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# The Shovels Weren’t Ready at All
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-shovels-werent-ready-at-all/
- Published: 2021-05-07T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-17T16:58:51.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

Another day, [another implementation blunder](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300301532/less-than-half-of-shovelready-projects-begun-by-deadline?cid=app-iPhone&ref=goodoil.news) from a government fast developing a habit of being a government that is only good at announcing things:

> **Less than half of the Government’s ‘’shovel-ready’’ infrastructure projects have begun** by its first self-imposed deadline, with **just 44 per cent of the 150 projects under construction by the end of February.**  
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> Last year, the Government announced it would fund 150 ‘’shovel-ready’’ projects, costing $2.6 billion. The projects, including the Naenae pool development, the Eastern Bays Shared Path, and the Wellington District Court, were meant to kick-start the economy with an infrastructure boom as the country recovered from Covid-19.  
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> The Government said in April that “shovel-ready” meant ready to begin within six months, although it pushed this out to 12 months when the [projects began to be announced in July 2020.](https://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2020-07/IRG%20slides.pdfhttps://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2020-07/IRG%20slides.pdfhttps://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2020-07/IRG%20slides.pdfhttps://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2020-07/IRG%20slides.pdf?ref=goodoil.news)  
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Just more evidence of a government that is fast with the slogans and slow, or in many cases non-existent, with delivery.

Add these failures to the lengthening list of non-delivery from a government whose talent pool barely wets the socks of their ministers.

Next time the government really should form a sub-committee to make sure someone tells the shovels to actually be ready.

Weakness is strength. Lies are truth. Shovel ready is…?

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