On Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure of attending WEAll Aotearoa’s International Approaches to a Wellbeing Economy webinar. Attendees got to hear from four speakers who took part in overseas gatherings on issues relating to the Wellbeing Economy.

Budgets are big events, they dominate the media and public discussion for days. People pour over calculators and ask themselves what’s in it for me?

What if we stepped back and asked what’s in it for a child born today, someone who will attend high school in 2040 on the 200th anniversary of Te Tiriti o Waitangi? What if we took an intergenerational lens and applied that to the choices made in the 2024 Budget?