The New Zealand government has revealed its 2022 budget on May 19, with a focus on relieving cost-of-living and record health investment.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government had set out to give people as much certainty and security as possible in the budget.
“That is what we have set out to do in Budget 2022. Deal with the immediacy of the economic and health challenges Kiwis are facing, while also looking to the challenges of tomorrow, and seeking to buffer our people from both,” Ardern told the parliament virtually while in isolation.
“And when it comes to today, there is no more universal challenge right now than the cost of living.”…