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With a year left in this term, the Government seems trapped by controversy, economic bad news and poor polling. Tim Murphy asks what Labour's strategists could possibly do to turn it around.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's visit to her country's research station in Antarctica was upended by bad weather that forced the plane she was travelling in to turn back midflight on Tuesday.

Builders say the supply crisis has eased – now they face a demand crisis that threatens to drive more of them to the wall

The Government will remove its ability to impose lockdowns or close the borders but no changes to current Covid-19 settings have been suggested.

Prime minister says she took part in three decade-old programme said to involve more than half of country’s schools

Is Shakespeare still relevant to today's students? New Zealand's arts council appears to have its doubts after ending funding for a popular school Shakespeare program, arguing it relied too heavily on busy schools, failed to show relevance to “the contemporary art context” and relied on a genre “located within a…

Is Shakespeare still relevant to today’s students

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she fist-pumped on first hearing Julia Gillard's misogyny speech, believing the Australian PM had been bullied.

If we block abusive language on the parts of the internet most people use, it will just move to the shadows where we can't monitor for extremists, writes Joanne Wilkes.