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Labour releases plan to get kids off devices through new sport funding
The party wants to see more children doing after-school sport and activities.
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Act to spend $400m to retain more doctors, incentivise more appts
Act is promising to commit $400 million over four years to retain more doctors in New Zealand, attract them from overseas and incentivise them. Video / NZ Herald
Act has always campaigned on income tax cuts. What’s the brand cost of abandoning that?
OPINION: David Seymour has called it 'immoral' to pay for tax cuts at the moment.
Water infrastructure neglect – but who’s accountable?
OPINION: Call for answers to 'decades of neglect' over Wellington water infrastructure.
The Green Party gave us an insight into their world of topsy turvy morals
OPINION: The party boycotted Taxpayers' Union debates but defends the gang photos.
The 'egregious' list: What would make Qiulae Wong walk from post-election negotiations?
Polls indicate that Opportunity might be the kingmaker. Are its bottom lines solid?
'Stitch-up': Kiri Tamihere-Waititi calls backlash to MPs' gang hui 'manufactured outrage'
Rawiri Waititi's wife laid into the 'debacle' on Instagram.
Watch: National Party candidate storms out of debate, clashes with audience
He said the questions were unbalanced and called an audience member 'rude'.
Greens propose scrapping apprentice training wage, offer $2000 equipment grants under new plan
The training wage is $19.16 an hour, 80% of the $23.95 adult minimum wage.
The next Government will be unlike any before. What that means for voters
'A doomsday scenario for National, but absolutely an existential moment for Labour' too.
Greens promise to scrap apprentice training wage, offer $2000 equipment grants
The Green Party is proposing to abolish the training wage for apprentices if elected. Video / NZ Herald
Labour leader Chris Hipkins speaks to media
Labour leader Chris Hipkins spoke to media in Auckland before heading to Hamilton to watch the Black Ferns. Video / NZ Herald
NZ Herald Live: Green Party co-leader policy announcement
The Green Party will launch its plan to support apprentices and increase apprenticeship rates, at a co-leader stand-up. Video / NZ Herald
'Burden on top of a burden': Small town still reeling from big job losses
Mill closures wiped out 230 high-paid jobs across the region and hit the town hard.
Why Labour and National should do a deal and kill the overhang
OPINION: The major parties have a lot to lose.
Election 2026 Campaign Diary: Who won the political play on the campaign this week?
'Are you okay?' Green Party's response to a cheeky question from reporter.
Which party has the best plan to fix New Zealand’s health system?
The Front Page discusses each party's health policies with their respective spokespeople.
Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick on nursing shortages
Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick acknowledges treatment delays caused by nursing shortages. Video / NZ Herald
New poll puts election-deciding party on 5% as Labour edges National
Both major parties fell as the Greens climbed to their best result since 2017.
Politicians, commentators and middle-NZ are clutching their pearls about gangs
OPINION: TPM and Greens politicians meeting the Mob is a welcome distraction for some.
Frustrated Green co-leaders bat away questions on Mongrel Mob visit
Labour's Hipkins has described the visit as a 'huge error of judgment'
Caught on camera: Driver fined after train near-miss during Greens announcement
The near-miss interrupted Chlöe Swarbrick during a Green Party livestream.
National's steps to standardise farm rules – quarries, fertiliser, energy storage
Recent export results have exceeded forecasts, said National's agriculture spokesman.
Greens want universal weekly payments for nurses, teachers, health workers
Greens want to attract more people to become nurses and teachers.
National Party candidate Karuna Muthu storms out of Wellington Bays candidates meeting
The candidate accused organisers of asking “loaded” left-wing questions, and clashed with the audience member on his way out. Video / Ethan Manera
Green Party announce plan to pay nurses, teachers and essential job workers for student placements
The Greens launch their plan for placements for nurses, teachers, and other essential jobs at a co-leader stand-up at the Green Party office in Auckland. Video / NZ Herald
Brown appears to rule out Opportunity after leader appeared to rule the party in
National campaign chair Simeon Brown has clarified Luxon's remarks.
'TOP is still ruled out': National won't work with Opportunity despite Act's open door
The Opportunity Party is 'further left than the Greens', Paul Goldsmith says.
Tell me who in the Western World is less ambitious at raising capital than NZ?
OPINION: It is a truth universally acknowledged that any Kiwi business is in want of cash.
‘We’re not the problem’: Mongrel Mob hits back over MPs’ photo backlash
A gang spokeswoman says gangs are being scapegoated amid the political firestorm.