new zealand’s parliament late last year the nation’s treasury will bar the wall street journal from attending restricted briefings for three years for publishing budget information before the scheduled release time new zealand’s treasury will bar the wall street journal from attending restricted briefings for three years for publishing budget information before the scheduled release time in may the treasury said tuesday that the journal will be barred from attending restricted briefings on new zealand’s budget economic and fiscal updates government financial statements and other meetings until a budget briefing in 2025 it will also bar a reporter from the journal and dow jones newswires who mistakenly sent a draft of a story before the time stipulated by the treasury as a condition of attending the restricted briefing