Policy

The Mayor of cyclone ravaged Wairoa wants the leaders of National and ACT to come to his town and commit to funding its rebuild.

Craig Little says neither leader has visited the small Hawke's Bay… Audio

The Labour government was warned earlier this year that removing GST from fruit and vegetables may not make them more affordable.

Ministry of Health documents obtained under the Official Information… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

The ACT Party has just announced its welfare policy, saying abandoning people to a life on welfare is a waste of human potential.

The party is promising to axe welfare benefits for people who refuse… Audio

The National Party has announced it will introduce new visas to attract high-paid foreign tech experts, if elected.

It says it has plans to award up to five-hundred work visas a year to recent… Audio

The police won't say how new tasers they're buying will be monitored for public safety.

The existing tasers used by police have built in cameras, but replacements don't and are instead meant to be… Audio

Multiple polls point to a change of government. Is National passing the sniff test? Do voters really want ACT's 'real change' or a handbrake? We ask what a centre-right government might look like. Video, Audio

The National Party's tax plan has an enormous hole in it according to analysis by economists from both sides of the political spectrum.

Their concerns centre on the proposed foreign home buyers tax -… Audio

Battered and bruised, but better than expected - that's the state of the government's books in Treasury's pre-election forecast.

The government is celebrating the state of the nation's coffers… Audio

The National Party is under pressure to explain where evicted anti-social Kāinga Ora tenants would go. 

The party says it would direct Kāinga Ora to evict and relocate repeat and serious anti-social… Audio

Scientific research has taken Dr Chandrika Nath from pole to pole. As a glaciologist she has worked in Lapland and Antarctica, spending 100 days in the latter collecting data samples in extreme… Audio

The medicinal cannabis sector is welcoming the relaxation of rules surrounding the manufacture and exporting of their products. MedSafe, which regulates medicines and medical devices, says the new… Audio

The ACT Party has announced it will prioritise productivity over everything else, if elected.

ACT leader David Seymour has unveiled a policy that would set a target for New Zealand to be one of the… Audio

National's proposed foreign buyers tax continues to raise all kinds of questions - whether it will raise the promised $740 million a year and if the country could face legal problems with its trading… Audio

A Christchurch-based group is poising itself to bring a new, sustainable method of cremations to New Zealand. Alkaline Hydrolysis - or 'water cremation' - is where a body is put into a tube containing… Audio

Doctors from India who have no option but to work in call centres and drive Ubers are calling for more help from the Government to get registered in New Zealand.

The Medical Council has recently… Audio

The Government has announced a flood recovery package for Nelson, subject to council agreement.

The Nelson floods were the worst in the region's history, bringing down multiple slips and forcing up… Audio

The Government has launched its Grocery Code of Conduct, saying it's calling time on the coercive behaviour of the big supermarket chains.

The Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Duncan Webb… Audio

The National Party is planning to give landlords a tax break by restoring interest deductibility for rental properties.

Labour scrapped interest deductibility for all rental properties except new… Audio