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Edwards on Politics
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Political will needed for long-term change to productivity

ANALYSIS: Successive governments largely ignored Productivity Commission reports.

WATCH: NBR political editor Brent Edwards speaks with Jonathan Mitchell.

Brent Edwards Thu, 29 Feb 2024

It seems every government for at least the past 40 years has promised to lift the country’s productivity.

Yet here we are today, and the current Government complains that the ‘productivity’ disease is years in the making after previous governments failed to make the changes needed to boost

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Brent Edwards Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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