Wellington getting ready for skyfall moment

Nicola Willis has some thoughts for the capital. (Image: NZME)

Thu, 21 Dec 2023

The Treasury’s Chicken Little-style warning that the sky was falling when pointing out the fiscal and economic outlook might be something of a portent for Wellington.It was hard to take the heightened rhetoric of finance minister Nicola Willis seriously when she accused the previous Labour government of being fiscal and economic vandals.Profligate? Sure. But vandals? She might need a quick wander around some of the less leafy suburbs of New Zealand cities if she wants a taste of vandalism.The economic forecasts didn’t seem that bad,...

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