Health has become the latest Election 2026 battleground, with Labour accusing Health Minister Simeon Brown of avoiding public scrutiny as pressure mounts over hospital staffing, healthcare costs, ...

ACT leader David Seymour has unveiled a sweeping plan to dramatically reshape the Waitangi Tribunal, promising to end its jurisdiction over contemporary Crown policy and ultimately wind the Tribunal ...

Untreated hearing loss is emerging as a major health, social and economic issue, with new research suggesting it is costing New Zealand more than $1 billion every year. New Zealand […] ...

More than 180 Māori idioms have been brought together in a new book aimed at strengthening the richness, creativity and everyday use of te reo Māori. Respected Māori academic, language […] ...

Restoring pay equity could deliver an average $300 a week to 91,000 families, help lift thousands of children out of poverty and provide a significant boost to the wider economy, […] ...

The Tertiary Education Union is launching a fierce attack on ACT’s plan to ultimately abolish the Waitangi Tribunal, warning the proposal would remove an important mechanism for holding governments ...

Nearly 10,000 public servants are taking strike action across Aotearoa today, escalating a major industrial dispute over pay, the cost of living and fears government agencies are struggling to retain ...

Māori unemployment reached 11.5 percent earlier this year and, despite easing to 10.8 percent in the latest June quarter, it remains almost twice the national unemployment rate. With an election […] ...

A first-of-its-kind initiative at the Manukau District Court is putting the wellbeing of tamariki and whānau at the centre of what happens when a parent faces imprisonment. Pillars Ka Pou […] ...

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi is issuing a blunt warning to whānau Māori ahead of Election 2026 — enrol, turn up and vote, or risk returning a Government he […] ...

New Zealand is being urged to significantly strengthen its response to Fiji’s rapidly escalating HIV epidemic, with public health researchers warning the crisis can no longer be treated as an […] ...

Rural health leaders are putting political parties on notice ahead of the election, warning that where New Zealanders live continues to have too much influence over whether they can access […] ...