Will city deals change anything?

Will city deals change anything?
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown and NZ First leader Winston Peters doing a city deal. (Image: X/@MayorWayneBrown)
Dileepa Fonseka
Simon Court’s description of how New Zealand allocates its infrastructure funding conjures up images of Oprah Winfrey’s stunt in 2004 where she gave away cars to random members of her live studio audience.  But instead of Winfrey shouting “You get a car, and you get a car” while pointing to people watching her show, in Court’s description it's politicians doing the pointing and they’re giving away the infrastructure for the cars, rather than the vehicles themselves. “Every election season,...

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