What Australia does better than NZ in infrastructure - expert

What Australia does better than NZ in infrastructure - expert | Q+A 2024

Рет қаралды 15,083

Ай бұрын

Engineers Australia's chief executive Romilly Madew, an expert in sustainable building, compares New Zealand and Australia's infrastructure deficit and says Kiwis can take a few lessons from across the ditch.
Join Jack Tame and the Q+A team and find the answers to the questions that matter. Made with the support of NZ on Air.

Пікірлер: 78

@christophermarshall527 Ай бұрын

Really fantastic interview, covering crucial issues where New Zealand has been very remiss. Thank you so much Jack!!!!

@kukichik2553 Ай бұрын

Great interview Jack. Her answer to climate change impacts and damage to infrastructure “build it better” is something our infrastructure bodies/govt need to consider. Same roads/bridges being hit again and again and rebuilt same way again and again 😢

@bungee7503 Ай бұрын

“Weather the political whims of the day”: absolutely agreed. We have government terms which are too short (first year to blame the last lot, second year to do things and third year to prepare for the election). There needs to be agreement on what’s best in the national interest and less politics.

@andyboyd720 Ай бұрын

Brilliant interview, refreshing to have an on point, knowledgeable, factful, clear concise and truthful SME. Well done Jack and nice one Aussie. Our government MP’s and bureaucracy should watch, listen, learn and copy - rather than play petty IG politics. 👍

@grandadneal8114 Ай бұрын

They built the Sydney tunnels by letting a Japanese company build it for free and take the tolls for 20 years

@richardireland6072 Ай бұрын

That’s smart…

@realiststoic 21 күн бұрын

The tunnels are awesome. Parramatta to mascot use to take over an hr, 25mins now.

@myke29 Ай бұрын

And we had a labour govt who were investing in massive infrastructure changes e.g. 3 waters, Lake Onslow, new ferries... You can't just point fingers and say 'its too expensive', because it won't be cheaper in the future... The trouble is kiwis are too short-sighted and risk averse to do things properly. We just keep putting bandaids on our broken roads PPP's do not work... never have... this lady is just here to try get some big juicy govt contracts... the Ministry of works needs to come back

@ooo-vc4xl Ай бұрын

The situation is absolutely ABSURD. Both NZ and Australia have caused self-inflicted infrastructure deficits and housing crises through successive governments running unsustainable net inbound immigration rates. NZ cannot build its way out of its infrastructure deficit without either increasing government debt or increasing regressive user pays charges through PPPs while the unsustainable immigration rate continues. Any attempt to build infrastructure in a hurry will also push up construction costs due to industry limitations. NZ's net inbound immigration rate needs to be slashed to a sustainable level and a long smooth pipeline of infrastructure put in place that increases govt debt at a reasonable rate and to a reasonable level. PPPs have to be used with extreme caution. Ignoring the capital cost blowout of Transmission Gully the operational based PPP to keep the road open is the way to go. Worldwide many PPPs fail and get bailed out by a government or extract monopoly profits from regressive users pays charges.

@trevorstewart8 Ай бұрын

The only reason we have high immigration is because Labour refused to put the hard word on our unemployed and "Job Seekers" to get out and find the job they need to be a contributing member of society plus they increased the Public Service numbers to absorb as many slackers as they could mop up. As a consequence we now have to train these people to replace our new immigrants so that we don 't need to import them so much.

@ooo-vc4xl Ай бұрын

@@trevorstewart8 successive governments have been running unsustainable immigration even before the last labour government

@trevorstewart8 Ай бұрын

@@ooo-vc4xl And what do you base that damning comment on? Certainly we can all acknowledge that at times our immigration intake has been too high in lower economic categories, however we do have a declining population due to a low birth rate. We also have acute shortages of skilled workers in certain areas such as nursing and teaching as well as the trades and IT of which I am familiar. So what is your point?

@ooo-vc4xl Ай бұрын

@@trevorstewart8 NZ has an increase in natural population. Added to this is the unsustainable net inbound immigration. NZ has a massive infrastructure deficit as the infrastructure commission has pointed out. Much of this deficit is to cater for population growth Eg housing crisis.

@grandmundi7107 Ай бұрын

@@ooo-vc4xl you did not answer the question though - the population is aging, when the country had no immigration massive labour shortages made inflation way worse. Why do you think shutting down immigration would help infrastructure deficit?

@grahamdawson1486 Ай бұрын

Well one thing that NZ did better then Aust was the build of the Ultrafast Broadband Network. The NZ build was an outstanding success. The Australian build was essentially a failure.

@nancydrew1102 Ай бұрын

Oh really , most of Rural Auckland (30min frm downtown AKLD) don’t have access to Fibre basic internet 🛜 is barely achieved. Edit: Starlink is $150. Per month the reception is patchy when it rains , in Akld feels all the time.

@BamBam-uf4yi 23 күн бұрын

Yep rural over here as well $130 a month and service is not guaranteed its more off-line than on.

@nancydrew1102 23 күн бұрын

@@BamBam-uf4yi starlink is $150 pm. Reception is patchy .

@BamBam-uf4yi 23 күн бұрын

@@nancydrew1102 starlink is $79 pm and signal is great, was $160 pm but deprioritised version is fine have had no problems with signal doesn't seem to suffer from rain fade. Current speed 198.36 down 24.33 up.

@michaelmerckel Ай бұрын

The only way to learn from us (Australia) is to learn from our mistakes. Desperate times if Australia is ahead of you in infra, strategic planning or anything for that matter....

@sgct89 Ай бұрын

I would like to see more of AS 1289 in NZ. From what I've seen so far it's more in depth and less room for misinterpretation

@annahouston9528 Ай бұрын

We should start using wool products for housing insolation instead of plastic products, then putting more sheep back on farms instead of cows... Just a thought!

@BamBam-uf4yi 23 күн бұрын

Bread woolly cows

@sonpollo8995 Ай бұрын

Time for NZers to stop whining and start building.

@Lita_52 Ай бұрын

I think legislation or laws have an influential impact on infrastructure and the development of creating sustainable or resilient infrastructure to withstand unforeseen natural disasters or climate change? Sometimes we don’t act until we face unforeseen circumstances we didn’t see coming when it comes to infrastructure. I don’t know what I’m saying to be honest? Just hoping for a better future for our future generations here in New Zealand and our closest developing neighbour, Australia! :)

@adsdft585 Ай бұрын

Is the new government working against these ideas with S Jones ,C Bishop, and D Seymour ministries?

@Lita_52 Ай бұрын

@@adsdft585 I don’t know, what do you think?

@adsdft585 Ай бұрын

@HulitaTauveli In general, yes. Each minister advocates on behalf of the 68 MPs regulations designed to protect the environment should be put aside.

@andrewlim9345 Ай бұрын

Good interview. Australia and NZ can learn things from each other.

@JamesClark-cg1qk 19 күн бұрын

Australia's economy is many times the size of NZ's so they can afford better infrastructure.

@jjbraddock2702 Ай бұрын

😂what is Australia doing better, taking skilled kiwis.

@jay62nz Ай бұрын

Skilled kiwis opting for better rewards?

@WhiskeyFatimah Ай бұрын

I totally agree

@richardireland6072 Ай бұрын

Haha so very true I left….great decision

@Peartreemead Ай бұрын

I land a country without borders and they call it a fish.

@dpp186 Ай бұрын

3 entities to pay employees nz

@bradbriggs5347 Ай бұрын

Productivity I've been building Australia for 40 years of my life , we have improved year after year , you are a vampire

@Peartreemead Ай бұрын

Who is maui

@dracovenit9549 8 күн бұрын

Aus is borrowing to pay for this. NZ govt would be raked over the coals for it.

@fun---- Ай бұрын

Aboriginals, where are they? Shocking.

@user-yd6sj3pe4j Ай бұрын

I have been Melbourne since 1983 to year 2014 First visit was ok since 1995 Melbourne was a worse place to visit . I am not saying that Australia has illicit drugs problem All west world including Europe Worst one in USA

@grantymataira Ай бұрын

😂

@tigertiger1699 Ай бұрын

Damn important stuff… we need more energy.. Gen 4 Nuclear

@jaythefox Ай бұрын

As an Australian, it's always wonderful to see kiwis in a humble moment learning from their bigger & better brother. 😂

@WhiskeyFatimah Ай бұрын

With Aussies changing politicians and govt bureaucrats like baby soiled diapers, there's no long term planning like those countries who are doing well often do. Try Singapore and Hong Kong, they plan for 30 years down the road, not like 30 months in Aussie govt depts, while Politicians who have no real-life work experience,so they can't even see anything ahead of 30 days, sometimes 30 hours. They are flip- flopping everyday, basing on cost forecasts prepared by different competing engineering consultants who obviously hide certain parts of their design and cost. After decades of outsourcing govt has virtually no engineering or project mgmt skills of any depth, at best compliance and reporting functions remaining in-house. Left unchecked, these engineers sometimes sweep part of real cost and relabel as if they are contingency, while real contingencies have been degraded or descoped from contract. All these happen under the nose of most clueless govt officials. By the time these covers are blown, the govt starts to sue for those mistakes which only bring disputes and delays on most of the projects they touched. Nobody win from these screwup. Until we fix our broken political and govt admin system, these debacles will continue ad nauseum.

@MaryJaneNZL Ай бұрын

the UN will decide

@d.a2500 Ай бұрын

Did I hear her say, “they moved incredibly quickly”.Give me a break after living with these convicts for years nothing here moves quickly.

@TeManawaTheHeart Ай бұрын

Digital ID and currency slavery

$@fracturedopal$

@fracturedopal Ай бұрын

When Jack Tame interviewed Dr Izzhat Abdulhadi, why was he asked about the Hamas Charter, an organisation he does NOT represent, and whose own organisation is in opposition too? But when Jack Tame interviewed the Israeli ambassador he was not asked about the government he DOES represent making reference to Amalek and other genocidal rhetoric? Jack no longer has any journalistic integrity in my opinion. It is gutting given the state of media now, but the Q&A team cannot continue to ignore and not interrogate their own biases.

@stephenlennon7369 Ай бұрын

Wrong subject 😅😅

@ObiePaddles Ай бұрын

Not everything is about anti-semitism.