The response to the 2021 budget is testament to the fact that you can't please everyone.
Changes to benefits and investment in Maori housing are being welcomed in some quarters - while others say Labour has missed a chance to do more for the most vulnerable in New Zealand society.
At the same time, plans are being laid for a social insurance scheme that will make payments to people who lose their jobs.
Is it a radical idea that will protect workers from upheavals, or an expensive piece of middle-class welfare?
There are complaints from business that they've been left in the cold in the midst of the Covid-19 recovery.
Kirk Hope is the chief executive of Business NZ, Dr Lara Greaves is a political scientist at the University of Auckland, and Janet McAllister is from the Child Poverty Action Group.
