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Blaming Treasury & Labour, Willis looks for even more Austerity
Mōrena. Long stories short, the six things that matter in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Wednesday, December 18 in The Kākā’s Dawn Chorus podcast above and the daily Pick ‘n’ Mix below are:
* Finance Minister Nicola Willis has pledged to find even more public spending cuts to achieve an earlier return to Budget surplus than the 2028/29 year forecast yesterday by Treasury, which bank economists have said would require even more aggressive austerity than seen after Ruth Richardson’s ‘Mother of All Budgets’ from 1991 to 1993. Willis blamed Treasury for…
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