Judith Collins
Defence Minister
Topics
- Chinese warships in Tasman SeaQuiet since 28 Feb 2025
- Secondary teachers' pay dispute 2025Quiet since 18 Dec 2025
- Te Pāti Māori haka suspensionsQuiet since 7 Jun 2025
- Jevon McSkimming police scandalQuiet since 19 Dec 2025
- NZ First public service diversity disputeQuiet since 24 Mar 2025
- Israel-Iran conflict and New Zealand responseQuiet since 6 Jul 2025
- Tom Phillips search and inquiryQuiet since 16 Dec 2025
- HMNZS Manawanui sinking and fuel removalQuiet since 30 Nov 2024
- New Zealand defence spending debateQuiet since 21 Mar 2025
- Lower North Island internet outageQuiet since 9 Jun 2025
- Luxon's overseas trip and Nato summitQuiet since 30 Jun 2025
- Manawanui sinking compensation for SamoaQuiet since 17 Oct 2025
All stories
July 2026
December 2025
- Crown reaches $420 million settlement with Nelson Tenths Māori landowners
- New mega-ministry MCERT announced to support government reform agenda
November 2025
- Public inquiry announced into handling of Tom Phillips case
- HMNZS Aotearoa transited through the Taiwan Strait earlier this month
- Public inquiry announced into disappearance of Phillips children+2
- Andrew Coster on leave following IPCA report+1
- IPCA report finds serious misconduct in police handling of McSkimming case+2
- Government to create police watchdog after damning McSkimming report+4
October 2025
- NZDF officer deployed to Israel to monitor Gaza peace efforts
- TVNZ correspondent escorted from Pentagon meeting with Judith Collins
- Christopher Luxon criticises upcoming mega strike as politically motivated
- Minister criticises unions ahead of planned public sector strikes+1
- New Zealand and Samoa reach compensation deal for Manawanui disaster
- Government unveils strategy to boost domestic defence industry
September 2025
- New standards for public service sexual harassment complaints announced
- Secretive visit by FBI director Kash Patel to New Zealand revealed
- Judith Collins completes secret visit to Kyiv to meet officials
August 2025
- HMNZS Te Kaha returns home after seven-month deployment
- Government confirms $2.7 billion investment in new defence aircraft
- Government announces $2.7 billion defence investment for planes and helicopters
- Secondary teachers strike across Aotearoa over pay negotiations+4
- Judith Collins corrects claim regarding secondary school teacher pay+1
- Secondary school teachers to strike next Wednesday over pay negotiations
July 2025
- FBI to establish permanent office in Wellington+4
- FBI director Kash Patel visits Wellington and Parliament
- Prime Minister Luxon holds post-Cabinet press conference
- Parliament moves to urgently pass space infrastructure protection law
- Defence Minister Judith Collins hospitalised after suffering vertigo+2
- WWII squadron reactivated as New Zealand's first dedicated space unit
June 2025
- Christopher Luxon holds press conference after overseas trips
- Defence Force Hercules arrives in Middle East for contingency operations+1
- NZ Defence Force deploying aircraft to Middle East for evacuations+2
- Judicial Conduct Panel to investigate Acting District Court Judge Ema Aitken+1
- Trump administration reviewing AUKUS submarine pact with Australia and UK
- Judith Collins to investigate Australian warship internet disruption
- Judith Collins refuses to apologise to Lake Alice survivor+1
- Judith Collins endorses US Golden Dome missile defence project
May 2025
- Parliament adjourns debate on Te Pāti Māori MP suspensions+2
- Te Pāti Māori MPs face suspension over protest haka+1
- Te Pāti Māori MPs suspended for performing haka in House+2
March 2025
- Public service workforce drops by 4 per cent over last year
- NZDF proposing to cut 374 civilian roles
- Winston Peters denies his party has diversity requirements
- Hipkins and Peters clash over public sector diversity
- Winston Peters calls for increased defence spending
February 2025
- New Zealand ceases monitoring of Chinese warships near Australia
- Chinese naval flotilla enters Great Australian Bight after Tasman Sea drills
- Chinese warships conduct live firing exercises in the Tasman Sea+1
- Judith Collins signals increased defence investment following Chinese naval activity
- Chinese warships conduct live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea+2
- Flights diverted due to Chinese naval live-fire exercises in Tasman Sea
- Chinese warships in Tasman Sea described as wake-up call
- Judith Collins questioned over Mark Mitchell's comments about women
- New Zealand monitors three Chinese navy ships sailing east of Sydney
November 2024
Photo: US Embassy New Zealand, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons