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Lately for Thursday 30 May 2019

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10:20 Budget 2019: Overview

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Photo: RNZ / Rob Dixon

RNZ's Business Editor, Gyles Beckford gives us an overview of the wonners and the losers in today's Budget.

10:30 Budget 2019: Education

Bags at Maraeroa School in Porirua

Bags at Maraeroa School in Porirua Photo: RNZ Insight/John Gerritsen

The education sector had high expectations of this budget. Sam Oldham, a former highschool teacher, branch chair of the PPTA and PhD candidate in Education Policy join us with his take.

10:35 Budget 2019: Rainbow Communities

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Another interesting announcement in today's budget was three-million-dollars of operational funding over the next four years for transgender New Zealanders to access gender-affirming surgery. We speak to Ahi Wi-Hongi from Gender Minorities Aotearoa joins us.

10:40 Budget 2019: International Aid

The New Zealand Defence Force’s NH90 helicopters marked their first overseas mission by delivering essential aid supplies to Nasau village in Koro, a cyclone-ravaged island about 106 km north of the Fijian capital of Suva.

The New Zealand Defence Force’s NH90 helicopters marked their first overseas mission by delivering essential aid supplies to Nasau village in Koro, a cyclone-ravaged island about 106 km north of the Fijian capital of Suva. Photo: NZDF

International Aid also featured in the Budget today - a little more than some international Aid agencies were expecting. We speak to Jo Spratt, Oxfam New Zealand's Advocacy and Campaigns Director.

10:45 State of Origin Rugby League Controversy

Sam Phillips, a sports reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald join us with news of the first State of Origin rugby league match between Queensland and New South Wales which kicks off next week. However, it's an off-field move that is making the headlines in the lead-up.