The Bulletin: Trans-Tasman bubble to dominate the day
Good morning and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Trans-Tasman bubble news to dominate the day, climate commission modelling criticised, and concerns raised about fresh light rail delays.
Hopefully you’ve rested up over the last few days, because today will bring an absolute avalanche of news. A whole lot of things that normally happen on a Monday are now being condensed into Tuesday, and it will also be a sitting day for the house. So that means a senior government MP will be doing morning media rounds, there will be a caucus meeting, the PM will be doing an afternoon press conference, and there will also be Question Time in parliament.
Nearly $20 billion for VA hospital upgrades in Biden infrastructure plan
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Calls are growing for Wellington City Council to increase its borrowing cap to fix mounting infrastructure costs, but the council says it has already increased forecast spending and needs to leave some headroom. (File photo)
Wellington City Council is sticking to its guns over its proposed borrowing cap despite growing calls for it to spend more in the face of mounting infrastructure costs. The council is proposing to lift its self-imposed debt cap by 50 per cent from July, as it looks to fund major infrastructure costs, including a $2.7 billion water infrastructure bill, a one-third share in the $6.4b Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) transport programme, and a $179 million central library rebuild.
Decades earlier a very different leader with a very real snarl raised visions of a Communist ambush and dangerous political overreach. An infamous advertising campaign featuring dancing Cossacks helped National’s Robert Muldoon take the Beehive, but even he could not resist the strong arm of political might, responding to crises with carless days, wage and price freezes, and Think Big.
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Tom Scott cartoon depicting Helengrad.
Cartoons depicting Helengrad and the National Party’s dancing Cossacks fuelled people’s concerns about the intrusions of government into everyday life. Those muscles have been flexed once more, in response to the latest global crisis.