Policy

Māori advocates are outraged the Police Minister's suggesting law changes to allow officers to keep taking photos of people they deem suspicious, and it has set back promises of any transformational… Audio

The Government's being told it is still not doing enough to ensure much needed foreign workers can get into the country.

The skilled migrant category has just been re-opened after being slammed shut… Audio

The deputy Solicitor General says a rapist's sentence of nine months' home detention is manifestly inadequate and there has been a miscarriage of justice.

An appeal against Jayden Meyer's sentence… Audio

Neither farmers or environmentalists are satisfied with the government's new proposal for cutting agricultural emissions.

The proposal requires farmers to pay for their emissions from 2025.

It has… Audio

The government has hired an online surveillance firm set up by ex Israeli spies, that's been kicked off Facebook for spying on people.

Immigration officials have been using the firm Cobwebs… Audio

The government is celebrating its agricultural emissions pricing plan as a world first, but it faces a battle winning over the sector.

Cabinet will consult on the plan before signing it off next… Audio

The US President Joe Biden has initiated a dramatic change to his country's policy on marijuana, pardoning all federal offences for possession.

He said no-one should be in jail solely due to the… Audio

The National Party is calling a second gang-related police raid of a rehabilitation facility a failure of the justice system.

On Thursday police siezed almost half a kilogram of meth, $5000 in cash… Audio

Staff at Oranga Tamariki have voted to take industrial action over low wages and unsafe workloads.

It comes as a major Ombudsman report found the state agency failed to do even a bare minimum to… Audio

The way alcohol companies and other unhealthy products market themselves online is going under the microscope in Wellington this week. Professor Nic Carah at Queensland University of Technology talks… Audio

The latest report card on the Government's Healthy Homes Initiative shows it is improving the health of vulnerable families.

The programme identifies people living in poor-quality housing and… Audio

National Party leader Christopher Luxon says that his party's planned tax cuts would not have the same sharp market reaction the UK's own tax cut proposals had on the pound's value.

The pound has… Audio

A bill that restores minimum rights and collective bargaining for television and film workers has been hailed by the industry.

The Screen Industry Workers Bill has passed its third reading in… Audio

Government papers show health ministers questioned why nurses should not be on the fast track residence list.

There has been widespread criticism of the decision to make nurses from overseas wait two… Audio

Green MP Chloe Swarbrick will need most of Labour's MPs to swing behind her alcohol harm reduction bill, if it is to pass its first hurdle in Parliament.

The member's bill would ban alcohol… Audio

Thousands of overseas-born parents and grandparents are waiting on a review of residence policy.

Some parents of New Zealand residents and citizens have been here since the pandemic, but face having… Audio

The Minister of Internal Affairs Jan Tinetti wants Lotto to ban the use of credit cards for online gambling.

But Lotto says it doesn't want to impose that on its customers and claims it already has… Audio