General Politics
National, ACT, Te Pāti Māori and the Green Party have given their responses to the government's Budget 2022.
Read more: Watch: Political parties respond to Budget 2022
There's a lot of spending flying around in Budget 2022 - here are the main expenses in an easy-to-read list.
Read more: Budget 2022 at a glance: What you need to know
Defence spending would jump dramatically and more state-owned companies would be floated on the share market to raise billions of dollars under ACT’s alternative budget.
Read more: ACT’s guns and butter budget
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A cartoon published in a West Coast newspaper has been labelled “racist and abhorrent”.
The cartoon by Hokitika cartoonist David Thomas Healy was published in the Greymouth Star on Thursday.
Read more: Greymouth Star editor apologises for 'offence taken' over 'racist' cartoon
The Foreign Affairs Minister says she wouldn't be surprised by reports her Chinese counterpart is planning a formal trip to the Solomon Islands and has expressed her own interest in travelling the Pacific.
ACT's 'alternative budget' has been released and it includes a proposal to bump up defence spending by $7.5 billion over four years.
"China now has a foothold in the Pacific. Labour agrees that the world is changing but they don't know what to do and they're too busy wasting money on poorly targeted spending," ACT MP James McDowell said on Monday.
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The announcement by the Solomon Islands government that it intends to ‘broaden its security and development cooperation with more countries’ has provoked a rash of commentary from Australian and New Zealand journalists, academics, think-tankers and politicians. Amid the calls to ‘amass an amphibious invasion force’ or offer the Solomons an Australian naval base, is there potential for a ‘Pacific family’ solution?
White House security co-ordinator Kurt Campbell says the large response by countries in Asia to Ukraine is based on a desire to make sure such an invasion is not replicated by any other country in the region.
Read more: US security expert thanks Jacinda Ardern for 'understanding the moment'
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