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Duncan Disorderly
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When you attempt to please everyone

OPINION: You end up pleasing no-one.

Grant Robertson gets out the tie for Budget 2022.

Duncan Garner Mon, 23 May 2022

Can you name me five things that were announced in last week’s budget?

Exactly.

It was largely forgettable, wasn’t it?

And perhaps that’s how Grant Robertson wants it, just like Michael Cullen before him – bore the pundits with a bland budget and the markets don’t get spooked and you live to

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