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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Gabrielle is driving home infrastructure neglect
Description: At home, we’ve just got rid of the landline. And, just like that, we’re saving about $60 a month. But after everything that’s been going on around the country over the last few days and weeks, I could be forgiven for thinking that the landline is the last thing we should be ditching. Because it seems to me, after watching all the reports from up north, that our infrastructure in New Zealand is no more reliable than it was back in the days of the Canterbury earthquakes. Power out, roads impassable, stormw...