CTU analysis shows multi-billion dollar widening of holes in Govt public services & infrastructure by 2028 if population keeps growing at recent rates, even before coalition's $2.4 billion of cuts
Please write this post in English with Maori translation following where appropriate. Please don’t accelerate our trajectory into a little irrelevant South Pacific” entity”. We do not need our brightest and most energetic young people migrating to Australia.
What was the thinking behind stopping in 2015 measures that showed impact on demand for public services due to population change? How do we increase the understanding that we need longer term planning, that maintains systemically our services? Feels like focus on short term and optimism gets us in a bad place.
I leave West Auckland at 6am to get to the city without slowing to a crawl, my son leaves a two hour buffer when using public transport to uni because he is let down so often by the service. My other son has secondary school teachers where relievers are the norm and I review his books and see his work marked right, when it's wrong. On Friday night, with a referral from the GP to go to North Shore Hospital, we still waited in cold, awful ED 10 hours! That was after the Whit Cross three nights earlier couldn't see us for 4 hours. My siblings live in Canada and Aussie and say the same thing there. Think we need to take a 20 and 30 year approach and start getting planning that build capability, capacity for a reducing population. Also do your own study, and stay healthy.
Ngā mihi nui. Great kōrero. 👍
Gee. The country needs more tax revenue. Vastly more. That means land tax, capital gains tax, gift tax, inheritance tax.
Cranking out the content Bernard. Well done.
See also: councils, every time a future focused capex project is downgraded in favour of lower rates.
Please write this post in English with Maori translation following where appropriate. Please don’t accelerate our trajectory into a little irrelevant South Pacific” entity”. We do not need our brightest and most energetic young people migrating to Australia.
What was the thinking behind stopping in 2015 measures that showed impact on demand for public services due to population change? How do we increase the understanding that we need longer term planning, that maintains systemically our services? Feels like focus on short term and optimism gets us in a bad place.
I leave West Auckland at 6am to get to the city without slowing to a crawl, my son leaves a two hour buffer when using public transport to uni because he is let down so often by the service. My other son has secondary school teachers where relievers are the norm and I review his books and see his work marked right, when it's wrong. On Friday night, with a referral from the GP to go to North Shore Hospital, we still waited in cold, awful ED 10 hours! That was after the Whit Cross three nights earlier couldn't see us for 4 hours. My siblings live in Canada and Aussie and say the same thing there. Think we need to take a 20 and 30 year approach and start getting planning that build capability, capacity for a reducing population. Also do your own study, and stay healthy.
Well done CTU economist on report.