Black Budget (New Zealand)

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Nash and Nordmeyer.

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Background

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working-class supporters.[citation needed
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The term 'black budget' is believed to have been coined by union leader Fintan Patrick Walsh, but was taken up by the National Party opposition, and became the commonly used term for the budget. Rises in income tax levels hurt single earners and childless families the most.[2]

The budget was prepared by the cabinet finance committee of

Philip Connolly said of Nash, who had said that there was no alternative, that he was "telling a bloody big lie" as Nash was rubbing the gold cross on his watch chain when he said it. Freer saw some saving grace in the tightening of import controls and emphasis on local manufacture which boosted employment.[3]

The government's popularity never recovered from the budget, which is generally believed to have cost it the 1960 election. Nordmeyer was forever tainted by the 'black budget', which gave him a reputation as a puritanical 'wowser' who was opposed to simple working class pleasures such as automobiles, beer and cigarettes.[2] Despite this, he became the leader of the Labour Party in 1963, but was replaced by the more popular Norman Kirk only two years later.

Popular culture

In 2010,

Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton that the campaign was "unethical, inaccurate and distorted history" as little beer was then imported to New Zealand and the budget raised the excise only to the same as local beers.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Budgets that made us, broke us and kept us on the edge of our seat". Stuff. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  2. ^
    Stuff.co.nz
    . Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  3. ISBN 0-86473-478-6
    .
  4. ^ "DB ordered to pull 'Black Budget' beer ads". The New Zealand Herald. 11 February 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2011.

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