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Collins is the MP for Papakura. Seymour talked up ACTs alternative Budget, and pitched his proposal to extend parliamentary terms to four years but with Opposition MPs leading select committees giving them more power over legislation.  Collins says she is not a fan of the idea.   "I think it showed actually, how David Seymours never actually been a minister and hes got no one in his team who has ever actually tried to get legislation through other than his euthanasia Bill, for which was a co...

She will begin her five-year term on 14 September. She will be New Zealands 21st Governor-General. She will succeed former Chief of the Defence Force Sir Jerry Mateparae, when his term finishes at the end of August. Dame Patsy is a lawyer who recently worked with Sir Michael Cullen on a review of New Zealands intelligence and security agencies. Prime Minister John Key said he welcomed the announcement that the Queen had approved the appointment. "She is a passionate New Zealander, a well-respec...

Why vote Labour if Māori interests can’t be progressed? With the 2021 Budget, Willie Jackson and the Māori Labour Caucus just answered that. $973 million in funding for Māori on top of last years $900 million. That’s $1.873billion in two years. What did the Māori Party achieve in 9 years under Key? They introduced Whānau Ora and repealed the loathsome Foreshore and Seabed confiscation but aside from a $5000 a head fundraiser dinner with John Key, the Māori Party never delivered anythi...

He Puapua Report. Underlying the political stand-off in Samoa is the as yet unresolved tension between the democratic institutions inherited from New Zealand, and the much older set of political and cultural expectations inherited from pre-colonial Samoan society. So long as democracy was able to accommodate traditional leadership hierarchies and decision-making customs, the two traditions rubbed on together with minimal friction. The crisis now gripping Samoa is the product of an almost entire...

An Australian government fund meant to support local biomedical development spent millions to buy a close-to-insolvent New Zealand-based exoskeleton company that has almost no operations in Australia.

While everyone waits with bated breath for the next episode of Mare of Easttown, Alex Casey is hung up on a very different Kate Winslet episode.  It feels like you can’t go anywhere without hearing someone talk about Kate Winslet’s cop drama Mare of Easttown at the moment. “Who killed Erin?” a fellow train passenger shrieked, frantically pressing the green button while they assessed their notepad of clues. “Are you team Guy Pearce or team Evan Peters?” a barista wailed over the mil...

Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 10:46 am With more countries considering joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), New Zealand urgently needs a real public debate on the future of such trade and investment agreements. In February this year the UK formally applied to join as part of its quest for post-Brexit free trade agreements. Reportedly, Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan and even China are to varying degrees considering membership. Cover...

But Collins said she was not going anywhere. "This [poll] is one that theyve done since the election and nobodys particularly focused other than you and me and a few others on politics ... its certainly nothing different from any other opposition leader who is few months out from an election. "Our party poll went up a bit and thats pleasing." Collins believed people were focused on things that matter to them and politics was not one of them. She said the public would be more interested in the B...

ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF The visit will be the first face-to-face meeting between Ardern and another leader since New Zealand shut its borders due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Two very different post-Covid futures have been outlined by ex-Prime Minister John Key and US gaming billionaire and recently-minted New Zealand resident Gabe Newell at an event in Auckland. Speaking at the Auckland’s Future, Now conference on Friday, Newell said New Zealand is now to be in the “top three” locations on t...

OPINION: We can disagree profoundly with someone like David Gaughan without trying to put him out of business.