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Revealed: David Seymour's big plans for Pharmac

Seymour wants investigation of possible cost-sharing between Pharmac and patients.

Fran O'Sullivan: Luxon needs to take long view and revisit tax cuts plan

OPINION: Govt books need knocking into shape before they dish out inflationary tax cuts.

Govt doesn’t understand cuts impact, staff say, amid computer systems warning

Officials at the centre of this week's job losses say services will be impacted.

Fears for NZ's biosecurity frontline as job axe falls at MPI

Fed Farmers understands the "economic reality" of cuts, but worries about vital services.

'No good time': MoH staff to learn fate first day back from Easter break

The window between Easter and school holidays was decided the best time to inform staff.

How and why the GCSB came to be running a spy operation for a foreign power

Analysis: It harvested metadata in vast quantities, likely to find targets.

'Most special moments of their life': Tukituki MP could boost postnatal care

The bill would allow three days of postnatal care for new mothers.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni sues father and son over viral deepfake porn

Police tracked the men via a digital trail left by phones in the landmark case.

Simeon Brown blasts ‘red tape and green tape’, new speed limit plans confirmed

Red and green tape and orange cones on 'lofty' projects are the bane of Brown's existence.

PM blames Labour for recession, says they should spend a ‘generation’ out of power

It comes on the same day as New Zealand enters a recession.

Act's Brooke van Velden defends tweet about public service staff cuts

Van Velden said redundancies also happened in the private sector all the time.

Advocates slam changes to disability funding

'At the moment I’m more concerned about caregivers of children with disabilities.'

Anti-trans rant and abuse of MP disrupts select committee

A member of the public has momentarily derailed a parliamentary select committee.

MPI and health ministry to cut hundreds of jobs, union says it's an 'irresponsible gamble'

Ministries are urged to find savings between 6.5 and 7.5 per cent on average.

Brian Tamaki cancels drag queen event created by ex-Destiny Church member

Tamaki's team will put pressure on Hastings and Gisborne libraries to follow Rotorua.

Grant Robertson talks RBNZ, Covid and what he and Don Brash agree on

Moving away from the OCR as the Reserve Bank’s primary tool is worth looking at, they say.