1998 - The Year in Review YEAR IN REVIEW 1998

Policies and Progress

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley

9 December 1998
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Today, this minority National Government publishes its first Budget Policy Statement setting economic and fiscal parameters for the next 12 months, and an economic and fiscal update forecasting the nation's prospects to 2002.

    It is one year this month since I took office as Prime Minister. Notwithstanding the mythology that this minority Government is drifting, this has been 12 months of very solid achievement. The future is, moreover, built on the past.

    This document therefore provides, alongside the December Economic and Fiscal Update and Budget Policy Statement, a brief A-Z summary of the progress during 1998, under 56 policy headings, as a ready reference for those interested in tracking the Government's achievement.

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