Bill English

The Finance Minister is calling an audit of the Government's retail deposit guarantee scheme, 'timely', in view of the payout to South Canterbury Finance depositors last month. Audio

The Minister of Finance is adamant the GST and tax changes that came into force this morning are fair - despite many groups saying they will hit those on lower incomes. Audio

Bill English outlines the rationale behind the changes and responds to criticism from the Green Party. Audio

The Government is making it harder for foreign investors to buy large chunks of farmland. Audio

Treasury has revised its sums on what it thinks will be the full cost of the Canterbury earthquake - which is now estimated at four billion dollars. Audio

The Government says it wants to end the deposit guarantee scheme after spending one point eight billion dollars on bailing out South Canterbury Finance. Audio

Geoff Robinson asks the Finance Minister, Bill English; Why are taxpayers bailing out South Canterbury Finance? Audio

Taxpayers have written out a cheque for more than one-and-a-half-billion dollars, after South Canterbury Finance was this morning placed into recievership. Audio

The Minister of Finance, Bill English, joins us. Audio

The Finance Minister has signaled that the door is now wide open for the private sector to get into public assets such as schools, hospitals, prisons and state housing. Audio

Public servants are in the firing line again with the government fixing its sights on how much it spends on policy advice. Audio

Nigel Stirling looks at the issue of foreign investment amid the debate about Chinese companies bidding for NZ dairy farms. Audio

The Secondary Principals' Association has criticised government's moves to privatise school buildings. Audio

The Council of Trade Unions is calling on the Government to relax its austerity drive after latest figures show an improvement in the national accounts. Audio

Australia's new Prime Minister Julia Gillard wants New Zealand involved in setting up a regional centre in East Timor for processing asylum seekers and appears to want this country to take more… Audio

Agencies serving the Pacific Island community are upset at the way the government has gone about awarding nearly five million dollars to help address high unemployment in south-Auckland. Audio

The government is back tracking on the awarding of nearly five million dollars to the privately run Pacific Economic Development Agency and now says the money could end up being awarded to other… Audio

So Bill English's second Budget is providing tax cuts for all. Audio

The Government says today's announced tax cuts are aimed at getting us saving and creating more jobs. Audio

The Government will have to borrow around 400 million dollars to afford the tax cuts - Bill English says that's affordable. Audio