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Hot Topic Budget 25
Underarm
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A tale of two very different budget strategies

ANALYSIS: While there are similarities between the challenges facing the New Zealand and Australian economies, the responses of the respective governments showed their different ideologies.

WATCH: NBR senior journalist Lachlan Colquhoun speaks with Simon Shepherd.

Australia and New Zealand, according to a chorus of doomsayers, are both in terminal decline as productivity falls, living standards erode, and the fiscal positions of both governments plunge into deficit.

From his vantage point of straddling the Tasman, Underarm has been interested to see the

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Lachlan Colquhoun Wed, 28 May 2025
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