According to a Cabinet paper released by Willis, the bank’s operational spending shot up from $158m in 2023/24 to $200m in 2024/25 – an astonishing increase of $42m, a sum of money that as recently as ...

The Security Intelligence Service (SIS) launched its own investigation into concerns that RNZ had been used for foreign interference. The SIS became involved in 2023 over a scandal at the state ...