COOK STRAIT FERRIES, TRANSPORT
Peter Dunne: Labour's economic management under scrutiny
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Good early call from Willis on ferry upgrade blow-out (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Axed Interislanders put entire Government sector on notice (paywalled)
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Nicola Willis says 'important questions to be asked and answered' after Interislander upgrade cost blow-out
RNZ: Building new ferries then selling them among options for KiwiRail - CEO
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Analysis: What are the options for new Cook Strait crossing now Interislander project has been sunk?
Benjamin Plummer (Herald): KiwiRail’s Cook Strait mega-ferries project scrapped after Government refuses $1.47b funding request
Ian Allen (Stuff): Picton will be shocked ferry project dead in water - mayor
Melanie Earley (Stuff): What will happen to Interislander ferries without Government funding?
RNZ: Finance minister should resign over scrapping of Interislander upgrade funding - unions
Jessica Roden (1News): Govt declines more funding for Interislander project amid cost blowout
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Government declines to fund Cook Strait mega-ferry cost blowout, project scuppered
RNZ: Interislander ferry fleet project to wind down after being denied further government funding
Thomas Manch, Tom Hunt and Luke Malpass (Post): Government pulls further support for controversial ferry project (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Interislander funding blow delivers climate impacts, uncertainty (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Government sinks Interislander project after $1.5b blowout (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Cook Strait ferry project dumped as costs rise (paywalled)
Thomas Manch, Tom Hunt and Shannon Redstall (Post): Key transport connectivity on the line as KiwiRail goes back to the drawing board (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Peter Reidy’s second turn, turning KiwiRail around (paywalled)
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Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government sitting on potentially scathing review of EV policy, using new rules to refuse releasing report to public
No Right Turn: Secrecy is a fraud upon democracy
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Road user charges coming for exempt electric vehicles
Mark Quinlivan (Newsroom): Transport Minister Simeon Brown hasn't yet received advice on how many more deaths from changing speed limit rules
Newstalk ZB: How local councils responded to Government's move to scrap speed limit plan (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Do we even need speed limits?
RNZ: Congestion charges: Transport officials tight-lipped over their advice to politicians
RNZ: Air New Zealand says slowing passenger demand, competition cutting into earnings
RNZ: Auckland Airport readies to open new transport hub
James Higham (The Conversation): The NZ aviation industry is making bold climate claims – and risking anti-greenwashing litigation
AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT INTO COVID INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING, WAGE SUBSIDY
Richard Harman (Politik): The Covid showpiece; billions spent, records missing, advice ignored. (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Former Government’s infrastructure budget blowouts criticised in Auditor-General’s report (paywalled)
Luke Malpass and Anna Whyte (Post): Auditor-General lashes NZ Upgrade, shovel-ready processes (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Covid projects 'let down' by 'absence of clear records' (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Damning A-G report on Government infrastructure programmes (paywalled)
1News: Exclusive: Number of alleged wage subsidy fraudsters revealed
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