Tips for reading the Budget

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Tips for reading the Budget

By Barbara Fountain and Martin Johnston
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The Budget passes in a cyclical way through select committees to debating stages and passing of bills [Portuguese Gravity on Unsplash]

Budget 2024 will be delivered on 30 May by finance minister Nicola Willis. With some help from reporter Martin Johnston, New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain provides an observers’ guide on what to look for amid the mass of numbers if you want to find out how health has fared

The following will hopefully help you on your voyage of discovery, though, be warned, in recent years there has been a tendency for governments to add