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NZ Budget 2021: billions more for benefits, but one eye on the bottom line

  • Written by Jennifer Curtin, Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland
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New Zealand has now had three “Wellbeing Budgets”: the prototype in 2019, the COVID-19 “Rebuilding Together” version in 2020, and today Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced the Labour government is “Securing our Recovery”.

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