Finance Minister Grant Robertson says 2021 is still a Covid-19 Budget.
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There are big expectations around the usual areas - health and education, but do not expect much more for housing after the multi-billion package announced in March.
The one exception will be what Finance Minister Grant Robertson describes as "significant" funding for Māori housing.
This time last year he was staring down the barrel of the pandemic and the unknown extent of the economic damage it would cause.
Robertson says 2021 is still a Covid-19 Budget.
New Zealand is "not out of the woods yet", he says, and while both the global and domestic economy has done better than expected, "every single forecast that [he reads] includes the words 'uncertainty' and 'volatility'."