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Bold to rule out working with Te Pāti Māori
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Bold to rule out working with Te Pāti Māori
Get used to seeing National leader Chris Luxon out and about in Otago and Southland.
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Win for Kloogh's wife as fraud victims get pennies
Win for Kloogh's wife as fraud victims get pennies
Hundreds of people defrauded by Ponzi scheme operator Barry Kloogh are to receive a minuscule amount of the millions he stole from them while his wife has been allowed to keep $40,000.
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Robertson voices concerns about university
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Robertson voices concerns about university
Finance Minister Grant Robertson says he wants more information about the seemingly parlous state of the finances of the University of Otago.
Luxon upbeat about leadership
Luxon upbeat about leadership
National leader Christopher Luxon has shrugged off a week of missteps and a poor opinion poll to claim his party still has faith he can lead it to victory at this year’s election.
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Mooney vexed by messy conundrum
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Mooney vexed by messy conundrum
It has been said, from time to time, that politicians talk nothing but crap.
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Mooney vexed by messy conundrum
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Mooney vexed by messy conundrum
It has been said, from time to time, that politicians talk nothing but crap.
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Holy grail still tantalisingly close for Robertson
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Holy grail still tantalisingly close for Robertson
Ever since 1987, when Roger Douglas remarkably announced that most unexpected of things, that the government was going to record a surplus rather than a deficit, successive finance ministers have...
A steadfast and stolid Budget
A steadfast and stolid Budget
Grant Robertson promised a no-frills Budget and, boy, did he deliver.
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New PM, new Budget priorities
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New PM, new Budget priorities
The Budget process is now a very familiar one to Finance Minister Grant Robertson, but next Thursday’s statement of the Government’s financial plans will feel very different, he...
A Bill with profound possibilities
A Bill with profound possibilities
Parliament generally, makes laws which apply to anyone and everyone, including the Crown. But, rarely, it considers a law which applies to only a single person.
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‘Waka jumping laws’ put to the test
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‘Waka jumping laws’ put to the test
Michael Woodhouse has danced delicately around the sensibilities of Speaker Adrian Rurawhe a few times since returning to the role of shadow leader of the House.
Brooking’s fishing gig far from easy
Brooking’s fishing gig far from easy
If you are a newly-appointed minister, what you crave is something nice and simple to do early doors.
Not given in vain
MP goes in to bat for rare ‘honour’
A Dunedin MP’s diligence confirmed a place of unusual prominence for an Otago soldier during the Gallipoli landings, Mike Houlahan writes.
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Southern candidates’ struggles
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Southern candidates’ struggles
It has not been a good few days for parties other than Labour hoping to elect MPs from the southern region to Parliament.
Sad ironies as patient’s advocacy lives on
Sad ironies as patient’s advocacy lives on
Parliament does not usually set out to be deliberately ironic, but often the way its processes work mean that it inadvertently gives one cause to shake one’s head.
Southern cancer patients harmed by long delays
Southern cancer patients harmed by long delays: report
Hundreds of people in Otago and Southland suffered harm as repeated calls to address dire wait times for cancer treatment were ignored, an explosive new report says.
Cancer report 'horrendous' read
Cancer report 'horrendous' read
Patient advocate Melissa Vining was utterly overwhelmed when she read the Health and Disability Commissioner’s scathing report on Southern cancer treatment services.
Brooking takes up Minister of Oceans and Fisheries position
Brooking takes up Minister of Oceans and Fisheries position
Dunedin list MP Rachel Brooking yesterday made a meteoric rise from first-term backbencher to be a minister of the Crown.
Triumph and tragedy spurs proposal
Triumph and tragedy spurs proposal
Everyone loves a sporting triumph — a Black Ferns World Cup, Wānaka young people winning Winter Olympic gold medals, an Otago woman topping the motorcycling world.
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Week of House firsts for southern MPs
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Week of House firsts for southern MPs
It was a week of firsts in Parliament for our southern MPs: Rino Tirikatene passed his first Bill as a minister and Joseph Mooney asked his first primary at Question Time.