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Daily review 23/10/2025

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5 comments on “Daily review 23/10/2025 ”

  1. Drowsy M. Kram 1
    23 October 2025 at 6:22 pm


    Aaah, the Nats and their more RoNS. Nice, for some – govt by the sorted, for the sorted sad

    Reality bites: RoNS will bankrupt the nation [21 Oct 2025]

    The government’s mega-roads programme is now looking to cost an astonishing $40-50 billion, based on new documents released yesterday by the NZTA.
    …
    So, let’s take a look at the six RoNS whose business cases were endorsed yesterday, as they help to illustrate the scale of the unaffordability crisis racing towards us. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the Government is not just kidding themselves, they’re trying to fool the public as well.

    And yet the iReX ferry project was apparently unaffordable – thanks Nicky No Boats for your astonishing ineptitude.

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    • Patricia Bremner 1.1
      24 October 2025 at 2:51 am

      She is the "Fall Guy". Keeping "others safe presently!!

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    • Georgecom 1.2
      24 October 2025 at 12:25 pm

      When national announce the launch of a ron require them to also announce the expected tolls to pay for that road, we will very quickly see what the reality of such road costings are to the general public.

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  2. Matiri 2
    23 October 2025 at 8:46 pm

    Article on interest.co.nz today about the huge Aussie pumped hydro project Snowy 2.0

    https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/135843/white-elephant-hardly-snowy-20-will-last-150-years-and-work-batteries-push-out

    BUT in the comments there was this gem:

    by Brendon | 23rd Oct 25, 4:37pm

    I have just been informed that the consortium behind a private bid to build the Onslow pumped hydro scheme became a registered company last Friday, with former Transpower chair Keith Turner, former Environment Minister David Parker, former Meridian renewable energy generation manager Ken Smales and senior environmental and commercial lawyer John Hardie as directors.

    All shares are owned by Pumped Hydro Holdings, whose shareholders include the four directors of the consortium and a company owned by businessman and former merchant banker Rodger Finlay.

    Finlay is the current acting chair of the Reserve Bank and a former chair of NZ Oil and Gas – now Echelon Resources. The remaining 2 per cent is held by Oscar Francis of Dunedin.

    Hardie, Parker and Turner are all directors of the holding company.

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