Larry Williams Drive

So we have more proof today that our country is spluttering along driving on fumes after 20 years of rampant growth and immigration and insufficient spending on infrastructure. Yesterday, an independent report found Middlemore Hospital's Emergency Department was unsafe and, dysfunctional and that stems from the hospital being overcrowded. Put simply, it’s not big enough for the population it serves. Meanwhile there are pay inequities and shortages of doctors and nurses, all because of a lack of long term planning on the staffing needed for a bigger population. So the facts are that our population grew by 1.4 percent a year in the 16 years to 1019. That’s an extra 1 million people to cope with. But our infrastructure spending was minimised to keep our taxes low. And before you start hollering that they’re not low. They have been. Especially when you factor in no long term capital gains tax. So the Infrastructure Commission believes we currently have a $100 billion dollar hole of infrastructure. Stuff missing o