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Jason Walls: Luxon's pre-Budget speech wasn't designed to get attention

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Thu, 8 May 2025, 5:33pm
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks at tourism trade event TRENZ at Rotorua's Energy Events Centre on Wednesday. Photo / Laura Smith
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks at tourism trade event TRENZ at Rotorua's Energy Events Centre on Wednesday. Photo / Laura Smith

Jason Walls: Luxon's pre-Budget speech wasn't designed to get attention

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九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 8 May 2025, 5:33pm

With two weeks left to go until Budget day, Chris Luxon addressed a crowd at a BusinessNZ event in Auckland today.

Luxon reiterated that the Government won't be splashing the cash this year - and claimed the Finance Minister was right to promise it won't be a Budget lolly scramble.

九一星空无限talk ZB political editor Jason Walls says this wasn't the kind of pre-Budget announcement that would make the nation sit up and take notice - and that was by design.

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