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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says only New Zealanders working with vulnerable people, such as aged care and health sectors and border workers, will need to be vaccinated from April 4, as the country "keeps moving forward safely".

New Zealand will remove many of its COVID-19 pandemic mandates over the next two weeks as an omicron outbreak begins to wane

PM Jacinda Ardern, who oversaw some of the toughest restrictions in the world, says rules will relax after Omicron peak in early April

New Zealand's government said on Wednesday it would lift vaccine mandates for a number of sectors including teaching and police from April 4 as the current COVID-19 outbreak nears its peak.

Vaccine passes will no longer be necessary and all outdoor gathering limits will be removed, the Prime Minister has announced.

International analyst Geoffrey Miller examines New Zealand’s new military assistance for Ukraine and asks whether more humanitarian aid could also be provided

Notes on the mood of New Zealand protest against power elites

New Zealand has reported nine new COVID-19 deaths and 1000 people in hospital with the virus, as the government reviews restrictions.

Labour’s decline in the polls has government diehards puzzled. But it can be dated to 17 August 2021 and the move to Alert Level 4

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern is due to meetdue to meet the leaders of last year’s Groundswell protests, who argue that environmental regulation and the “ute tax” have hurt parts of the primary sector and, by extension, the rest of the country. But economic data tell a different story than the…

Politicians and the country generally are understandably keen to return to more normal times, and politics the way they used to be. But, says Peter Dunne, this is unlikely to be what we need now