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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 Zealand's 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 and supporters excusing this and no doubt they will attempt to tie this to race. New Zealanders are...

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 Labour's 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 response to the former National-led Government signing New Zealand up in 2010 to the United Nation...

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 to Parliament early in 2022. A major criticism of the RMA is that, despite being convoluted with over...

"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."