Simon Wilson

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Senior Writer·NZ Herald·

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Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick during her Budget 2025 speech at Parliament. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Simon Wilson

Opinion by Simon Wilson

Simon Wilson is an award-winning senior writer covering politics, the climate crisis, transport, housing, urban design and social issues. He joined the Herald in 2018.

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THE FACTS

  • The Green Party has released a “fiscal strategy”.
  • The strategy supports its other plans released this year, including a Green Budget, emissions reduction plan and industrial strategy.
  • The International Monetary Fund says Government policies are holding productivity back.

One of the things about being human is that we’re very good at holding two contradictory ideas in our head at the same time.

We all know the institutions of liberal democracy are failing us. Yet polls suggest most of us believe the solution is to keep

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