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Budget 2021: Will benefit increases make a difference?
Max Rashbrooke, editor of 'Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis', speaks talks to Jesse about Budget 2021. Audio
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Australia provides big boost for Pacific netball
Netball Australia has announced a three-year agreement to boost the game's development in the Pacific Islands.
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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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Fed Farmers welcome Budget funding, Dairy NZ says it missed the mark
Biosecurity, agricultural emissions research and farm planning were areas that received a funding boost in yesterday's Budget.
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Budget 2021 just 'papering over the cracks' - National Party
The National Party says the Budget delivered by Finance Minister Grant Robertson yesterday afternoon is simply papering over the cracks.
In its first unconstrained Budget in decades, Labour hiked… Audio
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The biggest benefit rise in a generation
Today's Budget has announced changes that will increase benefits by 32 to 55 dollars a week by next April as part of changes that the Government says is a way of addressing inequality that has built… Audio
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NZ Budget 2021: Billions more for benefits, but one eye on the bottom line
New 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: Benefits boost in 'quest to reduce inequality’
Beneficiaries will reap the rewards of this year's Budget with a welfare boost billed as the "biggest in a generation".
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'You've got 24 hours': Māori ward advocates launch Martinborough hīkoi
Pro-Māori ward activists took their campaign to South Wairarapa District Council offices after a hīkoi through Martinborough today. Sue Teodoro and Marcus Anselm report.
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Budget 2021: Benefits to increase by up to $55 a week
Benefits will be boosted by up to $55 a week, potentially lifting tens of thousands more children out of poverty.
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Budget 21: Living in the past with a cheugy budget
Opinion - 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: Sector leaders, experts analyse govt spending
In its first unconstrained Budget in decades, the Labour majority government has hiked benefits to help reduce inequality and stimulate the economy in the wake of Covid-19.
The spending is fuelled by… Video, Audio
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Budget 2021: 'This is a milestone, but we keep going' - Ardern
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other Labour Party MPs have spoken to media about Budget 2021.
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Budget 2021: Benefits boost in 'quest to reduce inequality’
Beneficiaries will reap the rewards of this year's Budget with a welfare boost billed as the "biggest in a generation".
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Māori to be focus of lung cancer screening trial
Māori will be the focus of this country's first trial of screening for lung cancer. Audio
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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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Māori to be focus of lung cancer screening trial
Māori will be the focus of this country's first trial of screening for lung cancer.
It's been made possible by a grant of nearly $2 million from the Health Research Council and the Global Alliance… Audio
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Budget will target inequality - Grant Robertson
Today's Budget will still be a Covid-19 one but the Finance Minister says it will looking more to recovery.
All signs are the government will target spending at lifting the incomes of beneficiaries… Audio
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Question Time for 19 May 2021
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Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all of her Government’s statements and actions?
ARENA WILLIAMS to the Minister of Finance: What are the Government’s priorities for…
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Doctors struggling to help Gaza's injured as fighting continues
Doctors Without Borders says the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening every day, and it's getting harder to help. Israel continues to fire a barrage of rockets and mortars into Gaza - where more… Audio
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Paekākāriki Film Festival - for the love of a community hall
On our trip to the regions we're going to Paekākāriki on the Kapiti Coast. This year's Film Festival will feature more than sit-down films. Audio
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Solo mum Jade: lifting benefits in Budget huge relief
Solo mums on the benefit say it's tough to make ends meet each week - and more money to lift benefits in this week's budget would be a huge relief. The government has promised to overhaul the welfare… Audio
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Bryce Edwards: Will the government take the poverty crisis seriously?
Political Roundup - This week's Budget is a chance for the government to take the crisis of inequality seriously. A big boost to benefits would be the most effective way, Dr Bryce Edwards writes.
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Sharing chores at home could help economy - Westpac/Deloitte survey
Sharing the load could come with a healthy boost to the economy.
A Westpac / Deloitte survey has found just seven percent of heterosexual couples, who both work full time, share the domestic chores… Audio
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Important for children to learn about white privilege
The head of the Principals' Federation insists it is important for children to learn about white privilege at school. The ACT Party leader David Seymour says the government has covertly added white… Audio
