Shane Jones
NZ First deputy leader
Topics
- NZ First migrant comments rowQuiet since 31 Jan 2025
- Oil and gas exploration ban repealQuiet since 1 Aug 2025
- Stuart Nash NZ First conference remarksQuiet since 18 Sep 2025
- Dame Tariana Turia death and tangihangaQuiet since 7 Jan 2025
- Waitangi Day 2025Quiet since 7 Feb 2025
- Resource Management Act reform 2025Quiet since 18 Jul 2025
- Electricity market reform and power pricesQuiet since 1 Oct 2025
- Oil and gas exploration reopenedQuiet since 1 Oct 2025
- Gaza ceasefire and Palestinian statehood debateQuiet since 7 Oct 2025
- Hauraki Gulf marine protection lawQuiet since 22 Nov 2025
- Regional council replacement proposalQuiet since 11 Dec 2025
- Winston Peters remarks controversyQuiet since 7 Sep
All stories
October 2026
- Shane Jones criticises slow fast-track process for Otago gold mine
- Luxon and Hipkins face off in second leaders' debate
+3 - Qiulae Wong says National’s fishing policies don’t go far enough
- Certain species banned from Auckland and Coromandel tidal areas
+1 - New Zealand First unveils party list with newcomers ahead of sitting MPs+1
- Julian Wilcox appointed chair of Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori
- Government provides $5.7m to support regional airlines facing high fuel costs
September 2026
- Government grant brings Rotorua Museum reopening closer
- ACT and NZ First urge delay on LNG terminal contract
- Aero club warns planes could spook horses at proposed Flaxmere racecourse
August 2026
- Shane Jones accuses kiwifruit industry of slave practices
- Government pauses Waikato River protection rules until 2032
- Chris Hipkins rules out governing deal with NZ First+2
July 2026
- Green candidate uses social media campaign to encourage voter enrolment
- Winston Peters rules out Stuart Nash returning to New Zealand First
December 2025
- Five-year crayfish fishing ban announced for Northland's east coast
- Government approves fast-track expansion of Waihī North gold mine
- Whangārei District Council opposes Bream Bay sand mining proposal
- Minister concerned as warming waters drive fish south
- Yellow-eyed penguin death marks start of High Court hearing
November 2025
- Shane Jones claims regional councils are stifling economic growth
- Recreational fishers to protest Hauraki Gulf marine protection reforms
- Jones warns Otago economy would be disembowelled by Green Party pledge
October 2025
- Government announces $90m for flood resilience projects across New Zealand
- Legal action taken over fishing ban for yellow-eyed penguins
- Winston Peters avoids protesters at Port Chalmers
September 2025
- Government reopens oil and gas exploration across New Zealand
- Shane Jones officially appointed as New Zealand First deputy leader
- Shane Jones dismisses concerns over Wellington gold exploration bids
- Emergency set net fishing ban imposed to protect Otago penguins+1
- Shane Jones suggests considering renationalisation of power companies
- Shane Jones criticises government managerialism at NZ First convention
- Former Labour minister Stuart Nash speaks at NZ First conference
- Former Labour MP Stuart Nash speaks at NZ First annual meeting+1
- Government provides $30 million in loans to support regional airlines
August 2025
- Carter Holt Harvey plans to close Eves Valley Sawmill+1
- Government announces major reforms to fisheries regulations
- Coalition parties seek consensus after repealing offshore oil and gas ban
July 2025
- Parliament passes repeal of 2018 oil and gas exploration ban
- Government draft plan aims to double geothermal energy production
- Ministers to gain power over oil and gas decommissioning costs
- West Coast MP calls for fast-track mining consent system
- Auckland oyster farmers seek government help over sewage overflows
- Greenpeace activists paint second trawler with 'Ocean Killer' message
June 2025
- Finlayson criticises proposal for single Ngāpuhi commercial settlement+1
- Luxon open to exploring the removal of regional councils
- Shane Jones vows to restart oil and gas industry
- Westland District Council to decide fate of Franz Josef southbank
May 2025
- Chris Bishop defends Nicola Willis after Budget Day outfit criticism
- Ministers face protesters at Dunedin Hillside Workshops reopening
March 2025
- Experts express concern over proposed fisheries management reforms
- Government announces plan to grow aquaculture industry to $3b a year
- Speaker rules on use of the name Aotearoa in Parliament
February 2025
- NZ First MPs criticise Green MP for using name Aotearoa
- Around 230 staff to lose jobs at Tokoroa Kinleith Mill
- Minister Shane Jones threatens to cut Waitangi National Trust funding
January 2025
- Shane Jones expresses desire to meet with Mexican Ambassador
- Government launches mining strategy to double mineral exports by 2035+3
- Winston Peters backs down after comments target immigrant MPs
- Shane Jones faces criticism after shouting ''send the Mexicans home'
- Greens seek reprimand over New Zealand First comments on migrants
- Supporters and politicians pay respects at Dame Tariana Turia’s tangi+3