The 52nd
New Zealand Parliament, which opened on 7 November 2017, finds its terminal
countdown months in 2020 blighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This Parliament is finally extinct as of Saturday
19 September 2020, the date nominated by the prime minister for a general
election.
The Ardern tripartite coalition government’s Great
Lockdown emergency measures are causing huge and mounting national compensatory
expenditure blowouts that will have to be funded somehow. In the short run ramped up national debt and
expedient money printing will fill the breach, but afterwards the resultant liabilities
must be addressed.
