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Saturday, 8 May 2021, 3:08 pm | Judith Collins   My National caucus and I want to know what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern really thinks about the report called He Puapua that Labour commissioned in 2019. He Puapua in its un-redacted format sets out a roadmap to co-governance between the ... More >> Wednesday, 7 June 2017, 5:15 pm | Judith Collins I was pleased to introduce Minister for Small Business Jacqui Dean to a group of small business owners and representatives in Papakura last month. The meeting was held in the Sir Edmund Hillary library’s very pleasant meeting room and I thank...

Former National MP Maurice Williamson toying with a return to politics on Auckland Council 16 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 4 minutes to read Former National MP Maurice Williamson cannot understand why National does not stand candidates at local elections. Photo / File Former National MP Maurice Williamson cannot understand why National does not stand candidates at local elections. Photo / File Maurice Williamson, the politician turned diplomat, is toying with the idea of a political comeback by standing for Auckland Council next year. Only months after returning to his home in east Auckland fr...

Auckland Transport/Supplied An artist's interpretation of what an early version of Auckland light rail system could have looked like. At that point, it all went pear-shaped. To Goff’s delight, the government pledged to fully fund light rail, and it was taken off AT and given to its state counterpart Waka Kotahi. Then, dazzled by a “have we got a deal for you” pitch from a fusion of the Super Fund and a Canadian pension fund, the nonsense really began and the Ministry of Transport was given the job of weighing up two competing and quite different proposals in secret.

Who wants $1m from Shakespearean playhouse The Pop-Up Globe: liquidators' first report 14 Mar, 2021 09:35 PM 4 minutes to read A new Pop-Up Globe that is under construction at the Ellerslie Race Course. Failed Shakespearean Auckland theatre business The Pop-Up Globe owes more than $1 million to creditors whose names have now been published in the first liquidators' report. The business has for about six years been erecting a full-scale temporary replica of the Shakespearean Globe Theatre and staging plays but it went under on March 3. ANZ, Inland Revenue and scaffolding spec...

Simon Prast: My Story as told to Elisabeth Easther 8 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 8 minutes to read Actor Simon Prast in Cornwall Park. Photo / Dean Purcell Simon Prast stars as Adam Harding in the new season of the popular local series The Gulf, screening Mondays, 9pm on Three. "I was quite a reserved, grown-up, formal little boy and I enjoyed a wonderful childhood on an acre of land in Waikōwhai, beside the Manukau Harbour, overlooking the airport and Māngere Mountain. We lived there with a great dane, a goat, two sheep and a cat. My folks worked really hard so my younger brother ...