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![Budget: Our big fat zero Budget](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=798)
Budget: Our big fat zero Budget
Finance Minister Bill English describes it as "probably the tightest Budget in the last 20 years" while opposition parties have labelled it as "zero hope" and drab. So is National's new budget any good?
![John Armstrong: Backlash lurking in Govt austerity march](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=798)
John Armstrong: Backlash lurking in Govt austerity march
Thanks largely to some adroit politics on its part, National has yet to cop any substantial public reaction to its various austerity measures.