I’ll be chairing this session with Green Party leader Chlöe Swarbrick, which will look at how New Zealand can shift its economic strategy away from its neoliberal inheritance. How do we shake off that millstone? And what do we replace it with? How do we return to a focus on the long-term public good, rather than short-term corporate profit? How can we plan our economy to work for the many, and not just the few?

The Greens want economic transformation, an economy that works for everyone instead of exhausting and exploiting our people and planet. Last year they produced an alternative budget, an alternative fiscal strategy, and an industrial strategy.

Chlöe Swarbrick went to the UK late last year and met many leading left-wing thinkers – including Thomas Piketty, Yanis Varoufakis, Mariana Mazzucato, Daniela Gabor, and Gary Stevenson. She will speak about how we might break with the current narrow fiscal and economic orthodoxy and build a stronger and more equitable future for Aotearoa New Zealand.

Venue: St Andrew’s, The Terrace, Wellington.