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  •   Home > News >  Subscribe to NZCity's Politics articles  Politics
    Questions over where to now, as New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 target turns to ash
     12 December 2025
    Questions over where to now, as New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 target turns to ash
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    Debate around changes to strengthen penalties for coward punches and assaulting first responders - and widen citizens' arrests
    11 Dec: Debate around changes to strengthen penalties for coward punches and assaulting first responders - and widen citizens' arrests... more
    The Finance Minister is characterising the Taxpayers' Union campaign against her as childish
    11 Dec: The Finance Minister is characterising the Taxpayers' Union campaign against her as childish... more
    A toxicologist's urging parents not to panic - but suggests children exposed to contaminated coloured sand should be regularly monitored
    11 Dec: A toxicologist's urging parents not to panic - but suggests children exposed to contaminated coloured sand should be regularly monitored... more
    Tourists continue to flock across the ditch - to New Zealand
    10 Dec: Tourists continue to flock across the ditch - to New Zealand... more
    Praise for a People-First approach - that also helps farmers
    10 Dec: Praise for a People-First approach - that also helps farmers... more
    8 reasons the government should not introduce oral nicotine pouches to NZ
    10 Dec: Introducing oral nicotine pouches risks exposing more young people to nicotine addiction and compounding the problems caused by vaping.... more
    Christchurch City Council has modelled what a Government-imposed rates cap could mean for the city
    10 Dec: Christchurch City Council has modelled what a Government-imposed rates cap could mean for the city... more
    Six years of challenges, court hearings, and legal battles have paid off for two parents
    10 Dec: Six years of challenges, court hearings, and legal battles have paid off for two parents... more
    Many aesthetic changes to buildings will no longer need consents - under the Government's Resource Management Act shake-up
    9 Dec: Many aesthetic changes to buildings will no longer need consents - under the Government's Resource Management Act shake-up... more

     Most Popular Recent Politics News
     14 Nov: The Department of Internal Affairs is calling interference with the Police Minister's emails - inappropriate +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     20 Nov: Relief on Wall Street, as computer chip giant Nvidia records another record-high three months ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     21 Nov: Staff in Police Minister Mark Mitchell's electorate office responded to an email accusing Jevon McSkimming of sexual abuse +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     18 Nov: Bangladesh's ousted PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for student crackdown ++++++++++++++++++++
     16 Nov: How free school meals gave thousands of children food poisoning in Indonesia +++++++++++++++
     13 Nov: Associate Education Minister David Seymour's blaming strike action for poor school attendance ++++++++++++++
     25 Nov: Enthusiasm for a successful Government maths support trial +++++++++++++

     Politics NewsLinks
      9 Dec: Listen: the panel live from revelry bar in auckland (RadioNZ)
      9 Dec: Listen live: the panel live from revelry bar in auckland (RadioNZ)
      9 Dec: Watch: tory whanau's parting message as she bows out of politics (Stuff.co.nz)
      8 Dec: New zealand politics ‘increasingly volatile’, international analysts say, amid pm coup talk, treaty debates (Stuff.co.nz)
      8 Dec: 'immense sadness': former prime minister helen clark's father dies at the age of 103 (RadioNZ)
      8 Dec: Scrutiny week in review: politics vs oversight (RadioNZ)
      6 Dec: Dame jacinda ardern discusses pregnancy, politics on 'the graham norton show' (RadioNZ)
      6 Dec: Graham norton asks jacinda ardern 'what went wrong?' with her popularity in new zealand (Stuff.co.nz)
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    International:
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    Entertainment:
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    Law and Order:
    Former Gloriavale leader Howard Temple has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for multiple sex offences 12:37

    Law and Order:
    A Christchurch mother killed by a spurned lover with a disturbing, violent past, can now be named 12:27

    Entertainment:
    Gwyneth Paltrow wants to model the second phase of her movie career on Leonardo DiCaprio 12:20

    International:
    Eurovision winner Nemo returns trophy in protest over Israel's participation in competition 12:07

    Entertainment:
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    Soccer:
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