Careful cuts with little room for error: Willis' first Budget
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At last, the tax cut tease is over, the full details on full display. The Budget's headline was only ever going to be tax cuts - and they arrived almost exactly as promised. Finance Minister Nicola Willis kept her promise, but will voters thank her? In this week's Focus on Politics, RNZ Deputy Political Editor Craig McCulloch examines the first Budget of the coalition government.
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