New Zealand

Community safety will over-ride connection to Australia as the primary consideration when deciding whether to deport people convicted of offences.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has delivered a $14.7 billion tax cut package, but economic forecasts are bad and further cuts to services are planned.

Motorways have been brought to a halt, roads around Parliament closed, and extra police called in as a day of protest marks the delivery of the Budget.

Australia and New Zealand has asked TikTok to remove more content than Iraq.

A feather from an extinct New Zealand bird has sold for a record price to an unknown buyer at an auction in Auckland.

Both the Australian and New Zealand Defence Force are on their way to New Caledonia to rescue people trapped there by days of bloody violence.

Kāinga Ora manages the government’s rental stock and builds more houses, with an annual expenditure of $2.5 billion and total assets of $45 billion.

Greens MP Darleen Tana was suspended in April on full pay, while investigation into her behaviour has so far cost the taxpayer $43,000.

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong says the defence force is ’ready to fly' once local authorities advise it is safe to use the airport.

A new poll by the NZ Free Speech Union, conducted by Curia Market Research, shows support for funding universities based on their support for free speech.

Winston Peters said it would not be difficult to separate the sexes: ‘Men’s toilets for men, women’s toilets for women.’

New Zealand is to increase defence spending by $571 million to bolster its capabilities in ‘an increasingly unstable world,’ Minister Judith Collins said.

The new centre-right government has dropped the proposal amid public opposition.

From charges which don’t seem supported by the evidence to a prosecutor who refuses to give his name to media, the trial of Liz Gunn continues in courtroom 7.

Meanwhile, the former prime minister of the small Pacific nation has criticised the New Zealand government for embracing gas drilling.

The reduction in expenditure isn’t enough to balance a sharp fall in the tax take from an economy officially in recession.

Gavin Ellis, a former editor of the country’s largest newspaper and a professor of journalism, recommends a levy on digital platforms to support media.

No country in the Asia-Pacific region is among the top 15.

A war of words has erupted between a former Australian foreign minister and New Zealand’s deputy prime minister about AUKUS.

Bob Carr says he will sue Winston Peters over remarks he made on radio in a dispute over AUKUS.