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Fears new kauri dieback funding will be chewed up by bureaucracy
Kauri conservationists fear bureaucracy will suck up the $28m in new funding from Budget 2021.
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Week in Politics: An anxious wait for vaccines
28 May 2021Analysis - The political stakes are sky high as the government waits anxiously for confirmation from Pfizer that enough of the Covid-19 vaccine will arrive to…
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Opinion: Budget almost misses disabled people out entirely
24 May 2021While the 2021 Budget had some really good initiatives for disabled people, the vaunted benefit increases, while very welcome, have come too late writes Chris…
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Budget 2021: Foreign affairs funding largely on ice as new priorities emerge
23 May 2021Analysis - This week's Budget has more than just financial accounts and the allocations can provide clues to the direction of foreign policy under the new…
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Budget 2021: Benefit increases welcomed but some community groups need more
22 May 2021The government is being accused of dismissing major funding issues for some community organisations that support people experiencing hardship, but the increase in benefits is being welcomed.
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Budget 2021: Women left behind, despite focus on well-being
22 May 2021What did Budget 2021 offer those women who were significantly affected by the job losses resulting from Covid-19?
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Budget benefits boost and student support: 'People just can't afford the basic necessities'
21 May 2021The $3.3b boost to benefits and student support was the centrepiece of the Budget, but there's already a question mark over whether it's enough. Audio
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Budget 2021 expectations vs reality: What you need to know
21 May 2021Analysis - Does Finance Minister Grant Robertson's Budget match up with the public's hopes and expectations? RNZ is here to clear it all up.
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Fed Farmers welcome Budget funding, Dairy NZ says it missed the mark
21 May 2021Biosecurity, agricultural emissions research and farm planning were areas that received a funding boost in yesterday's Budget.
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$85m Hillside workshop boost: Seymour's comments 'ludicrous'
21 May 2021An advocate of the government's $85 million allocation to Dunedin rail wagon assembly plant says it will bring huge benefits to the country and has called ACT Party's criticism of the move… Audio
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Budget 2021: 'Looking to leave the country in order to live'
21 May 2021Finance Minister Grant Robertson presented the government's so-called recovery and well-being Budget yesterday, but some are describing it as anything but.
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Ardern says Budget is 'a real milestone for us'
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern fielded questions from reporters today on the Budget after taking a tour through a social supermarket in Newtown, Wellington.
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Budget 2021: Finance minister defends 'strong balance sheet'
The finance minister says there is enough for "middle" New Zealand in the Budget and that the government has not left working people behind. Audio
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Climate group 'a bit pissed off' by Budget's lack of emissions focus
21 May 2021Climate action groups say their low expectations for spending to tackle climate change in yesterday's Budget were well and truly borne out.
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Budget 2021: What you need to know
21 May 2021This year's Budget has delivered benefit rises, money for Māori housing and an increase in Pharmac's budget. Here are the key announcements.
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Lack of targeted Whānau Ora funding 'inexcusable' - Te Paati Māori
21 May 2021Despite a massive increase in targeted funding for Māori in Budget 2021, Whānau Ora Commissioning agencies say they are missing out in favour of a boost to health and housing expenditure. Audio
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BusinessNZ supports welfare increases in Budget
The government's welfare increases could have been bigger and they will help businesses, a business leader says. Audio
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Budget 2021: Boost to vocational training to help tackle youth unemployment
21 May 2021South Auckland youth wanting a career in construction were potential winners from yesterday's Budget announcements.
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NZ Budget 2021: Billions more for benefits, but one eye on the bottom line
20 May 2021New Zealand has now had three "Wellbeing Budgets": the prototype in 2019, the Covid-19 "Rebuilding Together" version in 2020, and today Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced the Labour government…
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Budget 2021 is dyed the deepest red
20 May 2021Analysis - On election night 2020 the sense of triumph around Labour was palpable, the grins as wide as the Waikato. Today's Budget is why, Tim Watkin writes.
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Budget 21: Living in the past with a cheugy budget
20 May 2021Opinion - Cheugy is the latest insult from Generation Z, targeted mostly at Millennials. And like Millennials, Budget 2021 is living in the past, Brigitte Morten writes.
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Budget 2021: The environmental investments
20 May 2021Rail and electric vehicles are getting the lions share of the investment from today's Budget towards the Government's efforts to bring down emissions.
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Budget set to deliver more money to NZ's poorest and those hardest hit by Covid-19
Today is Budget Day and all signs are it will deliver more money into the pockets of New Zealand's poorest and those hit hardest by Covid-19. Audio
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Budget 2021: 'Our focus would've been on building jobs' - Collins
The government has no confidence in growing the economy, and that was why benefits were going up, National Party leader Judith Collins says.
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Budget 2021: Benefits boost in 'quest to reduce inequality’
20 May 2021Beneficiaries will reap the rewards of this year's Budget with a welfare boost billed as the "biggest in a generation".
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As it happened: Budget 2021 - Finance Minister Grant Robertson reveals government's spending plans
20 May 2021Finance Minister Grant Robertson has announced the government's 2021 Budget. Follow RNZ's blog for the announcements, analysis and all you need to know.
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Budget 2021: Swifter rebound results in lower deficits and debt burden
20 May 2021The faster and stronger economic rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic is allowing the government to spend more and borrow less.
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Budget 2021: What the government plans to spend on the health system
The government's massive overhaul of the country's health system will cost more than half a billion dollars - just to get started.
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