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Focus on Politics: A Budget searching for balance
Podcast - This Budget needed to tackle health and climate while delivering cost-of-living relief. Deputy Political Editor Craig McCulloch assesses the implications. Audio
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Budget 2022: Housing investment 'a small, good thing that may help'
20 May 2022The Salvation Army says housing boosts in the Budget will help some people stuck in the 'catastrophe', but they do not stretch far enough to properly address…
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Budget 2022 does little to stop NZ 'going backwards'
19 May 2022Analysis - Since Grant Robertson became Minister of Finance, government spending has gone up 68 percent. Granting everybody's wishes may be fun, but Brigitte…
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Health NZ to be country's biggest employer with 80,000 staff
20 May 2022Minister of Health Andrew Little has been explaining Budget spending to health leaders in Auckland this morning, outlining just how big the new Health NZ…
Budget 2022 headlines with summaries.
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Budget 2022: Public transport fare announcement 'underwhelming' - campaigner
20 May 2022A public transport campaigner is giving the government's Budget just three and a half out of 10. Audio
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Budget's 2022: Death-knell for the school decile system
19 May 2022The government's Budget rings a multi-million-dollar death-knell for the much-maligned school decile system.
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Budget 2022: Expectations vs Reality
19 May 2022There was a lot riding on the year's Budget: Cost-of-living challenges, health, climate, education - so did the spending match sectors' hopes?
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Budget 2022 delivers $350 targeted cost-of-living payment
19 May 2022More than two million New Zealanders will get a one-off $350 sweetener as part of the Budget's centrepiece $1 billion cost-of-living relief package.
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Māori health workers unsure how far Budget funding will go
20 May 2022Māori health and social workers say the funding announced in yesterday's Budget will do little to help ease their burden, or close equity gaps.
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Budget 2022: Māori initiatives get more than $1b
19 May 2022This year's Budget sees more than half a billion dollars pumped in to the Māori health sector with $579.9 million going towards Māori health and wellbeing.
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Budget doesn't address 'Significant issues' - Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency
19 May 2022Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency says the Budget has some good elements, but "it doesn't address some significant issues we have in our communities".
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Budget 2022: Disabled people get mixed bag in Budget
20 May 2022Many initiatives benefit disabled people either directly or indirectly, but the Budget is still marked by what is not in it, writes Chris Ford.
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Will Budget 2022 be the political circuit-breaker Labour wants?
19 May 2022Analysis - Labour needs this budget to do an immediate job - address concern with the cost of living.
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'You can't budget your way out of poverty' - Call for no more 'token gestures'
18 May 2022The New Zealand government is being urged to implement long-term solutions to tackle poverty in Pacific communities as Budget 2022 looms.
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Budget 2022: What you need to know
19 May 2022There's a lot of spending flying around in Budget 2022 - here are the main expenses in an easy-to-read list.
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Cautious approach as Budget shows deficits for next two years
19 May 2022The government takes a measured approach to new spending and investment as it looks to negotiate high inflation, global disruptions, and geo-political uncertainties, which it is expecting to dent near…
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Budget 2022: $11.1b allocated to overhauling the health system
19 May 2022The sum includes about $1.8 billion to wipe out DHB deficits, while Pharmac will receive $191m over two years to fund new drugs - with a particular focus on cancer care.
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Watch: Political parties respond to Budget 2022
19 May 2022National, ACT, Te Pāti Māori and the Green Party have given their responses to the government's Budget 2022.
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How Budget day 2022 played out
19 May 2022Inequality campaigners say the government's cost of living payment is a slap in the face to some of the country's most vulnerable.
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PM Jacinda Ardern on Covid-19 recovery: 'I've lost all my taste'
19 May 2022Jacinda Ardern has shared the traditional pre-Budget breakfast with the Finance Minister - though socially distanced with Covid-19 - and revealed she had lost her sense of taste.
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Balancing expectations: Grant Robertson's challenge in Budget 2022
19 May 2022Power Play - This Budget is one of the hardest Finance Minister Grant Robertson has had to put together, Political Editor Jane Patterson writes.
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Middle income families hoping for help in Budget as rising costs sting
The pressure is on for the government to ease the 'cost of living crisis' for struggling New Zealanders in today's Budget. Audio
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KiwiRail says Budget 2022 shunts rail transport rebuild ahead
19 May 2022Rail has been a winner from Budget 2022, the head of KiwiRail says, and now has the tools to rebuild the network after "decades of underinvestment".
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Hints at Budget spend on Māori health as inequities bite
18 May 2022Māori health workers and community leaders are hoping tomorrow's Budget will address urgent social and health needs, with hints at a significant spend for Māori health.
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Pasifika health services in Waikato hope Budget can alleviate strain
18 May 2022Pasifika health providers are hoping tomorrow's Budget addresses urgent social and health needs exposed by Covid-19 over the last two years.
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Mental health advocate concerned funding will not reach young people
18 May 2022A mental health service is concerned those who experience the worst inequality will not benefit from more government funding.
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Mana Ake school mental health programme expansion gets $90m in Budget
17 May 2022Labour promised at the election to expand the mental health support to all New Zealand schools, saying it would take five years to roll out.
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Mental health crisis services get $27m boost in Budget
17 May 2022Crisis services will get more than a quarter of a $100m spend on mental health in this year's Budget, Health Minister Andrew Little has announced. Audio
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