Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Why we have to challenge our national fiscal assumptions
TL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:
* Decades of underinvestment at the same time as record-high population growth have stressed housing, water, education and health infrastructure to breaking points all over the motu, which the new Government’s spending freezes are exposing and worsening;
* School principals, hospital administrators, council water network operators, consenting officers are all now chasing their tails, having to cut back on spending just as an avalanche of long-delayed maintenance and replacements…
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