Mahuta's appointment restores a familiar face to the land. One that the land remembers.
Across her Māori development and associate trade and export growth portfolios, Mahuta demonstrated her proficiency as an expert foundation builder with each piece of work actioned by design. She brought together likeminded countries to regularly meet...
The law allows doctors to be conscientious objectors of euthanasia.
Assisted dying remains illegal in New Zealand until 6 November 2021. "Doctors will be making their choices well before the 12 months are up as to how they feel about being engaged - first of all in the process of decision-making and then the execution of the medication itself."
What it achieves and where it may fail will all fall directly at the feet of Jacinda Ardern and her party.
The question now is who will respond to the opportunity and pressure and who will wilt. Because what this line-up reminds us, more perhaps than anything else, is that this is a Labour government. Not Labour-led, not Labour-Greens, but Labour, Labour, Labour.
The agreement sets out other specific areas the Labour Government will cooperate on with the Green Party
The Labour Party and the Green Party will have a Cooperation Agreement that will see the Green Party Co-leaders hold ministerial portfolios outside of Cabinet, and areas of cooperation on climate, environment and child and community wellbeing issues.
Subject to the release of the final results on 6 Nov, the incoming govt will respect the result of both referendums.
Assisted dying remains illegal in New Zealand until 6 November 2021.The Act will be administered by the Ministry of Health. The Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill will not be introduced as legislation by the Labour Government this term.
Will people look to Ardern as someone who seized the moment to transform New Zealand for the better?
Over the seven weeks New Zealand was in lockdown - and the days leading up to the decision to move to Level 4 in the first place - Ardern explained why collective action was needed to avert collective catastrophe. Now action on a similar scale is...
The election of Labour candidate Ibrahim Omer on October 17 makes him New Zealand’s first African MP
Omer has promised to tackle issues facing immigrants, and there are many ways the refugee experience could be improved. These include: state commitment to regular support beyond the initial six weeks mandatory training for all health-care...
Ardern’s public persona is as cultivated as a carefully-curated Instagram page.
Her image is tightly controlled by a formidable press team led by her chief press secretary Andrew Campbell, with Kelly Spring, a former RNZ journalist, and ex-Stuff business editor Ellen Read. Interviews are not given lightly and journalists often...
There were 45,266 people registered in the Counties Manukau area with type 2 diabetes in 2019.
Pharmac chief executive Sarah Fitt said that next week its board would look at funding both Empagliflozin and Dulaglutide for 50,000 New Zealanders with type 2 diabetes who have a high risk of complications such as heart and kidney disease.
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