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A Ministry of Health spokesperson said the "small number of people who have returned to New Zealand and are partially vaccinated are being fully vaccinated where practicable". The spokesperson said it is "not easily accessible data" to determine where each of the 190 people would fit in the vaccine sequencing framework. In other words, the Ministry of Health cant say how many of them jumped the queue.  Hipkins said it makes sense to fully vaccinate them.  "I think its important that people ge...

Stewart, in response to Speak Up For Women supporters being labelled "grubs" on Twitter by an advocate who accused them of being anti-transgender, responded with a tweet that police considered to be threatening.  "Is it wrong that the country girl in me wants to invite my gun-toting sisters over, strip this wee f***er naked, let him loose in the back paddock, jump on the tray of the ute, and hunt him down with spotlights while whooping & hollering & drinking?" Stewart posted screenshots showin...

Collins has described the donation as an "incredible lapse of judgement" and believes Hunt has lost credibility to continue in the role as Human Rights Commissioner.  "That Mr Hunt and HRC staff thought it was appropriate to donate to one of New Zealands largest gangs - who were recently involved in an international gang drug bust resulting in arrests - calls into question their judgement and raises questions as to the priorities of the Commission," Collins said on Monday. "We will see Labour ...

National leader Judith Collins accused the Government of a "separatism by stealth" agenda, after plans were set in motion for a Māori Health Authority as well as Māori wards in local councils, both of which were recommended in the report.  Collins vowed to keep probing Labours Māori co-governance plans despite Newshub polling in May showing 44.5 percent of Kiwis thought National was being divisive and the Māori Party accusing her of racism. Paradoxically, the report was commissioned as a r...

The Government plans to replace it with three new laws this parliamentary term but the overall process will take years. Below the NBA will sit the Strategic Planning Act (SPA) and the Climate Adaptation Act (CAA), to address complex issues associated with managed retreat. The draft legislation still needs to go before a parliamentary select committee process, where the public will be able to make submissions. A second select committee process will be held when the full draft law is introduced t...

"If we don't see enough around the border controls for the state that is experiencing an outbreak, that's something that we'd give consideration to."

"The EVs themselves have to have electricity and at the moment New Zealand is burning Indonesian coal."