NZ Budget 2021: billions more for benefits, but one eye on the bottom line
By Jennifer Curtin, Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland
David Hall, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology
Michael Fletcher, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Nina Ives, Climate change PhD student, Auckland University of Technology
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”.
With Labour governing with an absolute majority,…
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Thursday, May 20, 2021