From restructuring to a national chain, how to drive supermarket competition up, and grocery prices down, has become an election battleground.
Business
11:40am
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The video, posted on multiple social media platforms, was captioned "never forget how they gaslighted you".
Politics
10:19am
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Christopher Luxon was speaking from Wellington as Parliament enters its final days before voters go to the polls.
Monday 3:50pm
“Technology still has a place in education, but it should enhance learning, not become the default way children learn," says education spokesperson Erica Stanford.
Sun, Sep 20
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Political parties, including National and NZ First, are promising to introduce payments for babies signing up to the scheme in the future.
New Zealand
Fri, Sep 18
The supermarket giant says shoppers deserve answers on the costs, risks and savings behind the proposal to split Pak'nSave from New World and Four Square.
Departing residents would receive 10% of their proceeds within four weeks and the balance within nine months.
A Commerce Commission review is required to determine whether it would leave shoppers better off but what do experts think?
Thu, Sep 17
Labour disputes all but one of the nine would be a new tax under a government it leads.
Alongside Woolworths, which would remain Australian-owned, that would give the country three major grocery chains instead of two.
Wed, Sep 16
Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis are speaking to media this morning.
Changes to the research and development tax credit could also be campaigned on after businesses hailed its success, Nicola Willis said.
Tue, Sep 15
This is the second to last week that Parliament is sitting before it rises for the election.
Mon, Sep 14
National has pledged to dedicate a police team to Auckland Transport as the CRL opens.
Sun, Sep 13
More than 16,270 superannuitants missed out on payments they were owed, with a review finding warnings were raised in April but not escalated until August.
Fri, Sep 11
The complaint focused on National's criticisms of Labour's proposed capital gains tax.
Wed, Sep 9
Councils had wanted money to fund tourism-related infrastructure and events.
Environment
Tue, Sep 8
Opportunity also fall from 6.1% to 4.5% in the latest Taxpayers' Union-Curia Poll, bucking the trend found in other polls.
Mon, Sep 7
Jessica Rowe, a former journalist and foreign policy officer who currently advises Social Development Minister Louise Upston, was confirmed as the party's candidate.
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.
Sun, Sep 6
If re-elected, the party would lift the income cap for the government's First Home Loan scheme to $300,000, National housing spokesperson Chris Bishop announced today.
National leader Christopher Luxon spoke to media from Auckland's Hunua at 10am.
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
The Government says 786,000 more women will benefit from free cervical screening under a plan aimed at eliminating cervical cancer.
Health
Tue, Sep 1
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said a 5c per litre rise would instead begin in 2028, backed by a $1.476b top-up to the National Land Transport Fund.
Mon, Aug 31
