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The party promised to fund higher emergency grants for dental care at the election, but now says the increase will come in later budgets.
NZ Herald
The Prime Minister says the role of Governor-General will one day become redundant.
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The Prime Minister says there is existing legislation which allows for judges to take into account the nature of offending.
RNZ
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced Dame Cynthia Kiro will be the next Governor-General of New Zealand.
RNZ
Jacinda Ardern says the government will be reviewing Working for Families tax credits as its next step in reducing child poverty.
RNZ
While the 2021 Budget had some really good initiatives for disabled people, the vaunted benefit increases, while very welcome, have come too late writes Chris Ford.
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Red And Proud: The only real question, after Thursday’s Budget, is: How long will it take National to realise how profoundly the political g...
RNZ
Act leader David Seymour is pushing for a four-year parliamentary term, with Select Committees controlled by the opposition
Newsroom
Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni understands the impacts of being on a benefit first-hand, and on Thursday she came full circle.
Newsroom
As with most things in the climate space, the nerdier and more inconspicuous the policy announced on Budget Day, the greater its likely impact.
Māori Television
Dr Reti has been critical of the Budget announcements yesterday, including the injection into health.
The Spinoff
Young South Aucklanders wanting a career in construction were among the potential winners from yesterday's budget announcements. Māngere’s Yangaliliki Teopenga is one of 12 siblings and has just started training to be a carpenter through his school. “I’ll be the first builder in my family," h
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Moving On From Neoliberalism: To hear Finance Minister, Grant Robertson invoke the memory of Ruth Richardson’s “Mother of All Budgets”: del...
Finance Minister Grant Robertson has this afternoon moved to end speculation his Government is gearing up to introduce a rent control policy....
Newsroom
With such scant attention to economic transformation, there's no way this Budget will ever deliver on the promise Grant Robertson made in the title 'Securing Our Recovery', writes Rod Oram.
The Standard
National presented a particularly glum picture in Parliament yesterday. And it was not only the realisation that Judith Collins is out of her depth. It was because this budget spells the end of Ruthenasia.
RNZ
Finance Minister Grant Robertson presented the government's so-called recovery and well-being Budget yesterday, but some are describing it as anything but.
Labour's first Budget unrestrained by the brake of a coalition partner fires up a head of steam for many of its traditional supporters. Finance...
In Budget 2020 Grant Robertson took a punt the wage subsidy would keep New Zealand’s Covid-19 ravaged economy afloat, and he was handsomely repaid....
Stuff
OPINION: Transformative? Not quite. But it feels like a corner has been turned.
Māori Television
"In this parliament that's the queerest in the world, it's embarrassing" - Dr Elizabeth Kerekere
Stuff
OPINION: The Government’s proposed Fair Pay Agreements will return the country to almost the same kind of centralised wage-fixing system that we had in the 1970s.
The Conversation
By under-promising and over-delivering, Grant Robertson has pulled off a budget that displeases the fewest people.
Stuff
Finance Minister Grant Robertson signals consultations later this year on 'ACC like' social unemployment insurance scheme.
RNZ
The government has no confidence in growing the economy, and that was why benefits were going up, says National Party leader Judith Collins.
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