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Advocacy and engagement update || September 2023
We are into the election home straight now, with just over two weeks left of campaigning. It has been encouraging to see that the topic of infrastructure has featured prominently in election campaigns. All political parties want to build a better Aotearoa New Zealand, and infrastructure is rightly seen as a critical platform for improving our economy, our regions and cities, our communities, and our daily lives.
In the past month or so, surprisingly a tsunami of government consultation has been released. It appears the bottleneck of the policy pipeline has been released at the last minute with significant consultation commencing on a package released by MBIE on energy transition, the long-awaited draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport (GPS), Parliament’s inquiry into climate adaptation, as well as potential changes to the National Policy Statement on Highly Productive Land to enable infrastructure such as solar farms and infrastructure.
NEWS
Climate Change Adaption
NEWS INZ is pleased to finally see some tangible progress in the climate adaptation space. The delay in the development of the third component of the resource management legislation suite has meant that some of the lessons from the extreme weather events experienced...
Infrastructure New Zealand releases third tranche of policy positions
NEWS With just 44 days to go until the election, Infrastructure New Zealand has released its next tranche of policy position statements. These documents act as the starting point for the important conversations that we need to have to improve the current state of play...
Time for Local Government to be recognised as the “effective arm” of Central Government
MEDIA RELEASE The Review into the Future for Local Government’s final report released today needs to be picked up and run with by whichever parties form the next Government. That’s the message from Infrastructure New Zealand as it asks Kiwis and politicians alike to...
Infrastructure New Zealand announces new Board
MEDIA RELEASE Infrastructure New Zealand has appointed four new directors to its Board this week. Susan Lucking, Fraser Robertson, Liam Hodgetts and Stacey Millar have joined the team. Tracey Ryan was re-elected on the Board and appointed as Chair, with the retiring...
Infrastructure New Zealand responds to Budget 2023
MEDIA RELEASE "New Zealand continues to miss opportunities in its infrastructure delivery, efficiency and scale by solely relying on the Government to fund improvements to our roads, public transport, resilience and water infrastructure." That’s the message from...
Infrastructure New Zealand welcomes Nick Leggett as its new Chief Executive
MEDIA RELEASE Nick Leggett is Infrastructure New Zealand’s new Chief Executive. Nick joins the infrastructure sector’s influential membership body at a time of great importance for the industry. Nick is a seasoned communicator and brings a strong skill set to the...
Election 2023 Priorities
This is the sector’s call to action for the incoming Government in its first 100 days and lays out the priority actions that the next administration – no matter its stripes – will need to progress.
REPORT

Great Decisions are Timely: Benefits from more Efficient Infrastructure Investment Decision-Making
Aotearoa New Zealand suffers from an infrastructure deficit. Without the key infrastructure needed for our economy to thrive, we are depriving future generations of significant economic prosperity. While transformational infrastructure projects need time to be developed into sound technical solutions, many New Zealand projects are being further delayed by policy decision and financing constraints.
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Infrastructure New Zealand is the nation’s leading infrastructure member association.
Our core purpose is to advance best practice development of world-class transport, energy, water, telecommunications, and social infrastructure for all New Zealanders.
We do this through research, advocacy, and public and private sector collaboration.
Our members are leaders from diverse sectors across New Zealand.

Our purpose is to increase the number of women in leadership roles, grow the visibility of women, and to provide a networking and support group for women in the infrastructure sector.

Previously known as the Emerging Talent Network, The Infrastructure Collective sees a strong future as a best practice offering in support, development, and representation of the future leaders in the infrastructure sector.
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