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Beyond a pledge to scrap smokefree laws, the New Zealand coalition agreements contains plenty of controversial measures sure to create division.

From housing reforms and workers’ rights to the Treaty of Waitangi, the new conservative coalition government is set to chip away at progressive policies enacted by the former prime minister, reports Maroosha Muzaffar

Former airline boss Christopher Luxon formally took office as New Zealand's prime minister Monday, vowing to tame inflation and bring down interest rates.

All three parties in New Zealand’s new coalition government went into the election promising to diminish various Māori-based policies or programs. But it was the ACT Party that went furthest, calling for a referendum to redefine the “principles” of te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi.

New Zealand's National-led coalition is in office, with Chris Luxon sworn in as prime minister along with his 30-strong team of ministers.

New Zealand's National party has shed a number of its election promises as it negotiated a coalition agreement with the ACT and NZ First parties.

Centre-right National Party forms three-way coalition with the classically liberal ACT and populist New Zealand First.

It might have taken six weeks to decide the shape of New Zealand’s next government (or three if you count from the final results), but in the end that is the nature of proportional representation. Compromise, trade-offs and haggling are the price of an MMP electoral system designed to avoid…

After six weeks of post-election negotiations, New Zealanders have learned the make-up and the policy agenda of their next government.

The renewable energy sector has been big on promise but lately lagging in delivery, particularly with 2030 emission targets just a little more than six years away

Leaders of three parties arrive at deal to form government led by incoming prime minister Christopher Luxon