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A protest installation outside the United Nations Offices in Geneva on the opening day of the WHO’s World Health Assembly in 2021 (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/ AFP via Getty Images)

NZ still backs Taiwan role in WHO despite absence from joint statement, says Mahuta

As the US position on China and Taiwan comes under the spotlight, a former diplomat wrote of his ‘great shame’ at the missing NZ signature.

By Toby Manhire

Editor-at-large

JacArd, Albo, Luxo and Scomo. Design: Tina Tiller

The clues from the Aussie election for New Zealand’s turn next year

Luxo versus JacArd? We read the tea leaves.

By Toby Manhire

Editor-at-large

New Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese (Image: Getty Images / Archi Banal)

Easy peasy Albanese: Australia gets a new PM, and other takeaways from the election

Women revolted, the Greens roared, and Scott Morrison's Liberals were given the boot.

Image: Tina Tiller

‘The opportunity is gone’: Māori health spending criticised as ‘woefully inadequate’

Māori-focused initiatives got just 2.3% of the overall new spending on health.

Contributing writer

Image: Tina Tiller

When Labour turns on the money hose, who gets drenched?

After 2021's budget opened the spending floodgates, this year's version couldn't help feeling like a damp squib.

By Danyl Mclauchlan

Contributing writer

Image: Tina Tiller

Short-term pain, long-term gain – but the budget can’t fix a deteriorating economy

There was little in the way of game-changing policy, but few were expecting it.

By Reweti Kohere

Grabby Grant and the glowing tie: the budget debate performances, reviewed

Grabby Grant and the glowing tie: the budget debate performances, reviewed

After the budget numbers comes the budget debate. Here's all the theatre you missed.

By Toby Manhire

Editor-at-large

Photo: Getty Images; additional design by Tina Tiller

A budget guide for people who don’t want to read about the budget

Sick of hearing about the budget? Here’s everything you need to know, and nothing more.

By Chris Schulz

Design masterpiece by Madeleine Chapman

Is the $27 cost-of-living payment enough to make budget day cheese rolls?

The wholesome budget day cheese roll tradition is a little less wholesome when cheese is a luxury item.

By Madeleine Chapman

Toby Manhire and Bernard Hickey in a special crossover pod. Who is Jason and who is Freddy? Image: Tina Tiller

‘Squeezed middle written all over it’: Budget podcast special with Bernard Hickey

The hosts of Gone by Lunchtime and When the Facts Change combine to weigh up the just-released 2022 budget.

Balancing inflationary and cost of living pressures, Budget 2022 walks a tightrope

Balancing inflationary and cost of living pressures, Budget 2022 walks a tightrope

The challenge for Robertson was to give cash away where it was needed – without appearing to be 'spraying' it.

By Bernard Hickey

Contributing podcaster

Image: Getty Images; additional design by Tina Tiller

What can families like ours hope for in the budget?

People across Aotearoa – including Emily Writes and her whānau – are hanging out for life-saving medicines to be funded.

By Emily Writes

Contributing writer

Finance ministers and their budgets over the last 20 years. (Photos: Getty Images; additional design: Tina Tiller)

Every budget cover since 2002, ranked

They say never judge a book by its cover – but what about a budget?

By Reweti Kohere

Image: Tina Tiller?

Quiz: Whose budget is it anyway?

Your task is simple. We give you the name of the budget, you say which finance minister presented it.

By Toby Manhire

Editor-at-large

Image: Tina Tiller

The ERP is a step in the right direction, but where’s the ambition?

The scale of action is not yet matching the scale of the climate emergency.

By Gareth Hughes

Image: Tina Tiller

A tame, tentative and too thin Emissions Reduction Plan

A wasted opportunity to make real, impactful change.

By Bernard Hickey

Contributing podcaster

Image: Tina Tiller

The cost-of-living crisis means we need bolder budget calls on child poverty

During these uncertain times, what's needed are policies that redistribute support to those who need it most.

By Kate C Prickett

Image: Tina Tiller

From aspiration to Zoom: the 2022 budget alphabet

Bluff your way through a conversation about this Thursday's budget with our helpful A-Z.

By Toby Manhire

Editor-at-large

Image: Tina Tiller

Why universal half-price public transport shouldn’t be made permanent

Funding could be better spent on what's most important to public transport users – speed and reliability.

By Axel Downard-Wilke

The Tops supermarket in Buffalo, upstate New York, where at least ten people were murdered. (Photo by John Normile/Getty Images)

NZ censor bans Buffalo terrorist ‘manifesto’ that cites Christchurch attack as inspiration

The slogan that concludes the Christchurch 'manifesto' is the opening image of the Buffalo document.

By Toby Manhire

Editor-at-large