Dr Claire Achmad told the select committee while she welcomed bill's intention, she wanted further provisions.

A watchdog has also highlighted a raft of other issues at the Auckland jail, including staff shortages and limited ...

By foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic, Iris Zhao and Hugo Hodge, ABC In short: The government of Nauru and a ...

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has apologised for an attack he levelled at the Green Party in Parliament more than four ...

Police have received around one thousand submissions, including petitions, on a controversial proposal to restructure ...

The National Emergency Management Agency has been looking into why some got multiple alerts - and others got none - during ...

Speaking on Morning Report opposite Labour's deputy Carmel Sepuloni, Nicola Willis interrupted to ask multiple times how ...

Cabinet has formally agreed to shut down greyhound racing in New Zealand. The agreement cements an in-principle decision ...

A three-year-old died in hospital after being hit by a reversing vehicle at a property in Gore on New Year's Day.

Analysis: As space exploration expands, the absence of legal protections for animals becomes increasingly problematic.

An MP from Finland's Social Democratic Party, Eemeli Peltonen, has died in Finland's Parliament building on Tuesday at the ...