Grant Robertson

It's unclear how businesses will cover compulsory leave of at least 24 days for employees who have to go into isolation because someone they live with has mate korona.

Anyone who lives with a… Audio

Fewer than 10 days out from Christmas, the Finance Minister's given a sneak peek of his gift to New Zealanders - a six billion dollar spend up in next year's Budget.

Investment in climate change… Audio

Nathan Rarere put some of the concerns raised by those Northland businesses to the Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Grant Robertson. Audio

It's a countdown to the 15th of December when Auckland's border will lift in time for the Christmas and Summer holidays. Yesterday the Government rejected criticism over Auckland's ongoing isolation… Audio

National's new leader has made his debut in the House but it was hardly the stand-off political punters had predicted.

After just 400 days in Parliament, Christopher Luxon squared off with the Prime… Audio

As you have heard in Ella's package, Auckland hospitality businesses are devastated they won't benefit from the government's $37.5 million support package despite being one of the sectors worst… Audio

The new traffic light system is showing orange across most of the country on Friday, with just Auckland and 10 other North Island regions starting at red.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Cabinet… Video, Audio

Vaccinated New Zealanders arriving into the country from overseas year will longer no be required to go through MIQ and instead can isolate at home from early next year. Covid-19 response Minister… Audio

Waikato will drop back to alert level 2 at 11:59pm Tuesday, despite new cases popping up in the region. And the government's announced the booster dose will be available from the end of the month, for… Video, Audio

Deputy PM Grant Robertson signalled on Checkpoint that the government is not looking for a strict 90 percent target for Auckland to move out of level 3 to the new protection system.

"We said all… Audio

Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson says if people against vaccinations believe in choice they should respect peoples' decisions to get the jab.

Protests have appeared at vaccination centres in… Audio

The Prime Minister's national tour to try and give vaccination rates a boost was hampered by small but very vocal protests of people opposed to getting the vaccine. Jacinda Ardern was forced to call… Audio

The government is expected to announce changes to the MIQ system today ... after yesterday's scheduled announcement was called off. Ministers met yesterday to go through details of the changes, but -… Audio

Patsy questions often get roundly ignored. Today we’re doing the opposite and diving deeper. Video, Audio

Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson is confident it is safe for senior students to return to school on Tuesday.

Robertson said it is understandable some students will be anxious about returning… Audio

The future of Covid-19 restrictions is about to change to a new traffic light system, so long as at least 90-percent of eligible New Zealanders get two doses of the vaccine.

Te Pūrongo o te… Audio

Daily Covid numbers have hit triple figures today, with 102 cases recorded in the community.

94 of them are in Auckland and eight in Waikato. 40 of today's cases are so far unlinked.

Deputy Prime… Video, Audio

Tomorrow at 10am, the Prime Minister will announce a new Covid-19 protection framework.. essentially more freedoms tagged to vaccination rates.. and hopefully some dates for Auckland retail… Audio

Ground was broken today, in a sense, at the site of what will be Wellington City Mission's new community hub.

In the first of its kind for the country - the centre will host supportive housing units… Video, Audio

Nathan Rarere spoke with Grant Robertson about the 55 new cases of Covid-19 that were detected yesterday. He asked him about the Northland case who's continuing to refuse to engage with contact… Audio