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Plans by New Zealand's conservative government to roll back Maori rights reforms have revived race as a hot political issue in the Pacific nation, which was previously lauded globally for its ...
With inflation running at a brisk 6% and the official cash interest rate at its highest in 15 years, middle class New Zealanders are struggling to afford things they once took for granted. Chris ...
Race and relations with the indigenous Maori population have emerged as issues in New Zealand's election as right-wing parties likely to be pivotal in forming a government face accusations of ...
The 2023 New Zealand general election was held on 14 October 2023 to determine the composition of the 54th Parliament of New Zealand.Voters elected 122 members to the unicameral New Zealand House of Representatives under the mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system, with 71 members elected from single-member electorates and the remaining members elected from closed party lists. [1]
Several polling firms have conducted opinion polls during the term of the 54th New Zealand Parliament (2023–present) for the next New Zealand general election. The regular polls are the quarterly polls produced by Television New Zealand ( 1 News ) conducted by Verian (formerly known as Colmar Brunton and Kantar Public), along with monthly ...
New Zealand is a unitary parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy. [4] It has no formal codified constitution; the constitutional framework consists of a mixture of various documents (including certain acts of the United Kingdom and New Zealand Parliaments), the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, and constitutional conventions. [5]
Councils that had previously established a Māori ward without a referendum are now required to hold a binding poll alongside the 2025 New Zealand local elections or to disestablish them. [26] In late August 2024, the Government passed legislation requiring local councils to develop plans for delivering drinking water, wastewater and stormwater ...
The announcement brought to an end nearly six weeks of negotiations since New Zealand held a general election on Oct. 14. 3 New Zealand political leaders say they've reached agreement to form next ...