Civil servants' 'roaming' fees on phones costing public $800,000.

Labour, the Greens and NZ First look uncannily like a united opposition as they join forces in a three-pronged assault on John Key's administration. Jonathan Milne goes behind the scenes with the key players in the plot to overthrow the Government.

Finance Minister Bill English describes it as "probably the tightest Budget in the last 20 years" while opposition parties have labelled it as "zero hope" and drab. So is National's new budget any good?

In this year's Budget, Health Minister Tony Ryall told us, health receives a big funding boost.

Has New Zealand spread its funding for universities too thinly? Professor Tim Hazeldine joins the debate, with a bold call for Auckland University to shrink in size and rise in standing