Business of Government: the quest for value, Te Ao Māori upheld, and more ...

The government wants to spend more on people in hard hats but who will be left to evaluate the value of what they make? (Image: NZME)

Jem Traylen

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

Parliament’s first financial scrutiny week is over, and a hundred-plus hours of extended quizzing has armed MPs with plenty to discuss in the six hours remaining of the Budget debate.Quote of the week goes to Minister of Finance Nicola Willis’ summing up the government’s fiscal strategy: “There will be more people in hard hats and high vis and probably fewer people wearing a lanyard on Lambton Quay, and I’m okay with that.”Earlier in that session with the Finance and Expenditure Committee, Willis affirmed tha...

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