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Budget 2024
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Keep the lights on or push for AI? Kiwi CIOs' tight-budget priorities
What's keeping decision-makers up at night?
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Labour leader Chris Hipkins sets out hopes for a one-term National-led Government
Hipkins was speaking at Labour's regional conference in Wellington.
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Health Ministry staff fire back at pay freeze; changes to Suicide Prevention Office revealed
A lump-sum payment is instead being delivered, based on staff performance.
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Opinion: Quick takes on Nicola Willis' first Budget
OPINION: Nicola Willis’ first Budget has done exactly what she had put on the tin.
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Letters: Cancer patients don't have time to wait; why I marched down Queen St
OPINION: 'The Government would be wise to stop prioritising potholes.'
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Another 146 job losses at Ministry of Education take total past 700
The ministry's digital division will cut about 146 positions.
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Letters: Luxon has broken his contract with voters
OPINION: A cancer patient reacts to the lack of Budget funding for life-saving drugs.
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Ministry of Justice proposes over 150 job cuts
The Ministry of Justice is the latest to announce workforce cuts.
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'Better times ahead', Finance Minister Nicola Willis predicts
Willis addressed a business breakfast in Kāpiti.