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ECE teachers celebrate pay parity and funding boost
Early Childhood teachers are celebrating a nearly $2 billion boost for the sector, including funding for pay parity from November next year. The package includes $1.2 billion dollars to extend 20… Audio
Analysis: Budget 2023 wrap-up
Offering some political and financial analysis of the government's decisions, RNZ business editor, Gyles Beckford is with us and RNZ political editor, Jane Patterson. Audio
Grant Robertson on Budget 2023
Finance minister Grant Robertson spoke with RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson on his 'no-frills' Budget released on Thursday. Audio
Mother welcomes boost to childcare in Budget
Napier mother, Anna Catley has three children under three and she's welcomed the Budget's big boost to funding for early childhood education. Last year, Anna garnered a huge response to a Tik Tok post… Audio
Budget 2023 misses middle NZ
Labour's delivered its election year budget. Young families are some of the biggest winners with cheaper childcare and free public transport for those aged under 13. And everyone gets a free… Audio
Infrastructure funding must go further - academic
The Government announced it is setting aside $6 billion to "build back better" from recent flooding and severe weather events in yesterday's budget. Finance Minister Grant Robertson says the recent… Audio
Greenpeace is describing the Budget as a gamble
Greenpeace has called the Budget a gamble with the climate crisis. The Budget has allocated more than 3-billion dollars for climate initiatives - including 1-point-9 billion dollars for emissions… Audio
GPs say ditching $5 charge a huge help
GPs say ditching the $5 charge for picking up prescriptions will be a huge help to the patients who need it most. But they say family doctors themselves have not been given enough in the budget. Tim… Audio
Anti-Poverty advocates 'shocked' by Budget
Young families, anyone needing a doctor's prescription and people under 25 who catch the bus or train were the winners in yesterday's election Budget. Let's go through the details : - At a cost of… Audio
Budget 23 recap: RNZ political editor's take
RNZ political editor Jane Patterson has summarised Budget 23, saying Finance Minister Grant Robertson has increased the amount he can spend this year and in the future.
Why $133 per week back for childcare is 'chump change' for families
Opinion - The expansion of the childcare 20-hour free subsidy to two year olds looks great on paper for the budget, but it is unlikely to be the relief families are looking for, Brigitte Morten writes…
Finance Minister Grant Robertson discusses Budget 2023
Finance Minister Grant Robertson says there's something in Budget 2023 for everyone. He joins Lisa Owen, live from Parliament. [embed]… Video, Audio
How Labour's 'no frills' budget targets voters in election year
Analysis - After a 2022 Budget that played to Labour's base, this year's effort was essentially an inflation-driven budget that many more right-leaning parties would have been happy to deliver, Tim…
West Auckland reacts to Budget 2023's free prescriptions
The government's making prescriptions free - saying an estimated three million people will no longer have to worry about the cost of collecting their medicine. It says there were more than 135,000… Video, Audio
Budget 2023: Where's the spending going?
Young families are the target of Budget 2023, with a promise to extend the 20 free hours subsidy to two year olds - but only from March 2024. Children under 13 will travel free on public transport… Video, Audio
Patients will no longer have to pay $5 to pick up funded prescription
Patients will no longer have to top up the cost of their prescription medicines, in one of few new investments for health this Budget.
Budget 2023: Funds for tertiary and schools, early childhood a big winner
Early childhood had the biggest boosts in the education section of today's Budget.
Budget Day special
Today Morning Report host Corin Dann will present a one hour budget day special between 2 and 3pm providing analysis and updates on the 2023 budget. Audio
Budget preview with Infometrics
It's Budget Day, with the full details to be released at 2pm. The government says it will be a "no frills" Budget, with a focus on cyclone recovery and helping ease the cost of living crisis. A… Audio
Groups seek more support for the vulnerable in the Budget
Anti-poverty campaigners are hoping for tangible support for vulnerable people in today's so-called "no frills" Budget. They are focussed on what the government has up its sleeve to ease the cost of… Audio
