Playing the Long Game: Grant Robertson

New Zealand's biggest challenges, climate change, housing, infrastructure, an ageing population, and fiscal sustainability, all demand thinking in decades, not electoral cycles. Yet our political system is increasingly focused on the short term.

Playing the Long Game is a new webinar series from the Helen Clark Foundation bringing together some of New Zealand's most experienced political, economic, and public-sector leaders to ask: how do we build policy that lasts?

Our first guest is Grant Robertson, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, and now Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago. Across fifteen years in government, few New Zealanders have grappled more directly with the tension between urgent political demands and long-term national interest, from managing the country through a global pandemic to reshaping the Budget process to consider wellbeing alongside growth.

Join Foundation director Murray Bruges for the first in a series of conversations on how to get more long-term thinking and action into New Zealand’s politics and public policy.