{"id":7082,"date":"2025-01-25T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T20:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T20:34:48","slug":"luxon-goes-all-out-for-growth-in-mining-and-tourism-we-should-be-careful-what-he-wishes-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/luxon-goes-all-out-for-growth-in-mining-and-tourism-we-should-be-careful-what-he-wishes-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxon goes all out for growth in mining and tourism \u2013 we should be careful what he wishes\u00a0for"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PERC member Glenn Banks has written a piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/luxon-goes-all-out-for-growth-in-mining-and-tourism-we-should-be-careful-what-he-wishes-for-248131\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/luxon-goes-all-out-for-growth-in-mining-and-tourism-we-should-be-careful-what-he-wishes-for-248131\">The Conversation<\/a> with Regina Scheyvens responding to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/speech\/state-nation-2025\">state-of-the-nation address<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; &#8220;<strong>Luxon goes all out for growth in mining and tourism \u2013 we should be careful what he wishes\u00a0for<\/strong>&#8220;. The authors argue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We shouldn\u2019t rush to judgement, but at least&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thekaka.substack.com\/p\/why-the-governments-going-for-growth\">one prominent financial commentator has concluded<\/a>&nbsp;the maths behind the goals \u201cjust doesn\u2019t add up\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luxon specified mining and tourism among a number of sectors where the government was anticipating and facilitating growth. Having researched these sectors across the Pacific and Aotearoa New Zealand for more than 30 years, we would echo a cautionary approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is certainly scope for more activity in both sectors. But there also needs to be a dose of realism about what they can deliver, and recognition of the significant risks associated with focusing solely on growth&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/luxon-goes-all-out-for-growth-in-mining-and-tourism-we-should-be-careful-what-he-wishes-for-248131\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/luxon-goes-all-out-for-growth-in-mining-and-tourism-we-should-be-careful-what-he-wishes-for-248131\">The Conversation<\/a> to read the piece in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PERC member Glenn Banks has written a piece for The Conversation with Regina Scheyvens responding to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon\u2019s\u00a0state-of-the-nation address\u00a0 &#8211; &#8220;Luxon goes all out for growth in mining and tourism \u2013 we should be careful what he wishes\u00a0for&#8220;. The authors argue: &#8220;We shouldn\u2019t rush to judgement, but at least&nbsp;one prominent financial commentator has concluded&nbsp;the maths behind the goals &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/luxon-goes-all-out-for-growth-in-mining-and-tourism-we-should-be-careful-what-he-wishes-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89],"tags":[90,39,46],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extraction","tag-extraction","tag-perc-members","tag-publications","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQ2HH-1Qe","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7084,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions\/7084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}