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OPINION This is a transcript of Audrey Young’s politics newsletter. To sign up for this newsletter or Thursday’s subscriber-only Premium Politics Briefing,...

OPINION Chris Luxon and Nicola Willis want the key roles in the New Zealand public service to be filled by appointees with “successful real world”...

OPINION We will always have former Prime Minister Helen Clark to thank for keeping New Zealand out of the 2003 Iraq debacle. Clark judged, correctly, that...

Over summer, we’re revisiting some of the biggest and best podcast series from the NZ Herald network throughout 2023. In June, former Prime Minister Sir John...

OPINION When Prime Minister Christopher Luxon was asked earlier this week if Andrew Coster would last in his job as Police Commissioner under the new...

The bill included more exes than your average Taylor Swift album, and almost as many air miles. Two ex-ambassadors to the United States, one ex-ambassador to...

CHICAGO — Product labeling, cultural differences and U.S. trade policy were among the “international trouble spots” for trade examined at the World Dairy Summit.

She calls herself the yoyo MP. But this time National's Maureen Pugh has sprung back into parliament in spectacular fashion apparently wrestling the long time red seat of West Coast Tasman off Labour's Damien O'Connor. You might know her name because former National party leader Simon Bridges was caught on tape calling her F****ing useless. Maureen Pugh has previously been trapped in the revolving door of politics. In 2014 she was in via the party list on election night, but out afte...

China should be able to meet standards set out in a major trans-Pacific trade pact, trade experts say, forcing members to make a politically uncomfortable decision on whether to let Beijing join a deal created to counter its growing influence. Britain joined the Comprehensive Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) at a meeting in Auckland this month just over two years after its application, clearing the way for members to consider others from China, Taiwan, Ukraine, Costa Rica, Uruguay ...

Tim Groser is welcoming the EU FTA as a "step forward", saying disappointment over meat and dairy would be no reason to walk away.