I opened the Dominion-Post this morning to find this story, reporting the aspiration of the new Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency (WREDA, mostly a Wellington City Council agency) that Wellington should be, by 2025, “the most prosperous, liveable and vibrant region in Australasia”.
Memories of an earlier 2025 goal flooded back. I helped the government’s 2025 Taskforce with their reports, which outlined policy proposals for how New Zealand might catch up with Australia economically by 2025. But that was 2008/09, and for a whole country. At the time, the Taskforce concluded that New Zealand could catch up with Australia over 16 years, with the right set of policies, but it required a fairly major reorientation of policy, across numerous fronts, pretty quickly.
But now there is only 10 years until 2025, and the Wellington City Council (with a bit of help from the Regional Council) wants to make…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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