New Zealand

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has held out the promise of taking more NZ exports, but warned the Pacific nation against hewing too close to U.S. policy.

Māori Party President John Tamihere, who heads a web of interlinked organisations is at the centre of the allegations.

The trans rights activist who poured tomato soup over British women’s rights campaigner Posie Parker in Auckland last year has pled guilty to assault.

Drones, sophisticated fighter planes, surveillance aircraft, and possibly even a British aircraft carrier will now play a role in joint exercises.

The allegations suggest pork barrelling involving the Indigenous vote.

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.