Nicola Willis
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1,507 appearances
29 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
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We don't think that's the right timing.
But if you look at twenty twenty eight, which is when we're proposing to start those five cent hikes, that's a year in which GDP growth will be around double where it is at this year.
Real wage growth will be positive, inflation is forecast to be coming down.
We think that's a time when that uh petrol tax increase can
Whose
Well, that's funding that would otherwise be available for other things.
Yeah.
Where you know?
There's a long there's a long laundry list where So
That's right.
I can find that billion dollars.
Otherwise that money would be available for either reducing debt faster or spending on other things.
And the alternative, of course, uh is that we would be increasing petrol taxes uh significantly on the first of January.
Petrol's only three bucks a liter.
Petrol's only three bucks a liter.
Well well we absolutely are hardening up in that we are uh continuing uh a path that gets us with debt coming down, that gets the surplus back in and that continues with tight spending allowances.
So uh we can do all of that with no new taxes, we can do all of that uh by being very careful elsewhere.
And that's the pattern we're gonna have to continue uh after the election.
No, you're not going to have to do that.
When you see the pre election fiscal update, you'll see that I've been very careful.
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