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More questions than answers at government press conference
The Prime Minister and Corrections Minister repeatedly provided incorrect information about their $1.9 billion planned prison spend-up.
Former Australian foreign minister threatens legal action against Winston Peters
The Labour Party is demanding Peters be stood down, saying "he's embarrassed the country" with a "totally unacceptable" attack on a prominent AUKUS critic.
Seymour confirms temporary funding for free school lunches
Funding for the scheme is set to continue for the "immediate few years" while officials work out what the alternative programme will look like.
School lunches funding likely to be time-limited
It's an approach to funding the government has spent months criticising Labour over - calling them "fiscal cliffs" .
Shock poll shows cuts and repeals are a hard sell
Analysis - Christopher Luxon will be alert to the factors driving the dire polling, but won't be waving the white flag just yet, RNZ political editor Jo Moir writes.
James Shaw on the 'greatest privilege' and the 'horrible' moment
In an interview ahead of his last day at Parliament this week, the former Green Party co-leader talks about his lowest point in politics.
Aces in their places: Luxon plays coy over ministers' competence
Analysis - The PM framing the demotion of two ministers as the portfolios getting "too complex" is a charitable way of saying they weren't up to the job.
Seymour, hospices call for changes to assisted dying law
Both ACT's leader and advocates say parts of the End of Life Choice Act need fixing.
Peters to meet Blinken and Trump official in Washington
The Foreign Affairs Minister will meet the US Secretary of State and other senior officials in Washington, following his speech on Gaza at the United Nations.
School truancy tracking plan announced
RNZ understands David Seymour plans to eventually move to daily snapshots in order to treat truancy as a crisis.
Robertson on the job he never got to do
Grant Robertson tells RNZ his experience during the Covid-19 pandemic was an "extreme sports version" of government decision-making.
What the Greens knew, and what next for Darleen Tana
Analysis - The party finds itself embroiled in yet another political crisis. So who knew what and when, and what does it mean for the Green MP's future? Audio
Fast and loose? Coalition's urgency makes for riskier lawmaking
Analysis - Christopher Luxon's unapologetic response when asked about his government's use of urgency suggests they may continue to push laws through without the usual checks and balances. Audio
Seymour denies overstepping with attack on TVNZ journalist
The ACT leader said he was simply making a "wider point that media need a bit of self-reflection" as hundreds face losing their jobs.
Luxon's criticisms of spending come back to bite
Analysis - National's Tama Potaka could have been mistaken for giving advice to his own leader when he told Newshub on Friday morning "the New Zealand taxpayer is not a free ATM card".
Stuart Nash claims Labour Cabinet softened its gang asset seizure policy
The former Police Minister wants laws targeting gang assets to go further.
Parliament brought to standstill by a tsunami of collective grief
Analysis - The death of Fa'anānā Efeso Collins has inspired politicians of all stripes to a rare moment of unity, Political Editor Jo Moir writes.
Grant Robertson, the consummate political partner
Analysis - If any Labour MP were asked to name a colleague they would struggle to do without, it's Robertson that would spring to mind.
Whakaari/White Island eruption: PM sees no need for royal commission
The prime minister doesn't believe a royal commission into the Whakaari / White Island eruption is necessary.
'There's a very clear set of rules ... they chose to ignore them' - Mallard
In a highly unusual move, the Speaker has released correspondence between himself, the Clerk's office and Māori Party MPs over the row that blew up in Parliament. Audio
Kelvin Davis, Peeni Henare at odds over Oranga Tamariki comments
Children's Minister Kelvin Davis has blamed his ministerial colleague's lack of Cabinet experience for why he mispoke on Oranga Tamariki's leadership.
Minister's public rebuke sign of tensions over Oranga Tamariki
Two senior Cabinet ministers are in a public scrap after Kelvin Davis scolded Peeni Henare for not staying in his own lane.
Orr defends approach tackling inflation amid runaway house prices
Adrian Orr says his anti-inflation focus is already doing what the government seeks, while an economist says adding house prices into the Reserve Bank's tool box may not make much of a difference.