Winston Peters

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

An estimated 2,000 people remain buried under tonnes of rubble, with continuing instability hampering recovery efforts.

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.

Winston Peters has condemned a speech by a Māori Party MP that claimed the government intended to ‘exterminate Māori.’

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.

‘I’ve seen that sort of philosophy before. I saw it in Nazi Germany. We all did. We’ve seen it elsewhere around the world in the horrors of history.’

The haka encouraged people to ‘never fold and never bend’ or be ‘puppets of this redneck government,’ raising the ire of Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters.

The NZ Hurricanes Poua Woman’s rugby team has used a pre-match haka to again challenge the government, after management warned them over an earlier incident.

New Zealanders have lost trust in mainstream media, and are turning away from it in growing numbers, Winston Peters said. And independent studies support that.

The West Papua National Liberation Army army threatened to kill the pilot if the Indonesian government did not initiate independence talks.

Booing and singing over government speakers has characterised the first morning at Waitangi, the official celebration of New Zealand’s national day.

The former Labour government will be scrutinised on whether its actions abided by the rule of law.

Australia has also agreed to send a team to New Zealand to discuss the sharing of top secret technology.

During the 2023 election campaign, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters was vocal in his opposition to what he called ‘woke ideology’ in schools.

The previous government, helmed by Jacinda Arden, brought into law the Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Act which banned new exploration permits.

The deal also includes an independent COVID-19 inquiry scrutinising aspects including the use of multiple lockdowns.

Prime Minister elect Christopher Luxon has concluded negotiations with New Zealand First and ACT New Zealand

New Zealand will likely be governed by a 3-way coalition involving the libertarian ACT, and nationalist New Zealand First.

Conservative Christopher Luxon is negotiating in private with ACT and New Zealand First on forming government.