Budget 2015: Political risks about tone as well as substance
OPINION: The prime minister needs to put his Paul-Henry-in-Chief side on hold for today. It is a day for gravitas, not glee.
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Government budgets may not be what they were but that does not make them unimportant.
It just makes them less dramatic than in the tumultuous days of Sir Robert Muldoon, Sir Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson. Given the painful adjustments of those years, this is a good thing.
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Rob Hosking
Thu, 21 May 2015
Thu, 21 May 2015
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