Stories by Chris Bramwell

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has delivered New Zealand's national statement at the United Nations this morning. Video

Watch the full interview of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as she cracks jokes and gains the applause of the audience in New York. Video

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has met the leaders of Canada and Chile in New York to discuss trade.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern briefly met with the US President at his reception for world leaders at the United Nations.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's daughter Neve has made international headlines with an appearance in the General Assembly at the United Nations today.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appeared on US TV talking of parenthood and joking about taking a three-month-old on a 17-hour flight.

The prime minister says New Zealand won't be signing up to a US call for global action on the war on drugs, preferring to take a health approach.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has used her first speech in the US to recommit the government to making New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child.

The Prime Minister leaves for the United States tomorrow for her first formal trip to the United Nations. Video

Midwives are cautiously hopeful they will be able to finally get a better deal for community midwives.

A new agency is being created to oversee the government's work with Māori as part of the Crown-Māori relations portfolio.

Former government minister Clare Curran says she has assured Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern she is archiving all emails she sent using her personal Gmail account.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has arrived in Nauru where she will be asking for more detail about the detention of a New Zealand journalist.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has thrown a major spanner in the works of Labour's plan to double the refugee quota, saying his party never agreed to that. Video, Audio

Power Play - Shane Jones' latest attack on the Australian-owned banks is another chance to build up his reputation as the self-proclaimed Champion of the Regions, writes Chris Bramwell.

The Labour Party president says all the recommendations of a report into indecent assaults at a Young Labour camp in February will be implemented.

Mouldy tents which have housed refugees on Nauru for years are being pulled down ahead of the Pacific Islands Forum next week.

Green Party MP Gareth Hughes has secured government money for animal evacuation volunteers to get proper training.

The prime minister has rejected accusations she had any influence over the speaker's decision to halt an inquiry into the leak of the opposition leader's expenses. Audio

The Prime Minister is softening her language over whether she will meet with refugees on Nauru when she visits the island for the Pacific Islands Forum next month.

Both the National Party and ACT are backing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's move to freeze MPs pay for a year.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the Government will freeze MPs' salaries and allowances for a year.

World Vision is calling on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to offer to immediately resettle all 119 children and their families who are detained in Nauru.

Power Play - This weekend's annual meeting will be a chance for the party to celebrate being in government. But with the power of office comes compromise, writes Chris Bramwell.

An inquiry has been launched to find out who leaked the National Party's expenses to the media this week.