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Ardern’s three-year child poverty reduction targets not met
The Government says it's an ongoing challenge.

Tech agencies ‘failed to protect’ Ardern from ‘violence, misogyny’ - HRC
Leaked documents show HRC criticised NZ’s online safety code in October 2023.

Simon Wilson: A few ideas to help Christopher Luxon 'go for growth'
OPINION: Economic plans should address wider social goals or they won't work.

Number of threats against politicians nosedives in Govt’s first year - what’s changed?
Threats and online hate escalated between 2020 and 2022 amid the Govt's Covid response.

Opinion: Luxon’s Minister for Economic Growth may as well be a Minister of Silly Walks
OPINION: The PM should put his marketing past behind him.

‘We need to humanise the role’: Ardern doco wins award at Sundance
'There’s a very rare opportunity ... to share what it looks to be in leadership.'

World reacts to the Jacinda Ardern documentary
'It would be a bit of an exaggeration, but just a bit, to say it trolls Donald Trump.'

‘I’ve written about things I haven’t shared before': Former PM Ardern reveals book release
Ardern was expected to get an advance from $1m to $1.5m for the rights in Australasia.

'Noose with your name on it': Warrant issued for man who threatened to 'hang' PM
'I’ve got a noose with your name on it,' he wrote of Dame Jacinda Ardern during her term.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Hipkins owes us an apology for ruinous Covid vaccine mandates
OPINION: A lot of people were hurt by the mandates. More people are angry about them.

Covid-19 Royal Commission: Hipkins admits Govt ‘lost the room’ amid lockdowns
Vaccine mandates caused huge pain to a “substantial minority”.

How Kaye 'blew people's expectations out of the water'
Kaye is being remembered from those across the political divide.

Dame Jacinda Ardern to be given top UN leadership award
Former PM to be honoured in New York for championing global change and unity.

Simon Wilson: Could Trump happen here?
OPINION: We have an essential precondition; mainstream politicians aren't fixing things.

What's in PM Chris Luxon's bag of tricks for dealing with Donald Trump?
Elon Musk and Luxon's US-based business background could prove political assets

Supporters with placards clap as Destiny Church's Brian Tamaki goes into court
Brian Tamaki is accused of intentionally failing to comply with Covid-19 public laws.

Barry Soper: As if Kamala Harris is reading from Jacinda Ardern's political playbook
OPINION: Harris and Trump are hurtling toward the November 5 US election.

Prince William makes republican Jacinda Ardern a dame
Ardern wore a traditional Māori kākahu cloak while accepting the honour.

Political Roundup: Do housing assets cause a conflict of interest for wealthy politicians?
OPINION: Luxon has just sold two of his houses, reportedly making a capital gain of $460k.

Matthew Hooton: Money doesn’t buy happiness but debt buys misery
OPINION: Treasury is sounding the debt alarm - again. Will politicians listen?

Audrey Young: Labour's howls of protest have a whiff of hypocrisy
OPINION: If only the Opposition had practised what they preached when they were in charge.