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Black Caps and Aussies welcomed at Premier House in Wellington

New Zealand and Australia face off in the first test at the Basin Reserve on Thursday.

Australian officials fly in, fly out for Aukus talks

Australia wasted no time in sending officials to NZ to talk about Aukus

Stuart Nash claims Labour Cabinet blocked his efforts for harsher gang policies

Former Police Minister wants laws targeting gang assets to go further.

'Bordering on crisis': Luxon announces review of school property system

PM and Education Minister made the announcement today.

Focus: PM holds post-Cabinet press conference

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and MP Erica Stanford held a post-Cabinet meeting press conference. Video / NZ Herald

Political Roundup: Labour's worst week highlights its existential crisis

OPINION: The Labour Party's fortunes go from bad to worse.

Health services may need to be cut to slow rising costs

Health spending will rise 40 per cent in coming decades and service cuts may be needed.

Gang patch crackdown a ‘waste of time and energy’

Social worker says gang patch law is waste of time

Twenty reports later, here we are again with more failure in Oranga Tamariki

Twenty reports later, here we are with another evidencing failure within Oranga Tamariki

Audrey Young: Child poverty statistics intensify battle over welfare reform

OPINION: The stats relate to Labour's time in office, which makes them politically tricky.

Audrey Young ranks maiden speeches by our new MPs - why Efeso Collins' was so special

Meet our intriguing new MPs, their families, tragedies and brushes with crime.

Government doesn’t want you to know how much axing section 27 report funding costs

Officials said accreditation could stem abuse of the system.

The Great Tourism Reset or more of the same underinvestment?

New minister Matt Doocey wants tourism to boost the economy - but maybe without Govt help?

Cost of living and high inflation puts more children in poverty

Stats NZ figures released today show economic pressures affecting children.

'Divorced from reality’: Former Labour leader says of Ginny Andersen's claims about Mark Mitchell

Shearer recently concluded heading the United Nations mission in South Sudan.

Alleged tobacco tax document leaker ‘no longer working’ at Ministry of Health

The individual responsible for the leak had been identified after an investigation.

Opinion: Efeso Collins was the migrant’s dream come true, what our ancestors dreamt of

Many are grieving the man that was, but also the man he was going to be.

Kiwis to give more cash to Ukraine to buy weapons

The aid package brings New Zealand's support to the war to $100 million