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10 migrants, 1 ‘film crew’ and thousands in fees to enter NZ: Inside a visa-for-cash scam
15+ hour, 22+ min ago (1710+ words) ' + headerText + ' ' + s.title + ' “' + query + '” ' + s.description.replace(/]+>/g, '') + ' It began with the promise many migrants travelling halfway across the world want to hear. A legal way into New Zealand, an open work visa and stable employment waiting at the other end. For…...
Diaspora members hide names, switch off cameras amid rising foreign interference fears
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1652+ words) ' + headerText + ' ' + s.title + ' “' + query + '” ' + s.description.replace(/]+>/g, '') + ' Some members of New Zealand’s diaspora communities are so fearful when discussing foreign interference that they refuse to provide government officials their names, switch off their cameras during online meetings and ask to meet…...
Christopher Luxon's leadership victory: You come at the King, you best not miss
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (1690+ words) ' + headerText + ' ' + s.title + ' “' + query + '” ' + s.description.replace(/]+>/g, '') + ' Analysis: National MPs who tried and failed to take down Christopher Luxon on Wednesday should be embarrassed and ashamed. After plotting, leaking, and destabilising the party enough to pressure the National Party leader into…...
MPs want limits on immigration officers’ power to demand ID after racial profiling concerns
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (1617+ words) ' + headerText + ' ' + s.title + ' \u201c' + query + '\u201d ' + s.description.replace(/]+>/g, '') + ' A parliamentary committee wants new safeguards around immigration officers’ proposed power to demand identification from people suspected of breaching immigration rules after concerns about racial profiling and civil liberties. The Education and Workforce Committee…...
Out Loud: If New Zealand wants migrants to belong, it must allow them to belong
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (1232+ words) ' + headerText + ' ' + s.title + ' \u201c' + query + '\u201d ' + s.description.replace(/]+>/g, '') + ' Opinion: Immigration is moving towards the centre of New Zealand’s 2026 election debate. The language varies. Some politicians speak about social cohesion. Others say migrants must integrate, assimilate, share New Zealand values or become part…...
Māori or not, everyone will have to take New Zealand’s new citizenship test
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (1664+ words) ' + headerText + ' ' + s.title + ' \u201c' + query + '\u201d ' + s.description.replace(/]+>/g, '') + ' Māori ancestry will not exempt overseas-born applicants from New Zealand’s new citizenship test, the government has clarified after questioning by a government agency whether such people should have to sit the test at all....
MPs bin ACT's election policy to make some migrants liable for deportation for life
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (1659+ words) ' + headerText + ' ' + s.title + ' \u201c' + query + '\u201d ' + s.description.replace(/]+>/g, '') + ' A parliamentary committee has rejected a key ACT Party election pitch to make some resident migrants liable for deportation for the rest of their life. Before it made the tougher deportation rule its official…...
‘You could be next’: Brian Tamaki warns after police permanently revoke his gun licence
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1665+ words) ' + headerText + ' ' + s.title + ' \u201c' + query + '\u201d ' + s.description.replace(/]+>/g, '') + ' Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki says police have revoked his firearms licence over remarks he made around Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit. The decision follows the temporary suspension of Tamaki’s firearms licence on…...
National gives just one Indian-origin candidate a real list shot. And only just
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1663+ words) ' + headerText + ' ' + s.title + ' “' + query + '” ' + s.description.replace(/]+>/g, '') + ' Analysis: The National Party has put clear distance between Mahesh Muralidhar and its other Indian-origin candidates in its election-year party list announced on Saturday. Muralidhar, its candidate from Tāmaki in Auckland, has been ranked…...
Opinion: Modi may have given Luxon his biggest lift of the election year
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1645+ words) ' + headerText + ' ' + s.title + ' \u201c' + query + '\u201d ' + s.description.replace(/]+>/g, '') + ' Christopher Luxon has surged to his highest preferred-prime minister rating of the year after a largely lacklustre five months. The latest Taxpayers’ Union–Curia poll, announced on Friday, puts Luxon at 23.2 per cent, a…...