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NZ And Australia: Navigating Turbulent Times Together
Friday, 23 May 2025, 5:05 pm | New Zealand Government
“New Zealand and Australia face an unpredictable, contested and disordered region and world. We are strongest when we meet these challenges together,” Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. More >>
Building Consent Exemption For Granny Flats A Step Closer
Friday, 23 May 2025, 4:23 pm | New Zealand Government
Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says removing consent requirements for granny flats will boost productivity in the building sector. More >>
David Seymour’s Bill Harms Our People And Environment
Friday, 23 May 2025, 3:48 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Just like the Treaty Principles Bill, it’s another concession by Christopher Luxon to David Seymour – soon to be Deputy Prime Minister – that’s out of touch with what Kiwis want and just takes New Zealand backwards. More >>
Regulatory Standards Bill Passes First Reading
Friday, 23 May 2025, 3:28 pm | New Zealand Government
“In a high-cost economy, regulation isn’t neutral - it’s a tax on growth. This Government is committed to clearing the path of needless regulations by improving how laws are made,” says Regulation Minister David Seymour. More >>
Green Party Condemns Regulatory Standards Bill
Friday, 23 May 2025, 3:23 pm | Green Party
This Bill is the same tired politics we have seen time and time again from the Government, attacking Te Tiriti o Waitangi to make it easier for wealthy companies to exploit our whānau and our taiao for profit. More >>
Investment Boost Tax Incentive Takes Effect Immediately
Friday, 23 May 2025, 3:16 pm | New Zealand Government
This change will benefit farmers, tradies, hairdressers, manufacturers, and other businesses by helping them invest in productivity improving assets. It is all designed to help firms become more competitive and, therefore, able to lift workers’ wages. More >>
More Cuts To Come For Health
Friday, 23 May 2025, 12:57 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Health New Zealand, which runs our hospitals and other healthcare services, was already $1.1 billion in the red. Funds needed to assist services to deal with a growing population and inflation are instead servicing the deficit. More >>
New Parole Board Chair Appointed
Friday, 23 May 2025, 12:23 pm | New Zealand Government
Justice Doogue began her legal career with Cairns Slane in 1983 and became a partner of the firm in 1986. She was appointed Chief District Court Judge in 2011 and served on the High Court Bench from 2019-2024. More >>
Budget 2025: PSGF To Driving Farm & Forest Gate Returns
Friday, 23 May 2025, 11:40 am | New Zealand Government
The Fund will support projects that are business-led, market-driven, and commercially focused – with a clear aim of delivering strong economic outcomes and high growth potential. More >>
Budget 2025: Backing The Future Of A&P Shows
Friday, 23 May 2025, 11:38 am | New Zealand Government
Budget 2025 delivers $400,000 over four years to support more than 90 A&P shows across the country, providing each with a direct grant of $1,000 a year to help keep these iconic events running. More >>
Budget 2025: New Fund To Back Rural Wellbeing Programmes
Friday, 23 May 2025, 11:35 am | New Zealand Government
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says Budget 2025 provides $2 million over four years for a new contestable Rural Wellbeing Fund to back farmers to back themselves. More >>
Budget 2025: Strengthening Rural Resilience & Celebrating Rural Women
Friday, 23 May 2025, 11:33 am | New Zealand Government
Budget 2025 includes a $250,000 investment for the 2025/26 financial year to help the organisation expand its reach during its centenary year and continue its vital role supporting rural families and communities. More >>
Budget 2025: Backing Catchment Groups To Drive Productivity & Resilience
Friday, 23 May 2025, 11:30 am | New Zealand Government
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay and Associate Environment and Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard says Budget 2025 commits $36 million over four years through MPI’s On Farm Support team—including $4.3 million for long-standing groups and new regional ... More >>
Tackling Wilding Pines To Boost Resilience
Friday, 23 May 2025, 11:28 am | New Zealand Government
Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay, and Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard says the Government is focused on protecting the productive heart of New Zealand’s economy. More >>
Budget 2025: Growing A Productive & Resilient Rural Sector
Friday, 23 May 2025, 11:25 am | New Zealand Government
To further strengthen the sector’s resilience, Budget 2025 includes a new focus on driving growth and rural wellbeing through a series of targeted grassroots investments. More >>
Growing And Strengthening The Education Workforce
Friday, 23 May 2025, 10:26 am | New Zealand Government
“We want to grow, promote and support the education workforce by backing and strengthening our educators who every day deliver real change in the classroom,” Education Minister Erica Stanford says. More >>
Labour’s Economic Incoherence Reaches Crisis Point
Friday, 23 May 2025, 10:25 am | New Zealand National Party
“While the Government has released a Budget that carefully manages the economy and taxpayers’ money to grow our economy and create jobs, Labour is in crisis about having no economic or fiscal plan whatsoever,” says senior National MP Chris Bishop. More >>
Supercars For The South Island
Friday, 23 May 2025, 7:54 am | New Zealand Government
“For more than 20 years Supercars Championship events have played an important role showcasing our beautiful country to an international audience and I’m thrilled the South Island will now be part of this from next year,” Tourism and Hospitality ... More >>
Budget 2025 Delivers Little To Nothing For Our Youngest
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 6:20 pm | Green Party
Today’s minuscule offering in the Budget – an inflation adjustment of 0.5 per cent – isn’t enough to cover inflation. Effectively, ECE is getting a 1.6 per cent cut. More >>
Minister Of Finance’s Budget 2025 Speech
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 5:29 pm | New Zealand Government
Real GDP growth is expected to accelerate to 2.9 per cent in 2025/26 and 3 per cent in the year after. Growth matters. It means more jobs, higher incomes and opportunities for families to get ahead. Investment Boost is a new tax incentive that will increase ... More >>
Minister For The Environment Missing In Action In Budget 2025
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:56 pm | Green Party
Our environment is in crisis. This Budget proves the Government simply does not care, says the Green Party’s spokesperson for Environment, Lan Pham. More >>
Government's Budget Fails Māori
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:50 pm | Green Party
Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a promise of protection, for our whānau and our whenua. A promise this Government has broken before and has broken again today with this Budget. More >>
‘Budget Protects Power, Not People’ – Te Pāti Māori
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:47 pm | Te Pati Maori
Despite tangata whenua making up at least 20% of the population, Māori development is receiving only 0.27% of the total Budget — the lowest in a decade. More >>
Housing Crisis Will Rage On With Budget 2025
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:44 pm | Green Party
By cutting more money from social and transitional housing, the Māori Housing Programme and emergency housing, this Government for landlords has abandoned all hope of solving the housing crisis, says the Green Party’s spokesperson for Housing, Tamatha Paul. More >>
Budget To Increase Energy Hardship
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:25 pm | Green Party
Stripping $56 million from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority comes on top of last year’s vicious cut. This cut is effectively delivering energy hardship to those who are already struggling. More >>
Govt Guts Emergency Housing While Need Increases
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government promised New Zealanders that those in genuine need would get access to emergency housing but the Budget shows they simply have no intention of providing it, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. More >>
Government Pours Gas On The Climate Crisis Fire
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:13 pm | Green Party
The Government is setting $200 million of our public money on fire to support fossil fuel executives' profit, handing a lifeline to a sunset industry, instead of investing in real, resilient, renewable energy. More >>
David Seymour: Budget Day Speech 2025
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
Government spending has a diabolical power: Time travel. The Government can spend money now and put the debt in a fiscal Tardis. Into the future, goes the debt, one day landing on taxpayers who might just be starting on their ABCs this afternoon. More >>
$1 Billion Of Māori Funding Gone
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 3:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Over the two budgets, Tama Potaka has now slashed more than $1 billion of Māori specific funding and that is shameful. The biggest hit is in Māori housing. Whai Kainga Whai Oranga and the whole Māori housing programme has been scrapped, Māori ... More >>
Budget 2025 Leaves Future Of School Lunches Uncertain
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 3:39 pm | Green Party
The Government’s refusal to commit to funding the school lunch programme leaves thousands of families unsure whether their kids will be fed or forgotten, says the Green Party’s spokesperson for Education, Lawrence Xu-Nan. More >>
‘Growth Budget’ = Growth In Poverty
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:57 pm | Green Party
More children will grow up in cold, damp homes without food on the table because of the decisions this Government has made today. Christopher Luxon has told New Zealand he doesn’t care about child poverty with this Budget. More >>
Increased Support For Families
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:46 pm | New Zealand Government
About 142,000 families will receive an average $14 a fortnight extra from Working for Families. The vast majority have an annual family income under $100,000. More >>
More Staff, Better Prisons To Keep Public Safe
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:41 pm | New Zealand Government
"Our Government has restored proper consequences for crime. Because of that, there has been an increase in the prison population and fewer victims of crime." More >>
Delivering The Right Houses In The Right Place, For The Right People
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:40 pm | New Zealand Government
Hon Chris Bishop Minister of Housing Hon Tama Potaka Associate Minister of Housing Budget 2025 introduces a new housing investment approach that will deliver the right houses, in the right places, for the right people, Housing Minister Chris Bishop ... More >>
Backing For Food Banks Extended
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:37 pm | New Zealand Government
Existing funding for the Food Secure Communities Programme was a Covid response measure and never intended to be permanent. It would have expired at the end of June 2024, but we know demand remains high, mainly driven by the cost of living. More >>
Improving Care For Disabled New Zealanders
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:37 pm | New Zealand Government
This is on top of more than $1 billion already funded annually for Disability Support Services. It means 89 residential providers across the country, and the people they care for, are better supported. More >>
12-month Prescriptions Put Money In Patients’ Pockets
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:35 pm | New Zealand Government
New Zealanders will soon be able to receive 12-month prescriptions for their medicines, delivering savings to patients on long-term medications, Health Minister Simeon Brown and Associate Health Minister David Seymour say. More >>
Supporting School Choice
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:33 pm | New Zealand Government
Budget 2025 will invest $15.7 million over four years to increase the subsidy available for independent schools. This increases the yearly funding for independent schools by 11 percent, from $41.6 million to $46.2 million. More >>
Investing In Local Journalism
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:31 pm | New Zealand Government
“Budget 2025 will invest $6.4 million over four years in council, community and court reporting across New Zealand. The funding will be distributed through NZ on Air." More >>
Parents To Step Up For Unemployed Teenagers
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:30 pm | New Zealand Government
Young people who do require support from the Ministry of Social Development will still be able to access it. For instance, in some cases 18- or 19-year-olds may not be able to rely on parental support. If they meet all other relevant eligibility ... More >>
Helping Older People Get The Right Care
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:28 pm | New Zealand Government
“We want to ensure older New Zealanders can get the treatment and care they need in the best possible place. They should not be in hospital simply because they are frail and there are limited options for their care,” Ms Costello says. More >>
More Funding To Cut Court Case Backlogs
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:28 pm | New Zealand Government
Budget 2025 will provide New Zealand’s courts with $246 million of additional funding over the next four years. This funding will support the ongoing operation of specialist courts, tribunals, the District Court, senior courts, the Coroners Court, and the ... More >>
Record Investment In Health Delivery
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Government
“Budget 2025 provides a $7 billion increase in Vote Health operating funding over the forecast period. This includes the $1.37 billion per annum increase to Health New Zealand’s baseline – bringing total health spending in 2025/26 to $32.7 billion,” ... More >>
Rates Relief For Up To 66,000 More SuperGold Cardholders
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Government
This is the first time we are introducing a separate income abatement threshold to the Rates Rebate Scheme, Seniors Minister Casey Costello says. More >>
Tertiary Study Subsidy Boost In Priority Subjects
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:25 pm | New Zealand Government
Budget 2025 invests an extra $398 million in tertiary education over the next four years. We need to grow our domestic pipeline of skilled workers to support the growing economy, Dr Reti says. More >>
More Police Funding To Improve Public Safety
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:23 pm | New Zealand Government
We’re supporting Police to crack down on crime and ensure there are real consequences for offenders. More >>
Investing In Public Safety And Reforming Young Offenders
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:23 pm | New Zealand Government
Building on the successes that have already led to a 13 per cent reduction in young people with serious and persistent offending behaviour (a key Government target), more than $103 million is being invested over four years in upgrading facilities. More >>
Funding Boost For Post-Cyclone Local Road Recovery
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:22 pm | New Zealand Government
“The Government remains committed to the communities working to rebuild lives and neighbourhoods. This Budget provides $219 million additional funding to help get these local roads repaired as quickly as possible." More >>
Tackling New Zealand’s Rising Tax Debt
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:20 pm | New Zealand Government
Budget 2025 provides new funding of $35 million a year for Inland Revenue to carry out tax compliance and collection activities. It also continues funding of $27 million a year provided in Budget 2022 that was due to cease in June 2025. More >>
Mental Distress 111 Calls To Get A Mental Health Response
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:20 pm | New Zealand Government
Budget 2025 invests $28 million over four years to fund the transition from a Police-led response to a mental health response to 111 mental distress calls. More >>
Billion-dollar Investment In Hospitals
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:20 pm | New Zealand Government
Budget 2025 funds a major redevelopment of Nelson Hospital. This will deliver a new inpatient building with more beds to meet population growth. The hospital’s two main buildings will be refurbished, and essential services will be upgraded. More >>
Growth-Promoting Science And Innovation Backed
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:19 pm | New Zealand Government
“Budget 2025 reprioritises existing funding towards new growth-promoting investments in science and innovation. The changes will enable safe use of gene technology and secure the long-term success of the science and innovation system,” Dr Reti says. More >>
National Security Brings Economic Benefits
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:19 pm | New Zealand Government
Today we announce investments in critical tools that support our national and economic security. More >>
Investing In Infrastructure For All New Zealanders
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:17 pm | New Zealand Government
The infrastructure investments in Budget 2025 build on our existing pipeline of infrastructure projects, including by providing funding for some of the projects highlighted at this year’s Infrastructure Investment Summit. More >>
$200m Set Aside For Crown Stake In New Gas Fields
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:16 pm | New Zealand Government
“We are focused on growing the New Zealand economy, creating jobs and increasing prosperity and resilience. The Government is not prepared to sit on the sidelines and watch our industrial and manufacturing dwindle because of energy security concerns." More >>
Invest New Zealand: Backing Growth Through Global Investment
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:14 pm | New Zealand Government
Legislation to legally establish Invest New Zealand will be passed over Budget week and the agency will formally commence activity from 1 July 2025. More >>
Investment Boost: Tax Incentive To Lift Growth
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:12 pm | New Zealand Government
“Economic growth is how we raise living standards, create higher-paying jobs and fund the growing cost of the public services Kiwis depend on." More >>
Largest Boost To Learning Support In A Generation
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:12 pm | New Zealand Government
Budget 2025 invests $2.5 billion over the forecast period in Vote Education with a focus on delivering a transformational boost to learning support funding. More >>
KiwiSaver Changes To Encourage Savings
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:12 pm | New Zealand Government
The annual government contribution will be halved to 25 cents for each dollar a member contributes each year, up to a maximum of $260.72. Members with an income of more than $180,000 will no longer receive the government contribution. More >>
Budget 2025 – Growing The Economy To Help Kiwis Get Ahead
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:08 pm | New Zealand Government
Investment Boost will allow hard working tradies, farmers, and small business owners to immediately deduct 20 per cent of the cost of new machinery, tools and equipment from their taxable income – encouraging investment in assets that increase productivity ... More >>
