{"id":68625,"date":"2024-06-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=972550f6362053404779163bbdd11a81"},"modified":"2024-06-18T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T21:00:00","slug":"budget-slash-risks-another-bustastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=68625","title":{"rendered":"Budget slash risks another \u2018bustastrophe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budgets always throw up stories you don\u2019t expect. Cuts were expected in this Budget, but the extent and depth of many of them suggest less of a \u2018laser-like focus\u2019 as claimed by the Government, and more of a random grab bag. That happens when you cut $10bn from public services. But nowhere is this truer than in the cut to bus driver terms and conditions \u2013 and cuts to expected services.<\/p>\n<p>Many New Zealanders will remember the badly-named \u201cBustastrophe\u201d, where the combined impact of the departure of older bus drivers (exposed to Covid one too many times) and the industry\u2019s failure to recruit new drivers (read: the borders were closed), meant critical shortages of bus drivers and thousands of cancellations across networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budgets always throw up stories you don\u2019t expect. Cuts were expected in this Budget, but the extent and depth of many of them suggest less of a \u2018laser-like focu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68626,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68625\/revisions\/68626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}