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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