Continued support for frontline crime prevention
Police funding in Budget 2013 will continue to be directed at preventing and reducing crime and rolling out new technology to help frontline officers work more effectively and keep communities safe,...
View Article$4.3m prostate cancer campaign to save lives
Budget 2013 will deliver $4.3 million over four years to raise awareness of prostate cancer and ensure men have better access to quality information and care, Health Minister Tony Ryall says. "About...
View ArticleBudget 2013 Investing $200m in science innovation research
Budget 2013 delivers on the Government’s commitment to building a more competitive and productive economy with $200 million of new funding over the next four years for science and innovation, Science...
View ArticleBudget 2013 Delivering progress and optimism
Budget 2013 confirms New Zealand is on the right track, with forecasts of economic growth, more jobs, rising wages, and a return to surplus by 2014/15, Finance Minister Bill English says. "New...
View ArticlePromoting lifetime design in housing
"The Government has committed a further $1.5 million in operating funding over three years to increase the number of houses built to universal design standards. This is about designing and building...
View ArticleInvestment in education increases to over $9.7b
Budget 2013 delivers $901 million in the current year and over the next four years for operating initiatives to lift educational achievement at every level of the system – from early childhood, to...
View ArticleAn extra $1.5b allocated from Future Fund
Schools, Christchurch hospitals, KiwiRail and irrigation are four of the biggest recipients of new capital allocated from the Future Investment Fund in Budget 2013, Finance Minister Bill English and...
View ArticleMultinational investors – paying fair share of tax
Changes to the thin capitalisation rules will help ensure multinational companies investing in New Zealand pay their fair share of tax, Revenue Minister Peter Dunne says. The changes flow from an...
View ArticleOver $130m to strengthen higher-level tertiary education
Budget 2013 commits over $130 million over four years in new funding for investment in tertiary education, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce says. "The Government...
View ArticleGovernment investment supports transport
KiwiRail will receive $94 million in 2013/14 as part of the Government’s investment in KiwiRail’s Turnaround Plan to help make the rail freight business self-sustaining, Transport Minister Gerry...
View ArticleChange from state housing to social housing
Budget 2013 makes fundamental changes to the way the Government delivers housing assistance to those most in need, Housing Minister Nick Smith and Social Development Minister Paula Bennett say. This...
View ArticleEndangered bird makes plucky recovery after amputations
"And also so we can see if she can be like a takahe again by holding the grasses with her feet. "She has got a lot of those natural behaviours which she can still do though she does find some of the...
View ArticleTrapped dogs scream as house burns
Residents watch as firefighters work on the house in Masterton. Photo / Lynda Feringa Screams coming from Wairarapa home as fire tore through it turned out to be two dogs trapped in the blaze. The...
View ArticleParents continue to ignore bed sharing warnings - coroner
There were about 60 cases of SUDI in New Zealand each year and just over half were the result of bed sharing with another person. Photo / Thinkstock A coroner says too many parents continue to ignore...
View ArticleCrewman injured at Port of Tauranga in intensive care
Port of Tauranga. Photo / File / Supplied A Filipino crewman working aboard a logging ship at Port of Tauranga suffered serious lacerations this morning after a crane-operated winch wire struck him...
View ArticleJohn Armstrong Steady-as-she-goes budget
A major question mark over Govt accounts is the ever escalating cost of rebuilding Christchurch - some $2.1 billion more than anticipated in December. Photo / Geoff Sloan The theme of Bill English's...
View ArticleBudget 2013 ACC levy cuts to cancel out fiscal drag
Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler. Photo / Mark Mitchell Accident Compensation Corp levies are projected to be cut progressively to give businesses savings of $1 billion a year by 2015/16, roughly...
View ArticleBudget 2013 What you need to know
The rebuilding of Christchurch to swallow up $900 million of $1.7 billion proceeds from partial float of Mighty River Power. Photo / NZPA The main points of the 2012 New Zealand Budget: * Urgent...
View ArticleBudget 2013 English stays on track
Finance Minister Bill English, with Prime Minister John Key, reading his fifth Budget today. Photo / Mark Mitchell Finance Minister Bill English has stayed on the track set in previous years in today's...
View ArticleBudget 2013 All state house tenancies to be reviewed
State housing in Porirua. Photo / APN All state house tenants will have their tenancies reviewed and be forced to move on once their circumstances change under changes made in the Budget - a step...
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