Jonathan Milne

With an ageing population and out-of-control fuel costs, a $35m pre-Budget announcement serves only to highlight the existential threat to ambulance services

The law change will also extend copyright protection for multinationals like drug marketers and health software firms

At last year’s Infrastructure Investment Summit, the Govt trumpeted its plans to partner with private investors to build courthouses and military barracks; in the end, it was too slow and too hard. Jonathan Milne reports.

Government invests in hospitals, schools, rail and roads – but there's a question mark over the mechanisms by which they'll be financed and built

Govt offers cash-strapped councils cash inducements to sign off more housing – but will it be enough to outweigh the enormous cost of building infrastructure to new subdivisions? Jonathan Milne investigates.

Even as MPs hose down a proposal to fund Fire and Emergency NZ as a core department, it lights up opportunities in consolidating back-office functions like payroll. Jonathan Milne reports.