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By signing a deal with Beijing, the Cook Islands is asserting its independence – in a stark challenge to New Zealand’s ...

The Cook Islands’ pact with China has been furiously denounced by New Zealand as breaching the neo-colonial constitutional ...

Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris deliberately misled the House last year for denying he called other MPs "liars", Parliament's ...

New Zealand’s plan to extend the monopoly of its betting agency to online wagering will create a bigger pool of cash for ...

The Privileges Committee has found Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris deliberately misled the House and asked him to apologise for denying he had called other Members of Parliament “liars”. A report just ...

China insisted on Monday that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not meant to conspire ...

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Analysis: Complex constitutional and geopolitical issues have come to the fore in a diplomatic disagreement between New Zealand and the Cook Islands ...