Michael Reddell: Willis and Rennie speaking

Last week various of the great and good of New Zealand economics and public policy trooped off to Hamilton (of all places) for the annual Waikato Economics Forum, one of the successful marketing drives of university’s Vice-Chancellor.

My interest was in the speeches delivered by the Minister of Finance and by Iain Rennie, the newly appointed (by this government) Secretary to the Treasury. The Minister also used her speech to announce the launch of a Going for Growth website complete with a 44 page document (15 of which are photos and covers, and another 9 are lists of things (being) done) titled “Going for Growth: Unlocking New Zealand’s Potential” – in the Minister’s words, “Going For Growth outlines the approach the Government is taking to turbo-charge our economy”.