Renovating the Nation: How Asset Recycling Can Help Solve the Infrastructure Deficit

In this episode, Oliver talks to Roger Partridge about his new report, Renovating the Nation, which proposes selling around $25 billion worth of government-owned commercial assets and reinvesting the proceeds into critical public infrastructure. Drawing on the success of New South Wales's asset recycling programme, Roger argues the Crown has too much capital tied up in businesses it doesn't need to own, and that ring-fencing sale proceeds in an independently governed fund could deliver the roads, hospitals, and public transport New Zealand desperately needs.

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Renovating the Nation: How Asset Recycling Can Help Solve the Infrastructure Deficit is an episode from The New Zealand Initiative by The New Zealand Initiative.

This episode is 00:21:50 long.

This episode was published on Mar 2, 2026.

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