Budget Day 2025 - Government reveals its 'No BS Budget'

Budget: Pou Tiaki panel gives the ‘No-BS Budget’ the sniff test for community voices

Finance Minister Nicola Willis dubbed it the ‘no-BS’ Budget, but does the Government’s spending pass the sniff test from Pou Tiaki’s panel?

Budget Day 2025 - Government reveals its 'No BS Budget'

The government's cuts, savings and new spending have all been revealed in this year's Budget.

All the news from budget day

Up-to-date reactions and analysis of the 2025 budget, as it lands.

On Thursday, the National Olympic Committee for French Sport (CNOSF) announced in a press release that its annual budget could be cut by 30% in the middle of a fiscal year.

Budget windfall | Brimbank & North West

Brimbank was one of the big winners in the state budget, with road and public transport funding flowing to the municipality. Twelve months after funding was scrapped from the state budget for upgrades on the Calder Freeway, the project is back on the cards. The state government announced the 2025-26 budget would include funding for a new interchange between the Calder Freeway and Calder Park Drive. The funding is part of $1.2 billion announced f…

NZNO Care And Support Workers At Parliament For Budget Day

Care and support workers who had their pay equity claims dumped overnight after years of work will meet at Parliament tomorrow to voice their frustration at the Coalition Government’s changes. The workers are members of New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) and are some of the 3000 aged residential care health care assistants who were party to the claim. NZNO care and support delegate Tash Greig says care an…