Bryce Wilkinson: New Zealand's fiscal challenges - Lessons from the Wellington City Council's plight

Wellington City Council’s current leaking water woes epitomise the misplaced spending priorities of successive councils.

Wellingtonians now face water rationing in their homes while they see vast quantities of leaked piped water escaping down streets and across pavements.

Francesca Rudkin: We need to be better with infrastructure

A very simple headline grabbed me this morning: ‘We Need to get Better at Building Stuff’.

Man, do we ever!

It was the headline of an opinion piece by Josie Pagani in The Post about getting infrastructure moving in New Zealand. At the heart of her piece was a new report by Infrastructure New Zealand that looked at the quantifiable costs associated with around the timing, scope, and funding for New Zealand's infrastructure pipeline, and how a more certain pipeline might benefit the infrastructure sector.

Roman Travers: Any political party - just promise to fix NZ and then actually fix it once you’ve won

Getting to work on time isn’t usually an issue for me.

I have a well-staged and orchestrated routine that has me rolling out of bed on the first alarm, staggering with mediocre accuracy to the bathroom where I plunge my freshly light tortured eyes and body into an overly hot shower, before dressing at fireman like speed and sliding down the lift shaft to my Newstalk ZB racing car.