In 2021, the conservation department again promised renewed vigour in reclassifying about 9% of NZ's total land. The latest promise in a more than 30-year process. The question is will any progress be made by the 40th anniversary.
Advertising worth $2.76 million barely shifted public understanding of the Three Waters reforms, while opinions moved into the negative.
Since 2019, nearly 50 managers and executives left KiwiRail under its recently departed CEO.
Government agencies acting together to solve big problems hasn’t always worked. Trying another way took a law change.