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Willis unveils $7.4 billion in cuts as gloomy economy weighs on Government
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Thomas Coughlan: Why it’s a great time to be in Government
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The Govt departments set to switch from Māori to English names
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'Cheap politics': Labour fires back at Nicola Willis over ferry budget blowout
Labour finance spokesman Grant Robertson sheds more light on KiwiRail's ferry conundrum.
Steven Joyce: Centralisation isn’t working - it’s time to trust the regions
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Derek Cheng: How Luxon made room for Act and NZ First without giving up too much
The challenge remains: How to walk the fiscal tightrope while delivering tax cuts.
Steven Joyce: Rolling back regulation will be new Govt's first mission
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Public Purse: The final $5b of the Covid fight - and the half spent on other priorities
The $5b Covid fund top-up was spent at a record clip - on mostly unrelated plans.
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Steven Joyce: It’s time to cut back the growing bureaucratic blob
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Opinion: We need to talk tourism as election approaches
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Chris Hipkins and Grant Robertson announced a sweeping package of public service savings.
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NZ dollar drops, interest rates rise after surprise US jobs number
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Opinion: Time to end the ag-sector procrastination
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GDP preview: Did we avoid recession? Economists make their calls
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Infrastructure Report: Priorities for big projects
Public and private partnerships are needed to get investment and development moving.
Govt books in relatively good shape, but Robertson has warning for NZ
Crown accounts for the four months to the end of October were released by Treasury today.
$2b raid: How emergency Covid funds were redirected to bolster Budget '22
Former Treasury adviser says it was an “accounting trick”.
Thomas Coughlan: National saves itself from British Budget blowback, but questions over cuts remain
National mounts urgent clean-up job as UK PM's tax plans backfire on New Zealand.
$1.1b Oranga Tamariki spend-up a 'disparate collection of ideas' with no strategy
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Cost of living payment: 'Warnings were ignored'
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No Minister, more spending won't help keep inflation down
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