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Ben McKay

NZ cancer patients miss out in campaign pledge backdown

The government has cheered Nicola Willis' budget but cancer and conservation groups are less happy. (Ben McKay/AAP PHOTOS)

Cancer patients and conservation groups have derided the New Zealand coalition government's budget as visionless and backwards.

On Thursday, Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivered her first budget, coming good on campaign pledges to cut government spending and provide income tax relief.

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