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Can four-year terms make it out of the too-hard basket?

A shift to four-year federal terms has many champions including ex-prime ministers but isn't on the agenda given Anthony Albanese's no-more-referendums pledge.

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Plans for jet ski tours from Edinburgh thrown out over 'incompetence'

AN “incompetent” attempt to launch jet ski safari tours in a busy shipping channel has been shot down ...

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NZ cancer patients miss out in campaign pledge backdown

Conservation groups will stage a "March for Nature" next week to protest government cuts to climate and environment projects.

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Ardern ally Grant Robertson leaves New Zealand politics

Former New Zealand finance minister Grant Robertson has exited politics, saying he is at peace with his legacy despite it not including major tax reform.

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New Zealand PM's residence uninhabitable: Luxon

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Luxon has told the Australian cricket team he is unable to live in the official residence due to maintenance issues.

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Robertson exits NZ politics as Labour licks wounds

Grant Robertson, New Zealand's finance minister from 2017 to 2023 and a giant of the Labour party, is leaving politics.

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NZ government's first law to reform Reserve Bank

The Reserve Bank has been ordered to focus on fighting inflation - and not maximising employment - by the New Zealand coalition government.

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‘People are going crazy’: rugby fever grips New Zealand in lead-up to World Cup final

Anticipation builds across the country before the clash between the All Blacks and South Africa’s Springboks

The Guardian - AU

Hipkins to stay as NZ Labour leader, as Little resigns

Defeated Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he is "not done with politics" and will stay as Labour leader - at least for the meantime.

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Ardern weighs in NZ election on child poverty, climate

The latest from the New Zealand campaign trail, with Labour and National competing for office ahead of the October 14 election.

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COVID-struck Hipkins not throwing in NZ election towel

Chris Hipkins will try to resume election campaign duties virtually, as the NZ Labour leader struggles with COVID-19.

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'Chicken' Luxon walks from COVID-hit NZ leaders debate

New Zealand's election contest has devolved into a blame game over which parties are acting responsibly on a hostile and increasingly toxic campaign trail.

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NZ Labour likens Luxon to Eddie Jones in fiscal fight

New Zealand's Opposition National party has released its alternative budget, promising more disciplined spending to pay for income tax cuts.

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Recession or not, New Zealand GDP growing again

New Zealand enjoyed a return to solid growth in the June quarter, with Stats NZ reporting an 0.9 increase, well beyond market expectations.

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New Zealand set to exit recession with low growth

Market expectation for gross domestic product growth in New Zealand is 0.5 per cent for the second quarter of the year.

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With an election looming, New Zealand lawmakers wrap up rowdy final session

New Zealand lawmakers rushed to pass legislation and criticize opponents during a rowdy final day of the nation’s 53rd Parliament

The Independent UK

Jitka Klimkova: New Zealand squad stayed calm after hearing of Auckland shooting

Three people were killed in an incident which occurred 400 metres from Norway’s team hotel

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Under-pressure NZ universities get funding bail-out

Kiwi universities have been handed a five per cent funding boost which the New Zealand government hopes will reverse job and course cuts.

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New Zealand on recession knife-edge as GDP data looms

Economists are at odds as to whether New Zealand books a recession when Stats NZ releases first quarter GDP data.

The Guardian - AU

Interest rates blame game continues – as it happened

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Robertson pleased with New Zealand Budget response

New Zealand's media has reviewed Labour's election year budget well but the true test will be in GDP figures and the Reserve Bank review in coming weeks.

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For a no-frills New Zealand budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls

Grant Robertson’s sixth budget was an exercise in threading various needles. Much of its substance had already been foreshadowed, and to begin with the mood music was suitably sober.

The Guardian - AU

New Zealand boosts budget funding for climate resilience in wake of Cyclone Gabrielle

Finance minister Grant Robertson says initial phase will fund cyclone recovery before improving infrastructure to withstand climate extremes

The Independent UK

New Zealand budget plan offers modest financial relief ahead of election

Months before an election, New Zealand’s government is offering some modest financial relief to many people by making most prescription medicines free and increasing subsidies for childcare and public transportation

The Guardian - AU

New Zealand budget 2023: Chris Hipkins focuses on young families suffering in cost of living crisis

Prime minister offers measures to ease cost of raising children as part of promise to focus on ‘bread-and-butter issues’ ahead of election

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