Quiz: Whose budget is it anyway?

18 May 2022
Politics
WHOSE-BUDGET-IS-IT-ANYWAY

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Your task is simple. We give you the name of the budget, you say which of the last three finance ministers presented it. 

Over recent governments it has become de rigueur to add a little flourish to the front page of the annual chunky fiscal screed by giving it a name. Every budget since 2009 has been christened with  a strapline, a slogan, to sum up the contents within.

Your task: work out which title was given to which budget. Not that you need reminding, but Bill English was the finance minister who delivered the budgets from 2009 to 2016, Steven Joyce knocked out the 2017 edition, and Grant Robertson has done them since, this week’s included.


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Toby Manhire

Toby Manhire

Toby Manhire is editor-at-large at The Spinoff. He loves to cast a pod, whether it's Gone By Lunchtime, At Large or Juggernaut. He is a former editor of The Spinoff and has worked as a journalist in NZ and the UK since the last millennium.

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