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Speaker 1: So the government says they're all about growth. The government

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Speaker 1: says they're layser focused on growth. The government says they're

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Speaker 1: going to stop saying no and they're going to start

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Speaker 1: saying yes. So why on the weekend was Engineering New

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Speaker 1: Zealand calling the government out for gaslighting about its going

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Speaker 1: for growth strategy. They accused the government of talking up

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Speaker 1: infrastructure development and yet in the last fifteen months since

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Speaker 1: the formation of the government, they have stalled, frozen and

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Speaker 1: dumped various state funded building plans with the aim of

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Speaker 1: deficit and debt reduction. And we're seeing it. It's the

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Speaker 1: cancelation of education rebuilds, the shutdown of hospital builds and upgrades,

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Speaker 1: the slowdown on roading, and the changes in the Three

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Speaker 1: Waters space as well. I mean, you can say what

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Speaker 1: you want about co governors, but at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, Three Waters was about building some more dams.

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Speaker 1: It's all meant that New Zealand engineers and New Zealand constructors,

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Speaker 1: the people who build the roads and the water networks

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Speaker 1: and the buildings, they've all had to look for work

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Speaker 1: elsewhere and that has seen people heading overseas or contracting

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Speaker 1: to work overseas and it's in significant numbers, says Engineering

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Speaker 1: New Zealand. Engineering New Zealand says large infrastructure firms in

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Speaker 1: Australia are rapidly hiring large numbers of New Zealand engineers.

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Speaker 1: Engineering New Zealand seers other engineers have been lured to

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Speaker 1: California to help with the rebuild after last month's devastating wildfires.

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Speaker 1: Engineering New Zealand urges the government to free up funds

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Speaker 1: for the delivery and firm up the infrastructure pipeline, or,

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Speaker 1: in the immortal words of Mike Hosking, Engineering New Zealand

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Speaker 1: is saying, just do something. For more from early edition

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