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2017 General Election Results

The next leader of New Zealand is now down to special votes and NZ First/Winston Peters. National party got 46% of the vote, Labour came in at 38.5%. New Zealand First came in at 7.5% and Greens got...

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WATCH: Disappointment after inconclusive election result

New Zealanders voted on Saturday night to elect a government to lead the country for the next three years. Instead the results were inconclusive; the nation is left with a caretaker Prime Minister and...

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Lack of investment to blame for housing crisis

Labour’s announced it’s cutting immigration numbers in a bid to take pressure on the housing market. However the Green Party says a lack of investment in people and infrastructure is the bigger problem...

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Greens reluctantly accept refugee quota

The Green Party is reluctantly accepting a compromise with the new Labour led government around the annual refugee intake. Green Leader James Shaw was proposing a target of 2000 a year with the goal of...

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Central city Wet House looking more likely

Wellington is on track to get its first wet house. City Councillor Brian Dawson says council’s hoping the wet house will go some way towards solving the city’s homeless problem. He says a proposed wet...

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WATCH: Pomp and ceremony for State Opening of 52nd Parliament

Governor General Dame Patsy Reedy followed fully robed  judges up Parliament steps in a traditional opening ceremony as a crowd of about 100 looked on. She and her delegation were  greeted by local...

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Change needed to cut the prison population

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has repeated promises made late last year to cut New Zealand’s prison population by 30 per cent in the next 15 years. The Minister of Justice Andrew Little put forward the...

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Prisons squeezed by rising numbers of remand prisoners

There are concerns the rising number of remand prisoners are putting a strain on the country’s gaols. The latest Statistics New Zealand figures show an increase of almost 4000 remand prisoners since...

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Re-offending on the rise as crime rates drop

Rising re-offending rates are being blamed on the lack of support prisoners receive when being released. The State of the Nation annual report shows even though conviction rates have dropped to 64,571...

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‘You just have to meet the people’– beyond mental health stigma

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