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Christchurch has the best logo in the country I fear

New from me: how combining a proposed supermarket fast track process with a government land programme could reduce the barrier to entry and improve competition. This builds off a proposed Omnibus bill developed by Benno Blaschke at the New Zealand Initiative read via 🔗 in bio

So I think the way this plays out is: -central government is going to cap rate rises at 4 or 5% -with the main driver of rates increases, water, excluded and the catch up with inflationary pressures now worked through, this will be where things were headed anyway ...

DeNIMBYzace Česka AI image not far from accuracy! The last major transmission line that New Zealand built the local farmer NIMBYs literally burnt effigies of the Power company CEO and prime minister in the street over the proposal.

Friends who make you dinner at their new apartments 🍷🥘🥗 Nice little mid-winter evening in Auckland

After initially shelving the project, the Government is funding upgrades to a key Christchurch freight corridor First step: a new pedestrian and cycle bridge

What an awesome story! Very Tintin and Red Rackham's Treasure vibes. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Christchurch has way more people living near its centre than wellington. Its not even close. The reputation of chch being sprawled and wellington compact is so wrong

Bank of China serving NZ’s infrastructure building skills a serve at the China Business Summit.

Another exclusive from Oliver “Scoop” Lewis

How AI slop might turn people off the internet: “I could have spent hours researching space heaters online, trying to guess which reviews were real and which were fake; placed an order online… Instead, I walked to the hardware store.” theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Best place to ponder the price of butter!

Treasury has released a copy of the email RBNZ chair Neil Quigley sent a Treasury staffer, apologising for Adrian Orr losing his cool in a meeting two weeks before he abruptly resigned. nzherald.co.nz/business/econo…

A blown pipe caused water outages in parts of Waipukurau last night; the council warns these will become common as it agrees to halve its $200m spend on water infrastructure. Other small councils are to follow. My exclusive report is at Newsroom Pro($) newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/25/cas…

The legislation hasn’t passed yet, but Vic Uni is already gearing up to knock Gordon Wilson down!

On a better things are possible timeline

I spent all day at the High Court hearing about the intricacies of nappy production and how Zuru operates. nzherald.co.nz/business/compa…

Very cool experience going on the first City Rail Link test train. So smooth! Six minutes from Maungawhau to Britomart/Waitematā (with stops it's 9-10mins) - gonna be an absolute game-changer for the city when it finally opens