The New Zealand budget for fiscal year 2015/16 was presented to the New Zealand

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on 21 May 2015. It was the seventh budget English presented as Minister of Finance. In response to the budget,

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Andrew Little called it a "fiddle-it-round budget, a fudge-it budget", while

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called it a "

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budget – I see red, I see red, I see red".

References

External links

New Zealand Treasury - Budget 2015

''New Zealand Herald'' - Budget 2015
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May 2015 events in New Zealand