Adam Pearse: NZ Herald political reporter on Labour re-doing their economic policy

The Labour Party is set to unveil their economic policy in the coming days, and speculation's growing. 

Reports indicate a new tax plan will soon be announced - but it's likely the upcoming release will cover a wide range of economic topics.

NZ Herald political reporter Adam Pearse speculates further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News talks 'b.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
But joining me now to talk about this is New
Zealand Herald Deputy Political editor Adam Pierce. Good morning, Adam,
I've got more fired up this morning. This letter that
Judith has written is this about winning and owning the
narrative and taking and pointing fingers as to who to
blame for the fact that there's potentially one hundred thousand
people striking on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Oh, certainly they're looking to get ahead of this mega
strike that we're looking at on Thursday and really trying to,
like you say, set the narrative, explain or try and
convince people that it is the unions wanting to rely
on their political motivations. That seems to be the kind

(00:54):
of catchphrase here that these strikes and the inability to
get around the negotiation table is around their political motivations.
But it's interesting to see the the engagement on this
and I think you're right where, you know, people just
want to get it sorted when you've got disruption at schools,

(01:16):
when you've got disruption in the hospitals, and you know
from from other sectors as well. That's when it really
starts to inconvenience people. And I think you know, there
will be there will be a lot of sympathy. You know,
you're just hearing you read those texts. There are there
are some reasons there that people can see the pressure
points in different industries and health for example. And but

(01:40):
it will be really interesting to see the public opinion
once the government goes really hard on this, and they
will be going hard this week, how the public see
what the strike is all about and who they side with.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Are you expecting to hear more from what you I
think brilliantly named the anti strike squad.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I think so, I think so, And it is it's
a it's a pretty motivation. We've heard from the Health Minister,
Sime and Brown. He went pretty hard last week talking
about the senior doctors crossing an ethical line, which is
a pretty significant thing to say. You know, I don't
think many people would suggest that doctors, you know, are

(02:24):
going into work or going on this strike and neglecting
their role which is obviously a very critical role in society.
But you know, Simmy and Brown is fired up. He's
really keen to make sure that he's trying to show
that they're doing what they can to resolve the strike action.

(02:46):
But yes, we'll also hear Fromerica Stanford due to the
Collins will be prominent. Of course we've just heard from her.
The government will be very very keen to try and
win the narrative on this one.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Hey, this week, Labor is going to redo its economic policy.
What do we know about this?

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, well it was supposed to come on on Thursday,
but of course we had the passing of former PM
Jim Bulger, so they've delayed that because they had to
Curcipans had to get back in the House for the
tributes that we that we heard on Thursday. So, I mean,
obviously we have been waiting a very very long time

(03:25):
for some labor policy. We know that we have a
tax plan in coming. It doesn't sound like that's going
to be next week's announcement, but it will just be
the start of how Labor wants to pitch how it's
going to address the economy if it was if it
was in government. And I think you know, there will

(03:47):
be many many of your listeners will you know, have
views on how Labor addressed the economy when it was
in government, how to address debt, that kind of thing borrowing.
So it will be really interesting to see the tone
that they strike, how they look, how they look to
create a path for prosperity in New Zealand, which I

(04:08):
think everyone would probably quite quite desire at the moment.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Adam, thank you so much for your time this morning.
I appreciate it. That was Adam Pierce.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
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