Grant Robertson: Retiring former finance minister on achievements and regrets | Q+A 2024
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- Outgoing MP Grant Robertson talks about the finance policies that were and weren’t accomplished by Labour, his defeated ambitions to be leader, and what he’d do differently if he had his time again
Join Jack Tame and the Q+A team and find the answers to the questions that matter. Made with the support of NZ on Air.
The main issue was there was no accountability, no tax changes like capital gains taxes, no sharing of gst with the councils,to much PC,to many contractors and no outcomes
Nothing new.Big promises and no delivery. eg Kiwibuild.
Went to Alternative monetary policy tools with Adrian Orr during covid, pumped house prices to an extreme in total opposition to Labour's promises. Interestingly, he also had no formal qualification of recognition in finance, which puts him in common with our current finance minister. He literally wouldn't have been able to get a job as an accountant in the real world. Our political system is seriously flawed.
The impact of his tenure will be evident for generations.
Thats for real.
What, John Key left more debt than in NZs history, so take a seat camper.
@@greggiles7309 read the balance sheet again
No he didn’t 5 billion from John key Robertson 100 billion can you do the maths on that @@greggiles7309
@greggiles7309 funny how lairbour came out saying if it wasn't for keys leaving the surplus behind that new zealnad would have been financially fucked from get go with covid. An that was after all their rampant spending prior to covid. How do you get a surplus and leave the biggest debt ever at the same time. Sit down clown an go back to school
Must be awesome to live with no regrets
What time and channel for tv speech please
The saddest interview I've ever seen . This man genuinely believes he has done well. UNBELIEVABLE 😮
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Yes, the poor fool.
I wish he had said much of this when he was in government
It's "Goodbye" from Grant Robertson, and "Good Riddance" from New Zealand.
Thank you Hon. Grant Robertson for job well done to get the country thru Covid and the aftermath the WORLD suffered from. Ignore the badly behaved uneducated anti-vax nut jobs. NZ honours and appreciates your adept leadership and dedication sir! Thank you for your service to the country!
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Cost of living payment! Easy for people to return the money but N Willis made politics.
Jack Tame, all Government spending is a debt lien, our taxes pay the debt, its on a 10 year cycle.
Anything extra is never used to lower any taxes, any.
Luxcon plans to make foreign online gambling legal to tax that activity.
What a load of tripe
Thank you Hon. Grant Robertson for job well done to get the country thru Covid and the aftermath the WORLD suffered from. Ignore the badly behaved uneducated anti-vax nut jobs. NZ honours and appreciates your adept leadership and dedication sir! Thank you for your service to the country!
What good did they deliver on education,health and crime all worse
Interesting how Labour grouped high level departments with a common focus to help create better us of money.
People were being invested on. People makes a country. The biggest asset we have. Germany does this and they always win nobel prizes and flourish so well. NZ shouldn't expect a wealthy economy from second hand investment on NZ people.
Yip after leaving a disastrously finsncial mess
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He was a low achiever at school with mediocre grades especially in Maths thus only managing a useless Arts degree and unable to gain a degree in Accounting and Finance or any job experience in finance, he was incredibly given the job of Finance Minister which he was GROSSLY INCOMPETENT and unfit as the economy and its books have revealed 6 years on. Father was a thief who stole 120K from the law firm that he was an accountant for and jailed for 2 years. Guess the apple doesnt fall far from the tree
Sword of Damocles!
PAYE is the noose around workers productivity and hard work, and punitive PAYE on overtime and bonuses.
GST is charged on the full amount of the Supermarket recipe, its not on individual items.
Migrate to Australia if you have any skills.
I am ready to retire in four more years.
yes, I left years ago. Kiwis inside the fishbowl don't get what NZ is, which is a tax haven for foreigners masquerading as an extractive economy owned by oligopolies for its day job. People that work there are no different to other resources being extracted, they're there to be extracted too. The govt provides the environment and protection for this process and always has. There is no free market, every sector is dominated by one or two participants producing a high margin duopoly in nearly every sector. The too small argument is trotted out, but that doesn't seem a problem for others, like say, Ireland. It's one big ripoff for the locals, one big holiday for the foreign rich.
@@apexclaimadjusters5816 Americans can take unlimited funds out of NZ. John Key nearly made NZ a Tax Haven. Ruth Richardson buggered workers productivity with her punitive PAYE taxes. So the Three Horsemen are talking a load of Bull about wages rising. I retire in 4 more years.
@@apexclaimadjusters5816 Aussie is too hot, and I dislike using air conditioning to keep cool. That, and the Aussie accent is very grating. Otherwise I'd leave tomorrow
This crook should be locked up, surprised he's done an interview
Man will destroy Otago Uni's finances next
Absolutely. Look what he has done to NZ.
Otago Uni's finances are already beyond fucked.
Left us with a AAA credit rating, low unemployment and a debt to earnings ratio of only 20%@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj
100 percent
@@TeWakaOAoraki Just the man for the job.Robertson will stuff it up further.Nothing new.
Already many years late..
0:46 I'm not well aware about what Grant thought of the GST policy. Good or Bad? It's not clear. Why talk in riddles?
Pretty easy to look that up... But I think in this wording it's pretty obvious that he didn't agree with it. It was well documented that he didn't agree with it, and Chippy was questioned about this multiple times.
Nothing new
He thinks it was a bad idea but doesn't want to attack Hipkins.
It’s all about big government and social engineering with this guy ( because THEY KNOW BETTER )
they dont know better,thats socialism/commie thinking for u
No they dont, at any cost.
Good riddance. His and Reserve Bank monetary policies have stuffed NZ
And yet we have a AAA credit rating
@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj I think the facts speak for themselves and it was the pervious john key national govt that stuffed up the country? When he came into office the national debt was 29b.... when they were voted out the national debt was 117b. That is a fact.... and his idiot theory was that interest rates were low so, it was the best time to borrow.... WRONG, He gave tax cuts to the wealthy and paid for it by raising GST. That is a fact. He also denied for 6 YEARS that New Zealand did not have a housing crisis until they were about to be voted out. That is a fact Failed to spend enough money on just the basic of maintenance for public hospitals, schools, roads and infrastructure. Sounds like they had good monetary policy back then? Fast forward to this government.... Tax cuts to wealthy land lords while offering the police a substandard pay offer. A roading plan which has a 24b hole. They took away the "Auckland petrol tax" good on them. But I have a sneaky suspicion that they will be raising fuel tax across the whole country to fill the 24b hole as the $100 hike in vehicle rego will not cover it. Cut spending to schools so they can not build additional classrooms etc, etc Sounds like good monetary policies?
@@LabourPartyFan Not sure of that ?
Reserve bank is tory thing govt has limited control over it
Thank you Hon. Grant Robertson for job well done to get the country thru Covid and the aftermath the WORLD suffered from. Ignore the badly behaved uneducated anti-vax nut jobs. NZ honours and appreciates your adept leadership and dedication sir! Thank you for your service to the country!
He was a a total financial disaster for New Zealand , along with Jacinda & Hipkins. One bad decision after another.
Absolutely, nothing new.
What exactly were they doing in their 9 years of opposition? Clearly not planning.
The guy’s deluded.
Far too kind
He’s must be on something or else he’s stupid
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Wow, compare this with the Dr Shane Reti interview. This one is a puff piece for Labour and Robertson. The other is an aggressive, unprofessional interrogation
You may be right but Hon Robertson is in opposition, is leaving politics after a 15 year career and this is a reflection on his career. Hon Reti is a current minister implementing health policy changes at this time. The context is very different for these interviews.
@@twinning1944 even so, my point is about the interviewer and not the interviewee. Jack gets all hot under the collar when he doesn't get answers that fit with his world view. Interviews are an exchange of information and not supposed to be an aggressive and badgering confrontation.
No surprises.Thats Jack.His interviewing style depends who it is .
What are you on about, grant robertson is leaving politics and isn’t a current minister… if you want jack takes previous interviews of Robertson during his time as minister you’ll find it comparable to the reti intervene. Franklyi didn’t think he went far enough with reti
Time you joined him Jack
Grant and co left NZ in massive debt , divided and broken. Never again
Saved us from covid, saved jobs, saved businesses - National left us 150 billion in debt in 2017
@@LabourPartyFan You are a Labour Party apologist.A complete disaster.
Just facts - I know your party doesn't like, or tell, the truth.@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj
Sorry if you don't like facts@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj
@@LabourPartyFansure gave away a lot of money to the warehouse group and co where they don’t actually need it, another typical example of how wasteful labour can be, it wasn’t labour who saved the business, it is at the tax payers expense! And still tax payers are paying an increasing amount of tax money to recover for the debt that labour has done in the past 6 years… enough is enough, the gist of labours policy is to redistribute wealth from the ‘rich’ to the ‘poor’, however… you didn’t get that from the rich instead it is the average middle class people who are suffering the most…
When one believes their own lies as much as this conniver, the world is doomed.
Thank you Hon. Grant Robertson for job well done to get the country thru Covid and the aftermath the WORLD suffered from. Ignore the badly behaved uneducated anti-vax nut jobs. NZ honours and appreciates your adept leadership and dedication sir! Thank you for your service to the country!
Luxcon believes his own lies.
Thank goodness he has gone. I cannot believe he really believes what he says.
Thank you Hon. Grant Robertson for job well done to get the country thru Covid and the aftermath the WORLD suffered from. Ignore the badly behaved uneducated anti-vax nut jobs. NZ honours and appreciates your adept leadership and dedication sir! Thank you for your service to the country!
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Piss weak interview
What a lot of rubbish he talks
Lifted kids out of Poverdy??????
Just happy they only stayed 6 years or the damage would have been irreversible.He is NewZealands worse finance minister, so much waste and no real results all those social engineering ,changing names and ideological centralization put NewZealand and WORKING NewZealanders backwards.
Got us through covid by keeping unemployment at a record low of 3.4%, kept businesses afloat, saved 20,000 lives, gave our economy a credit rating of AAA and had the debt to earnings ratio at only 20% of GDP
Insane how short your memory must be if you think he is the worst finance minister lmao
Also, the current one has changed more names than any other NZ govt (Over turning both Key and Ardern changes)
Wasted 60b of money. Useless finance minister from the least transparent and most authoritarian govt nz has seen.
@@Me-ui1zy excellent move.Too woke and PC.Glad they have gone.
@@rJBowker007 Yes, no idea of economics.Glad they have gone.
tell us about our overseas debt....Have a good look at what Otago owes now...and when this clown leaves.... the children will be paying for his time in govt for years and years and years. thanks for nothing...you should be charged as a traitor...
I would never let my grandchildren go to Otago university while Grant Robertson is on the staff . He was not qualified as finance minister and what would he know about education .
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Bit late now !!! You have blown this country apart! No you weren’t investing in anything at all! Prove all the fabulous outcomes that were achieved
him and Ardern and Hipkins really stuffed up this country big time , we all now living there nightmare and National trying to pickup the pieces what a disaster took them only 6 years to do it too . Roberson and Arden have ran to the hills .
Saved 20,000 lives, saved jobs, saved businesses - National left us 150 billion in debt in 2017
@@LabourPartyFan That queen of woke left NZ in chaos.Time will tell that last Labour government will be the worse in NZ history along with the worse finance minister.
I thought that I was ready to listen to this. I'm not. I'm still ropeable.
Another politician that gets to walk away, leaving a mess with no consequences. Off to applause and pats on the back. Off to a high paying job. With plenty of ex politician perks. Cheer Grant
NZ literally went Woke and got Broke under his economic regime
Good Riddance
Thank you Hon. Grant Robertson for job well done to get the country thru Covid and the aftermath the WORLD suffered from. Ignore the badly behaved uneducated anti-vax nut jobs. NZ honours and appreciates your adept leadership and dedication sir! Thank you for your service to the country!
@@bubbagump3793 no thanks
Invest in raised crossings at $450k a pop!
He was terrible good riddance
Absolutely
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@@bubbagump3793 nice try grant
Respect. Plus, he seems like a cool guy to hang out with. Hey Grant I'd love to get a hot chocolate with you sometime at the Octagon if you're in to that ☕🤎
oxygen thief
Why not u r inviting jacinta ? Now
Cut and run but justice will get him eventually.
John Key added more debt than any PM in our history.
Short memory ,he has watch for the book now
Being clearer to people should have been something at the top of your to do list when you were in power, too late now, we can't get the time back, nor do we want to ever!
He should not be proud of what they did. Taxing and spending does not solve problems, especially for Labour voters because it is the poor who are paying the most in taxes. Labour acted illogically and wasted money everywhere they could.
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Cant say sorry to see you go grant . You have created and left a mess that will take others YEARS to sort out.😮
Covid created the mess - Labour saved us from the worst of it
So he is proud of absolutely ruined this country
Thank you Hon. Grant Robertson for job well done to get the country thru Covid and the aftermath the WORLD suffered from. Ignore the badly behaved uneducated anti-vax nut jobs. NZ honours and appreciates your adept leadership and dedication sir! Thank you for your service to the country!
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He's arguably the worst finance minister the country's ever seen. Now off to put Otago Uni under.
No argument. The facts speak for themselves.
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DONT come back.
Thank you Jack. A well researched interview from someone on their way to being a 4th estate pillar. Learnt a lot from Grant. As a man in the street I could never fully understand the finer workings of economy and commerce, so for the life of me, I can't understand why much of the comment on here bags Grant for his work. If they know as much as I do then they have a bloody cheek.
If you dont know, I cant tell you.
the comments on here say it all really ....
Good cos the state of nz is disgraceful
Lot of comments here saying Grant did a terrible job. Would these commentators be able to or have the nous to do a better job? Yeah right!!
Doing nothing would have been a better job, NZ is now 5.9 billion in debt thanks to this fuck wit
Absolutely
No one could have done worse . He leaves us broke , devided down lines of race . In short he's left us ruined .😮
17th comment
The most useless finance minister ever
What a lit of rubbish he is talking
He and the government should not have subsided business during covid 19. As now see business want drive down protection for people.
National, Act, represent business. Both parties made it clear they were going to repeal policy that is advantageous to workers. IE. Fairpay agreements being one.
@@waynewright5571 You are a another nanny stater.Free pennies from heaven.Its all over.The tap has now turned been turned off.
Go home grant , and stay there. Your wife Alf has got your dinner prepared 😮.
Good riddance, just about ruined the country. Rock star economy to rock bottom
Proud to be a Labour and proud to what you did, Mr Robertson. You did great. Kia Kaha for your next endeavor. ❤
GRANT SHOULD BE IN JAIL
A man who cant count calories let alone dollars. Good bye you leave behind a mess not legacy. Achievements nothing but being in a place in time..
The fat comments are so weird given our current PM is also overweight?
@@jame2433 good reply james we are all proud of you.. now clean up your toys
@@Alex-it5ej ?
What a rip off kick him out of nz
Grant did a great job as Finance Minister albeit the challenges that government faced- could have done more to address child poverty.
Again. Note how softly Jack interviews the left compared to the rude interuptive gotcha style he does on the right.
Bloody disgusting behaviour Jack
Piss of snowflake - what a load of crap from a partisan hack.
Garbage
The journey to social justice never ends specially when Labour are in power.
They believe in pennies from heaven, with the money permanently turned on. No problem.
What an innings, what a contribution. Thank you Grant.
You must be joking ?
Jack is a world class interviewer. Always prepared. Good luck Grant, nice job.
And you Sir are a deluded Twit!
No thanks, good luck to you.
@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj really, you went to all that trouble??? Troll me thinks, why else would you care
@@apexclaimadjusters5816 Robertson completely cocked it up.
@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj how so? NZ didn't suffer the death rate or econ damage the US did. Do peoples' life's matter in this calculation? Or is life cheap in your neighborhood?
Robertson's knowledge, honesty, awareness is top.
Will be sorely missed.
Great to see the positive reflect on sport.
Thanks for your service. The decisions you took as a government kept people safe and in work in the face of a global pandemic that could have killed 10s of thousands of kiwis.
You sir are in ko ko land . Coupled with the evil that is jusinda. They have set us back 50 yrs. In that time their friends the Chinese will take full control . 😮
Observing from afat between Australia and America he is a hugely respected admired successful politician❤❤
You must be crazy.What are you smoking?
Thank you for giving your time.
James Shaw working a budget? He can't even understand the gas percentages in the atmosphere.
Laughable
No wonder Nz now in the shit
Refreshing to have an MP answer questions directly & to talk straight. Not just here but also in previous interviews. Same with Chippy.
Current govt just talks in riddles, no straight answers. Hang on, actually no answers.
Luxon: let me be direct, followed by waffle, waffle, waffle. Same for Willis
Red vs blue back and forth bs used to work until it didn't about 10years ago and no adjustments were made except a scape goating coverup which was a flu rebranded into something useful for them. Now look at the cultural and economic mess that has to been cleaned up
Rubbish
Thank God he’s gone!
Absolutely.Never again.
Green MP suspended over migrant worker exploitation claim TV 1 turns the comments of Labour greens an them maaris
Political Capital! ACT and NZ First make this choice.
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Teachers or nurses are still not paid enough. You should have taxed the rich and you chose not to, again.
The top 10% pay 50% of the individual income tax, what else would you like, capital flight with a 90% tax?
Typical Labour Party thinking.What a joke.No idea of economics.
National left us 150 billion in debt in 2017@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj
John Key never responded to your demands. Labour did! So bloody ungrateful.
Best finance minister for the time
You must be joking ?The worst NZ has ever had.NZ will be paying for his stewardship for years.
Like NZers will be paying for every govt's stewardship. The "we'll be paying for it for years" is a meaningless argument without context. We pay for it with either under-investment (like we've had for generations), overspending (how much is overspending?), protecting jobs/businesses or not... how do we compare to other countries with similar resources???
Robertson will be knighted for his incompetence
@@mattheweden-pc5pk I bloody hope not.What a disgrace.
look at the comments thread jack tame. not good is it, noone believes the fat controller did a good job
You obviously haven't read the comments thread properly. Just some negative ignorant comments from the usual bunch of trolls on here.
Thank you Hon. Grant Robertson for job well done to get the country thru Covid and the aftermath the WORLD suffered from. Ignore the badly behaved uneducated anti-vax nut jobs. NZ honours and appreciates your adept leadership and dedication sir! Thank you for your service to the country!