A critical opinion piece questioning the proposed New Zealand–India free trade agreement, arguing that diverting up to $38 billion overseas undermines domestic priorities like the cost of living, public services, and climate resilience, and calls for greater accountability in how
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Well, you know, I described it earlier as a um bread margarine uh budget with uh Winston Peters left um swimming in a vat of uh rich butter. Uh because he's the man, if you were uh part of his any uh part of his ministries, would be quite happy with today's announcements. I mean, you know, rail, uh, and we know how Keen Winston is on rail. They're getting another 1.7 billion dollars out of the um the capital fund, uh, which is good, and um even the Greens in the House today couldn't acknowledge it, but they should be more than happy with that. And interestingly, look, Winston has always been a very popular minister of foreign affairs, and for good reason, because the ministry there, they get more money uh as a result of Winston being there, um, 145 million dollars for uh a diplomatic network overseas. So uh diplomats abroad are being looked after pretty well. But of course, it is uh a budget for the times, I think, Heather, that we're living in very tight fiscal times, and I think this budget was hit the mark about right.
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