Standardising land transport data for local government infrastructure
Supplied by the Asset Management Data Standard Programme Team at the NZ Transport Agency. Picture a world where data is easily described and recorded, readily...
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Economy stressed with inflated price for too much stimulus
The latest forecast published by Infometrics reveals our economy has become stretched to breaking point, with demand pumped to unsustainable levels by monetary and fiscal...
A modern-day version of borrow and hope
By Peter Dunne. An elaborate but ultimately irrelevant game of ‘pass the parcel’ is being played out at present about who is responsible for inflation...
Stop dragging treaty into policies where it’s of dubious value
By Shane Jones, former Labour MP and NZ First MP. As the Covid virus continued to move through the community, another virus spreads across our political...
It’s land and its wet but is it a wetland?
By Mike Doesburg, partner at Wynn Williams, specialising in resource management and environmental law. The Government’s Essential Freshwater Package had admirable ambitions: halting degradation of...
Transmission Gully – the pathway to the Wellington region’s future
Caption: At the very beginning and the Transmission Gully projects Sod-turning in September 2014 were from left: David Jurd, Leighton Contractors managing director; Ohariu MP...
Kaua e whakatauira Maori tena koe
Alan Titchall, managing editor, Contrafed Publishing Maoridom has become a ‘political’ football in recent years and if you need to translate the heading (‘Don’t stereotype...
Road Infrastructure Management Forum
IPWEA and its specialist interest group – RIMS – are holding their annual forum on road management between 28-29 July at the Palmerston North Conference...
National politics – finance ministers
By Peter Dunne. In our system of government, the Prime Minister is often described as “primus inter pares”, the first among equals, or the chair...
Freedom camping problem unsolved
By Linda O’Reilly, Tompkins Wake. Since the Freedom Camping Act 2011 came into law, numerous local authorities have tried and failed to introduce fully satisfactory...