The Latest Breaking News from Nicola Willis

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.

With rising costs and drops in consumer spending, small businesses have been struggling lately.

New Zealanders are seeking opportunity overseas at unprecedented rates amid disillusionment over house prices and jobs.

Flights could become more environmentally friendly as Australia and New Zealand explore ways to produce sustainable aviation fuel at home.

GDP grows 0.2 percent in first quarter, buoyed by record immigration.

Announcing her government’s plan to disestablish the Equal Pay Taskforce in May, Minister for the Public Service Nicola Willis argued the “process for settling pay equity claims has now matured” enough that the taskforce was no longer required.