Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: When will the Christchurch Cathedral get repaired?

Tell me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that every single year the Anglican Church in this country delays repairing the Christchurch Cathedral, the public cares a little less about seeing it restored. And yet again, the Anglicans are asking for money to fix the thing.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: There has to be a limit to funding Christchurch's Cathedral

Nicola Willis has made the right call to not give any more taxpayer money to the Christ Church Cathedral rebuild. 

It’s tough call. It's got consequences, as they’re saying, it looks like the Cathedral night be mothballed because they can’t figure out how else to raise the money.  

But frankly, the country can’t afford to give them another $60 million.

Dr Eric Crampton: If you want to believe

There’s a weird art to commissioned cost-benefit assessments. Even when it seems like a report’s funder really wanted a particular result and even if the final number seems absurd, the report can still be valuable.

It can make clear just what you have to believe if you want to believe that an implausible project is worthwhile.

Dr Eric Crampton: Clarifying the absurdity

A couple days ago I pointed to NZIER's figures on the case for strengthening the Christchurch cathedral.

I think it's better to view this whole exercise as making clear what we'd need to believe if we wanted to believe that the regulatory apparatus surrounding the cathedral since 2011 is other than massively value destroying.

Mike's Minute: Is it time to flag the Christchurch Cathedral?

The cathedral in Christchurch is what happens when you get bogged down in procrastination.

Of all the good Christchurch has done, and there is so much to be proud of, there remains well over a dozen years later some glaring holes, probably the biggest of which is smack in the middle of town.