The Latest Breaking News from David Seymour

While public attention has been focused on the domestic fast-track consenting process for infrastructure and mining, Associate Minister of Finance David Seymour has been pushing through another fast-track process – this time for foreign investment in New Zealand. But it has had almost no public scrutiny.

Analysis: If the Government decides to seize Methanex's gas or levy a tax on Google or retrospectively change rules on landlords' capital gains, the Regulatory Standards Bill won't stop it – and nor will it provide them any recourse to sue, writes Jonathan Milne.

Government coalition partners National and Act are at odds over proposed restrictions on social media use by New Zealanders aged 16 and under.

New Zealand’s bill is modelled off Australia’s landmark law to ban social media that cause uproar among tech giants

Lawmakers break into Maori song after bill is ‘absolutely annihilated’

New Zealand lawmakers have dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown

New Zealand's parliament has voted down the Treaty Principles Bill, ending one of the most divisive debates in recent Kiwi political history.

Bill which sought to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown fails by 11 votes to 112

Adrian Orr has so far not spoken about the reasons for his recent and unexpected resignation as Reserve Bank governor, but the sudden departure caused understandable speculation.