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Focus Live: Collins promises to double SFO budget if elected

National Party leader Judith Collins announced that they would double the Serious Fraud Office's budget if elected to investigate more cases of fraud, bribery and corruption. Video / Michael Craig

Virtual Town Hall - your questions, your vote

We put the questions our readers, viewers and listeners want answered to the leaders.

Focus Live: Judith Collins takes her campaign to Nelson

Collins made the retraining and skills policy announcement in Nelson today, following last night's Newshub Reid Research poll that had National on 29.6 per cent support.

Focus Live: Chris Hipkins speaks to media

Labour leader Chris Hipkins speaks to the media in Auckland.

Focus Live: Jacinda Ardern takes her campaign to the West Coast

Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern has been challenged not to dissolve the West Coast DHB as she took her campaign to Greymouth today.

Focus Live: All Blacks could be forced to quarantine over Christmas

New Zealand Rugby boss Mark Robinson is demanding fairness after Sanzaar released the Rugby Championship schedule that, as it stands, will involve the All Blacks quarantining through Christmas on their return from Australia.

Focus Live: Apology for 'horrific' harbour bridge traffic

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency general manager transport services Brett Gliddon apologised to Aucklanders for the 'horrific' delays motorists have been facing and warned the structure is still 'vulnerable' despite overnight repairs. Video / Mark Mitchell

Focus Live: Labour announce $50m integrated farm plan

Labour has pledged $50 million to streamline the tangle of red tape confronting farmers and growers - which it promises will slash compliance costs and boost productivity. Video / Michael Craig

Watch live: Jacinda Ardern on leaders' debate, poll and Labour's plan for farms

Labour leader Jacinda Ardern says current compliance requirements are too onerous.

Focus Live: Labour promises to double sick leave to 10 days

Labour Workplace Relations & Safety spokesperson Andrew Little promised to double sick leave to 10 days and increase the minimum wage to $20 by 2021 if re-elected. Video / Labour Party

Focus Live: The new machine cleaning up after Covid-19

This $240,000 machine claims to eliminate 100 per cent of Covid-19. Video / Dean Purcell

Focus Live: Ardern attacks National's tax cut policy

PM Jacinda Ardern, Phil Twyford and Grant Robertson all hit out at National's tax cuts policy while campaigning in Featherston. Video / Mark Mitchell

Focus Live: National reveal 'massive' temporary tax cuts

National Party leader Judith Collins and finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith reveal National's $10 billion economic and fiscal plan. Video / Mark Mitchell

Focus Live: Judith Collins reacts to NZ in recession

National Party leader Judith Collins said that today's figures placed NZ in 'the deepest economic recession in living memory'. Video / National Party

Focus Live: PM Ardern and Robertson react to worst GDP fall since records began

PM Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson predict NZ's economy will 'rebound' after the worst GDP fall since records began. Video / Mark Mitchell

Focus Live: NZ enters into first recession in 11 years

NZ Herald business editor at large Liam Dann explains how the country's GDP shrank by a record 12.2 per cent in the June quarter. Video / Will Trafford

Focus Live: National say Robertson 'sugar coating catastrophic' Govt books

National are claiming Finance Minister Grant Robertson is taking a rose-tinted view of a "dreadful" and "catastrophic" economic picture. Video / Mark Mitchell

Focus Live: Fatal school bus and train crash

Coach driver killed in Bunnythorpe incident, north of Palmerston North. Video / Supplied