It’s not the debt that’ll sink us

It’s not the debt that’ll sink us
Christopher Luxon on stage with Katherine Rich at last week's pre-election speech. (Image: Dileepa Fonseka/BusinessDesk)
Dileepa Fonseka
Something rather unexpected happened at one point during Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s pre-budget speech in Auckland last week: silence.The BusinessNZ audience ran out of questions for him, and they’d asked only two.Perhaps they had wised up to the fact that politicians can’t say much before a Budget.Alternatively, maybe the business community is finally moving out of the covid-era mode of always waiting to see what the Government does before making their moves.Or maybe they didn’t ask any questions because they kne...

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