$4b fund to fix 62,000 road potholes nationwide
More than $2 billion in funding will go towards fixing state highway potholes.
More than $2 billion in funding will go towards fixing state highway potholes.
NZ First MP Andy Foster speaks during Urgency over the weekend while National MP Cameron Brewer sits behind him. Video / Parliament TV
OPINION: Immigration NZ delivers 'a brilliant gem of bureaucratic lunacy'.
There has been outrage over the Treaty Principles Bill and cuts to services for Māori.
The environment ministry's workforce is proposed to be slashed by one third.
OPINION: 'Cancer patients need action now, not lame excuses.'
The Finance Minister is defending the Government's approach to the cancer drugs issue.
The promise of 'soon' is 'not good enough for people who are dying', a patient says.
A total of 755 roles are proposed to be slashed.
What story does the Budget tell?
'Short-sighted': Psychiatrists say extra registrar places have not eventuated.
A change in Government has meant a clear shift in focus for the 2024 list.
OPINION: Patients – and families, friends and carers – are unlikely to forget the slight.
Willis was probed over why the Nats didn't campaign on how many families were worse off.
OPINION: Willis delivered on what she promised - but now has a hard road ahead.
OPINION: Does the bob-each-way strategy leave Government vulnerable to pleasing no one?
Co-leader Rawiri Waititi says there was nothing in the Budget for Māori. Video / Parliament TV
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Thousands of people packed the streets around the country this morning, protesting todays national budget release.
Today, the Government puts its money where its mouth is.
OPINION: Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins pumped up the protest by entering the debate.
OPINION: Some of the biggest things the Finance Minister could do would cost very little.
OPINION: Voters will ultimately judge whether it's worth it.
Henare says unrest in rugby has far-reaching ramifications and affects moods.
OPINION: The Budget will be a tally of promises kept and broken.
The minister responsible had to clarify what his position was on the bill.
The Government needs to find and generate billions of dollars to fund its tax cuts.
The Finance Minister is promising the tax cuts won't be inflationary.
It comes after hundreds marched on Parliament to protest the bill.
Country out of pocket by $250m to support international visitors.