The Latest Breaking News from Nicola Willis

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has reiterated her goal to get New Zealand's budget back in surplus by 2028 and has cut her own allowance to do so.

New Zealand's finance minister has declared the era of high inflation over as the nation's CPI registered at 2.5 per cent in the year to March 2025.

New Zealand's opposition has blamed Chris Luxon's government for job losses after the country's unemployment rate reached 5.1 per cent.

Changes mean visitors and influencers working for foreign employers can stay longer in bid to boost tourism

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s state-of-the-nation address yesterday focused on growth above all else. We shouldn’t rush to judgement, but at least one prominent financial commentator has concluded the maths behind the goals “just doesn’t add up”.

Analysis: A new number soared up the political charts yesterday. Four. Billion. Dollars. The likely blow-out cost of the Project iRex mega-ferries and terminals, from which Nicola Willis has saved the taxpayer. That’s how she enunciated it on first reading it off her notes, as it aware of its import.…

Officials say a police car drove into the rear of a limousine transporting New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis and no one was hurt

The decision by Israel’s parliament to designate the United Nations’ Palestinian relief agency UNRWA a “terrorist organisation” has been condemned by many governments, with claims it will create a “catastrophe in what is already an unmitigated disaster”.

With the recent establishment of a new Social Investment Agency – described as a “driving project” for the government by Finance Minister Nicola Willis – it seems New Zealand has come full circle on this approach to social welfare.