PATTRICK SMELLIE: 5 things to watch for in the Budget

PATTRICK SMELLIE: 5 things to watch for in the Budget
Pattrick Smellie
Amidst a welter of commentary about how momentous this Thursday’s Budget will be, how about this for a prediction? Prepare to be disappointed. To those on the left, who hope the government will have crafted a new, green utopia: forget it. Like the rest of us, they’re still trying to work out what’s hit them. There will be plenty of nods in the direction of climate change resilience, but also plenty of new roads and fast-track resource management legislation to get the economy moving again. To the promoters of so-called ‘shovel-ready...

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