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Treasury Transparency

6 items · 5 aliases · peaked week of 12 Apr 2026 · first seen 1 May 2026

Labour leader Chris Hipkins criticises the Treasury's pay equity savings figures, calling them speculative and poorly calculated, while the Treasury maintains its position.

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  • Well, Treasury's doing a range of scenarios and forecasts and look, to be honest, it's a bit of a movable feast, right? Because every day, you know, you'll probably be a bit like me, you'll wake up and you'll open up. You know, Twitter or the New Zealand's a B app or the Herald app or whatever, and you look at what's happened overnight and you just, your heart sinks a bit sometimes. So it's a movable feast. What is undoubtedly true is that inflation will increase and all of the forecasts are showing that. The Reserve Bank said last week, you know, 4.2 in the June quarter is what they expect it to go up to. So it will increase. And the reason for that is I think people listening will know is that the. The price of petrol and diesel is just skyrocketed and it's just flying through the economy and that will have flow on effects for many goods. And so inflation is going to spike and that's an unfortunate reality of global events.
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hdpa-drive Government / N-A

concerns about strategic withholding of data

Chris Bishop: Associate Finance Minister on the prospect of the OCR going up
13 Apr
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