'Faster, better, funded' infrastructure gets thumbs up from Fletcher boss

'Faster, better, funded' infrastructure gets thumbs up from Fletcher boss
Victoria Young
Fletcher Building’s boss was among business leaders impressed by the level of detail Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern outlined at a speech on infrastructure today. Ardern repeated the phrase “faster, better, funded” to some 140 executives in Auckland’s SkyCity convention centre and told them she wanted to focus on infrastructure, despite her talk being billed as a state of the nation address. “If you look at debt in New Zealand, employment and the need for infrastructure, I just think it's positive they are investing. This isn’t just pla...

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