Devilry in the detail
When Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared 2019 the year of delivery, she would have been smarter to couch it more in terms of an infomercial: “But wait! There’s more …”
And most especially, “Send no money now!”
Because, for governments, delivery is very often more like devilry. Finding enough money to do what needs doing has been the least of the coalition’s problems. Many of last year’s new Budget allocations for health and education are still sitting untouched in 2020 as officials scramble to get the people and the infrastructure in place to spend it. We can’t get enough teachers or health professionals
