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Former health ministers talk Budgets and how to spend them
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Budget 2025
Former health ministers talk Budgets and how to spend them
Wednesday 7 May 2025, 03:00 PM

Former health ministers Pete Hodgson and Wyatt Creech discuss the challenge of Vote Health ahead of Budget 2025 [Images: Stuff, Supplied]
The health portfolio is often characterised as a poison chalice, not the least because health ministers face the wrath of Cabinet colleagues as, alongside social development, Vote Health takes the lion’s share of the annual Budget. Ahead of Budget 2025 this month Stephen Forbes tracked down two former health ministers – Wyatt Creech and Pete Hodgson – for a chat about the challenge that is Vote Health
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Former health ministers Pete Hodgson (Labour) and Wyatt Creech (National) agree the ongoing demand for increased funding for Vote Hea, READ MORE
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