The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - Selling Ourselves Short

This episode of The Hard Stuff discusses the very popular and sometimes confronting topic: our economy. From exports to entertainment, milk to meat, what would we find if we really followed the money? Presenter Nigel Latta chats with dairy farmers, tech company managers, business owners (big and small) and economists to try and identify the financial shortcomings that burden New Zealand — a country which once provided a quality of life that was envied around the globe. Now, as Nigel's investigating reveals, Aotearoa seems to be missing a few key ingredients we need to make the dough.

The New Zealand paradox is: if you look around New Zealand, we're safe, secure, well regulated, not overly taxed, not overly burdened by many things. We should be much richer than we are. And that is the paradox. And by the OECD's reckoning, we should be 40% richer than we are currently.

– Economist Shamubeel Eaqub says Aotearoa is not in the financial position it should be

Key Cast & Crew

Bevan Crothers

Cinematographer

Angela Burgess

Line Producer

Nigel Latta

Presenter

Cameron Bennett

Director

Mark McNeill

Executive Producer

Arwen O'Connor

Producer