Budget 2025: Strengthening Rural Resilience & Celebrating Rural Women

Budget 2025: Strengthening Rural Resilience & Celebrating Rural Women

Budget 2025 includes a $250,000 investment for the 2025/26 financial year to help the organisation expand its reach during its centenary year and continue its vital role supporting rural families and communities.

Rural health, science find Budget 2025 wanting

Reading Time: 3 minutes The word “rural” was absent from the health estimates in this week’s Budget, said Rural Health Network chief executive Grant Davidson. “Instead, rural New Zealand seems to have been sidelined once again,” he said. His cited as evidence the lack of an announcement of progress on the third medical school at Waikato University, which will specialise on rural general practice, and no investment or plan outlined for increasing…

Strengthening rural resilience & celebrating Rural Women

The Government is backing the grassroots work of Rural Women New Zealand – the people who support and connect rural families, communities, and businesses across the country. Budget 2025 includes a $250,000 investment for the 2025/26 financial year to help the organisation expand its reach during its centenary year and continue its vital role supporting rural families and communities. “If agriculture is the backbone of the New Zealand economy, th…