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In the 1975 election campaign Robert Muldoon used charts to raise concern about the level of New Zealand’s international debt. He showed that in the previous year New Zealand had run a substantial deficit on its current account, which had the effect, as shown in his chart (right), of increasing the country’s borrowing.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1975/1599/6a
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