Pre-Budget question time

Mike's Minute: Winston's on the warpath.

‘Is there something wrong with me being white?’ Judith Collins pushes back over race relations questions. Video / Supplied

Focus: Judith Collins calls Tamati Coffey’s question about Treaty 'stupid' going on to say she's 'utterly sick of being demonised for my ethnicity.’

Christopher Luxon holds post-Cabinet press conference

PM Jacinda Ardern speaks on a Transtasman bubble but is standing firm on the wait for the move to alert level 1 and says she hopes the country can make the shift within four weeks.

Mike's Minute: What is National doing?

Deputy PM Winston Peters on the Mike Hosking Breakfast, May 27th.

National leader Todd Muller and his deputy Nikki Kaye made a blunder today in defending the diversity of their shadow cabinet by suggesting that Paul Goldsmith was Māori when he is not.

Nikki Kaye wrongly said Finance spokesman Paul Goldsmith was Māori. Video / Audrey Young

Paula Bennett talks about being rolled as deputy leader on Friday. Video / Derek Cheng

National Party leader Todd Muller says his MAGA hat will stay packed in a box when he moves office. Video / Audrey Young

Mike's Minute: Muller’s reshuffle a clever move.

Senior National MP Amy Adams has ditched her retirement plans and is the big winner as Todd Muller outlined the new National caucus today.

The newly jobless due to the Covid-19 crisis will be able to get $490 a week tax-free for 12 weeks.

Christopher Luxon speaks to the media

A wounded Simon Bridges has congratulated new National leader Todd Muller after his ousting.

Todd Muller talks to Local Focus before knocking Simon Bridges out of National Party leadership. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

National Party MP Todd Muller has changed his mind since ruling out any leadership ambitions when he appeared on The Country this Tuesday. Audio / The Country. Photo / George Novak

There are no new Covid-19 cases today. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the Government on Monday will consider increasing the maximum size of gatherings under alert level 2.

Simon Bridges blasts Treasury "no show" at the Epidemic Response Committee hearing Tuesday morning. Video / Parliament TV

After one of the National Party’s worst poll results, leader Simon Bridges talks to Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking. Audio / Newstalk ZB

The Government will reinstate the 100 per cent funding band for teacher-led ECE services after it was scrapped by the previous Government in 2010, PM Jacinda Ardern said.

There are no new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today. Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield will tonight be leading the New Zealand delegation at a World Health Organisation meeting

PM Jacinda Ardern speaks to Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking as Kiwis head back to the office and schools after months in lockdown. Audio / Newstalk ZB

Christopher Luxon pre-Budget speech.

Focus Live: NZ First MP Shane Jones explains the boost to the Provincial Growth Fund in Budget 2020. Video / Mark Mitchell

Budget 2020 Live Special: The Government will borrow an extra $50 billion in the June 2021 fiscal year to mitigate the hit from the Covid-19 pandemic.

PM Jacinda Ardern on her Budget day tradition of gifting Finance Minister Grant Robertson a new tie. Video / Mark Mitchell