Simon Bridges had little or no choice. He had to give the Opposition Finance role to Amy Adams.
To have not done so; to have given it to Judith Collins or Jonathan Coleman, would have alienated the Adams su…
Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Committee last week heard (Earlier Politik got the date confused and said the meeting was today)a withering condemnation of the new Government's proposed crackdown on for…
Deal with inequality or face a Brexit style populist revolt.
That was the stark warning from a senior New Zealand Minister to the Australia – New Zealand Leadership Forum in Sydney on Friday.
The Forum 
Trade Minister David Parker sounded like his National Government predecessors as he enthused over the new Comprehensive Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership.
The Government released the National Interest…
By all accounts this is one tough Budget round as new Ministers find that their promises and hopes are having to be trimmed back by a Finance Minister advised by a Treasury whose Secretary says some tough de…
