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Fiji Declares HIV Emergency As 1 In 60 Fijian Adults Live With HIV
Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 5:55 pm | RNZ
The health minister confirmed that the government's current estimates indicated that one in every 60 adults in Fiji is living with HIV. More >>
Tom Phillips Inquiry Exposes Multiple Mistakes By Police And Oranga Tamariki
Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 5:17 pm | RNZ
Despite police being dispatched, they were diverted to a family harm incident before they got there and later recorded the initial callout as 'no further action required'. More >>
Prime Minister Apologises To Tom Phillips' Children And Their Mother Following Inquiry
Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 5:10 pm | RNZ
Christopher Luxon did not attend the press conference at Parliament alongside minister in charge of the inquiry Louise Upston, Police Commissioner Richard Chambers, and OT chief executive Amanda Malu. More >>
Winston Peters Mocks National As 'Great Pretender' Over Supermarket Policy
Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 5:07 pm | RNZ
Heading into the debating chamber, NZ First leader Winston Peters paused to play reporters a snippet of the 1955 song "The Great Pretender" on his phone. More >>
Flu Season Hitting Children's Hospitals Hard, Extra Paediatricians Called In
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 4:55 pm | RNZ
PHF Science figures showed there had been about 70 children with the most severe respiratory symptoms admitted each week for the past four weeks to Kidz First and Starship hospitals. More >>
'Horrendously High' Number Of HIV Infections In Fiji Babies - Health Researcher
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 4:53 pm | RNZ
The New Zealand government website SafeTravel says people travelling to Fiji should avoid activities that could increase their risk of infection. More >>
US Think Tank Proposes Military Shift To Guam, CNMI And Pacific Islands
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 4:49 pm | RNZ
Under the proposed strategy, Tinian in the CNMI could become one of several smaller air bases used to disperse US personnel and military assets across the Pacific. More >>
Pacific Households To Be Hardest Hit By Scheduled Benefit Cuts, Social Housing Rent Hikes
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 4:46 pm | RNZ
Ahead of Budget 2026, government ministers were presented with modelling that estimated 26,000 Pacific families would see their weekly income fall by an average of $30.75 from April next year. More >>
Ministers Confirm Law Change On Councils' Development Contributions On The Way
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 4:41 pm | RNZ
The council has started an investigation into how to tell developers, and potential residents, that it will not provide or fund some services in out-of-sequence projects. More >>
'They're Not Coming Home': Shane Jones Defends Denying Citizenship To Australia-Based Māori
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 4:38 pm | RNZ
New Zealand First's Shane Jones is defending the party's immigration policy, telling Mata the party will no longer allow citizenship to be "trivialised". More >>
ACT Wants To Freeze Minimum Wage And Reduce Youth Training Rate
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 4:34 pm | RNZ
ACT Small Business spokesperson Laura McClure said laws designed to improve pay and conditions had not worked and "truly higher wages" required businesses being allowed to grow. More >>
How Much Beneficiaries Are Left With After Paying The Rent
Monday, 14 September 2026, 4:38 pm | RNZ
The Ministry of Social Development's total incomes report showed inflation-adjusted average incomes to April last year continued to drop, from $262 in 2024 and $263 in 2023. More >>
Jobs Still Lagging As Services Sector Improves
Monday, 14 September 2026, 4:26 pm | RNZ
New Zealand's services sector has expanded for a third consecutive month, with new business continuing to drive a gradual recovery across the country's largest economic sector. More >>
'We Have Suffered So Much': Family Demands Answers After Psychiatric Patient Murder
Monday, 14 September 2026, 4:24 pm | RNZ
Laisa Waka Tunidau was stabbed to death by Zakariye Mohamed Hussein outside her Sockburn home in June 2022. More >>
Bougainville President Condemns 'Terroristic Acts Of Violence' At Panguna Mine
Monday, 14 September 2026, 4:17 pm | RNZ
President Ishmael Toroama said he strongly condemned the actions of those who assaulted personnel and destroyed equipment at the Lloyds Metals camp. More >>
Vanuatu Ferry Disaster Exposes Gap Between Warnings And Action
Monday, 14 September 2026, 4:14 pm | RNZ
Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-Hazards Department (VMGD) director Levu Antfalo said his office could forecast dangerous conditions and warn the public, but it had no authority to stop vessels from putting to sea. More >>
'Imitation' Or 'Perfect Solution' - Labour's KiwiSaver Policy
Monday, 14 September 2026, 4:07 pm | RNZ
Labour announced on Sunday it would up employer contributions to 6 percent, in line with National's proposal, but wouldn't make employee contributions compulsory to ease the pressure during a cost of living crisis. More >>
'Flawed Assumptions' Behind Immigration NZ's Bungling Of Tech Upgrade
Monday, 14 September 2026, 4:02 pm | RNZ
Immigration New Zealand overestimated the benefits from its newest transformation project by $134 million because of "significantly flawed assumptions". More >>
Greens Promise $200m Into Te Reo Māori Initiatives
Monday, 14 September 2026, 3:59 pm | RNZ
Co-leader Marama Davidson says the government had failed to provide adequate funding for te reo Māori and waged a "culture war" against the language. More >>
Explainer: How The 9/11 Attacks Changed New Zealand
Friday, 11 September 2026, 5:31 pm | RNZ
The events of 9/11 led to what would become New Zealand's longest overseas military deployment as it joined the US-led action in Afghanistan against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. More >>
