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The Crown accounts will lose billions in tax receipts this fiscal year, as the tax collector takes the day off for Matariki. Yet nobody is concerned – there's a reason for that.

Victor Billot on a history of state surveillance in New Zealand - and the modern threat of China 

This is what New Zealand has come to – a land of phenomenal wealth for a few, in which an alarmingly large proportion of our population is homeless, and kept warm with repurposed chip bags, writes Diane Brand

There’s a housing crisis in Queenstown, yet 27 percent of the stock is sitting empty most of the year. Political editor Jo Moir visited the tourism hotspot to investigate what’s going on.

Act is looking increasingly likely to form part of the next government, but its leader was clear with people gathered to see him speak that he has no qualms with ‘turning down the baubles of power’.

At 45, Chris Hipkins faces the prospect of never returning to office if he loses the coming election; similarly it is hard to see Christopher Luxon sticking around on the backbenches in Opposition, writes Peter Dunne

A new poll has Labour well short of being able to form a government and confirms the news Chris Hipkins didn’t need, that National is in arm’s reach of 40 percent

It was high-vis and head wraps for Christopher Luxon this morning as he visited South Auckland to plead National’s case

Visually, it was the opposite of your average political debate or community meeting in New Zealand. Nary a grey hair in sight. Teens, students and young workers showed their political colours by putting parliamentary hopefuls through their paces on the issues that matter to them.

Big banks' deep pockets allow them to tilt the playing field with mortgage broker incentives and home loan cashbacks, says Heartland chief executive. Jonathan Milne reports.

Labour gives a glimpse of grit in the face of a horror poll