Funding

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.  Audio

Staying in the Super City, where five Auckland suburbs are getting a cash injection to make them 'build ready' for 16 thousand homes.

$1.4 billion will be pumped into Mt Roskill, Mangere, Tāmaki… Audio

Screenrights' Rachel Antony speaks with Simon Morris about a new Cultural Fund encouraging would-be film-makers and story-tellers who maybe wouldn't normally be the first ones in the queue. Audio

Advocates for people with autism say more research funding should be going towards how to support people, as opposed to biological projects that sees autism as a deficit. Researchers at Canterbury… Audio

Councils, iwi and developers will soon be able to start pitching the government for funding under the $3.8 billion Housing Acceleration Fund. Criteria released today is focused on building multiple… Audio

The Minister of Tourism, Stuart Nash, has announced a 200-million dollar support plan for the Covid-impacted tourism sector at the annual tourism industry conference in Otautahi Christchurch today. Audio

The government has thrown some tourism businesses an economic lifeline and also suggested some of them get out of the game altogether.

A $200 million fund has been announced for struggling operators… Video, Audio

A group of North Island principals say teachers need to be trained in the neuro-science behind learning and behavioural difficulties to stop disruption in the classroom and cut the numbers of children… Audio

Sports columnist Gregor Paul says the case for the government to invest in the All Blacks is far stronger than it is to invest in the America's Cup. Audio

National wants to double the budget of the Serious Fraud Office and change its name, if elected. The party's leader Judith Collins says the new Serious Fraud and Anti-Corruption Agency would have an… Audio

At 15, Bella Powell was told she had only two years to live if her CF went untreated. With nothing to lose, Bella, now 17, started taking a drug called Trikafta, and within hours she noticed results… Audio

The National Party would spend an extra $20 million over four years protecting women from gynaecological cancer including immediately introducing self-testing for the virus that is a precurser to… Audio

A new review of Crown Research institutes was released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. It represents a rethink of how the state funds scientific research, but what is a Crown… Audio

Programmes aimed at helping young people are struggling financially, just when they're needed more than ever. The Graeme Dingle Foundation has been creating schemes, like Kiwi Can which support 27… Audio

This week the Government acknowledged the importance of the screen industry to New Zealand - feature films, local and international... television series for home and overseas audiences... as well as… Audio

Yesterday the Minister of Education Chris Hipkins announced a major funding boost for apprenticeships and trade training programs.  Audio

The College of Midwives says their sector is feeling frustrated and perplexed by the lack of any funding - or any real mention of their sector - in last week's Budget.

The chief Executive of the… Audio