Address To The Rotary Club Of Western Hutt
Hon Peter Dunne
MP for Ohariu
Leader, UnitedFuture
Address To The Rotary Club Of Western Hutt
Boulcott Golf Club
Lower Hutt
Tuesday 9 June 2009 At 7:00 pm
We live in truly remarkable times – economically to be sure, politically and socially.
A year ago no-one would have imagined the depth of the international economic crisis now facing the world.
Nor would we have imagined that the decade of budget surpluses would be replaced by the decade of deficits we are now facing.
A year ago, as Minister of Revenue, I was collecting consistently more revenue than forecast – now we face significant revenue shortfalls.
This time last year the National Party looked odds on to win the election all by itself, and return the country to one-party majority government.
But today, while we certainly have a National-led government, it is supported by ACT, the Maori Party and UnitedFuture, and even the Greens on specific issues.
A year ago, who would have thought Helen Clark and Michael Cullen would be off the local political scene by now, and knights and dames would be very much back in the picture?
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