Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: What the critics are saying about the Jacinda Ardern film that just premiered at Sundance, what you missed from day one of the Treaty principles bill select committee hearings and why Sam Neill deserves his own lifestyle show ASAP.
“‘2025 is all about going for economic growth,’ says the prime minister. It was the central focus of his state of the nation address last week and he’s rejigging his ministers’ titles and the public science and foreign investment bodies to ‘unleash it’. Having been the goal of every government since day dot, it’s about the most unoriginal clarion call a politician could ever make. The real question is – what growth, where and benefiting who? Economic growth is a bit like running. You can run faster but if you’re running faster in no direction you are simply getting nowhere fast. Or worse, arriving quickly at a place you don’t want to be.”
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The problem with ‘going for growth’
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