Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Is saving one minute of a politician's time worth nearly $1 billion?
TL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me in the last day to 8:26 am today are:
* The Lead: Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced yesterday he had asked Waka Kotahi-NZTA to again consider digging a 4-km-long four-lane motorway tunnel from The Terrace to Kilbirnie, shocking Wellington’s transport planners yesterday, who said the $10-billion-plus cost was prohibitive and wasteful. (See more detail and analysis below.)
* Migration: Stats NZ reported yesterday a record-high 226,000 non-New Zealand citizens migrated here in the year to February, while a record-high 74,900 New Zealand…
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