{"id":44473,"date":"2022-05-14T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/14\/as-the-shine-comes-off-nz-labour-grant-robertson-hopes-his-budget-can-steady-the-ship"},"modified":"2022-05-14T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T19:00:41","slug":"as-the-shine-comes-off-nz-labour-grant-robertson-hopes-his-budget-can-steady-the-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44473","title":{"rendered":"As the shine comes off NZ Labour, Grant Robertson hopes his budget can steady the ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance minister\u2019s fifth budget \u2013 with spending on health and the environment &#8211; will be key scene-setter ahead of New Zealand election expected next year<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s finance minister is one week out from the most important date in his professional calendar \u2013 delivering the next budget. And he could be in for a tough sell.<\/p>\n<p>The image Grant Robertson carefully cultivates is of a disciplined spender and a fiscal policy nerd, joking that it\u2019s \u201cgreat to have a bit of public finance in the morning\u201d and claiming that infrastructure deficits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/politics\/128441934\/grant-robertson-on-the-economy-cost-of-living-and-the-thing-that-keeps-him-up-at-night\">keep him up at night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/14\/as-the-shine-comes-off-nz-labour-grant-robertson-hopes-his-budget-can-steady-the-ship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance minister\u2019s fifth budget \u2013 with spending on health and the environment &#8211; will be key scene-setter ahead of New Zealand election expected next yearNew Zealand\u2019s finance minister is one week out from the most important date in his professional cal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44473\/revisions\/44474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}