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Archive footage shows Winston Peters delivering budget 21 years ago - Inside Parliament

May 11, 2018

Footage from the 1997 Budget shows Winston Peters, then-deputy leader and treasurer of the National-led government, during the Budget announcement. 

"It's just one more event in what's been a very interesting political career," Mr Peters says in the 21-year-old clip. 

Jim Bolger was the Prime Minister at the time. 

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