that rely on the catch ... More >>

An Inconvenient Truth For Labour

Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 10:22 am | New Zealand National Party

Labour and Ayesha Verrall are reinventing history in a desperate attempt to avoid responsibility for their botched merger at Health New Zealand, National Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. More >>

NZ Government Must Enforce ICJ Ruling

Monday, 22 July 2024, 7:19 pm | Te Pati Maori

We are urging the New Zealand Government to do all it can to enforce the ICJs ruling. More >>

Commissioner Replaces Health NZ Board

Monday, 22 July 2024, 4:34 pm | New Zealand Government

Today’s move to appoint a Commissioner is one of several steps our Government has been forced to take over the past eight months due to concerns about the governance of Health NZ and resulting performance issues, including health workforce and hospital ... More >>

Minister To Speak At Australian Space Forum

Monday, 22 July 2024, 12:19 pm | New Zealand Government

The Australian Space Forum is an annual international space event and will this year be attended by 1000 representatives from international and Australian government agencies and the private sector. More >>

Daily Karakia On Taxpayer Dime A Distraction

Sunday, 21 July 2024, 1:04 pm | ACT New Zealand

Health New Zealand has perhaps the most important job of any government department: turning around the performance of our health system. It should have a single-minded focus on delivering better health outcomes for New Zealanders. More >>

Listen PM, Boot Camps Don’t Work

Saturday, 20 July 2024, 5:44 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Troubled tamariki need a Minister for Children to stand up for them, not a drill sergeant,” said Willow-Jean Prime. More >>

Oceans And Fisheries Minister To Solomons

Saturday, 20 July 2024, 5:41 pm | New Zealand Government

“This visit is a good opportunity to engage with my colleagues from across the Pacific to strengthen our shared commitment to looking after our fisheries and working together to solve issues that affect the region.” More >>

Government Launches Military Style Academy Pilot

Saturday, 20 July 2024, 5:39 pm | New Zealand Government

This pilot will help both address the offending behaviour of the young people and ensure they are held accountable, and face up to, their actions. This is an important part of our plan to address youth crime rates so that New Zealanders feel safe on ... More >>

Nine Priority Bridge Replacements To Get Underway

Saturday, 20 July 2024, 9:10 am | New Zealand Government

Nine priority bridges will be replaced over the next three years, including the SH6 Coal Creek Overbridge on the West Coast, SH82 Elephant Hill Bridge and Waihao North Bridge in Canterbury, and the SH25 Pepe Stream Bridge in the Waikato. More >>

Update On Global IT Outage

Saturday, 20 July 2024, 4:45 am | New Zealand Government

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has designated the National Emergency Management Agency as the lead agency to coordinate the government response, working across relevant agencies to understand impacts on New Zealand government services, More >>

New Zealand, Japan Renew Pacific Partnership

Friday, 19 July 2024, 7:23 pm | New Zealand Government

“Our discussions made clear the similar ways that New Zealand and Japan see the world and our region, and the importance of our work together - as we seek a stable and prosperous region,” Mr Peters says. More >>

Pacific Futures - Winston Peters' Speech Delivered At The International House Of Japan, Tokyo

Friday, 19 July 2024, 3:25 pm | New Zealand Government

We see the Pacific as a family of nations and like any family each member wants to stand on their own two feet, as an equal. And that is how we view them, and how we hope to be viewed, as equals. More >>

Climate Change Minister To Attend Climate Action Meeting In China

Friday, 19 July 2024, 2:08 pm | New Zealand Government

Hon Simon Watts Minister of Climate Change Climate Change Minister Simon Watts will travel to China on Saturday to attend the Ministerial on Climate Action meeting held in Wuhan. “Attending the Ministerial on Climate Action is an opportunity to advocate ... More >>

Statement From Labour Auckland Issues Spokesperson Shanan Halbert

Friday, 19 July 2024, 1:08 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

“The fare cap will support Auckland whānau who have been hammered with increased public transport costs under the National Government, which removed public transport subsidies in May. More >>

Delivering 24 Hour Pothole Repairs

Friday, 19 July 2024, 12:29 pm | New Zealand Government

Kiwis and freight operators will benefit from the Coalition Government delivering on its commitment to introduce targets that will ensure a greater number of potholes on our state highways are identified and fixed within 24 hours, Transport Minister More >>

Self-reliance And Self-esteem Boosted With Benefit Sanctions

Thursday, 18 July 2024, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT’s coalition agreement secured the commitment to implement sanctions for beneficiaries who can work but refuse to take agreed steps to find a job. Now we’re seeing this policy in action,” says ACT Social Development and Employment spokesperson Dr Parmjeet ... More >>

Peer Support Specialists Rolled Out In Hospitals

Thursday, 18 July 2024, 12:08 pm | New Zealand Government

The five Emergency Departments selected to trial this new mental health and addiction peer support service are Auckland City Hospital, Middlemore Hospital, Waikato Hospital, Wellington Regional Hospital and Christchurch Hospital. More >>

Rents Up Under National, Promises Fall Flat

Thursday, 18 July 2024, 11:55 am | New Zealand Labour Party

The Government has made claims that they are trimming the fat, but all they are doing is pushing costs like water on to rate payers. Refusing to help the councils will only mean higher rates. More >>

MSD Figures Show Govt Determined To Punish Beneficiaries

Thursday, 18 July 2024, 11:40 am | Green Party

At a time the Government is driving up unemployment by cutting jobs, Louise Upston is hellbent on making life even harder for those finding themselves without or unable to work. More >>

Benefit Stats Highlight Need For Welfare Reset

Thursday, 18 July 2024, 11:25 am | New Zealand Government

We are focusing on under-25s because they tend to have less work experience and are at greater risk of getting stuck on welfare for longer. Supporting them now is crucial for enhancing their long-term job prospects. More >>

School Attendance Continues To Increase

Thursday, 18 July 2024, 10:07 am | New Zealand Government

Provisional school attendance data for Term 2 2024 released today has shown more students are back in class compared to last year, with 53.1 per cent of students regularly attending, compared with 47 per cent in Term 2 2023, Associate Education ... More >>