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For a no-frills New Zealand budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls

Grant Robertson’s sixth budget was an exercise in threading various needles. Much of its substance had already been foreshadowed, and to begin with the mood music was suitably sober.

The Conversation

New Zealand budget plan offers modest financial relief ahead of election

Months before an election, New Zealand’s government is offering some modest financial relief to many people by making most prescription medicines free and increasing subsidies for childcare and public transportation

The Independent UK

New Zealand budget 2023: Chris Hipkins focuses on young families suffering in cost of living crisis

Prime minister offers measures to ease cost of raising children as part of promise to focus on ‘bread-and-butter issues’ ahead of election

The Guardian - AU

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Budget's main relief slow to land for parents

The cornerstone of the Government’s cost-of-living package won’t kick in for almost a year. It isn’t the big ideas Budget Grant Robertson would have liked to deliver and leaves it exposed to attacks from the Opposition in election year, writes political editor Jo Moir.

Newsroom.co.nz

BBC presenter's brother missing after fatal arson in New Zealand

Liam Hockings, a journalist, is one of the hostel’s missing residents

Wales Online

Police suspect arson in New Zealand hostel fire that killed 6

Police launch homicide investigation into Loafers Lodge hostel fire incident

The Independent UK

New Zealand police say hostel fire that killed 6 was arson, launch homicide investigation

New Zealand police say they believe a fire that killed at least six people in a Wellington hostel was arson and launched a homicide investigation

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Deadly Wellington hostel fire being treated as arson, police say

New Zealand police open homicide inquiry after at least six die in Loafers Lodge blaze

The Guardian - AU

Search and recovery resumes after NZ hostel fire

New Zealand police are treating a deadly hostel fire as suspicious as a grim search of the 92-room building resumes on Wednesday.

The New Daily

What we know about the Wellington Loafers Lodge hostel fire

A devastating fire ravaged through a hostel in New Zealand's capital early Tuesday morning, taking the lives of at least six people. Here's what we know so far.

ABC News

Six dead after fire engulfs hostel in Wellington, New Zealand

The cause of the fire is not known, but emergency services are treating the incident as suspicious.

Al Jazeera

A fire at a New Zealand hostel kills at least 6 people, the prime minister says

A fire ripped through a hostel in New Zealand's capital overnight, killing at least six people and forcing others to flee the four-story building in their pajamas.

WEKU

Loafers Lodge hostel fire was raging, with no sprinklers to stop it, by the time help arrived

Emergency services teams begin work to assess the fatal fire at Loafers Lodge, determined to understand how the tragedy occurred.

ABC News

‘Smelt like poison’: Harrowing details from deadly NZ hostel blaze

Authorities have described a "confronting" scene at a Wellington hostel where at least six people died in a blaze early on Tuesday.

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The Guardian - AU

Six people dead and 11 missing in New Zealand fire – as it happened

This blog is now closed. You can read our full story on the fire here:

The Conversation

Wellbeing is so last year – Labour's 'no frills' budget points to an uninspiring NZ election

If the recent flood of sleep-inducing pre-budget speeches and commentary is any indication, New Zealand voters can expect largely unimaginative leadership that fails to prepare the country for an uncertain future, regardless of who wins October’s election.

Reuters

New Zealand pledges $720 million for cyclone and flood recovery

The New Zealand government said on Sunday it was allocating NZ$1.1 billion ($720 million) to help communities recover from a cyclone and floods that lashed the country this year.

Newsroom.co.nz

What's got Grant Robertson so bogged down?

Between Covid-19, natural disasters, and record inflation, it would be understandable if the Finance Minister was running out of steam, writes political editor Jo Moir.

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Raw Politics: A Budget of bits, a coalition of chaos

This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Grant Robertson's eye-of-a-needle Budget's narrow political options, plus ACT's disciplined caucus amid chaos

Reuters

New Zealand PM Hipkins to visit Papua New Guinea for U.S.–Pacific summit

New Zealand's Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will head to Papua New Guinea on May 21 to attend the United States-Pacific Summit, his office said in a statement on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Body of student missing on school trip to flooded cave found by New Zealand police

A high school principal has paid tribute to a “treasured” pupil who died on a school trip to a flooded cave in New Zealand.

Evening Standard

Auckland declares state of emergency amid flooding as student goes missing in cave

Student on school trip to caves reported missing after flooding

The Independent UK

Emergency declared, student missing in New Zealand floods

Authorities in Auckland have declared a state of emergency as flooding again hits New Zealand’s largest city

Newsroom.co.nz

Privacy, healthcare concerns at play in axed income insurance plan

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins put a polarising income insurance scheme on hold just weeks before the law was to be introduced to Parliament.

Newsroom.co.nz

Meka Whaitiri breaks silence on defection

Labour’s Māori caucus MPs have invited Meka Whaitiri to meet with them at Parliament this week. The former Labour minister intends to make a personal statement in the House on Tuesday from Te Pāti Māori’s front bench seat, writes political editor Jo Moir.

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