Tag: Grant Robertson
Seymour lashes Labour on crime, spending
David Seymour has told east Auckland voters Government spending needs to be brought under control and the country needs to change its attitude toward...
One term and done for new MP Damien Smith
Damien Smith is calling time on his political career after just one term in Parliament.
The former business banker stood in the Botany electorate as...
Nicola Willis delivers National’s election pitch to seniors
National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis has delivered her party’s election pitch to several hundred residents at an east Auckland retirement complex.
Willis, who is...
ACT Party MPs: ”We need to nail inflation’
Two Opposition MPs have slammed the Labour Government's economic record and its co-governance policies at a public meeting held less than three months out...
Labour suggests people have shorter showers to cut costs
The Labour Government is rolling out a public information campaign aimed at encouraging Kiwis to take action to keep their homes warm and dry...
Budget 2023 delivers billions for health, education, transport
The Labour Government is scrapping the $5 prescription medication fee and introducing free public transport for children as part of Budget 2023.
Finance Minister Grant...
Luxon hits Labour over ‘Blowout Budget’
National Party leader and Botany MP Christopher Luxon says Budget 2023 shows why New Zealand needs a change of direction as well as a...
Government delivers Budget aimed at easing cost of living crisis
The Labour Government has today delivered Budget 2023 which contains a package targeted at "easing the pressure" on under-the-pump Kiwi households.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins...
Business outlook gloomy as Willis says Labour needs “real economic plan”
National Party deputy leader and finance spokesperson Nicola Willis is kicking the election year off with a scathing attack on the Labour Government.
She says...
Cost of living bites
By Christopher Luxon, Leader of the Opposition and MP for Botany
It has been a week of bad news for Kiwis as the cost-of-living...
Luxon – New Zealand is going backwards
By Christopher Luxon, Leader of the Opposition and MP for Botany
Last month, the Government released Budget 2022 which confirmed that New Zealand is...
Luxon: Kiwis deserve tax relief from cost of living crisis
The Government should give struggling Kiwis a break this Budget and deliver tax relief from the cost of living crisis, says Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon.
“Inflation is...
Rein it in before it’s too late!
Christopher Luxon is National Party leader and the MP for Botany
It's great to be back at Parliament for 2022 with our hard-working National...
Government proposes income insurance scheme
Consultation is under way on the creation of a Government programme intended to help Kiwis who lose their jobs.
Finance Minister Grant Robertson says the...
Additional Resurgence Support Payments to support business
Businesses affected by higher alert levels will be able to apply for further Resurgence Support Payments (RSP).
“The Government’s RSP was initially intended as a...
Bike bridge must be binned
It sounds like the Government may finally be waking up to the massive public opposition to their planned $785 million cycle bridge across the...
MP: ’Taxing us not the answer’
Labour’s tax plan fails to consider economic growth and has even raised the eye-brows of its Government coalition partners, Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown says.
Labour last...
