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Willie Jackson is to meet with TVNZ staff on Friday morning and RNZ next week as the March 1 deadline draws closer for the two public media companies’ assets and staff merging into one entity.

Cabinet will meet this month to finalise next steps to fulfil commitments under the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including putting a halt on any work for now. Political editor Jo Moir reports.

Willie Jackson’s preparing for a frank conversation with the authors of a draft United Nations’ Declaration Plan, who are now four months behind Cabinet’s schedule.

The same absolutist mentality that dominated our pandemic response is emerging again with how we are facing up to the Māori dimension of our history, says Peter Dunne

The truism that the personal is political and the political personal is very much the case with Māori (identity) politics. We’ve recently seen several incidents in which Māori government ministers have criticised other Māori MPs or public figures in ways that, by implication, relate to who they are as Māori.

The Acting Prime Minister told political editor Jo Moir the election campaign will have to be different to deal with the intense nature of threats against MPs

The death of Queen Elizabeth II last week has reignited debate in New Zealand about whether it should continue recognizing Britain’s monarch as its symbolic head of state or take the final step toward independence by becoming a republic

With only six days left for submissions to the select committee examining the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill, it is becoming clear this crucial piece of legislation has some significant shortcomings. These will need attention before it passes into law.

Questions still hang over the credentials and record of a political and media favourite who has shot to prominence amid more than a little controversy, writes Aaron Smale

An Australian-style legislative response against global digital platforms to make them pay for media content remains possible as a new minister says too many news firms are hurting

Eighteen months after the Crown bought the long-disputed land at Ihumātao, the governance group tasked with working out what to do with it has finally met, writes Jo Moir