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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Mike's Minute: This is why the real issues get ignored
Description: It was the fish that summed it up for me. The Infrastructure Commission report was profound in its nature this week. Chris Bishop was dead right on this programme when he talked of its importance and, yet, its dryness. Big picture, infrastructure building and planning and funding isn't sexy. It never has been and that in some respects is why we are where we are. And what a place that place is. We, in parts, are a broken down, tragic, second-hand little nation that has let ourselves go. We w...