For a no-frills New Zealand budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls
- Written by Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University
Minister of Finance Grant Robertson delivers his fifth Wellbeing Budget.Getty ImagesGrant Robertson’s sixth budget was an exercise in threading various needles. Much of its substance had already been foreshadowed, and to begin with the mood music was suitably sober.
But by the time the finance minister had finished speaking, a surprising...