Budget 2025: The infrastructure elephant in the room

Budget 2025: The infrastructure elephant in the room
More bipartisan agreement is needed for infrastructure to become stable. (Image: Getty)
Katrina Van Houtte
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Budget 2025 has done little to accelerate the provision of the new public infrastructure that New Zealand so clearly needs.After all, the Budget is the outcome of a deliberative process of policy choices. If those choices are too difficult or cannot be sustained, they will not be made.As a result, when it comes to critical public and health infrastructure, incremental new investment in the rail network, improved tax treatments, or the publication of updated lists of projects, all of which have been see...

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