New Zealand First has put the future of the Waitangi Tribunal firmly into the Election 2026 campaign, unveiling a policy aimed at winding back what leader Winston Peters describes as the Waitangi make-work industry. In a policy announcement and campaign speech released on Saturday, Peters set out NZ First’s case for significant changes to the…

An extra 380 nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants are set to be recruited into hospitals across Aotearoa, but the country’s largest nurses’ union says the announcement comes after frontline staff have already endured a brutal winter. Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa New Zealand Nurses Organisation says additional workers are welcome, but argues chronic understaffing has…