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  •   Home > News >  Subscribe to NZCity's Politics articles  Politics
    Debate around changes to strengthen penalties for coward punches and assaulting first responders - and widen citizens' arrests
     11 December 2025
    Debate around changes to strengthen penalties for coward punches and assaulting first responders - and widen citizens' arrests
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    The Finance Minister is characterising the Taxpayers' Union campaign against her as childish
    11 Dec: The Finance Minister is characterising the Taxpayers' Union campaign against her as childish... more
    A toxicologist's urging parents not to panic - but suggests children exposed to contaminated coloured sand should be regularly monitored
    11 Dec: A toxicologist's urging parents not to panic - but suggests children exposed to contaminated coloured sand should be regularly monitored... more
    Tourists continue to flock across the ditch - to New Zealand
    10 Dec: Tourists continue to flock across the ditch - to New Zealand... more
    Praise for a People-First approach - that also helps farmers
    10 Dec: Praise for a People-First approach - that also helps farmers... more
    8 reasons the government should not introduce oral nicotine pouches to NZ
    10 Dec: Introducing oral nicotine pouches risks exposing more young people to nicotine addiction and compounding the problems caused by vaping.... more
    Christchurch City Council has modelled what a Government-imposed rates cap could mean for the city
    10 Dec: Christchurch City Council has modelled what a Government-imposed rates cap could mean for the city... more
    Six years of challenges, court hearings, and legal battles have paid off for two parents
    10 Dec: Six years of challenges, court hearings, and legal battles have paid off for two parents... more
    Many aesthetic changes to buildings will no longer need consents - under the Government's Resource Management Act shake-up
    9 Dec: Many aesthetic changes to buildings will no longer need consents - under the Government's Resource Management Act shake-up... more
    A push to rework the student loan repayment scheme so New Zealanders overseas, feel they can come home
    9 Dec: A push to rework the student loan repayment scheme so New Zealanders overseas, feel they can come home... more

     Most Popular Recent Politics News
     20 Nov: Relief on Wall Street, as computer chip giant Nvidia records another record-high three months ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     21 Nov: Staff in Police Minister Mark Mitchell's electorate office responded to an email accusing Jevon McSkimming of sexual abuse ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     18 Nov: Bangladesh's ousted PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for student crackdown ++++++++++++++++++++
     05 Dec: A Christchurch school at the centre of this week's mouldy lunches debacle, has launched an internal inquiry +++++++++++++++
     25 Nov: Enthusiasm for a successful Government maths support trial +++++++++++++
     05 Dec: The PPTA says leaving out their recommendation from the latest Government offer, wasn't the only thing that swayed members +++++++++++++
     17 Nov: The cost of Christchurch City Council's five-year battle against city-wide housing intensification has been tallied ++++++++++++

     Politics NewsLinks
      17 Dec: Foreign interference in uk politics to be investigated after jailing of ex-welsh reform leader (BBCWorld)
      14 Dec: Democrats release photos of trump from epstein estate (BBCWorld)
      14 Dec: 2025 was a crazy year in politics. but 2026 could be wild (BBCWorld)
      9 Dec: Listen: the panel live from revelry bar in auckland (RadioNZ)
      9 Dec: Listen live: the panel live from revelry bar in auckland (RadioNZ)
      9 Dec: Watch: tory whanau's parting message as she bows out of politics (Stuff.co.nz)
      8 Dec: New zealand politics ‘increasingly volatile’, international analysts say, amid pm coup talk, treaty debates (Stuff.co.nz)
      8 Dec: 'immense sadness': former prime minister helen clark's father dies at the age of 103 (RadioNZ)
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