What you need to know
- Finance Minister Nicola Willis unveiled her ‘tough love’ Budget at 2pm today
- Government books are forecast to return to surplus in 2028-29 – a year earlier that previously forecast
- $5.8b in new health operating funding across forecast period
- $1.773b to extend the Waikato Expressway SH1 - the Cambridge to Piarere Road of National Significance
- $400m set aside for state highway resilience projects, to keep vital routes open during and after severe weather
- $447m for Corrections to manage increasing number of prisoners, $50m for frontline police – part of $1.1b uplift in operating funding for Corrections, Customs, Police and Justice
- You can follow all the details here and watch a 1News Q+A Budget Special on TVNZ 1 and streaming on TVNZ+ from 2pm
