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"Be kind", Jacinda Ardern likes to tell New Zealanders. But her government does not seem very interested in kindness towards our 300,000-plus pre-COVID welfare beneficiaries, notes Michael Fletcher.
The government's freshwater plan ignores expert advice and sets the stage for the ongoing decline of New Zealand's water quality, says Mike Joy.
The government's decision to deny long-term unemployed the higher Covid-19 beneficiary rate may make it politically easier to raise core benefits, suggests Max Rashbrooke
If the government really wants to save jobs, argues Simon Chapple, it will need a stronger response than this budget offers.
Grant Robertson's budget ignores questions of transformational change in favour of shoring up the economy, writes Max Rashbrooke
