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Green Party pledges to double Best Start payment
The Greens will double the Best Start payment and make it for all children under 3.
The Greens will double the Best Start payment and make it for all children under 3.
The $5b Covid fund top-up was spent at a record clip - on mostly unrelated plans.
About 65 per cent of deficit was attributed to cyclone costs.
Both major parties will launch their budgets this week.
OPINION: The economy is now nearly 8 per cent bigger than at the start of the pandemic.
The subsidies were introduced soon after the pandemic hit in 2020.
Chris Hipkins and his ministers made a number of significant announcements in Hawke's Bay.
Funds will counter 'incorrect perceptions' about the region's readiness for visitors.
OPINION: Labour and National need to up their games on the economic front.
What, we must ask ourselves, is the grande dame worth?
National unveils its health policy, Labour releases pledge card as Greens, Act push cases.
Uncertainty looms over the largest shake-up of our science system in three decades.
OPINION: Treasury is crystal ball gazing as much as the next economist.
'This purchase shouldn’t have been agreed to when the election is next month.'
ALR chief executive Tommy Parker confirmed the purchase contract today.
Economist warns that bond markets are wary of supply glut risk.
Businesses are increasingly grumpy with the Govt and worried about cost of climate change.
National called the Council of Trade Unions ad 'disgraceful'.
The Act leader says he knows what's best for Māori.
Foreign buyer property sales would be taxed at 15 per cent by Nats.
OPINION: As the economy slides into recession, all tax cuts are risky.
OPINION: The simplicity of tax cuts makes them a potent political weapon.
Chris Hipkins and Grant Robertson announced a sweeping package of public service savings.
There are bumper birthday celebrations at a couple of ski fields this week.
OPINION: How the Crown came to write cheque after cheque for Mt Ruapehu's ski fields.
Chris Hipkins and Grant Robertson will announce savings.
"Little to be positive about” in the Govt's terms a week ago, according to deputy mayor.
Economists warn the next government won't have much cash to splash.
OPINION: National's main climate policy is to repeal Labour's.
Labour's lift to the abatement threshold does not account for inflation.