From Bernard Hickey’s subscriber chat
Morena! Here's my 6 newsey things at 6 am...
One: National released its infrastructure policy for Election 2023, including dumping its 2020 Election policy of creating a publicly-owned Infrastructure Bank and replacing it with a ramped-up version of the existing Crown Infrastructure Partners, which would 'provide advice and expertise to the Crown on new financing models for infrastructure, including public-private partnerships, tolls, and value capture instruments.'
National said it would bring in long-term city and regional partnerships with councils to plan and manage infrastructure.
But the
