Luke Malpass

Minister Michael Wood answering journalists' questions about his Auckland Airport shares controversy during bridge run today. ROBERT KITCHIN / ROBERT KITCHIN

Sinead Boucher and Glen Kyne announced the deal on Tuesday. LAWRENCE SMITH / Stuff

New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% in 2022, the third year in a row gross emissions declined. Stuff

Luke Malpass is politics, business & economics editor. OPINION: It is the middle of school holidays, the Prime Minister is overseas and not much is going on around Parliament.

“Lenders should be able to use their judgment on a case-by-case basis and we're going to reinstate that,” says Andrew Bayly. ROBERT KITCHIN / THE POST

On May 30 Finance Minister Nicola Willis will deliver the Government's first Budget. / Stuff

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon addresses his surprise Cabinet reshuffle at the Beehive. Robert Kitchin / The Post

“What I'm hearing...is that the long, slow recession is really biting now,” says Finance Minister Nicola Willis in an interview with The Post ahead of her first Budget.

Luke Malpass is politics, business and economics editor. OPINION: There was never a better juxtaposition in politics that that demonstrated by the Green Party on Wednesday night.

After years of New Zealand's living standards being supported by low interest rates, house price growth and big commodity exports, the world is now changing.