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Chris Hipkins announces policy refocus, $1 billion to be redirected to 'bread and butter issues'

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 13 Mar 2023, 6:30pm
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Chris Hipkins announces policy refocus, $1 billion to be redirected to 'bread and butter issues'

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 13 Mar 2023, 6:30pm

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has announced more policies will be scrapped to get Kiwis through the cost of living crisis.

The $568 million clean car upgrade is gone, the plan to nationally reduce speed limits has narrowed, and an extra $2 billion will be spent on a welfare package.

ZB's senior political correspondent Barry Soper says voters will have to wait until May to find out the full scope of the budget, but this refocus functions like a small-scale budget announcement.

Barry Soper says that the Government has kicked climate change funding down the road by deferring several transport plans.

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