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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-03T03:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Luke Malpass writes: Despite the rhetoric around savings, what the Government has largely done is cut in some areas to fund increases in others. If successful strategies are about aligning resources to priorities, that may be defensible. But it is not “savings” in any absolute or net sense — it is simply different spending decisions. […]\n\nThe post Malpass on fiscal restraint first appeared on Kiwiblog.",
  "title": "Malpass on fiscal restraint"
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