And our city (Tauranga) has been infested with maori artworks everywhere. In the foot paths, on the roads, in our library. There is NO European artwork. Its a disgusting waste of money and racists and dominating.

He needs to focus on the non-nonsensical university based studies receiving several half to three quarter million dollar grants from his government.

Also it's not extravagant spending, it's embezzlement - a fact that both talking heads on the screen here are well aware of.

Vote for Sam again.

Talking about speed bumps we have one on both aproaches to Goat Creek Bridge with a 100 kph speed througha rual town in Otira a 13 year old bridge that was repaired poorly and is cracking all over total arrogance from NZTA to reduce speed and Fulton Hogan to remedy the necessay repairs these have been problems for years, wrote to Simeon Brown alas ignored like it was from his predecessor, guess they'll look at it when theres a death or two. Government bodies !?

This is a smokescreen to avoid central government from distributing taxpayers money back to the taxpayers

The councils have gone rogue. They definitely need reigned back into line.

Sick to death of COUNCILS wasting money on BEAUTIFICATION inwhich people never use and cuts out dozens of carparks, down here in hawera the council have STUFFED UP the town with dumb flowerbeds and seating which nobody uses, a complete white elephant, bloody disgraceful.

Councils have been stealing rate prayers money for vanity projects to long.

A real interview by a real news journalist asking real questions and getting real responses. What a rare delight these days!

It's precious and that's the bottomline......it's priceless

A lost cause from the beginning. The experts said not to rebuild. They clearly looked at the task, the possibility of unknown problems appearing, and those in favour overrode and went ahead. In the process former Bishop Matthew’s was lambasted when she stuck to her decision. In my opinion the Anglicans should pay for all of what is required. Christchurch CC and the Government should not have put in the money as has recently been pointed out by the Finance Minister, that this is a private and religious project, when turning down a request for an extra $60 million. Whether the Christchurch Diocese raises the money locally, in the Canterbury area or the wider Anglican community in NZ is where this should fall. In times like now, public money should be for the wider public good. I hope future Governments will take heed of this, and not only for this type of project. Think of the sporting groups that have dipped their hands into taxpayers pockets over recent years, and the spin that has been put on justifying them.

Luxon had no problem giving millions to Zalkensky!😠

Shame that $130,000,000 couldn't be used to feed and house the poor and homeless...

How embarrassing for Chch

her answer of how she knows that she isn't in her own cult is because she 'trusts the media' hahahaahahahah. so painfully naive. that's so funny.

the #1 source of disinformation is the government and mass media. this woman is just as deranged by her own cult (globalist atheist liberalism) that she genuinely doesn't realise it. ironic.

mr woke arron lemon time

Sick of people saying it doesn't take any longer to get where your going. An extra 20km/h is saves you over 10 mins for every hour you drive at that speed. Add to that compounding effects from traffic lights when you get into town and it can easily add up to 25 minutes difference. People seem to think they can get the road toll to zero by limiting/reducing speed which is never going to happen - how about make roads which are capable of handling traffic at a reasonable speed and actually employ a road repair system which doesn't just patch holes with sinking piles of asphalt every 3 months. This country is turning into more and more of a laughing stock every year

Absolutely not. Speed kills.

Do we get any more back from the money that we have given to the cathedral?

The roads are not built for the speed. There's enough potholes and too many junctions on the rolleston side of the motorway.

So basically the same speed as England on their motorways which are way more congested than the southern motorway. Drive the M25 in the slow lane at 120ks and have a bmw behind you flashing their lights to go faster.

"Cost Benefit Analysis" regarding parking fines...If they're to Cheap its not worth the stress of over staying your time limit. Speeding ... Traveling regularly as a professional driver. 4-5 minutes extra an hour can mean the difference between getting home each night or staying in a shady area with no toilet facilities. Yeah Its also better to be 30 minutes late, than 30 years to early. However Speeding on a motorway at 120 is safer than driving in built up areas at legal limits.

People do 120 now because it is a safe road. If you want to drive 90 then drive in the left lane with the trucks. 120 is not unsafe on a very well built motorway

Guys, if you dont want to go 120 thats fine just stick to 100 and keep left, that road is literally as safe as it can get, with most of the world having a 130 speed limit with a road of that standard, dont punish compotent drivers because your inadequete and dont feel safe driving in a straight line, very sad

YES

Maybe the police should get out and do their jobs so these people don't have to take matters into their own hands, and look we all know a convicted pedo gets a slap on the wrist and then housed next to a school or kindergarten! And the police knows these people have dangled the bait and got a bite and have dealt with it and then the cops want to charge the people out there doing their jobs and apologise to the guilty person 🙄 WTF !!!

Yeah looks like they don't know that they all be in hell together . If you don't repent. All godless act will get there. Read the bible if not go to hell.

Why don't they get the cathedral's church to pay for this. They've got billions of dollars. Oh that's right heaven forbid they would want to spend some of their billions to restore a beautiful historic church that is actually these in the first place . Text payers money should never have gone into this rebuild in the first place.They should be ashamed of themselves

Lying bystanders

Not entirely true

A least say it's just a bloody advert ! unsubscribing....

I DIDNT SEE ANYTHING

Yes NZers are children asking Mummy government for money OR grown up and sorting it out themselves.

I am all for the restoration of old buildings, go for it but with your own money. The idiots in the Christchurch city council already in 2.4 billion dollars of debt through incompetence, just gave these people another 8 million dollars which we will have to pay back to the lenders. When Anderton and Burton put for this plan and dropped the cost from 250 million dollars down to 50 million dollars, I said then it can't be done and we will have to pay for it. It belongs to the church leave them to it. STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY ON PRIVATELY OWNED BUILDINGS.

Anyone who knows the history will point their fingers at the Anglican Church and ask “WHY”.

They show up where they tell them to meat they are offenders im sorry

They gotta learn somehow now theres no justice anymore

I live in Christchurch, so I am well aware of the story that goes with Cathedral, damage 3 times in earthquakes in the last 100+ years. (Yes, around every 70 years Christchurch gets struck with an earthquake), 2nd time it was damaged, the family that help pay the first time for its repair said they wouldn't do it again. Those who talk about being it being 'Heart' of Christchurch - absolute rubbish. Had a VERY small congregation and was mostly seen as a tourist destination. It had cafe to help bring in funds for its upkeep. And on top all this the church didn't want it repaired. This 'repair' was going to be at a minimum $250 million, now with a shortfall of $114 million. Church would rather keep their money) And I suspect wouldn't end there, going past even this. As skillfully and brilliantly as it was built (excellent tradesmen), it was nothing more than a Victorian Mock-Gothic heavy lump (Constructed out of dark local basalt stone and limestone cement). Not the best for earthquake zones. I have been a builder for over 40 years, worked on buildings/churches in the UK that were over 1,000 years old and as much as I want this building 'saved' (losing the work of skilled craftsman is never good). THIS IS NOT ONE THAT'S WORTH IT.

As a non Christian sad we wasted 25 million of taxpayers money. The church is rich, put your own money in.

I pay a lot of tax in NZ. I pay rates in Chch. It could be called corruption. Surely the church has enough money anyway. Sheesh.

What a waste and a drain of tax payer money, in a time where things are tough. East Christchurch is still suffering the effects of zero remediation post quake, and the council still flog the dead horse of the "heart of the city". The heart of a city is people.

If the police did there job nobody would step in and do it for them

If you want your cathedral rebuilt, then the Anglicans should put their hands in their own pockets. As it is as a taxpayer who doesn’t live near Christchurch, money from my taxes has gone towards this shambles. Right from the beginning the experts said don’t rebuild, but no a group of deluded people went ahead against very good advice. A new smaller building could have been built new from the insurance and a little more. Also the long suffering Christchurch ratepayers has had their pockets raided into the bargain. What is wrong with the cardboard cathedral? It could have been kept going until a new build was ready. This must go down in the history of Christchurch as the worst project ever attempted.

got a link for this $ a day thing?

Christchurch was surveyed soon after the quakes and the people overwhelmingly supported the building of a new cathedral. Then people like Jim Anderton got involved and wrecked the whole thing, insisting the old building was repaired. Christchurch would have its cathedral now had they done the sensible thing - build a new cathedral.

I too am a Christian and do not think much of turning places of worship into tourist attractions. One should be visiting such a place to worship God not to admire architecture and man's achievements. Those who do not worship there should not be required to finance its restoration if that is what is decided. Man worships God from the heart and perhaps it is time we realised that. God does not require a magnificent building so that he can receive our worship. The money in my opinion would be better spent doing God's work rather than rebuilding a structure that needs millions spent on it to make it earthquake proof.

It sad that the history of Christchurch settlement and the 792 Canterbury Pilgrims that built it is lost upon council and ratepayers. Without Christ or the church, would the city itself exist as Christchurch? The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act (CER Act) should have placed the cathedral and the city's namesake as a priority IMO. Those that have and own the direct Antarctic Direct Energy Weapons can afford to chip in...

As far as I know Cathedrals is a Catholic church, not Anglican.