A promise the Government's eyeing-up growth as the light at the end of the economic tunnel. 

Finance Minister Nicola Willis is vowing to keep cutting what she sees as wasteful spending. 

The half year economic and fiscal update suggests books will remain in the red for longer than predicted. 

Nicola Willis told Heather du Plessis-Allan it's going to be challenging, and the Government's making significant trade-offs. 

She says we're looking to a path of growth with inflation under control and interest rates dropping. 

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