Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: If you want to cut taxes, accept the bad roads

Now listen, if you're one of the people celebrating Chris Hipkins for promising to cancel fuel tax rises if he wins the election, can I just warn you about the implications of him doing that?

And to be fair, it's not just him, okay?

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Are the days of building big roads really over?

Yeah, I don't know what to make of Shane Jones's prediction last night that the days of building big roads are over. He was at this infrastructure debate in Wellington and he said, and I quote, I personally don't see ever another four-lane highway being built in New Zealand in my lifetime. The politicians are going to struggle to justify the cost.

Andrew Dickens: The grownups are in charge of infrastructure

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.

NZCPR Newsletter: Analysing a Crisis

At 11.10 am on Wednesday 4 February, Wellington Water – the council-controlled organisation responsible for managing drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater services for the Greater Wellington region – announced a “significant incident” had occurred at the Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Ani O'Brien: "Temu Chris" Thinks Big government with Labour's Future Fund

New Zealand Future Fund: Proof Labour never met a problem it couldn’t bureaucratise

It takes a special kind of political imagination to brand something as “the future” while simultaneously reviving the economic playbook of the 1970s. Perhaps Chris Hipkins will cling to the nickname “Temu Chris” because at least then no one will be calling him “Red Muldoon.” Surely nothing could be worse for the Labour leader than being “Piggy” in Dirty Dog sunnies.