Three Waters passes but at what cost?
The government has paid a huge political cost in pushing through the Three Waters legislation, and in doing so has exposed rifts within Cabinet and damaged the reputation of Minister Mahuta.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a government with a reputation for profligacy resolved to spend so much of its political capital to push through the deeply unpopular Three Waters bill into law yesterday. The full cost is yet to be tallied but from the look of their shell-shocked faces as they sat in Parliament thi…
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