PREFU: Border stays closed through all of next year

PREFU: Border stays closed through all of next year
Pattrick Smellie
New Zealand’s borders do not return to normal until 2022 under the economic forecasts released in today’s pre-election fiscal and economic update from the Treasury.However, the update assumes that international tourists and foreign students will start being able to come here again from September next year.Finance Minister Grant Robertson stressed those assumptions were “not a timetable” and were “not based on any government policy” but were forecast assumptions chosen by the Treasury.“We want to ensure...

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