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Budget will help vulnerable Kiwis
Finance Minister Bill English says the Budget 2013 will help the most vulnerable people in society "who the Government has…
Herald on Sunday editorial: Kiwis need a lot more protection
They are this country's least desirable export and occasionally they come back to bite. They are the New Zealanders who…
McCarten: My Budget would do the trick
Despite all the political and media posturing over Thursday's Budget, nothing much really happened - again, writes Matt…
John Armstrong on politics
John Armstrong: National gives mixed signals with housing
John Armstrong writes: "One of the reasons why Governments…
John Armstrong: Something for everyone makes it hard to hate
Bill English's effort is a liquorice allsorts kind…
Hide: More than Gilmore let us down
Aaron Gilmore has been and gone, writes Rodney Hide. He went from total obscurity to poster-boy for the democratic defect…
Tardy student borrowers owe $427m
The Government's tough new student loan rules are an attempt to claw back more than $427 million of debt in default from…
Opposition slams rush on disability payments
A bill which allows people who cared for disabled family members to get paid by the Govt has passed into law a day after…
Brand new housing deal looks shaky
The Government's "accord" with Auckland Council to prick the region's housing bubble is in danger of unravelling a week…
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Latest WINZ privacy breach preventable, says Labour
Labour says Government inaction over privacy breaches could lie behind the mistaken release from Work…
School breakfasts could be served all week
A school breakfast programme run by Fonterra and Sanitarium may be extended to five days a week with extra Government support…
Charities cleared to join state house market
People who apply for a state house may be directed instead to a charitable housing provider under a bill introduced in the…
Fran O'Sullivan: Time for Key to spread the success story
It is time for Key - and English - to market internationally the fiscal stability that has been achieved against that tough…
Social housing legislation passes first hurdle
A bill to introduce changes to the social housing sector announced in Budget 2013 has passed its first…
Key tips early surplus
John Key says it is possible the Government could get close to a surplus in the coming financial year - one year earlier…
Budget has 'little in it' for North's poor
The Government's "Budget boost" to support low income families will have little effect on improving Northland's appalling…
Govt to spend $136m on school network project
The Government has announced it will spend $136 million over the next four years to complete the school network upgrade…
Roger Douglas: Little vision, courage or imagination
Only if we are willing to look forward and devolve control of the money Government spends to individuals will we deliver…
Govt sets sights on Meridian
Meridian Energy, New Zealand's biggest and most profitable power company, will be partially privatised…
Finance Minister in boss' good books
Two of Prime Minister John Key's own departments - the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and also Tourism - are…
Little for first home buyers
Jenny and Gavin Leary cannot see anything in the Government's housing affordability package to immediately help them get…
Budget 2013: Govt to control housing plans if councils drag chain
The Government says it will take control of housing planning and consent processes from councils if they do not act quickly…
Careful on spending, bold on housing
Bill English's Budget keeps a tight rein on Government spending to meet its goal of a surplus, but it makes significant…
Budget 2013: Funding boost to pay for case management
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The extra $188.6 million being ploughed in to pay for the Government's welfare reforms includes a $51.8…
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Homicide inquiry launched
Updated Police have launched a homicide investigation after a man was killed and a woman critically injured in the Far North today…
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Matt McCarten says by the law of averages, in any representative democracy a few narcissists will be elected.
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