Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
My Saturday Soliloquy for Dec 7
Mōrena. Long stories short, the six things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty in this week were:
* PM Christopher Luxon said his Goverment was ‘re-learning’ the austerity-infused economic lessons taught by former National Finance Minister Ruth Richardson in 1991, when she slashed spending to reduce public debt and the size of Government (and was then sacked in 1993);
* The National-ACT-NZ First Coalition Government signalled it would renege on our nation’s Paris Commitments to reduce climate emissions by saying the Government would not buy…
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