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Nicola WILLIS
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Nicola Willis is a New Zealand politician affiliated with the National Party [43] and currently serves as Minister of Finance [41] . Willis was educated at the University of Canterbury [25] and Victoria University of Wellington [28]…
AI-assembled biography sourced from Wikipedia, Hansard, Beehive and the Parliament register. Every claim is footnoted to a verbatim quote in one of the cited sources and tagged confirmed, unverified or disputed.
01 Positions
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Cabinet Minister — Finance, Economic Growth, Social Investment
03 Pecuniary interests (2025) Methodology →
as of 2026-05-27 02:27Beneficial interests in, and trusteeships of, trusts
Appledore Trust (discretionary beneficiary only)
— Appledore Trust
(Beneficiary)
Debts owed by you
Bank of New Zealand – mortgage
— Bank of New Zealand
Real property
House (jointly owned) – Karori, Wellington
House (owned by Appledore Trust) – Kelburn, Wellington
House (owned by Appledore Trust) – Riversdale, Wairarapa
House (owned by Appledore Trust) – Wānaka
Retirement schemes
AMP New Zealand Retirement Trust
— AMP New Zealand Retirement Trust
Bank of New Zealand KiwiSaver
— Bank of New Zealand KiwiSaver
04 Directorships Methodology →
as of 2026-06-03 17:15-
ended 2017-02-27Director
06 Trusteeships & beneficial trust interests
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activeBeneficiary
08 Recent meetings (as minister) Methodology →
as of 2026-05-27 02:48
2026-03-31
Tue
5 entries
MBIE Officials
MEETING
Treasury Officials
MEETING
Public Service Commissioner
MEETING
Multi Ministers
MEETING
with: Hons Upston, Hon Potaka
MEDIA
2026-03-30
Mon
5 entries
MEDIA
MEET
MEET: Cabinet
Hon Jones
MEETING
Multi Ministers
MEETING
2026-03-29
Sun
1 entry
Multi Ministers
MEETING
2026-03-27
Fri
4 entries
MEDIA
MEET
MEET
Multi Ministers
MEETING
2026-03-26
Thu
5 entries
MBIE Officials
MEETING
RBNZ Officials
MEETING
with: Treasury Officials
Treasury Officials
MEETING
MEET
Multi Ministers
MEETING
2026-03-25
Wed
6 entries
MEETING
Multi Ministers
MEETING
with: Hon Seymour, Hon Bishop, Hon Jones
Treasury Officials
MEETING
MEDIA
Cabinet Committee
MEDIA
2026-03-24
Tue
4 entries
MEDIA
Cabinet Committee
MEET
Multi Ministers
MEETING
2026-03-23
Mon
7 entries
MEDIA
MEET
Treasury Officials
MEETING
MEET: Cabinet
EV Charging
ANNOUNCEMENT: EV Charging
with: Hon Bishop, Hon Watts
MEDIA
Multi Ministers
MEETING
2026-03-22
Sun
2 entries
VISIT: Marsden Point
Multi Ministers
MEETING
2026-03-21
Sat
1 entry
Multi Ministers
MEETING
2026-03-20
Fri
8 entries
MEDIA
MEDIA
MEETING
MEET
Multi Ministers
MEETING
with: Hon Jones, Hon Bishop
MEDIA
MEDIA
MEDIA
2026-03-19
Thu
2 entries
MBIE Officials
MEETING
with: Treasury Officials
MEDIA
09 Recent Hansard speeches
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10 Recent press releases
From Beehive.govt.nz. Most recent 10.
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2026-06-01The first of two shipments of New Zealand’s diesel reserve is now on its way to New Zealand, Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones say.
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2026-05-14Communities will have more power to decide how social services funding is spent locally under a new approach being delivered through the Government’s Social Investment Fund.
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2026-04-29Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced a new Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Committee charter that increases transparency by publishing individual votes, attributing differing views, and allowing more public communication, with a review planned in 12 months.
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2026-04-24Finance Minister Nicola Willis met Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers in Brisbane to strengthen trans-Tasman coordination on fuel pressures, economic resilience and growth, agreeing to ongoing cooperation while maintaining targeted, disciplined responses to global challenges.
11 Recent ministerial speeches
From Beehive.govt.nz — conference keynotes and ministerial addresses (distinct from Hansard floor debates).
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2026-05-28Mr Speaker,
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2026-05-19Good afternoon everyone. It’s my pleasure to join Business North Harbour once again and to speak with you about this year’s Government Budget. Let me acknowledge my colleague, Paul Goldsmith, the Minister for the Public Service and Digitising Government.
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2026-02-11It is a privilege to open the 2026 New Zealand Economic Forum.
12 In the news Methodology →
50 articlesCoverage from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff that mentions this person. Click any source to expand. Article body markdown is captured separately and used for AI summarisation downstream.
RNZ 12
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2026-06-06Australia respects New Zealand's nuclear-free position and will work with that, "whilst respecting New Zealand sovereignty".
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2026-06-04"I've stopped counting how many civil defence emergencies I have declared," Gisborne's Rehette Stoltz told insurers and politicians.
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2026-06-03Budget estimates show MFAT spent $162 million less on foreign aid in 2024-25 financial year than it had set out in previous years.
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2026-06-03The Rugby Players Association is optimistic the Moana Pasifika team can be saved, but there needs to be a resolution in coming weeks.
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2026-06-03There needs to be a firm commitment - one way or the other - within the next two weeks, says the head of the players association.
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2026-06-03Fuel stocks all fell in the latest update, but New Zealand's first strategic diesel reserve shipment is now on its way to Marsden Point.
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2026-06-03However, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson told RNZ Pacific that the $162m underspend from the 2024-2025 fiscal year has been carried forward to this year.
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2026-06-01The prime minister insists New Zealand will not be dropping its nuclear-free stance - and doing so would be detrimental to relations with other countries, according to a former defence minister.
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2026-06-01The country's latest fuel stocks are down slightly across all fuel types, but within expected levels, while the first diesel shipment to be stored at the refurbished Marsden Point tanks is on its way.
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2026-05-31Budget Day is a Broadway production, with dance numbers (emphasis on numbers), undue laughter and applause, and everyone's a critic.
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2026-05-30From government sales pitch to opposition counter-branding, in the Budget Day debate, the performance matters nearly as much as the numbers.
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2026-05-29Economist Dr Ganesh Nana said Budget 2026 was "holding the line".
Otago Daily Times 11
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2026-06-03Oded Nathan. PHOTO: ODT FILES Wakatipu High School’s principal has welcomed government funding for land for a second Queenstown secondary school.
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2026-06-03File photo New Zealand's diesel supply has fallen by almost four days, but the country's first strategic reserve shipment is now en route and is not yet reflected in the official figures.
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2026-06-02Power up: the Benmore dam. Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including GST on food, hydro energy and the worth of gold.
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2026-06-01Overseas trips by the Minister of Defence seldom make headlines back home, but Chris Penk’s visit to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore was quite the exception.
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2026-06-01Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo
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2026-06-01Finance Minister Nicola Willis. Photo: RNZ New Zealand's fuel stocks have dipped slightly, latest data shows, while the first shipment of diesel to be stored at the refurbished Marsden Point tanks is on its way.
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2026-05-31A SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy launches from the Starbase site in Texas on May 22. PHOTO: SPACEX/TNS With a record of five failures and six partial successes in his Starship programme, the 12th launch on May 22 of Elon Musk’s BFR* (as…
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2026-05-31The Otago Daily Times has a new weekly on-line feature, Election 2026 - a feature interview with a politician about the issues of the day.
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2026-05-29One has to watch one’s pennies on $320,600 a year. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH Monday
1News 8
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2026-06-06The Australian and New Zealand prime ministers have concluded their leaders' meeting in Noosa, Queensland, which came at a "pivotal" time, according to Luxon.
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2026-06-03Tararua mayor worries rural communities will be left behind and access to public services will only be further degraded due to job cuts.
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2026-06-03MBIE emphasised that the data excluded newly-negotiated extra reserves, representing around nine days of diesel consumption, were on the way.
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2026-06-02The Prime Minister will be joined by Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Education Minister Erica Stanford.
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2026-06-01New Zealand's total petrol and diesel fuel stocks fell slightly, while jet fuel stocks increased, MBIE's latest data showed.
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2026-05-30The Finance Minister also defended the Government's fiscal record as the surplus target slipped three years from its original 2023 election promise.
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2026-05-29OPINION: The Government said it would be no lolly scramble and they weren't kidding. With another treat-free year on the horizon, Frances Cook shares tips on how to be best prepared.
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2026-05-29Sharon Zollner has questioned Treasury's forecast as the Finance Minister faces questions over her Budget.
Stuff 7
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2026-06-04The Cancer Society warns planned facility in Tauranga is at risk after the Government capped tax rebates for major donors.
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2026-06-02Company failures jumped 49% even as hospitality led demand for business finance.
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2026-06-02Parliament voted, among other things, to make it easier to host a boxing contest, amend the Patents Act, and keep track of sperm donors.
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2026-06-01The country's fuel supply chain continues to operate smoothly, with baseline stocks remaining above minimum requirements.
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2026-05-31I don’t think he agreed with a single thing I said. But I don’t think I’ve ever had someone listen so sincerely, writes Verity Johnson.
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2026-05-31Residents and businesses are "really excited" about a long-awaited $1.773 billion extension of the Waikato Expressway, ministers say.
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2026-05-29The coalition government is about to clear its final hurdle of the term - and the race to election day starts now
NZ Herald 5
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2026-06-04Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (left) and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Canberra, pictured in 2023. Photo / NZME
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2026-06-02Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will address the matter. Photo / Annaleise Shortland
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2026-05-31Waikato MP Tim van de Molen (from left), Transport Minister Chris Bishop, Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Taupō MP Louise Upston at the Cambridge to Piarere Road of National Significance site near Karāpiro on Sunday. Photo / Tom Eley
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2026-05-30Finance Minister Nicola Willis in Parliament as she delivers her Budget speech. Photo / Mark Mitchell
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2026-05-29Finance Minister Nicola Willis' Budget this week was aimed at securing New Zealand's future and may also have helped her own political one. Photo / Mark Mitchell
The Spinoff 5
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2026-06-04The world keeps shaking our windows. Volatile, volatile, volatile. It’s a word Christopher Luxon has deployed dozens of times in diagnosing the condition of the world since his state of the nation setpiece in January. “Our global…
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2026-06-03‘If I hadn’t heard politicians like him scapegoating migrants, I may have never cared about New Zealand politics in the same way that I do.’ My pub date with second-term MP Ricardo Menéndez March has been waylaid in the most Green Party…
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2026-06-02Ongoing closures have rattled the New Zealand fashion industry. With skills disappearing and costs going up, what might the future look like? Buying New Zealand-made clothes feels good. Patriotic even. Designers who produce here are…
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2026-06-02Evacuees from at least five former homes have found safe haven in Winston Peters’ big gazebo. Not since the formation of United Future in 1995 has one party provided such a refuge for the exiles of existing parties. New Zealand First’s…
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2026-06-02A characterisation made without rejection? Not on Nicola Willis’s watch. If you’ve been watching Nicola Willis over the past week, you might have noticed the finance minister is fond of responding to a question or statement thus: “I reject…
Newsroom 2
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2026-06-02Opinion: As Nicola Willis drives AI uptake, young graduates increasingly find a disconnect between education systems that discourage AI use and workplaces that expect them to be fluent in it
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2026-05-29Social development minister Louise Upston is 'comfortable' with claiming a weekly accommodation allowance of $1000 on top of her $326,000 salary The post The secret diary of … Louise Upston appeared first on Newsroom .
12.5 Heard on radio
Verbatim segments from podcasts and radio where this MP was the speaker, attributed via the manually-reviewed voice-reference library and pre-seeked to the moment the segment starts.
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Big Hairy News #BHN Willis on Q&A | Luxon on ZB talking housing entitlements | Hipkins talking bank levies | Hidden emails from Fonterra to PMs office 2026-06-02 · 29s
Yeah, GDP growth is better off, real median wage growth is better off. Inflation was better off at the end of his administration, unemployment was better off at the end of his administration with the worst year of job growth in the past four years, just this last year under Trump's administration. The inflation, 3.8% year over year, since Trump got in office. We're seeing all of those economic indicators become worse off. Can you tell me anything that he's done to make it better off? You see, it's broken for Democrats. It sounds like it's broken right now under Trump. Have you looked at the stock market? It's worse off in terms of growth in 2025 as compared to 2024. If you look at Jao Jones and uh S P 500, they're both up quite a bit right now.
13 Commentary topics Methodology →
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14 Press topics Methodology →
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