Scrutiny of the AI sector has grown in the past year, including calls for a moratorium on new data centre consents.
Politics
Wed, Sep 9
The Labour leader is in Auckland.
Tue, Sep 8
Breakfast's Tova O'Brien quizzed the Labour leader about the poll result and when more policy was coming.
With just nine weeks remaining until election day, parties in most parts of the country were now permitted to put up their election hoardings.
Sat, Sep 5
Labour leader Chris Hipkins said currently New Zealand-trained nurses looking for work had no option but to seek employment overseas.
Health
Mon, Aug 31
Chris Hipkins said today he wanted a greatly improved version of National's legislation "implemented" by the next government after the election.
Tue, Aug 25
The party released a fiscal strategy this morning, adopting the same surplus timeline forecast in Budget 2026 but promising a different route to it.
Sun, Aug 23
Luxon will face Hipkins on October 6, but has turned down TVNZ's second leaders' debate scheduled for two days before the November 7 election.
Thu, Aug 20
"Chris Hipkins is a serial flip-flopper, telling Kiwis one thing, while his caucus is doing another," says National campaign chairperson Simeon Brown.
Tue, Aug 18
The poll landed as National MPs met behind closed doors this morning before deciding they still wanted PM Christopher Luxon as leader.
Wed, Aug 12
"We're going back to work and we're moving on," says the Prime Minister in a 76-second statement.
"There was not a single person in the Labour team who thought that we should be open to working with NZ First, given their recent behaviour."
Mon, Aug 10
The package would cost $1.56 billion over four years, funding by a "refocusing" of the Government's investment boost policy.
Business
Thu, Aug 6
The Labour leader said Peters should not be foreign minister in any government.
Tue, Aug 4
"New Zealanders expect leaders who take their responsibilities seriously, not treat politics like a circus audition," said the opposition leader.
Thu, Jul 23
Labour Leader Chris Hipkins has reacted to a new poll, which has National again dropping into the 20s.
Tue, Jul 14
The SolarSaver package, announced today, would cost $160 million over four years, which the party says it will fund by repurposing the coalition's gas security fund.
Wed, Jul 8
Labour's Chris Hipkins has joined Government ministers in condemning the move.
Tue, Jul 7
On Sunday, Q+A reported MSD managers were being individually assessed on whether they keep emergency housing numbers under the Government's targets.
Tue, Jun 30
Winston Peters has previously been emphatic that the door is shut from his side.
Sun, Jun 28
The last time Labour and National's ranking combined was this low was in 1996.
Tue, Jun 23
Meanwhile, leaders with parties down in the new poll have brushed off the results.
Both Labour and National have taken falls in the latest 1News Verian poll.
The Labour leader said his party disagreed with most of what was announced by the Greens in their tax policy.
The document's costings are based on National's own analysis of Budget figures and its opposition counterpart's announcements and other public statements.
Sun, Jun 14
