Jane Patterson

Polystyrene packaging, plastic drink stirrers, tableware, cups and cutlery, produce stickers and cotton buds will be phased out by 2025 if Labour is re-elected. Labour leader Jacinda Ardern and the… Audio

Jo Moir, who has been on the road with ACT this week, and Katie Scotcher who's been with National, speak with Jane Patterson about what has been happening with the election campaign. Audio

Grant Robertson and Paul Goldsmith have just gone head to head in a debate on finance.

Who got the most hits?

For analysis of the finance debate, RNZ political editor Jane Patterson speaks to Corin… Audio

The leaders of the Labour and National parties are back on the campaign trail after last night's television debate, meeting voters in Waikato.

Jacinda Ardern has made an agriculture policy… Audio

New Zealand's political leaders faced off in the first debate of the election period last night.

Judith Collins and Jacinda Ardern faced off on issues of housing, health funding and inequality on… Audio

From midnight tonight all of New Zealand - except Auckland - will move back to Covid-19 alert level 1, more than a month after the Auckland outbreak.

There were no new cases of Covid-19 reported on… Audio

National's promising a short-term package of tax cuts - worth more than four and half billion dollars - to kick start the economy. The changes would be made by significant increases to income tax… Audio

New Zealand has emerged from this year's lockdowns better than expected but it's a much gloomier picture for the longer term recovery, with the country facing years of large deficits and ballooning… Audio

The election campaign has formally started but the country is still grappling with Covid-19 in New Zealand's biggest city.

The Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy signed the writ at Government House… Audio

Political leaders have lined up to tell New Zealand business how their party intends to steward this country through the economic crisis, including a plan from Labour to loosen some restrictions at… Video, Audio

The Labour Party will introduce a new income tax rate of 39 percent for New Zealand's top two percent of earners, if they're re-elected to Government.

The party's finance spokesperson, Grant… Audio

Education Minister Hipkins has been dragged into the Green School controversy after a video was leaked of James Shaw saying he had given "verbal sign-off" for the bid.

Mr Hipkins has been actively… Video, Audio

A leaked video clip of last week's Green Party crisis call shows James Shaw claiming the controversial Green School funding had been given "verbal sign-off" by Education Minister Chris Hipkins.

The… Audio

Greens' co-leader James Shaw has apologised to teachers, parents, unions, schools and Green Party supporters following his decision to sign-off on funding for a Green School in Taranaki.

RNZ… Audio

The political jousting over the government's handling of Covid-19 continues, with the Opposition demanding more scrutiny and more support for businesses suffering under the continued Auckland… Audio

Auckland's current Alert Level settings will be reviewed at Cabinet on Monday afternoon, with the Prime Minister set to announce whether the city will leave lockdown as scheduled shortly afterward.

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A potentially huge increase in postal voting has prompted warnings a failure to properly prepare could lead to an election disaster.

Postal votes could number in the hundreds of thousands because of… Audio

New Zealand will find out at 10am on Monday morning if the election will go ahead on 19 September, or whether it will be delayed because of the Covid-19 outbreak in Auckland .

The decision is solely… Audio