Growing Auckland, Growing New Zealand
Proposes that Auckland plays a full role in New Zealand's recovery. Its ability to do this rests on its competitive city genes and fast growth.
But, more than fast growth is needed...
Growing Auckland, Growing New Zealand explores Auckland's DNA as a competitive and specialised economy, stresses the need to build, attract and retain talent, and to prioritise 'productive' infrastructure that leads to recovery and a resilient future.
We can
- Set a national goal and unite to meet it - after all, Auckland is 34% of NZ's GDP
- Offer Auckland's big project spend - in local government, tertiary education, health, energy and the big private investors - for maximum stimulus
- Build only infrastructure that delivers both productivity and growth (GDP) and revenue (taxes) - to regain Auckland's 2007 tax contribution - $21.2 billion ie 60% of NZ's company tax and 53.6% of NZ's GST
- Invest in visit infrastructure - it is productive and brings footloose capital and talent here.
- Use stimulus projects to tackle Auckland's extremes - we are both highly skilled and highly unskilled, well housed and very poorly housed.
- Counter the 2025 demographic fault-line (no labour market growth) with a systematic pipeline of international talent, quickly welcomed to our workplaces.
- Put Auckland's new governance arrangements in place quickly.
- Motivate people with a flagship project - the waterfront has wide backing.
Supporting documents:
Growing Auckland, Growing New Zealand2.94 MB
Clyde rebuilt. Clyde waterfront working group1.54 MB
Toronto waterfront - Fung Report960.42 KB
Committee for Auckland - Waterfront Multpliers68.76 KB
Committee for Auckland - Development Corporation Case Studies 2004130.16 KB
