Politically Correct: A day of major policy announcementsBRADEN FASTIER/STUFF Prime Minister Bill English arriving in Nelson today. It was a day of major policy announcements from the big parties and further aftershocks from the Winston Peters superannuation over-payment saga. Leader Jacinda Ardern released the policy as finance spokesman Grant Robertson also unveiled the party's fiscal plan to account for all that new spending. 1 NEWS National leader Bill English has today unveiled his party's new paid parental leave policy, extending it from 18 to 22 weeks. The total cost of that package was expected to be $88m per year, once paid parental leave has increased to the full 22 weeks.

Source: Stuff August 29, 2017 07:30 UTC