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Fact or Fiction: Economy speeds up and traffic slows down

Productivity Commission chair Dr Ganesh Nana says GDP is not a ‘great measure of anything useful’.

Brent Edwards Sat, 19 Jun 2021

While opposition parties are criticising the government for its slow roll-out of the vaccination programme, they are not about to praise it over better-than-expected economic growth figures.

GDP was up 1.6% in the three months to the end of March, well ahead of forecast. In fact, both the

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Brent Edwards Sat, 19 Jun 2021
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