Budget Deficit Recovery

Well, look, I think in the budget, you know, what we're trying to do is, you know, and I think a lot of your farmers would understand this. The books are in terrible shape, and everyone understands that they cranked up the debt. Um, you know, there's you know, cranked up spending, inflation interest rates went through the roof, all that good, you know, horrible stuff. But we're getting the books back in order. The reason we're doing that is so that we can keep taxes low. Uh the reason we're doing that is to keep debt low. Uh and actually us having you know a good set of books is actually how you manage uh yourself in a really volatile sort of place. But you know, you're seeing investments like wild and pines, you'll continue to see savings that are generated as we've been doing from the get-go from the back office of the bureaucracy and then redeployed into roads and hospitals and schools. We're very committed, obviously, to the RMA reforms that are coming through the system. Um and so, you know, really it's about continuing to fix the basics that Labour broke, and it's about building up the future into infrastructure, education, defence, trade, RMO, those sorts of things that have a real benefit for regional communities.