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Australia vs New Zealand. You can tell a lot about a country by the way it budgets

Written by Stephen Bartos, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

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You can tell a lot about a country by the way its government budgets.

The New Zealand budget was delivered on 20th May. In terms of overall economic policy settings it mirrors Australia’s.

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Australia vs New Zealand. You can tell a lot about a country by the way it budgets

NZ’s rising house insurance premiums warn of a system under strain

How Australia and NZ rules on plant milks differ from overseas, where cows make the only ‘milk’

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