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More Supercars for New Zealand
Source: Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment MBIE (2) More Supercars for New Zealand | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment Published: 23 May 2025 The Government is investing $5.9...
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Release: Govt guts emergency housing while need increases
Source: New Zealand Labour Party The National Government has cut $1 billion from the emergency housing budget on the false pretence that demand is reducing, while also ending contracted emergency...
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Release: $1 billion of Māori funding gone
Source: New Zealand Labour Party The Government should hang its head in shame after a budget that takes a knife to more Māori programmes. “In Budget 2024 more than $300...
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Drug find all zipped up in Clover Park
Source: New Zealand Police Police performing routine breath testing in East Auckland last night bagged a whole lot more than expected. Just after 6.30pm, officers signalled for a driver to...
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Supercars for the South Island
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets A second round of the hugely successful Supercars events will be held in Christchurch from next year with support from the Government’s...
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Budget 2025 – ProCare concerned by 12-month prescribing extension in Budget 2025
Source: ProCare ProCare, Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest network of general practices, is concerned that the Government has chosen to disregard sector feedback by announcing a full 12-month repeat prescribing extension...
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Budget 2025 – No new spending announced for primary care in Budget 2025 – ProCare Health
Source: ProCare Leading healthcare provider, ProCare, has called today’s Budget extremely disappointing for primary care, with no new spending announced. While the Budget document touts a significant investment of $440.7...
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Budget 2025 – Reverse Robin Hood Budget steals from working people – CTU
Source: NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi Budget 2025 takes $12.8bn from low-income, female dominated workforces to prop up the Government’s failed economic policies, said NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi Economist Craig Renney....
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Budget 2025 – Budget of austerity piles on least well-off, misreads public mood – Better Taxes
Source: Better Taxes for a Better Future As your average New Zealander struggles to pay the bills, the Government’s 2025 Budget piles austerity on the least well-off, and misreads the...
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‘Growth Budget’ growing inequality and fuelling climate crisis
Source: Green Party Budget 2025 represents a significant step backwards for Aotearoa, with the Government adding fuel to the fire when it comes to the climate and inequality crises, says...
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Budget 2025 delivers little to nothing for our youngest
Source: Green Party The Government’s Budget offers little more than crumbs for our tamariki, while real issues in the ECE system are ignored. The Government’s Budget offers little more than...
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Government’s Budget fails Māori
Source: Green Party The Government has failed Māori and ignored its Te Tiriti obligations with its Budget, says Te Mātāwaka, the Green Party’s Māori and Pasifika Caucus. “This Budget has...
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Minister for the Environment missing in action in Budget 2025
Source: Green Party Budget 2025 makes it crystal clear that this Government has no interest in protecting nature or securing a liveable future for our tamariki. Budget 2025 makes it...
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Housing crisis will rage on with Budget 2025
Source: Green Party Budget 2025 makes clear that the Coalition Government has no long-term plan to help communities most in need of public housing. “This Budget treats housing like a...
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Budget to increase energy hardship
Source: Green Party Budget 2025 delays our transition to a low emissions and low-cost energy network, this will put even more pressure on households, businesses and the climate. “This Budget...
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Budget 2025 a betrayal of working people – E tū
Source: E tū, Aotearoa’s largest private sector union, is condemning Budget 2025 as a direct attack on working people, particularly women in frontline care and community services. The Government has...
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Seventy-four new constables heading to districts in a week
Source: New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers, members of the police executive and wing patron former police assistant commissioner, Allan Boreham congratulated 74 graduating constables from Wing 384 today. Also...
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Reverse Robin Hood Budget steals from working people
Source: Team effort to rescue teens Budget 2025 takes $12.8bn from low-income, female dominated workforces to prop up the Government’s failed economic policies, said NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi Economist Craig...
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Name release: Fatal crash, Takapau
Source: New Zealand Police Police can now release the name of the person who died in the two-vehicle crash on State Highway 2 near Takapau, on Tuesday 13 May. He...
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Budget 2025
Source: Last updated 22 May 2025 Last updated 22 May 2025 Print Share The Government’s Budget includes initiatives for the tertiary sector that provide targeted increases to tuition and training...
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Government pours gas on the climate crisis fire
Source: Green Party Budget 2025 has put our climate targets in serious jeopardy, says the Green Party. “Today the Government has done even worse than deny or delay climate action...
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Budget 2025 leaves future of school lunches uncertain
Source: Green Party The future of the Ka Ora | Ka Ako school lunch programme looks to be uncertain with Budget 2025 failing to provide any funding beyond 2026. “The...
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Have you seen Marilyn?
Source: New Zealand Police Police are asking for the public’s help finding Marilyn, who has been reported missing from the Ponsonby area. The 14-year-old was last seen on 18 May...
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Largest boost to Learning Support in a generation
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Largest boost to Learning Support in a generation The Government is delivering the most significant investment in learning support in a generation...
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Release: National failing on the cost of living
Source: New Zealand Labour Party Despite all the promises, Kiwis are still going backwards in Budget 2025. “Kiwis do not feel like they’re getting a fair deal under National,” Labour...
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Release: The Austerity Budget that leaves women out
Source: New Zealand Labour Party Today’s Budget is a masterclass in making the wrong decisions for New Zealanders. “After a year of job cuts, now we are on to pay...
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Release: Bills increase transparency of money transfers and ports
Source: New Zealand Labour Party Two Labour bills drawn from the Member’s Ballot today would require greater transparency of international money transfers, and bring more public accountability and transparency to...