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Audrey Young: A lot of money doesn't go far in current crisis
OPINION: Kiwis have not yet been weaned off the Government's Covid teat.
Simon Wilson: Can we stop talking about the 'squeezed middle' now?
The Budget gets quite a lot right, but that doesn't make it great.
Shane Te Pou: Labour's cost-of-living payment blows National out of the water
OPINION: Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis looked stunned.
Budget 2022: Treasury warns tax increases needed to fund spending
Treasury has warned that inflation will hit the Government's finances.
Budget 2022: First-home buyer loan scheme shaken up
Big jump in some price caps for aspiring first home owners - but prices vary nationwide.
'For some of us it is a life-and-death decision': Pharmac boost not enough, patients say
Ill patients say lack of Budget funding for new drugs means some of them will die sooner.
Spies, cyberattack initiatives get more money in Budget 2022
Counter-terrorism and cyberwar protection get millions in today's Budget.
Govt confident 'record' health spend will address inequities
Te Pāti Māori has slammed the funding, which makes up just 2 per cent of health spending.
New public TV and radio entity gets $327m funding boost
The new public broadcaster will be switched on in July next year.
Focus: Finance Minister Grant Robertson on Budget 2022
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Budget 2022: $350 cash payment for 2m Kiwis - just enough for a ticket to Aussie, say Nats
Tune in for our live coverage and the key points of today's Budget.
Budget 2022: Millions for RMA overhaul, biodiversity plan
Aside from Govt's big climate spend, Budget 2022 comes with some other green bonuses.
Focus: Grant Robertson outlines health investment
Finance Minister Grant Robertson has outlined the governments investment in health for 2022. Video / Mark Mitchell
Manukau port study, extended fares cuts and funds boost for light rail
Government's Budget contains more than $200m for detailed plans for light rail.
Political Roundup: 'Is that all there is'? - Grant Robertson's conservative Budget for volatile times
ANALYSIS: It's a Budget that will make many people ask 'Is that all there is?'
Pharmac gets big boost in Budget 2022
After major pressure on medicine-buying agency, Pharmac gets huge funding boost.
'Backwards', 'brain drain': Opposition MPs lay into Budget
The Greens have also called for more support to address 'inequality crisis'.
Budget 2022: Nearly $1b to disability sectors and changes to benefits
Benefit changes are expected to lift up to 14,000 more children out of poverty.
Budget: The cost of living and what's in it for you
New payments, fuel tax and public transport relief have been extended.
Budget 2022: Two million Kiwis to get $350 — are you eligible?
Almost every sector gets a funding boost in the Budget.
Budget 2022: 10 key things - Where the money's gone
Here are the highlights as Grant Robertson announces the Government's plans.
Budget 2022: Health gets $13.2b boost to address inequities, sector reforms
It includes a boost to cover DHB deficits before the new health reforms.
Audrey Young: Robertson's Goldilocks Budget - not too little, not too much
But managing expectations around health, will be a challenge, writes Audrey Young.
Budget 2022: Nearly $3b to education including decile changes and pay parity
It comes as the sector moves away from the decile system.
Budget 2022: Māori initiatives get $1b; Pacific spending includes for Dawn Raids
Health, education, employment, economic development, housing and more in the mix.
10 years: Documents show maximum Megaupload sentence
Details emerge of charges faced by Megaupload pair in extradition deal.
Happy the elephant in historic 'human rights' trial
Happy is an Asian elephant. But is she also a person?
Watch: PM reveals Covid's robbed her of sense of taste
Finance Minister says he was feeling good about delivering the Budget today.
Live: B-Day! What we know and what to expect in NZ's biggest-ever Budget
What's under the Budget Christmas Tree, Grant Robertson?
Focus Live: Budget 2022 live special
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'Discrimination': Dover Samuels takes hat fight to the bank
He was denied entry with it on, which he says is discriminatory as a kaumātua.
Nato talks stall with Finland and Sweden
Nato envoys failed to reach a consensus with Finland and Sweden, diplomats say.
Focus Morning Bulletin: 19 May, 2022
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