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Budget 2016: The return of magical thinking

A budget is not a magic box. With special feature audio.

Tue, 24 May 2016

A budget is not a magic box.

There is more than a whiff of a return to magical thinking in the budget debate this year – and unfortunately, it is the government leading this charge into a kind of fiscal Narnia.

Prime Minister John Key charged through the thickets of a budgetary wardrobe last week

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