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Lucy Craymer Tina Morrison17:24, May 03 2021 Abigail Dougherty/Stuff Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern comments on the Uyghur genocide at the China Business Summit Differences between New Zealand and China are becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile, said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, as China’s ambassador warned the country to stay out of its domestic politics. The country has raised concerns about China’s policies in Taiwan, Hong Kong and towards the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, but rem...

Matthew Hooton: Judith Collins speech raises important issues for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 2 May, 2021 05:00 AM 7 minutes to read National leader Judith Collins, with list MPs Nicola Willis and Chris Bishop. Photo / Mark Mitchell NZ Herald Those hoping for crude race-baiting in Judith Collins big speech were disappointed. The National leaders address was more moderate, serious and considered than expected. Building on inquiries by Act, Collins raised important questions about the ...

OPINION: Saying 'shtraight' and 'shtreet' is not unique to NZ. In fact, it's not so shtrange at all.

Photo: screenshots Two months before the 2020 general election, Newshub reported some ominous news for Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Party. As it turned out, that data may have been a little iffy: Ardern and Labour went on to secure the first outright majority in MMP history, while National’s vote dipped to its lowest level since 2002. Newshub’s poll results were sourced entirely from a questionnaire embedded in one of its news stories. It wasn’t alone in reporting the results of those k...

Shane Te Pou: National currently have no vision for their party. Worse, they have no vision for New Zealand 1 May, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read National leader Judith Collins during her speech at Nationals election night last year. Photo / File National leader Judith Collins during her speech at Nationals election night last year. Photo / File NZ Herald OPINION: Theres a lot of talk about who will be the next leader of the National Party. The real question is: where will they lead it to? ...

I took a  brief look through Judith Collins’ speech to the New Zealand National Party’s northern convention today and uh … “Article 2, Tino Rangatiratanga, confirms the property rights of all people. It establishes that all iwi, families and individuals have rights over their own land and property. Property rights are again a key democratic principle and core to National party values.” Now … what I  That problem being that while, yeah, that’s what Article Two  broadly sets ou...

Damien Grant05:00, May 02 2021 ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff National Party leader Judith Collins during question time. Collins is resilient, and that’s an underrated talent, Damien Grant says. OPINION: Around 400,000 formerly blue voters abandoned National at the last election. If recent opinion polling can be trusted, they have not come back. National’s review of why this happened is out, and a sanitised version has been released to the public. The report wants the party to focus on diversity an...

Virginia Fallon05:00, May 02 2021 Experts are accusing the Government of ignoring a disease that’s set to bankrupt the health system. They say New Zealands growing rates of type 2 diabetes are shameful, racist, and at crisis proportions. Virginia Fallon reports. Joseph’s legs were amputated years ago, yet sometimes he still feels them. Taken off below the knees because of continual ulcers and wounds that wouldn’t heal, the missing legs sometimes itch, and he finds himself waking in the ...

Wolves at the door: The woman fighting NZs fraudsters and conmen 30 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 9 minutes to read Its never been easier for scammers to sink their hooks into victims. Photo / Getty Images Its never been easier for scammers to sink their hooks into victims. Photo / Getty Images New Zealands market watchdog issued more than 100 scam warnings over the past 12 months. The ongoing battle by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has provided Kiwis with a virtual encyclopaedia of the s...

Matthew Hooton: Judith Collins takes aim at the wrong target 29 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 6 minutes to read National Party leader Judith Collins. Photo / Mark Mitchell NZ Herald OPINION: At least Don Brash had a sense of theatre. His venue was the Orewa Rotary Club, already infamous for Sir Robert Muldoons annual economic decrees. A scholarly looking paper was prepared, complete with footnotes. The media were primed that one of the worlds most admired monetary economists had applied ...