Showing posts with label Transport funding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transport funding. Show all posts
Monday, September 18, 2023
Eric Crampton: Transport funding is an incoherent mess, but there is a solution
Labels: Eric Crampton, Fuel excise duties, Road-user charges, Tolls, Transport fundingTransport funding has become an incoherent mess. In August, the Ministry of Transport released the Draft Government Policy Statement on land transport funding. Submissions closed on Friday.
An incoming government should take the opportunity to re-think the entire approach. Fortunately, shelved reforms from the late 1990s provide an excellent starting point for a better system.
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 13/7/23
Labels: Animal and plant health, Budget documents, Family violence services, NATO, Point of Order, Sport NZ, Transport funding, UkraineMaori leadership features in govt funding for family violence services – more corporate welfare is being delivered, too
Three Maori organisations, several businesses and the war-ravaged Ukraine will be the recipients of the millions of dollars dispensed in three government announcements over the past 24 hours.
The headline on one of the announcements – about the granting of almost $1 million – says Govt to support family violence services in cyclone affected region.
That one came from the Minister for Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence, Marama Davidson.
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