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Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick said the frightening moment illustrated the argument the party was making for removing the crossings.
Mon, Oct 5
The $13.65 billion transport plan includes mass rapid transit in three cities, new intercity rail services and a return of passenger trains between Christchurch and Dunedin.
Sun, Oct 4
National has called it "economic lunacy". ACT compared it to the Hunger Games. But the Greens say their tax policy will "rebuild our country".
The passenger rail plan includes routes from Auckland to Wellington, Christchurch to Dunedin and extending the current Te Huia train to Tauranga.
Sat, Oct 3
Existing policy and reasonableness reigned in a debate excluding the two Chrises, and which Winston Peters seemed to think was a waste of his time.
Fri, Oct 2
Voters aren't highly approving of either the leaders of the two top political parties.
Tue, Sep 29
Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick told Breakfast the party wanted "to actually do the things that we were put in Parliament to do".
The Greens' Chlöe Swarbrick says her party was taking nothing for granted.
Mon, Sep 28
The 1News Verian poll result would give the party 19 MPs if repeated in November’s election.
"Our members and our supporters know that the National Party policies are also harmful and are so far removed from where the Green Party is aiming," she says.
Sun, Sep 27
The proposed changes announced today would cap political donations, block companies from giving money to parties and create a public register of professional lobbyists.
Tue, Sep 22
From restructuring to a national chain, how to drive supermarket competition up, and grocery prices down, has become an election battleground.
Business
Under the proposal, councils could issue a notice to owners of commercial spaces left empty in CBDs for more than a year, giving them eight weeks to find a tenant.
Sun, Sep 20
Labour disputes all but one of the nine would be a new tax under a government it leads.
Thu, Sep 17
The filing raises some tricky legal questions, including whether a company can legally trademark a name another organisation has just announced.
Wed, Sep 16
The proposed franchise, called KiwiMart, would aim to dismantle the current supermarket duopoly of Woolworths and Foodstuffs.
Sun, Sep 6
Candidates from National, Labour, NZ First, ACT, the Green Party and the Opportunity Party faced off in front of a live audience in Morrinsville for a special Q+A rural issues debate.
New Zealand
With just nine weeks remaining until election day, parties in most parts of the country were now permitted to put up their election hoardings.
Sat, Sep 5
Steve Abel has been urged to apologise after invoking the Holocaust while debating climate change in Parliament.
Wed, Aug 26
Luxon will face Hipkins on October 6, but has turned down TVNZ's second leaders' debate scheduled for two days before the November 7 election.
Thu, Aug 20
"We can afford to feed our children nutritious kai and put money back into our local communities," co-leader Marama Davidson said.
The proposed Member's Bill would make it illegal for supermarkets to charge prices deemed as excessive compared with the cost of supplying a product, plus a reasonable profit margin.
Mon, Aug 17
The poll landed as National MPs met behind closed doors this morning before deciding they still wanted PM Christopher Luxon as leader.
Wed, Aug 12
"We're going back to work and we're moving on," says the Prime Minister in a 76-second statement.
