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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Peter Williams: Aotearoadcone


Why do we always have roads under repair?

Aah .. Australia. The Lucky Country, the Big Brown Land with its seemingly limitless supply of valuable minerals waiting to be extracted from that vast interior. It’s hard not to be envious of a nation with its agreeable coastal climate and all those perceived economic and employment opportunities waiting to be exploited.

It cannot be any surprise that with New Zealand in an economic funk, much of it of the Labour government’s making between 2021 and 2023, over 47,000 New Zealanders decided to up sticks and move to Australia in the twelve months.