Bruce Cotterill: Time for decisive Government action to get NZ back on track

In November 2023 our new Government was sworn in. They comprised a coalition of National, NZ First and Act. National’s campaign had swept that party to power with a promise that they would “get our country back on track”.

As we said farewell to what was arguably the worst Government in our history, a sense of hope emerged. Despite the woeful state of an economy riddled with debt and a society overladen with crime, we believed that we would scramble from our Covid-enforced hibernation and begin a recovery.