Latest from Budget 2024

Ministry of Health confirms final job cut tally

The Ministry of Health held an all-staff meeting on the plan this morning.

Opinion: A response to Sir Roger Douglas on Budget 2024 challenges

OPINION: Sir Roger Douglas has renewed his case for radical changes to fiscal policy.

Craig Stobo: We need foreign firms to shake us out of innovation mediocrity

OPINION: Past embarrassments aside, we need foreign firms to solve a productivity problem.

Cameron Bagrie: Major changes means it's time to slay dragons

OPINION: The scale of a monstrous problem has become clearer of late.

Opinion: Quick takes on Nicola Willis' first Budget

OPINION: Nicola Willis’ first Budget has done exactly what she had put on the tin.

Letters: Cancer patients don't have time to wait; why I marched down Queen St

OPINION: 'The Government would be wise to stop prioritising potholes.'

Another 146 job losses at Ministry of Education take total past 700

The ministry's digital division will cut about 146 positions.

New poll: National drops post-Budget, Hipkins pulls ahead of PM

A new poll has shown no great affection for the Budget.

Letters: Another family caught up in ridiculous red tape

OPINION: Immigration NZ delivers 'a brilliant gem of bureaucratic lunacy'.

Debate intensifies over Māori rights and Treaty Principles Bill amid call for a separate Parliament

There has been outrage over the Treaty Principles Bill and cuts to services for Māori.

Number of frontline police from Budget boost an illusion – Police Association

The funding for 500 new cops will actually result in only 300, the association says.

Ministry for the Environment to cut 303 jobs

The environment ministry's workforce is proposed to be slashed by one third.

Inside Economics: Lower petrol prices as oil slumps and RBNZ’s Budget headache

It's two steps forward, one step back, as Liam Dann looks at forces driving inflation.

Letters: PM's integrity on line over cancer drugs U-turn

OPINION: 'Cancer patients need action now, not lame excuses.'

Chlöe Swarbrick: Bloody-minded pursuit of tax cuts comes at a huge cost

OPINION: Tax cuts and policy changes leave 9000 families worse off.

Chris Hipkins on the 2024 Budget

Labour leader Chris Hipkins speaks about the new budget to the media at the Sustainability Trust in Wellington. Video / Mark Mitchell