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National MP Nicola Willis got NZTA to confirm its business case into a second Mount Victoria tunnel has been delayed.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency has confirmed its business case into a second Mount Victoria tunnel, a significant part of the problematic $6.4 billion Let’s Get Wellington Moving transport project, has been delayed. Responding to a question from Wellington National list MP Nicola Willis, the agency confirmed in a select committee on Thursday that the business case – which was due out in early 2021– had been more-complicated than expected. It was delayed and now due out “later this year”, the agency said while agency chairman Sir Brian Roche confirmed to the committee that the Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) programme currently had “no public credibility”.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern s Northland visit starts at emotion-charged Ruapekapeka commemoration
2 Feb, 2021 08:49 PM
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PM Jacinda Ardern, Willie Apiata, Governor General Dame Patsy Reddy and British High Commissioner Laura Clarke are welcomed onto Ruapekapeka.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has kicked off a four-day visit to Northland at an emotion-filled unveiling of a memorial for British soldiers killed during the Ruapekapeka battle of 1846.
Ardern, Governor General Patsy Reddy and British High Commissioner Laura Clarke were at the unveiling of the memorial stone, which sits over the grave where the 12 British troops killed during the battle were found during an archaeological dig in 2017.
$150m fund established for Ngāpuhi while negotiating Treaty of Waitangi claims
1 Feb, 2021 10:28 PM
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Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations at the upper marae at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in 2020. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations at the upper marae at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in 2020. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Political reporter, NZ Herald@AmeliaJWade
A $150 million investment fund is being established for Aotearoa s largest iwi, Ngāpuhi, in a step towards finally reaching a settlement.
The Ngāpuhi Investment Fund Limited will be a new Crown company which will grow a portfolio of assets which can be offered to the Far North iwi in negotiations.