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Improved NZ budget as election campaign gets fiscal (opens the original)
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New Zealand's pre-election books are rosier than first thought, giving parties more space for campaign spend-ups on the road to the November 7 election. However, the governing National party won't be taking up that option, instead promising to keep a tight fiscal leash to return to surplus next term. On Tuesday, Finance Minister Nicola Willis unveiled the pre-election economic and fiscal outlook (PREFU), which showed clear improvement on the May budget. Last year's $NZ11.9 billion budget deficit
Greens surge in tightest NZ election for decades (opens the original)
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A surge in Greens support could offer the left bloc a path to power in the closest New Zealand election campaign in decades. The left-wing party charted 16 per cent, up four points, in a new TVNZ poll released on Monday, their best result in the gold-standard survey. And every point looks set to count as Prime Minister Chris Luxon's ailing coalition seeks to fight off the Labour-led left and avoid being the first one-term government in half a century. The contest is so close - between both the m
Parliament reports still stacked in government in-tray (opens the original)
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Anthony Albanese's government stands accused of tick-and-flick responses and ignoring issues stacked in a growing pile of unresponded parliamentary committee work. Dozens of detailed reports, put together by parliamentarians serving on committees, are sitting in the government's in-tray. The best-known example in recent years was the "You win some, you lose more" report on gambling harm led by the late Labor MP Peta Murphy. While that received a government response in May - more than 1000 days a
Productivity boss hits out at 'schoolyard name calling' (opens the original)
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Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood has fired back at a protagonist of Australia's GST wars, saying he plays the man and not the ball. In the latest serve in the long-running debate about state funding from the tax, Ms Wood accused WA Premier Roger Cook of over-egging attacks on her institution. A Productivity Commission report in August found WA was the only state to benefit from a Scott Morrison-brokered 2018 tweak to the GST distribution model, and that the mining powerhouse was over-
Tougher spending caps proposed for major parties (opens the original)
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First-time candidates would be given a financial leg-up to beat the major parties under a funding model designed to level the political playing field. The Grattan Institute wants the federal government to rewrite its electoral funding laws, which impose funding caps on candidates and parties, before they take effect next year. As of 2027, parties will max out their annual spending at $90 million, with individual candidates allowed $800,000 per electorate. Grattan chief of staff Kate Griffiths be
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