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Sticking budget stuff on a sever open to the public is a stuff up.
But then Treasury going out and saying ""Following this morning's media reports of a potential leak of Budget information, the Treasury has gathered sufficient evidence to indicate that its systems have been deliberately and systematically hacked," is so much more of a stuff up. Its an attempt to push the blame elsewhere.
For the Minister then go onto to say :""We have contacted the National Party to request that they do not release any further material, given that the Treasury said it has sufficient evidence that indicates the material is a result of a systematic hack and is now subject to a police investigation." is concerning. It is Nationals job to act in Opposition - and they were doing just that.
Its hardly Nationals fault that the government has ministries with incompetent people in it.
I agree Winston has once again told a straight out lie saying he knew (as it was his job to know) what had happened and it was illegal on the part of the National Party. If he had any sense of respect for the job he holds, he would resign. But we know he doesn't and he won't and yet again the media just ignores him and let him get away with it. This senior politician seems to get away with just straight out BS and made up stories again and again without any foundation.
Radio NZ says - A status quo Budget when transformation was promised
Prob had to be expected
Labout haven't learnt. Paid $690m for a trainset worth $369m. Now they are going to biff another $billion at it. Sad for the homeless and ill.
Bit of a shame that after getting some embargoed data showing up on the website, National didn't call Treasury and let them know. Instead they were trying so hard to get all the details together (2000 requests in just 48 hours so allowing for sleep, about 83 searches per hour were needed) just so they could break some small details on the budget and make a pathetic point. They're thinking like adolescents.
And if National hadn't closed the railway workshop in Dunedin, most of that new money could have stayed in NZ. Maybe a lot of it can stay, if they think about it. Have you done any maths on the cost of road damage and delays through NZ if we don't keep truck/freight road traffic down? Thought not.
It's a very clever budget one year out from an election, it will profoundly talk to the constituent base, "over the next four years we will give you ... " i.e. this term and the next. Until National have a coherent likeable leader and policies that resonate with more voters than the current coalition combined (because National is time warped into a first past the poll mentality), the Labour coalition have a stranglehold on the next term.