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Finance Minister Nicola Willis on Budget, cancer treatments
Finance Minister Nicola Willis didn't include promised funding for cancer treatment in the budget - Nathan asked her why Audio
Former NZ First MP Barbara Stewart dies
Former New Zealand First MP Barbara Stewart has died at the age of 72. Audio
Trade Minister to sign three Indo-Pacific agreements with 14 countries
The agreements focus on anti-corruption efforts and labour standards across the region, along with increased international tax cooperation.
Sheinbaum to be Mexico's first woman leader, exit polls say
Frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become Mexico's first woman president in an historic win, exit polls suggest.
Flood protection fund ambulance at bottom of cliff - resident
The Budget set aside $200m for flood resilience infrastructure, including stopbank improvements.
Govt breaks Budget promise to fund more mental health specialists
Psychiatrists are disappointed they won't get the 13 additional psychiatry registrar places National had committed to.
Government fails to pass everything it wanted under post-Budget urgency
Opposition parties were able to delay the government passing three bills overnight under urgency.
Lowering voting age to 16 'not a matter of if, but when'
A youth advocate is not giving up on their campaign to lower the voting age, despite the government ruling it out.
Luxon to visit Niue and Fiji
Christopher Luxon will make his first visit to the Pacific as prime minister this week.
Long-running bid to make big tech pay for news hits a snag
The media minister says a proposed law to get Google and Facebook pay for local news is not dead, but this week a Parliamentary committee and its government MPs did not support it. The government’s…
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Mediawatch for 2 June 2024
Long-running bid to make big tech pay for news hits a snag - so what happens next?; stories based on stats sliced from surveys; shock horror over incomplete houses. Audio
Budget Day: A Photo Essay
Budget Day in photos: Facts, attacks, stories, protests, pantomime and proclamations. Audio
Budget 2024 a 'mixed bag' for disabled people
Opinion - Relief over a boost for Whaikaha is tempered by disappointment that flexibility for individualised funding was not restored, Chris Ford writes.
Julia Whaipooti: Budget does not fulfil te Tiriti obligations
Thousands of people rallied across the country on Thursday to protest the coalition government's policies - including axing the Maori Health Authority, removing local councils' right to set up Maori… Audio
NZ Budget has Pasifika's best interests at heart, Minister Reti
NZ Budget has Pasifika's best interests at heart - Minister Reti. Audio
Budget 'lives up to a dispiriting tradition of short-termism'
Opinion - This Budget, like many before it, is convenient for today but stores up problems for future generations, Shamubeel Eaqub writes.
Urgency, at a snail's pace
After the Budget Debate begins, it's usual to go into urgency to progress some government bills quickly through the House, or as is the case so far this year - not so quickly. Audio
Careful cuts with little room for error: Willis' first Budget
At last, the tax cut tease is over, the full details on full display. The Budget's headline was only ever going to be tax cuts - and they arrived almost exactly as promised.
Finance Minister Nicola… Audio
ANC on course to lose majority in South Africa's election
Many voters blame the ANC for the high levels of corruption, crime and unemployment in the country.
Labour Party wants your tax cut
Labour leader Chris Hipkins is defending his party's decision to suggest supporters donate their tax cuts to it.
