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In May 2022, we published New Zealand’s first Infrastructure Strategy, Rautaki Hanganga o Aotearoa, making recommendations for improving New Zealand’s infrastructure system.

The strategy was the result of extensive research, analysis and public, iwi and stakeholder engagement. It incorporates feedback from more than 20,000 New Zealanders through our Aotearoa 2050 survey. The strategy responds to these challenges and includes 68 recommendations for change.

The National Infrastructure Plan builds on the Infrastructure Strategy.

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Rautaki Hanganga o Aotearoa | The Infrastructure Strategy

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Public consultation

As part of our work to develop the Infrastructure Strategy we talked to New Zealanders about what they want Aotearoa to look like in 2050.

From 22 March 2021 to 2 May 2021, the Aotearoa 2050 campaign received 23,638 responses and more than 8,500 comments.

From 12 May to 2 July 2021, we invited submissions on our He Tūāpapa ki te Ora - Infrastructure for a Better Future consultation document which set out a proposed direction and recommendations for the strategy.

The feedback we heard was used in developing Rautaki Hanganga o Aotearoa.

Aotearoa 2050 report

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Read a summary of submissions

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Read the consultation document

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Organisation and individual submissions

A range of organisations and individuals submitted on our Infrastructure for a Better Future consultation.

Please note: personal information, offensive comments, copyrighted and/or commercially sensitive information has been redacted. Views expressed in these submissions are not those of Te Waihanga.

Te Ao Māori Testing Panel

Our te ao Māori Testing Panel members brought a deep understanding of Māori views and experiences of infrastructure. The panel provides support in evaluating our ‘evidence’ with a te ao Māori lens and providing a deeper understanding of Māori views and experiences with infrastructure. 

Kane joined Waka Kotahi following three years with Wellington City Council where he most recently held the Director of Strategy and Governance position. Kane has previously been a partner at law firm Meredith Connell and served as a Crown Prosecutor.

Alyce (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui) is in her final year as an engineering student at the University of Canterbury and also hosts the Māori in Engineering podcast. You can listen to Alyce interview fellow Panel member Troy Brockbank.

Troy (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) has a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Auckland and 14 years of professional engineering experience working in the water sector across consultancies, civil contractors and suppliers. Troy is currently Pou Ārahi Māori, Māori Advisory Lead (Principal) at Pattle Delamore Partners Ltd. He is also a Board member of Taumata Arowai and Water NZ.

Matthew (Te Atiawa, Ngāti Tama) is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow, co-Director of Te Au Rangahau and an Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Massey University. He has an academic background in health and population economics and researchers broadly as an applied economist and social scientist. His current research projects include: Māori economics & mixed-methods, social capital and wellbeing research, effective health systems and service delivery, Health Economics, population, labour and regional economics.