The Latest Breaking News from Grant Robertson

The release this week of Sport NZ’s new Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport caused a minor and predictable controversy. One former parliamentarian called the guidelines “woke ideology”. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson responded that such opposition was “petty and small-minded”.

Instead of winding up, the Crown-owned company responsible for big Christchurch rebuild projects like Te Pae convention centre has been handed a new, enduring, nationwide challenge.

New Zealand has legislated for a return to sector-wide agreements in the biggest industrial relations shake-up in three decades.

The finance minister says farmers know full well pricing agricultural emissions is as much about the country’s economy as it is the environment.

When Grant Robertson meets his counterparts at global events, he's regularly asked about wellbeing — not his own, but that of his entire country.

New Zealand and the UK both have top tax rates that raise little revenue but lie as potent political traps for parties on the right

A surge in government revenue has improved the New Zealand government's books, delighting Finance Minister Grant Robertson.

Jacinda Ardern's Labour government has been left flat-footed by the New Zealand opposition claims of tax-raising.

Al-Madinah School faces a $230,000 funding cut. Principals are preparing to challenge the adverse impact of the new equity funding on schools in Pasifika and minority communities.