Oliver Lewis

Relocating to Argentina on Sunday to become the Buenos Aires correspondent for @businessdesk_nz (until December). Keep the NZ infrastructure tips flowing, though! And if anyone has tips of places to go or people to meet, lemme know :)

The legislation hasn’t passed yet, but Vic Uni is already gearing up to knock Gordon Wilson down!

A blown pipe caused water outages in parts of Waipukurau last night; the council warns these will become common as it agrees to halve its $200m spend on water infrastructure. Other small councils are to follow. My exclusive report is at @NewsroomNZ Pro($) newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/25/cas…

Treasury has released a copy of the email RBNZ chair Neil Quigley sent a Treasury staffer, apologising for Adrian Orr losing his cool in a meeting two weeks before he abruptly resigned. nzherald.co.nz/business/econo…

Best place to ponder the price of butter!

How AI slop might turn people off the internet: “I could have spent hours researching space heaters online, trying to guess which reviews were real and which were fake; placed an order online… Instead, I walked to the hardware store.” theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Another exclusive from Oliver “Scoop” Lewis

What an awesome story! Very Tintin and Red Rackham's Treasure vibes. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Bank of China serving NZ’s infrastructure building skills a serve at the China Business Summit.

Christchurch has way more people living near its centre than wellington. Its not even close. The reputation of chch being sprawled and wellington compact is so wrong

After initially shelving the project, the Government is funding upgrades to a key Christchurch freight corridor First step: a new pedestrian and cycle bridge

Friends who make you dinner at their new apartments 🍷🥘🥗 Nice little mid-winter evening in Auckland

AI image not far from accuracy! The last major transmission line that New Zealand built the local farmer NIMBYs literally burnt effigies of the Power company CEO and prime minister in the street over the proposal.

So I think the way this plays out is: -central government is going to cap rate rises at 4 or 5% -with the main driver of rates increases, water, excluded and the catch up with inflationary pressures now worked through, this will be where things were headed anyway ...

New from me: how combining a proposed supermarket fast track process with a government land programme could reduce the barrier to entry and improve competition. This builds off a proposed Omnibus bill developed by Benno Blaschke at the New Zealand Initiative read via 🔗 in bio

Christchurch has the best logo in the country I fear

On this, @winstonpeters said: "The Marsden Point Rail Link is going to happen...." A final business case from KiwiRail will be with ministers soon, Peters said, and he expects the Commission will "see the light", adding "...if they don't then we will have some serious questions.

Auckland City, ranked 4,971st in the world according to the Opta Power Rankings, secured a 1-1 draw with Boca Juniors, ranked 152nd, at the Club World Cup. That's the equivalent of Cove Rangers of Scottish League One (4,844th) drawing with Juventus (25th). 🤯 #CWC2025

At the infracomm conference. Geoff Cooper speaking about the Infrastructure Plan. "We're lucky we have the tailwinds of growth" Notes Stats NZ showing up to 12 million people, half of growth in auckland most of the rest in the major cities. But high uncertainty.

Auckland City FC 1 Boca Juniors 1 I've seen it all now. A huge club, from the land of Maradona & Messi, from the country of the world champions ...against a group of amateurs that took leave from their jobs to be in USA. @AucklandCity_FC @nzheraldsport @NZ_Football @FIFACWC

The Infrastructure Commission released its draft National Infrastructure Plan today. Among the 17 projects it endorsed as part of its Infrastructure Priorities Programme (projects worth investigating/investing in) is Greater Christchurch mass rapid transit