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PM looks for infrastructure tips in Australia
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PM looks for infrastructure tips in Australia

Australian minister says bipartisan support for long pipeline without political stop-start is crucial; Luxon agrees, after having frozen pipeline upon election; Industry pleads for urgent restart
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During his visit to Sydney, Luxon checked out infrastructure projects there to find new ideas and see PPP financing solutions. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The Kākā

Kia ora. Long stories short:

  • PM Christopher Luxon said in Sydney yesterday he wanted to learn from Australia’s approach to infrastructure and he’d like to see a more bipartisan approach.

  • But Civil Contractors CEO Alan Pollard says Luxon needs to move urgently to refill an infrastructure pipeline that has depleted in recent months as the Government changed its approach. He warns of a potential fresh exodus of staff to…Australia. (Updated)

The Top Six things on August 16

Here’s my top six things to note in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Friday, August 16:

1. The PM’s infrastructural cognitive dissonance

Luxon says wants bipartisanship on infrastructure plans

PM Christopher Luxon was in Sydney yesterday giving a foreign policy speech and looking at infrastructure projects there to find new ideas and see PPP financing solutions. In a news conference he said the following:

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