Andrew Dickens: The grownups are in charge of infrastructure

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jun 16, 2026 · 1m · transcript

Good Lord. Parliamentarians are actually doing something we've asked for.

They've come up with an Infrastructure Plan for the next 30 years and more remarkably, it has rare cross party backing.

It was produced independently by the Infrastructure Commission.

Labour and the Greens have called it a long-term, non-partisan blueprint for fixing decades of inconsistent infrastructure decisions.

Here's our problem: New Zealand spends heavily on infrastructure but ranks poorly on efficiency and asset management.

Minister Chris Bishop says the Government is already acting on all ten priority areas…