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Monday, October 9, 2023

Robert MacCulloch: From where did the PM get NZ's Quarterly GDP 2nd-in-world ranking that he used on Hoskings ZB show?


If you watch Mike Hoskings interview with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, the PM clearly states that NZ's 2023 Quarter 2 Gross Domestic Product growth figure is bigger "than every country other than Japan" (at 10 minutes 20 seconds into the interview below). Stats NZ says our Q2 figure (for April to June 2023, compared to the previous quarter) was 0.9% higher.