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Budget cuts, student attendance, Tory and Labour, MPs are back

ANALYSIS: What to cut to fund spending increases elsewhere in the Budget?

WATCH: NBR political editor Brent Edwards speaks with Grant Walker.

Brent Edwards Sat, 03 May 2025

Finance Minister Nicola Willis started the week by announcing this month’s Budget would include just a $1.3 billion operating allowance, not the $2.4b foreshadowed last year.

It makes an already tight budget just that much tighter. It puts greater pressure on the coalition Government to find cuts

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