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Analysis - Nicola Willis has taken a gamble that voters will park their current pain and focus on long term gain with the Budget she delivered on Thursday.
The increasing number of people counting every last dollar in their weekly family budget might have been hoping the coalition had some reprieve in store.
But the Finance Minister has been immovable in her belief that the best medicine for New Zealanders is getting the country back into surplus.
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