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Derek Cheng: How Luxon made room for Act and NZ First without giving up too much
The challenge remains: How to walk the fiscal tightrope while delivering tax cuts.
Steven Joyce: Rolling back regulation will be new Govt's first mission
OPINION: And the other tasks new Government needs to get to work on.
Public Purse: The final $5b of the Covid fight - and the half spent on other priorities
The $5b Covid fund top-up was spent at a record clip - on mostly unrelated plans.
Analysis: Prefu shows next Govt facing tough economic trade-offs
Deteriorating finances mean next Government will have very little spending wiggle room.
Steven Joyce: It’s time to cut back the growing bureaucratic blob
OPINION: Treasury is crystal ball gazing as much as the next economist.
Opinion: We need to talk tourism as election approaches
OPINION: Relationship between tourism and Govt symbiotic; are parties taking it seriously?
'Not great for consulting firms': PM fronts on public service spending crackdown
Chris Hipkins and Grant Robertson announced a sweeping package of public service savings.
Govt announces $4b in savings, National says 'too little, too late'
Chris Hipkins and Grant Robertson will announce savings.
NZ dollar drops, interest rates rise after surprise US jobs number
New Zealand dollar left licking its wounds.
Infrastructure Report: Priorities for big projects
Public and private partnerships are needed to get investment and development moving.
Govt books in relatively good shape, but Robertson has warning for NZ
Crown accounts for the four months to the end of October were released by Treasury today.
$2b raid: How emergency Covid funds were redirected to bolster Budget '22
Former Treasury adviser says it was an “accounting trick”.
Thomas Coughlan: National saves itself from British Budget blowback, but questions over cuts remain
National mounts urgent clean-up job as UK PM's tax plans backfire on New Zealand.
$1.1b Oranga Tamariki spend-up a 'disparate collection of ideas' with no strategy
Treasury has delivered a scathing report of Oranga Tamariki's Budget funding.
Ukraine invasion: NZ's Treasury warns of higher inflation, interest rates, food costs
A paper from Treasury staff warns Kiwis will face a wellbeing hit because of the war.
Cost of living payment: 'Warnings were ignored'
OPINION: Ex-Treasury official points out 700,000 eligible for the payment didn't get it.
Revealed: Three true causes of our 20-year housing boom
Main driver of house prices in the past two decades? Global interest rate drops.
No Minister, more spending won't help keep inflation down
Opinion: To sell targeted fiscal spending as keeping inflation under control is a stretch.
Treasury paper warns more Government spending will hike interest rates
A Treasury paper has warned more Government spending would force higher interest rates.
Decoding Parliament's money talk
MPs go on about money a lot, whether spending or saving it. But it's worth understanding.
Do Auckland port's woes lie in ditching of council assets expert?
Councillor suggests decision to save money on experts may have backfired.