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    <text>New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon announces that holders of investor residence visas may buy or build a single home valued above NZL:5000000 cursign=NZ$}}, following changes to the visa rules previously preventing such investments. </text>
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      <text>Prime Minister of New Zealand Chris Hipkins concedes defeat to the New Zealand National Party which has won the most seats, although not a majority. Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon is expected to form a coalition government with ACT New Zealand. </text>
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    <text>Prime Minister Chris Hipkins concedes defeat to the New Zealand National Party which has won the most seats, although not a majority. Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon is expected to form a coalition government with ACT New Zealand. </text>
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      <text>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces that Auckland will be lowered to alert level 2 and rest of the country will moved to alert level one from March 7 at 6:00 pm NZT after no community case found. </text>
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    <text>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces that Auckland will move to alert level 2 and rest of the country to alert level one beginning March 7 at 6:00 p.m. NZT after no new community cases have been reported. </text>
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      <text>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces that the country has declared climate change an emergency and promises that it will become carbon neutral by 2025. </text>
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      <text>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces that the country has declared climate change an emergency and promises that it will become carbon neutral by 2025. </text>
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    <text>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces that the country has declared a climate change emergency and promises that it will become carbon neutral by 2025. </text>
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    <text>David Clark resigns as New Zealand's Minister of Health after security mistakes at quarantine facilities just days after the country had been declared free of COVID-19. Clark also received strong criticism for personally breaching lockdown rules twice. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had refused calls to sack the minister. </text>
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      <text>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gives birth to a baby girl at 4:45 pm local time (04:45 UTC). Ardern is the first incumbent head of government to give birth since Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1990. </text>
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    <text>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gives birth to a baby girl at 4:45 p.m. local time (04:45 UTC). Ardern is the first incumbent head of government to give birth since Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1990. </text>
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    <text>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bans future offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand, leaving existing permits untouched. </text>
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    <text>Voters in New Zealand go to the polls, electing all members of their House of Representatives and the consequent Prime Minister. </text>
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    <text>The Labour Party, led by Jacinda Ardern, surges in the polls and is neck-and-neck with the National Party, led by Bill English, for the race for Prime Minister of New Zealand. </text>
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    <text>Australian Associated Press reports that Bill English has secured the support of a majority of members of the New Zealand National Party to succeed John Key as the Prime Minister of New Zealand. </text>
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  <text>New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon secures the support of his caucus after initiating and winning a confidence vote on his leadership within the National Party. </text>
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