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The current government is not very popular, to get in power the current PM had to make a deal with two devils (ACT and NZF). Fortunately they all hate each other and undermine one another at many points

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What are the chances of drastic decisions like these getting reversed, if these decisions don't take root too deeply in time?

It’s likely a future left-wing government will reintroduce these funds. The problem is the ratcheting effect: it takes no time at all to destroy something like this. Society reacts; people leave, people retrain, we lose the ability to do the thing we used to do. Then, a new government arrives and we rehire into these positions: it takes a lot more money to find people, attract them back to the country, get their programs established… and then the next government arrives and says “wow this is inefficient” and cans it again.

NZ in general is starting to suffer from the swings in partisan politics, despite our MMP system. Similar problems happen with bread and butter infrastructure projects.

True. The current government has taken a torch to everything the prior government did whether it made sense to torch, or not (replacement Cook Strait ferries for example). And they've enacted a bunch of extreme ideologically driven policies that no government left wing nor center could bear to keep. We're in for dizzying swings in direction

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