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KiwiSaver changes to encourage savings
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets “Budget 2025 improves KiwiSaver to encourage Kiwis to save more for their first home and retirement, while making the scheme more fiscally...
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Investment Boost: Tax Incentive to Lift Growth
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets “Budget 2025 launches Investment Boost, a major new tax incentive to encourage businesses to invest, grow the economy, and lift wages,” Finance...
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12-month prescriptions put money in patients’ pockets
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets New Zealanders will soon be able to receive 12-month prescriptions for their medicines, delivering savings to patients on long-term medications, Health Minister...
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A responsible Budget to secure NZ’s future
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Budget 2025 secures New Zealand’s economic and fiscal recovery and advances reforms to make New Zealanders better off in future. “In recent...
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Backing for food banks extended
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government will back community-based food banks for a further year as New Zealand recovers from a cost-of-living crisis, Minister for Social Development...
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Increased support for families
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Budget 2025 changes Working for Families to better target help to low and middle-income families with children. About 142,000 families will receive...
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Delivering the right houses in the right place, for the right people
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Budget 2025 introduces a new housing investment approach that will deliver the right houses, in the right places, for the right people,...
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Record investment in health delivery
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government is again delivering record investment in healthcare, providing New Zealanders with better health services and ensuring hospitals and healthcare facilities...
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Parents to step up for unemployed teenagers
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Parents rather than the state will be responsible for unemployed 18- and 19-year-olds who cannot support themselves under planned benefit changes announced...
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$200m set aside for Crown stake in new gas fields
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The coalition Government is taking action on New Zealand’s declining natural gas reserves and has set aside a tagged contingency of $200...
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More staff, better prisons to keep public safe
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets New investment in prison capacity and frontline staff will help reduce reoffending and keep the public safe, Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell says. ...
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Investing in public safety and reforming young offenders
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Initiatives to help serious and persistent young offenders turn their lives around, and improvements to facilities for them, have been given a...
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Supporting school choice
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Diversity and choice in New Zealand’s schooling system will be supported by increasing funding for independent (private) school subsidies, Associate Education Minister...
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Billion-dollar investment in hospitals
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Nelson and other communities will benefit from a billion-dollar upgrade and expansion of hospitals across the country, Health Minister Simeon Brown says.“Budget 2025...
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Mental distress 111 calls to get a mental health response
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government is overhauling the way emergency services respond to 111 calls from people experiencing mental distress, Minister for Mental Health Matt...
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Tackling New Zealand’s rising tax debt
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government will boost its investment in chasing tax evaders, Revenue Minister Simon Watts says. “Hard-working Kiwis who pay their taxes are being...
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Improving care for disabled New Zealanders
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets More than 7,000 disabled New Zealanders will receive improved residential care, thanks to a $240 million four-year funding boost in today’s Budget. This...
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More Police funding to improve public safety
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government is investing more in core police services to continue its good progress in restoring law and order and improving the safety...
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Funding boost for post-Cyclone local road recovery
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets North Island communities still building back after the 2023 weather events will get extra funding to complete recovery works on local roads,...
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Tertiary study subsidy boost in priority subjects
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government is backing the tertiary system with new investment in study that delivers the greatest value for students and for New...
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Growth-promoting science and innovation backed
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government is backing modern, commercially-focused science and innovation to fully realise the contribution it can make to economic growth and the...
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Baiduri Bank Opens Representative Office In Singapore
Source: Media Outreach SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 22 May 2025 – Baiduri Bank, Brunei Darussalam’s largest conventional bank, proudly announces the opening of its first overseas representative office...
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Budget 2025 – Growing the economy to help Kiwis get ahead
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Budget 2025 is about growing the economy to create jobs and help Kiwis get ahead, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says. “The Government’s...
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Micro-credentials funding and fees
Source: Funding for micro-credentials We want to invest in micro-credentials that meet the needs of industries and communities, and support government priorities delivered by highly capable TEOs. To be funded,...
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NZ-AU: U.S. Department of Commerce to Place Up to 721% Tariffs on Chinese Graphite
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-NZ-AU) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NOVONIX Limited (NASDAQ: NVX, ASX: NVX) (“NOVONIX” or the “Company”), a leading battery materials and technology company, applauds the...
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Budget 2025 – Unions to hold Budget Day Hui for Pay Equity
Source: NZCTU The union movement are today hosting a Budget Day Hui to fight back against the Government’s decision to gut the Equal Pay Act and destroy decades of progress...
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Commonsense financial reforms underway
Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Last night the Government took a major step toward restoring common sense to financial regulation, with the first readings of three important...