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The latest 1News Verian poll will be released tonight – exactly one year on from the 2023 general election.The last poll results, in August, suggested voters were steadily warming to Christopher Luxon, with a 5% lift in his result as preferred prime minister, the biggest increase he’d achieved since becoming prime minister.Labour leader Chris Hipkins was in second place as preferred prime minister, with a steady result on the preceding poll at 18%.Party votes also held firm in the August poll, suggesting the coalition government would retain its power with 64 total seats. That would be down from the 68…

Lara Necessian warned there could be huge implications if the definition of small business was changed. (Source: Supplied/Getty)A call to change the definition of what a small business is in Australia could have major ramifications for up to a million workers across the country. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will be campaigning for the interpretation to be upgraded from 15 staff to 25.The Chamber believes this will remove the “absolutely unbearable” regulations faced by small businesses. But HR expert Lara Nercessian told Yahoo Finance that it could plunge hundreds of thousands of workers into job insecurity.”It does feel…

It’s been a year since the 2023 election that eventually gave the country a National-led government. 1News breaks down what the coalition has delivered in that time. Exactly 12 months ago, New Zealand’s political red tide went out and National’s Christopher Luxon celebrated his imminent new role as the country’s 42nd prime minister – even if he didn’t yet know who he would be sharing power with.The official election results some three weeks later meant NZ First would crash National and ACT’s party, ensuring an end to a few of their election pledges from the start – namely, a proposed…

The artistic minds of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra decided to look into the future to commemorate a quarter-century of orchestral music in the German city. ADVERTISEMENTThe Dresden Symphony Orchestra has presented an innovative world premiere. Instead of a flesh-and-bone person conducting the institution’s 25th-anniversary performance alone – three mechanical arms belonging to a robot guided the musicians as they played a bespoke piece titled ‘Robot Symphony’.The show was described by attendees as anything but robotic, with one spectator saying they were “fascinated” by the movements. Another praised the creativity, describing the innovation as a “good thing”.The artistic director of the…

Police are appealing for public help after a man was found critically injured on a Waikato road overnight.The man was found “in the early hours of this morning” on Hampton Downs Rd near Whangamarino, a police spokesperson said.”The man remains in a critical condition in Auckland City Hospital,” the spokesperson said at about 6.40am.The man was found on Hampton Downs Rd near Whangamarino, police said. (Source: 1News)”Police are working to determine the circumstances that led to the man being injured.”Cordons are in place between Hampton Downs Road / junction with Hampton Downs landfill access road and Hampton Downs Road nearby…

The Melbourne man shared he earned between $1,200 and $1,500 a week as a traffic control team leader. (Source: TikTok/Getty)An Aussie traffic controller has lifted the lid on how much he earns and revealed he can sometimes work shifts that are just 10 or 20 minutes long. Traffic control can be a lucrative industry to get into, but some workers say it can be hard to get enough hours when starting out.The Melbourne man was stopped in the street and revealed he was earning between $1,200 and $1,500 a week as a traffic controller. He said he had worked his…

An electric car lobby group is taking Transport Minister Simeon Brown to court over his decision to lower tailpipe CO2 emissions standards for car imports.The Better New Zealand Trust said it was unreasonable of Brown to direct his transport officials to consult only four motoring groups — all of which were against the standards — before making a decision.The trust said, if EV suppliers had been consulted, they would have countered claims from the rest of the industry that there were not enough low-emissions vehicles available to meet the standards.RNZ has approached the minister for comment.The trust said Brown should…

Phoebe was shocked by the number of small businesses asking for a tip during a recent trip to Sydney. (Source: TikTok/Getty)A young Aussie has called out hospitality venues asking for a tip even when the order is fairly basic. Historically, Aussies might have chucked a 10 per cent tip for a big lunch or dinner and called it a day.But with the rise of cashless payment methods, some cafes, restaurants, pubs, bars and other venues have snuck tip requests in at every turn. Tony Green, CEO of the Australian Food Service Advocacy Body, told Yahoo Finance tips can go a…

A 50-year-old man has been arrested after police monitored a vehicle speeding in Auckland up to the point where it was abandoned.When the alleged driver was found nearby, he denied any knowledge of the vehicle — until the keys were found in his pocket, police said.A spokesperson said the incident began just before 9.30pm last night when an officer spotted a vehicle going “well over the legal speed limit” on the Northern Motorway.The driver was signalled to stop, police said. “He slowed down but did not pull over,” Senior Sergeant Andrew Hawkins said.”As police pulled alongside this vehicle, the driver…

On the campaign trail, the Social Democrats pledged to tackle rising inequality by hiking taxes on wealthier Lithuanians to pump more money into sectors like healthcare. ADVERTISEMENTThe leader of Lithuania’s opposition Social Democrats (SD) has said she will try to form a majority coalition government with two other parties following their lead in exit polls in the first round of the country’s parliamentary elections.Speaking in Vilnius, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė said the results showed that Lithuanians want change.”It is just the beginning of the road. We don’t really know the final result yet, what it will be in the multi-mandate, but the…