Finance Minister Grant Robertson explains Budget 2020
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English - May 14, 2020 05:10 - 9 minutes - 9.15 MBNews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A $50 billion rescue fund sits at the centre of 2020's "once in a generation Budget" as the country braces for the economic carnage promised by Covid-19. Finance Minister Grant Robertson says the pandemic is a "one-in-100-year event" which demands record spending. He talks to Lisa Owen.