Budget 2025: Pasifika community braces for impact

Budget 2025: Pasifika community braces for impact

Finance Minister Nicola Willis will deliver her second Budget on Thursday. She says it will be "about prioritising your taxpayer money carefully".

Pasifika spending ‘reprioritised’ in Budget 2025

A test print of Budget 2025 Gladys Hartson | Senior Journalist It’s been described as the Growth / Reprioritisation Budget but where is the money going to be spent and what’s in it for Pacific people? Finance Minister, Nicola Willis outlined that the government is spending under its self-imposed operating allowance of $1.3 billion dollars, in the house yesterday.  This basically means money for the budget has largely come from…

Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t

We have been handed a long and protracted recession with few signs of growth and prosperity. Budget 2025 signals more of the same, writes Susan St John. ANALYSIS: By Susan St John With the coalition government’s second Budget being unveiled, we should question where New Zealand is heading. The 2024 Budget laid out the strategy. Tax cuts and landlord subsidies were prioritised with a focus on cuts to social and infrastructure spending. Most of th…