Budget 2025

The BusinessDesk team delivers everything you need to know about 2025's budget.

The Government's Bunny Budget
Opinion

Cameron Bagrie: The Government's Bunny Budget

Budget 2026 is going to be the real test of this Government’s fiscal credentials.

Cameron Bagrie 26 May 2025
OMV, Todd assets ripe for Govt gas discovery support
Energy

OMV, Todd assets ripe for Govt gas discovery support

Gas prospects off the coast of Taranaki, Kawhia and Oamaru look most likely.

Pattrick Smellie 26 May 2025
‘Comes at a cost’: Business leaders on Budget
Politics

‘Comes at a cost’: Business leaders on Budget

Fiscal discipline is a good thing, but it has come at a price, say business leaders.

Dileepa Fonseka 23 May 2025
Budget 2025: 'No big bang' for infrastructure
Infrastructure

Budget 2025: 'No big bang' for infrastructure

Only one of three non-roading PPPs got funding in the Budget.

Oliver Lewis 23 May 2025


Pattrick Smellie
Pattrick Smellie

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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.

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