Housing, workplace and some benefit reforms on the chopping block as centre-right National-led coalition forms government
The most common and cutting critique of Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government was that it couldn’t get anything done.
Transport was the best cudgel for this attack. Ardern came to power promising a light rail line in Auckland that six years later nobody has started to build. Tens of millions were spent on planning a bridge across the city’s harbour that ended up scrapped.
Henry Cooke is a freelance journalist covering New Zealand politics
