By Maggie Tait of NZPA Wellington, May 11 NZPA - Science and business are getting a big boost this budget to focus on work to make New Zealand richer -- and they are also getting a lot of freedom on how they spend the money.

By Ian Llewellyn of NZPA Wellington, Aug 21 NZPA - A science investment fund scrapped by the incoming Government spent more than $400,000 setting up and then winding down without ever making a grant.

Wellington, May 28 NZPA - One of the nation's highest-profile scientists, Paul Callaghan, of Victoria University, says today's budget was "extremely disappointing" for science and technology.

Wellington, May 20 NZPA - One of New Zealand's best known scientists, Peter Gluckman, has been appointed as the Prime Minister's chief science adviser.

Wellington, May 20 NZPA - Slashing science funding is short-sighted and will make it harder for New Zealand to climb out of a recession, says the union representing 2500 members working at eight state-owned Crown Research Institutes.

Wellington, Jan 30 NZPA - Treasury has come out against several of the National Government's policies in a briefing paper out today.

National Party MP David Carter today pitched for the 17 percent of the electorate living in rural areas with an agriculture policy which stretched to cover country doctors, schools and broadband links.

A sustainable economy will be built on the following policy foundations: