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New Zealand First will campaign on a referendum on the Māori seats this year, with the party saying the time had come for a decision on their future.

"No one truly knows a nation until he's been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged on how it treats its highest citizens but how it treats its lowest ones," the Australian mosque terrorist's lawyer has claimed.

A fundraising page has been launched to create a scholarship in memory of a 10-year-old Canterbury boy who died after being hit by a car last week.

A Christchurch college is carrying out an investigation following revelations it was told of allegations of sexual offending by a priest nearly 20 years before he was convicted of abuse at the school.

The mother of a child who died after being caught in a window blind cord is asking how many children have to die before mandatory safety regulations are introduced.