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Labour revisiting 30/30 fiscal rules. Good.
Mōrena. Long stories short; here’s my top six things to note in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Tuesday, August 27:
* Chris Hipkins says Labour is revisiting its decades-long and bipartisan commitment to Government spending and debt being less than 30% of GDP.
* Economists overseas are also challenging the austerity thinking of the last 40 years designed to reduce the size of Government.
* In solutions news, electricity gentailers face competition from lines companies.
* In the quote of the day, Antonio Guterres tells Simeon Brown that restarting oil and…
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