Grant Robertson
Deputy PM: incentives for vaccines could be challenging
We heard earlier from Stuff's Sinead Boucher who is giving her 900 staff a hundred bucks to spend locally to help with the bounce back from lockdown. Nathan Rarere asked Deputy Prime Minister Grant… Audio
Deputy PM on alert level moves and MIQ changes
Lisa Owen asks Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson what advice he could give to Aucklanders who had travel booked for the school holidays beginning on October 2.
They also discuss the return of the… Video, Audio
Cricket Players Association on Pakistan tour abandonment
It was a tour 18 years in the making, but in a matter of minutes what would have been a historic series for cricket in Pakistan got knocked for a six by New Zealand Cricket's decision to abandon the… Audio
Covid-19: Evidence Thames case linked to another case - Grant Robertson
Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson says there's preliminary evidence to suggest the Waikato cases are linked to one of the Auckland clusters.
Robertson told Morning Report there's no indication… Audio
The safe bet and the cash cache: imprest supply
MPs have been arguing about imprest supply recently. Partly, that argument assumes you don’t understand what it is. You’re about to. Audio
The safe bet and the cash cache: imprest supply
MPs have been arguing about imprest supply recently. Partly, that argument assumes you don’t understand what it is. You’re about to.
AudioRobertson:sympathy for pensioner stuck overseas, buyer beware
Nathan Rarere asked the Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson the Level 4 essential items issue. But they began by discussing the half-a-million doses of the Pfizer vaccine that arrived in New Zealand… Audio
Deputy PM details latest on Covid-19 Delta outbreak, lockdown
Auckland will remain at Covid-19 level 4 lockdown until next Tuesday, then likely move to level 3. And the rest of the country will stay at level two for another week.
People in seven Auckland… Video, Audio
Deputy PM: mystery cases key piece to alert level decision
After a weekend in which tens of thousands of Aucklanders were vaccinated against Covid-19, health officials are gearing up for surveillance testing in several city suburbs.
Ahead of today's Cabinet… Audio
Due to MIQ issues, athletes forced to look at new careers
Without being able to book MIQ spots if they travel to overseas competitions, some of our top athletes are being forced to rethink their career paths. Yesterday we brought you the story of multisport… Audio
Robertson:individual sport participants hard to book MIQ
Nathan Rarere asked Minister of Sport and Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson why it's so hard for some athletes to book an MIQ spot and come home. Audio
New Lynn attack: Cabinet to consider whether law changes are necessary
Cabinet Ministers will today consider law changes following Friday's terror attack, but some MPs are warning against any knee jerk reactions.
Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police… Audio
New Lynn attack: Robertson defends speed changing terror laws
The Deputy Prime Minister says his government has acted as quickly as it could to bring in changes to terrorism laws.
The government has expressed frustration at the inability of authorities to keep… Audio
New Lynn attack: Govt searches for answers to stop it happening again
Cabinet Ministers will today consider law changes following Friday's terror attack, but some MPs are warning against any knee jerk reactions.
Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police… Audio
Parliament's tiny house vs its committees
This week Parliament's House held just a tiny remnant of MPs. So where were the rest of them, what were they doing, and who was working harder? Audio
Parliament's tiny house vs its committees
This week Parliament's House held just a tiny remnant of MPs. So where were the rest of them, what were they doing, and who was working harder?
AudioGrant Robertson defends MIQ security after Covid-19 infected man's escape
Answers are being demanded after a man infected with Covid-19 escaped from hotel quarantine for an extended period in Auckland early on Thursday.
The man was arrested at a house in Otahuhu yesterday… Audio
'Improve or lose social license to exist' - greyhound racing warned
The greyhound racing industry has unnecessarily obfuscated information, the government's reviewer says, and Racing Minister Grant Robertson has warned it is being put "formally on notice".
Robertson… Video, Audio
Covid-19: Collins feeling the pressure in lockdown
Tensions have boiled over this week as MPs grappled with how Parliament operates while alert level restrictions remain in place.
National Party leader Judith Collins has taken umbrage with criticisms… Audio
Robertson:country is prepping for vaccine rollout increase
Nathan Rarere asked Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson whether the country has enough money down the back of the couch for an additional wage subsidy for struggling businesses. Audio