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Today the two leaders held their first face to face meeting since February 2020.

Chris Hipkins stressed the start times had always depended on delivery times of vaccines.

Your playlist will load after this ad Dame Cindy is the first Māori woman to be named New Zealand’s Governor-General. Source: 1 NEWS Dame Cindy is the fourth woman set to hold the position, announced today by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as the next Governor-General.  "It is truly incredible to be standing here with this opportunity," Dame Cindy said today, saying she hoped all young girls took some inspiration from that.  On what she w...

The Government has revealed its spending $1.4 billion on New Zealands vaccination roll out, in order to have enough free Covid-19 vaccines available for every person in the country, as well as the infrastructure needed over the next two years.  Your playlist will load after this ad Chris Hipkins says the money means all New Zealanders will get a free vaccine. Source: 1 NEWS Figures around the vaccine spend had not previously been released, du...

Your playlist will load after this ad Jacinda Ardern made a pre-Budget speech to Business NZ. Source: 1 NEWS Ardern also revealed this afternoon the decision-making factors in how the Government would choose when and which countries New Zealand could potentially open to, and how the vaccination roll out impacts that.  "Let’s get on with it," was the Prime Ministers departing comments during her speech to Business New Zealand ahead of next ...

A child playing on a playground. File image. Source: 1 NEWS Of those surveyed, 11.2 per cent of secondary students had witnessed adults in their home hitting or physically hurting each other, and 10 per cent had been hit or physically harmed themselves in the last year.  The latest Child Poverty Related Indicators (CPRI) Report for 2019/2020 has been labelled as "grim reading" by the charity Child Poverty Action Group, who said it showed "our c...

Good morning and welcome to The Bulletin. In today's edition: Fears of mid-year vaccine shortage, new report shows child poverty indicators not improving, and SFO charges laid over donation to Labour. Understandably, there's pretty high demand for the Covid vaccine right now. But will the demand

Your playlist will load after this ad None of those facing charges are sitting MPs or current Labour Party officials. Source: 1 NEWS None of those facing charges are sitting MPs or are current or former officials of the Labour Party, a statement by the Serious Fraud Office stated.  The people are entitled to seek name suppression, "therefore the SFO will not be naming any defendants until any name suppression issues have been resolved". ...

"The tone of the debate did not reflect well on Parliament as a whole." Your playlist will load after this ad The House Speaker accused a man of sexual assault, after previously apologising to the same person for falsely accusing him of rape. Source: 1 NEWS Ardern spoke to Mallard this morning.  "He retains my overall confidence, however I have expressed serious concerns to him about the manner in which he conducted himself in the House last ...

People walk past a MIQ facility. Source: Getty Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins announced the change today, after the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble freed up hundreds of extra MIQ spaces and had give the Government "options to manage risk in ways that were not previously available". The new changes would see all returnees in a particular 96-hour window be put into the same MIQ facilities until it is full or the time period is over. "Th...