Chris Hipkins

Health Minister Chris Hipkins says the next planeload of fishing crews - which was due to arrive on the second of November - will now need to be delayed.

Eighteen passengers from the first load of… Audio

Universities are being urged to help returning foreign students pay for their two week stint in isolation hotels.

In a first small step towards re-opening the border to the lucrative industry, 250… Audio

The government is redirecting millions of dollars from attracting foreign teachers and using it instead to pay for more New Zealanders to train as teachers.

It is doubling to 540 the number of places… Audio

Labour has failed to get DHB deficits under control this term despite going hard on underfunding when in opposition.

At the moment 19 of the 20 DHBs are in the red but the problem of health boards… Audio

A Cook Islands group protesting the government's plans to use chemicals to purify Rarotonga's water supply, has called on the Speaker, Nikki Rattle, to resign. Audio

Delays and confusion over testing of the Covid Card mean the technology has yet to make it to the wider public, despite the Health Minister saying trials were underway.

A Rotorua-based trial of the… Audio

Health Minister Chris Hipkins says the Government is looking at countries that Kiwis would be able to travel to despite the ongoing pandemic, without having to isolate on return.

Hipkins told Morning… Audio

Fifty schools have changed their minds on the government's school donation scheme.

Forty-five eligible schools are opting into the scheme for the first time next year and five are leaving it.

The… Audio

Clinicians and doctors at the Canterbury District Health Board are stunned by the government's deficit matching cash injection but say it leaves many problems unresolved.

Chris Hipkins met with… Audio

National has unveiled its plan to help get those out of work back into jobs - as well as its mental health policy.

If elected, National says it would give tertiary training providers four thousand… Audio

The National Party has unveiled an $800 million suite of new health initiatives it's promising to roll out over the next four years if elected.

The plan includes a previously announced independent… Audio

The Labour Party is headlining its election season education policy with a promise to close the pay gap for early childhood teachers.

It has also reannounced its pledge to extend its free lunch… Audio

Labour is promising to extend pay parity for all early childhood teachers if re-elected, but would scrap plans to extend its fees free policy beyond the first year of tertiary study..

Chris Hipkins… Audio

Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles says its not surprising people sceptical of Covid-19 have become caught up in a cluster in NZ.

The Health Minister Chris Hipkins has asked for police help to ensure the… Audio

Health Minister Chris Hipkins says it has become apparent some close contacts of the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship church sub-cluster were not previously disclosed.

A student at St Dominic's… Audio

On their way out the door MPs took a last swing at representation, policy ideas and general fisticuffs. Audio

A leaked video clip of last week's Green Party crisis call shows James Shaw claiming the controversial Green School funding had been given "verbal sign-off" by Education Minister Chris Hipkins.

The… Audio

Fijians have been reassured they have been put at minimal risk of infection from a repatriation flight last week that contained people who have now tested positive to Covid-19. Audio