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Politics · October 2026

  1. Move-on orders: what police can require, of whom, and what a breach costs

  2. ACT wants 10,000 charter school students by 2029. Labour would move the schools into the state system

  3. High Court rules Crown's Māori Wardens funding deal unlawful

  4. Health targets are crowding out follow-up care, senior doctors' union says

  5. Enrolment closes tomorrow night, with youth sign-ups ahead of 2023

  6. Labour says Government's AI strategy 'not fit for purpose' as rival plans go on record

  7. Labour would keep National's health targets, and says some 'free GP' visits could be with nurse practitioners

  8. NZME proposes newsroom and digital job cuts as all three big news employers shrink before the election

  9. Auckland GP clinic shuts until it can hire staff as practices limit new patients

  10. India trade deal takes effect, but dairy gets three tariff lines and a promise of review

  11. KiwiRail puts up to $37.5m into Picton ferry works, but summer Cook Strait crossings stay tight

  12. National's $15.4b health plan mostly keeps services running, and sets nothing aside for GPs

  13. Government names tourism advisory group

  14. Treasury calls affordability a 'major concern' for five regional hospital rebuilds

  15. SpaceX's US spectrum deal knocks Spark and tests NZ's airwaves policy

  16. Food regulator's own assessment said silverbeet with banned pesticide could harm children. No recall was issued

  17. National would make students finish Year 11 before they can leave school

  18. Govt.nz wallet still close to empty as digital driver licence slips to late 2027

  19. NZ First would make the Working for Families boost permanent at $120

  20. Seymour and Peters keep their hands down as Waititi offers to share te reo

  21. National rules out tax cuts for four years: how its plan and Labour's compare on household costs

  22. National drops Super age date, leaving ACT and NZ First on opposite sides

  23. Te Pāti Māori puts te reo on its voter menu as Hipkins rules out a Treaty watchdog that could halt Cabinet

  24. Labour would scrap the daily hour for reading, writing and maths

  25. Crown accounts show $8.7b deficit as net debt rises to $186.8b

  26. Govt.nz app's digital IDs are due this month, six months after the minister's end-of-March promise

  27. National would cut Jobseeker rates for long-term recipients and drug-test beneficiaries; Peters says it borders on fascist

  28. What ACT's tax-free KiwiSaver would be worth at 65, and why NZ First's figures rest on a disputed rate

  29. Tourists and migrants owe Health NZ more than $70m, and a quarter of it may never be paid

  30. Firearms licence decisions now go to an independent committee, and the regulator is called FSENZ

  31. ACT would scrap tax on KiwiSaver earnings and drop the Government top-up. Here's how the three main KiwiSaver plans compare

  32. Nine Education Ministry insiders back claims staff were told not to put things in writing to avoid the OIA

  33. Government's 8700 job-cut plan relies on AI, but its papers don't say how many jobs AI can replace

  34. Julian Wilcox takes the chair at Te Taura Whiri, and also sits on the Whakaata Māori board

  35. The Arms Act 2026 is in force, and Police no longer license gun owners

  36. Labour costs $4-an-hour care pay rise but not its plan to restore pay equity

  37. National promises paperless trans-Tasman trial before 2028 but Australia hasn't signed on

  38. Labour would register lobbyists, limit urgency and scrap the ratepayer roll

  39. Free bowel screening now starts at 56, but only in some regions

  40. Emergency doctors say EDs are in 'crisis'. How hospitals are doing on the six-hour target

  41. Auckland Council drops postal voting after Papatoetoe fraud, tells staff to halve the cost

  42. Teachers' union panel warns NCEA replacement could leave more students without a qualification

  43. Labour promises to cut student loans by 10%, but fees-free graduates would miss out