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Ben McKay

Return to surplus pushed out again in New Zealand

Finance Minister Nicola Willis says New Zealand's budget is on target a return to surplus in 2029. (Ben McKay/AAP PHOTOS)

New Zealand is on track to record its worst deficit this decade, and go the whole 2020s without posting a budget in the black.

A fresh fiscal outlook from the half-year economic and fiscal update, delivered by Finance Minister Nicola Willis in Wellington on Tuesday, was another dire reminder of the country's finances.

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