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Judith Collins: 'I'm not their nanny'
Justice Minister Judith Collins says it is not her role to round up MPs to form consensus over changes to MMP, adding that she was 'not their nanny'.
Justice Minister Judith Collins says it is not her role to round up MPs to form consensus over changes to MMP, adding that she was 'not their nanny'.
Tomorrow Bill English will deliver this Government's fifth Budget. Five years is a long time in economic terms, long enough for a complete cycle of expansion and contraction in the normal course of events. He touches on some of the things we can expect.
When it comes to consensus, National is the one which refused to budge in its opposition to the MMP commission's most controversial finding, writes John Armstrong.
New Zealand faces three big challenges, writes Don Brash. I fear the Budget will do nothing to address any of them.
Editorial: The low growth since the global financial crisis is the world we must work in as far ahead as anyone can see.
Income-related rental subsidies look set to be extended in tomorrow's Budget to tenants in community-owned housing.
Tomorrow's Budget will contain practical measures to tackle poverty, says Finance Minister Bill English.
Lovers of yoghurt, chocolate and steak would have seen their grocery bills increase last month.
The Herald's editorial about the deregistration of Family First as a charity seems confused, writes Denise Roche. Registration with the Department of Internal Affairs does not confer tax deductibility.
Bryan Gould writes this Government is a founding member of a "dwindling group of countries that maintain that austerity is the correct response to recession."
Progress has been slow but Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce is sticking to Finance Minister Bill English's Budget 2011 promise.
Feel some pity for hitherto obscure MP Aaron Gilmore whose hopes and dreams lie in ashes, albeit through self-immolation, writes Sir Bob Jones.
The Government should review its priorities, writes Helen Kelly. Continuing high unemployment, much greater than its own forecasts, could do far more damage than taking longer to pay down debt.
John Key discusses Mighty River Power float and the benefits that this will have for the economy and the New Zealand investors.
John Key talks about the New Zealand International Convention Centre project that will be completely funded by Sky City at the cost of $402 million.
Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan concedes the political reality of not returning a much-promised surplus will be painful.
The number of public relations and communications staff in most government departments has dropped in the past four years.
As we await another miserly Budget from Bill English we are entitled to wonder whether the Government is overdoing the fiscal discipline, writes Brian Fallow.
Next week's Budget will be a Budget for the board room, not the smoko room, says Labour leader David Shearer.
The Government will invest $80.5 million of operating funding over four years to lift educational achievement, including funding for behaviour programmes.
Budgeting services have been given a last-minute funding reprieve which means they are now unlikely to have to lay off staff.
Three-quarters of the way through the Government's financial year its revenue continues to grow steadily while spending has hardly increased at all.