The Green Party exists to create a world–and by extension, economic rules–that support the wellbeing of people and the planet. But right now, we have an economic system that exploits and exhausts both.

Aotearoa New Zealand has more than enough resources, creativity, and skills to be the country we all deserve. What we need is the political courage to be deliberate and direct about how we use our resources.
New Zealanders deserve a government that governs well, and a fiscal framework that equips our leaders to manage the economy—not just abstracted numbers on a page.

 A transformed approach to fiscal management would prioritise real fiscal ‘sustainability’ and recognise that:

1. Public investment can enhance economic development, productivity, and resilience; improving rather than undermining our long-term fiscal sustainability.

2. The costs of underinvestment—in infrastructure gaps, climate resilience, and human capital—pose risks as significant as excessive debt. Both debt in excess of our real economic capacity to deliver investment and chronic underinvestment are failures of fiscal responsibility.

3. Real economic constraints, understood locally and alleviated strategically, should guide our public investment decisions, not financial targets divorced from their economic implications.

4. Responsible increases in public debt should be supported by funding strategies that strengthen our domestic financial institutions to hold that debt. We need to ensure that productive borrowing serves Aotearoa New Zealand’s development while maintaining greater economic sovereignty.

 
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