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...
View ArticleWATCH: 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...
View ArticleLack 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...
View ArticleGreens 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...
View ArticleCentral 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...
View ArticleWATCH: 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...
View ArticleChange 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...
View ArticlePrisons 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...
View ArticleRe-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...
View Article‘You just have to meet the people’– beyond mental health stigma
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