19 Aug 2025

Grant Robertson opens up about his life

From Nine To Noon, 10:05 am on 19 August 2025
Former Finance Minister Grant Robertson opens up about his early life and political journey in a new memoir

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Former Finance Minister Grant Robertson has opened up about his early life, and his political journey in a new memoir.

Anything Could Happen begins with his early years as the son of a lay minister, and sports mad youngest of three boys, and covers his struggles telling his family about his sexuality, the shock of his father's imprisonment for stealing from his employer, and his role in the Jacinda Ardern government which faced the Covid pandemic and subsequent economic shockwave.

Now Vice Chancellor at the University of Otago, Grant Robertson joins Susie from Dunedin.