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1、 Barbara Edmonds Speech To NZ Investment Summit 2025 Friday,14 March 2025 I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak to you today about how we make overseas investment work for all New Zealanders.And what role you can play in helping us to address some of the biggest challenges we face,while als

2、o creating new opportunities for business and good paying jobs in communities across our country.I also want to acknowledge our iwi leaders,and all our kiwi investors and firms in the room.I also want to extend my thanks to the Prime Minister,Ministers and the current government for inviting me to a

3、ddress you this morning.My presence here,and that of my colleagues Hons Dr Megan Woods,Kieran McAnulty and Peeni Henare,I hope it shows you,is that there is a broad agreement across the political spectrum that New Zealand stands to gain from greater overseas and domestic investmentespecially when it

4、 comes to infrastructure,growing our own capability and innovation.There is some common ground amongst our political parties,but what I want to clearly set out,are the boundaries that a future Labour government will have so you can invest with some certainty.For meand for the Labour Partythe key que

5、stion will always be:what kind of investments are we talking about and who benefits?With a limited pool of domestic capital,attracting foreign investment has to be a key part of our plan for economic growth.But how that growth happensand who it benefitsmatters.Im not interested in an economy where o

6、ne part of the country races ahead of the rest.Nor will I accept investments that depend on jobs that are low paid and insecure.Our measure of success isnt solely about the amount of money we attract.It is about the people,about how families are doing and whether they have a warm place to live and j